Kevin O’Connor & Tom Haberstroh dive deep into the unfolding Giannis Antetokounmpo trade saga ahead of the February 5th deadline. The pair give an extensive breakdown of the teams—Warriors, Timberwolves, Hawks, Heat, Knicks and more—positioned to make big moves for the Bucks superstar.
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They also debate which teams stand to benefit most from their lottery odds in a loaded NBA Draft, analyze Ja Morant’s market value, talk Michael Porter Jr. trade destinations and more!
(0:44) Giannis ‘ready for a new home’ (6:52) Warriors case for getting Giannis (9:57) Should Timberwolves trade for Giannis? (20:29) Rockets & Spurs not interested in Giannis trade (28:46) Could Blazers facilitate the trade? (36:14) 5 teams for Ja Morant (44:48) Should Lakers trade for MPJ? (54:05) Draft Class: Dybantsa vs. Peterson (1:06:47) KOC Show mailbag
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JANUARY 21: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks looks on against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the fourth quarter at Fiserv Forum on January 21, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Did Miami find a loophole in NIL? We have had many discussions on Darian Mensah’s journey from Duke to Miami in the last couple of weeks, but not much of the talk has been focused on the Hurricanes. Steven Godfrey returns to join Andy Staples and Ross Dellenger as they discuss how Miami may have found a way around player buyouts in college football. Are we closer to getting clear buyouts written in player contracts? Plus, do schools in states with no income tax have an advantage in NIL? The guys discuss.
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Then, they shift from players to coaches. The college football schedule is always a topic of debate, but the group most negatively affected by the current nonsensical schedule is the coaches. Many people may not feel bad for the head coaches making millions, but it’s all of the other coaches who really take on the biggest burden of the schedule. The dichotomy between the quality of life of college coaches versus coaches in the NFL has many coaches jumping ship to take a chance in the National Football League. Andy, Ross and Godfrey discuss how tough this schedule can be, and why the NFL model is more manageable for coaches. Plus, they discuss ways that the college football schedule can improve and also be more prevalent throughout the calendar year.
Later, they guys discuss the biggest news in the football world. Bill Belichick was not named a first ballot Hall of Famer. Many people have expressed shock and outrage by this omission. Andy poses a question to the group. Did Belichick’s struggles at North Carolina have a negative effect on his Hall of Fame candidacy? The guys discuss the situation.
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Did Miami find a loophole in NIL? Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
(Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Christian Polanco and Christine Cupo kick things off by tiering the Champions League field, separating the favorites from the contenders, dark horses, and pretenders. Who’s built to go the distance, which clubs are being overrated, and who could surprise Europe this season?
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Next, the guys react to Anthony Gordon’s recent comments throwing shade at the Premier League. Has the league’s dominance made it predictable and boring, or is this just another case of fans confusing quality with excitement? Christian and Christine debate whether the “best league in the world” label still holds up.
Finally, the conversation turns to the USWNT as Emma Hayes officially ushers in a new era. With a clear vision, fresh energy, and evolving tactics, the guys ask whether this team could reach an even higher level of dominance than previous generations.
Timestamps:
(4:30) – Recapping Champions League Matchday 8 excitement
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(9:00) – Listing Champions League Pretenders
(19:30) – Champions League contenders
(28:30) – Champions League favorites
(31:00) – Reacting to Anthony Gordon’s comments on PL’s lost excitement
Legendary commentator Derek Rae joins Christian and Alexis for a wide-ranging conversation on soccer, culture, and storytelling. From his upbringing in Scotland to his deep connection with German football, Derek explains how his love for languages and history shaped his broadcasting career—and why getting players’ names right is about far more than phonetics. He shares a powerful story about the real impact correct pronunciation can have on players and their families.
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Derek also takes listeners behind the scenes of how he became the voice of EA FC, revealing what the audition process was like, how the opportunity came together, and what it means to be recognized worldwide through a video game. Along the way, he reflects on the evolution of soccer media, iconic broadcasting moments, and the responsibility that comes with being a trusted voice of the sport.
Finally, the conversation dives into the global game itself. Derek breaks down the cultural differences between MLS and European leagues, explains why Germany has become such fertile ground for American players, and offers thoughtful insight into the unique identity of soccer fandom in the United States. It’s a smart, funny, and deeply human conversation with one of the most respected voices in the game.
Timestamps:
(2:00) – Why pronouncing player names correctly is important to Derek Rae
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(10:45) – Derek Rae’s soccer origin story
(15:00) – How Europeans currently perceive MLS
(23:45) – Is Germany the best place for Americans to develop?
(35:00) – Is 2026 the year where the US becomes a real soccer country?
In a jam-packed Kevin O’Connor show, KOC analyzes the first trade of the deadline week and what it means for Keon Ellis, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Sacramento Kings. Then, he discusses updates in the Ja Morant trade market: is there a new interest in him coming out of Chicago?
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Next, Kyle Neubeck joins to talk Sixers: what’s up with the Paul George suspension? Is Joel Embiid back? Is a trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo without giving up VJ Edgecombe a possibility?
Later, KOC chats All-Star reserves before being joined by Kirk Henderson. They look back at the Luka Doncic to Los Angeles trade one year later, marvel at Cooper Flagg’s 2-game tear and ask the question: will Anthony Davis be traded this season?
Corey Tulaba then joins the pod for this week’s Draft Class to chat AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson, the future of Richie Saunders and the biggest college games to watch for this weekend.
(0:25) Cavs trade for Ellis & Schroder (6:31) Bulls interested in Ja Morant? (8:22) Kyle Neubeck talks 76ers (27:27) All-Star reserves announced (30:48) Kirk Henderson talks Mavericks (46:01) Hornets win 6 straight games (1:00:00) Draft Class with Corey Tulaba
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – JANUARY 02: Keon Ellis #23 of the Sacramento Kings dribbles the ball during the first half against the Phoenix Suns at Mortgage Matchup Center on January 02, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Suns defeated the Kings 129-102. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images)
The San Francisco Giants signed Luis Arráez to a one-year deal, with the hope that the three-time batting champion will be able to help solidify their offense after their blockbuster deal that brought Rafael Devers to the Bay last season. However, after finishing at 81–81, are the Giants doing enough to try and compete for a title?
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On this episode of Baseball Bar-B-Cast, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman examine the questionable offseason that President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey has navigated for his Giants. While being in the same division as the Los Angeles Dodgers does present some difficulties, should the Giants be doing a bit more to show their commitment to winning? Could they still find a way to improve their rotation before the start of the season?
Later, Jordan and Jake talk about the trade that saw the St. Louis Cardinals trade Brendan Donovan in a three-team deal to the Seattle Mariners and why he is going to be a key player for them. They then discuss the Chicago White Sox’s active weekend, the Sacramento A’s signing Jacob Wilson to an extension, all before they get into the problem that insurance is causing with World Baseball Classic rosters.
2:29 – The Opener: A look at the Giants
29:58 – Around the League: Mariners trade for Donovan
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48:18 – Turbo Mode: Reds sign Eugenio Suárez
58:37 – Tarik Skubal vs. Detroit Tigers
1:01:44 – We Need to Talk About: WBC insurance
Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images
(Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images)
Savannah Guthrie has made another emotional plea for the return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, now including a reward of up to $1 million for help in bringing her home.
“We need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads to her recovery,” Guthrie said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. At the same time, Guthrie said she knows that her mother may no longer be alive, and that her family needs closure after weeks of uncertainty around the missing person’s case.
“We also know that she may be lost. She may already be gone,” said the emotional Today co-host. “She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad, with her beloved brother, Pierce and with our daddy.”
She urged anyone with information on her mother’s whereabouts to call 1-800-call-FBI (1-800-225-5324) and that any tips could be made anonymously. The Guthrie family is nearly a month into the search for their family matriarch after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped in an apparent violent encounter and removed from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 1.
At 84 years old, Nancy Guthrie is in poor health and likely without life-sustaining medications, which explains daughter Savannah indicating she may already have died in captivity. Meanwhile, the Pima Country Sheriff’s Department and FBI agents continue the search for Nancy after her abduction.
While globally, Soho House recently completed a $2.7 billion deal to once again become a private company, domestically, the members’ club is focusing on refreshing its art. Since the brand began acquiring and curating art in 2009 at Soho House 76 Dean Street, its growing collection has become one of the biggest connection points with members, leading programming and driving interaction. Rooted in each House’s location and featuring both emerging and established artists from that city, the Soho House Art Collection has grown over 17 years to more than 11,000 works.
Soho House Chief Art Director Kate Bryan and artist JR.
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“It will hit 15,000 artworks in the next five years,” says Kate Bryan, Soho House chief art director. Since she joined the company in 2016, Bryan has been focused on growth, taking the collection from 2,000 pieces to where it sits today. The acquisition strategy revolves around direct relationships with artists and galleries. Once their work is selected for a House, they are invited to become a member. Bryan does not purchase art at auction; every work is owned by Soho House and stays within the collection. Her team has created a proprietary database with geographic tags (birthplace, base, education) to catalog artists for specific House openings. Now, pieces are even being loaned to major museum shows, such as the Tate’s spring/summer exhibition on Hurvin Anderson. A coffee table book is also in the works.
“Galleries are very supportive of our collection, because it’s a public showcase for the artists. It’s not disappearing off into a home that no one ever sees again,” Bryan says. “Artists come in and see their work, see people interacting with it. We use our collection. We don’t put things in storage. If we acquire it, it’s for a place and it’s going up.”
Soho House West Hollywood and Soho Beach House in Miami, both opened in 2010, recently unveiled new art that has significantly shifted their aesthetics. L.A. artist Eric Uhlir created a monumental commission for the West Hollywood club, the largest in Soho House’s history at 65 feet long and 6.5 feet high, a four-panel site-specific painting wrapping around the grand entry staircase. Uhlir is known for blending pop culture references with his love of classical painting, abstracting history, nature and contemporary visual clues onto canvases of cinematic scale.
L.A. artist Eric Uhlir created Soho House’s largest ever-commission at Soho House West Hollywood.
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On the opposite coast, when Soho Beach House came up for an overall design refresh, the art team took the opportunity to ask: “What story do we want to tell now?” With a curatorial focus on photography, the Miami House’s original collection has been refreshed by an international roster of artists that reflects the city’s cutting-edge spirit and place in the art world as host to its flashiest yearly gathering, Art Basel. Blue-chip and internationally known artists such as Isaac Julien, JR, Laurie Simmons and Marilyn Minter collide with niche and emerging artists such as Sarah Maple, Cornelius Tulloch, Anna Carey and Marcus Maddox, working with polaroid, performance-based imagery, collage, cameraless photography, solarisation, digital manipulation, hand-printed works, lenticular, fabric and wood-based prints. All of these Soho Beach House artists are also represented across the 32 Soho Houses worldwide. “Try and think of another city that welcomes as many people for art in a gargantuan international moment. We thought we should reflect that spirit in this collection,” she says.
New photographs added to the Soho House Art Collection include work from Miguel Calderón, Walead Beshty and Marilyn Minter.
Courtesy of Soho House
While Miami’s art scene has catapulted into the pop culture stratosphere, Los Angeles has shifted from “secondary market” to global center of contemporary art, powered by film, photography, design and studio culture and arts fairs like Frieze L.A. (Feb. 26 to March 1 at Santa Monica Airport). Soho House has mirrored that rise with the art collections at its network of four L.A. properties. West Hollywood, co-curated by Kate Bryan and Anakena Paddon between 2023 and 2025, highlights artists born, based or trained in Los Angeles. The collection is anchored by blue-chip figures including Ed Ruscha, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari, alongside high-visibility contemporary names such as Walead Beshty, José Parlá and Hebru Brantley. The Luckman Club collection, installed in late 2024, features Los Angeles painters John Reagan, Erin Wright, Greg Ito, Pui Tiffany Chow and Emily Ferguson. “L.A. is now an important center for contemporary art with Frieze, major museums and so many artists having moved to town. The California art scene has always been staggeringly important, but it feels like the spotlight has come back onto it in a new way,” Bryan says. Soho House will host Frieze events at both its West Hollywood House and Holloway House throughout L.A. art week.
Bryan’s curatorial philosophy reveals how the collection comes to life. Her approach deliberately departs from the traditional gallery or museum model in favor of a more immersive, member-informed style.
Anna Carey’s work is represented in the Soho House Art Collection.
Courtesy of Soho House
“I don’t have a white box. It’s a different way of curating but one of the benefits that I have is that I’m spending so much time with the members and I can sound them out on something a year before I do it,” she says. “When we build the permanent art collection, it becomes a jumping-off point for the House. We invite the artists to come and do talks and the artists are in the Houses, because they’re part of our membership.”
In turn, that member-first approach has helped shape a collection whose influence extends well beyond the Houses themselves.
“Some of the works that were acquired at the beginning are from artists who are impossible to get work from now,” she says. “There’s so much in the early collection that is still really powerful now, and all those artists have gone on to staggering fame but it is not as if we’ve sat around going to be a star in the future. We don’t worry so much about prices rising or longevity. We think about relevance to the here and now, and artists we believe in, want to support and have around. Then, as a happy byproduct, the collection starts to have a legacy and more cultural value.”
Marcus Maddox joins the Soho House Art Collection.
Courtesy of Soho House
Soho House is making other significant changes throughout its portfolio with new Houses planned in Palm Springs and Soho Ranch House Sonoma, as well as Soho Farmhouse in upstate New York and Soho Flatiron in New York City. In Europe, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon and Soho Farmhouse Tuscany will join the family. The group will open its 50th House — Soho House Tokyo in the Minami-Aoyama neighborhood — in April 2026. Soho Beach House is currently renovating its bedrooms and will debut a Soho Health Club, which will host the first international Wellness Summit across both Miami Houses. Miami Pool House adds four padel courts, a Health Club Café and an indoor-outdoor gym. Soho House West Hollywood features a new garden restaurant by Nancy Silverton. Persian restaurant Berenjak made its Los Angeles debut at Soho Warehouse. Soho House Holloway will add pickleball courts. When it opens, Soho House Los Cabos will feature club spaces, a Soho Health Club with a pool, Cecconi’s, a Sunset and Cabaret Bar and 15 bedrooms.
Is James Rodríguez really headed to Minnesota United? In one of the strangest transfer rumors we’ve ever seen, the Cooligans unpack how a global superstar could end up in MLS, what it would mean for Minnesota, and whether James still has enough left to move the needle in the league — or if this is destined to be pure chaos.
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Next, we revisit the USMNT hype machine and ask some uncomfortable questions. Gio Reyna, Yunus Musah, Gianluca Busio, Jordan Morris — all players who once felt like sure things. So what happened? We break down why their trajectories have stalled, what went wrong at club level, and whether there’s still time for a second act.
Finally, we react to the wildest stories from around world soccer. From Vinícius Jr.’s girlfriend revealing uncomfortable details involving Real Madrid, to Gabriel Barbosa’s tense encounter with fans, to Cristiano Ronaldo’s “missing” posters popping up in Saudi Arabia — it’s another reminder that no sport delivers chaos quite like football.
Timestamps:
(6:30) – James Rodriguez’s shock transfer to Minnesota United
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(21:30) – USMNT rising stars that have now faded
(49:30) – Vini Jr’s girlfriend’s weird ointment story
(53:30) – Reacting to other news around the soccer world
In the new world of college football there may be just as much action in the courtroom as there is on the field. The latest trend is if you want another season in college, after your eligibility is up, take it to the courtroom! The two most recent cases of that are Trinidad Chambliss and Joey Aguilar. Both of whom are waiting to see if they get an injunction that will allow them to play in the 2026 season. Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey explain both of these cases and update everyone with where the cases are in the process. They also take a look at the schools these quarterbacks are looking to go back to. Both schools have 5-star QBs waiting in the wings, which leads to the question: in the transfer portal era, are 5-star QBs better off going to a smaller school where to play right away and transferring later?
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Then, the guys get into some more College Football Playoff conversation. The CFP released the 2026 & 2027 schedule for the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship game. In 2026, the playoff spans over 39 days. Andy, Ross and Godfrey discuss the ludicrous schedule. They also talk about a potential savior being the NFL. With the NFL now owning a stake in ESPN, will they help out college football’s scheduling to make it a better product?
Later, Andy shares the results of his homework assignment. Last episode, the guys discussed how weak Week 1 is to start the 2026 season. Andy shares his plan of how to move Oklahoma and Michigan to Week 1 to inject some energy into the opening weekend slate of games. The guys also close the show by discussing the Washington Post shutting down their sports division.
All of this and more on College Football Enquirer.
Tennessee’s Joey Aguilar Photo by Johnnie Izquierdo/Getty Images
(Photo by Johnnie Izquierdo/Getty Images)
0:00:00 – SEC QB’s suing for eligibility
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6:18 – Trinidad Chambliss’ case update
8:32 – Joey Aguilar case update
16:08 – What does the future of 5-star QB’s in college look like?
