My Final Show on KVRX

Hey everyone,

So this is it, the final show for the King. Due to some technical difficulties, the podcast had to be recorded on my MP3 player and the sound quality is not too great. Nonetheless, you can still listen to the show and hear my recaps of my years at UT. I have also uploaded a video of the final segment to give yall an insiders look on how we do things. Thanks once again to everyone for listening and the whole KVRX Sports, current and present, staff for helping me throughout the years.

Enjoy the show, video and pictures from the final show.

Quick Hits on the Week

Due to giving everyone a week off, we did not have a show this morning! Next week will be the final edition of the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup with myself. Next week's show will be a recap of my three years at KVRX and UT featuring all of my past co-hosts and memorable stories.

NBA Playoffs

• Dallas up against the ropes! I would love to see the Dallas Mavericks and their crying owner get knocked out in the first round after posting a franchise, and NBA, best season. Dirk is not the MVP of the NBA and this series shows it. No MVP disappears in a first round series. We talked about this on the show and said that Golden State will give the Mavs troubles but never thought they would knock them out with such ease.
  
• Kobe vs. Nash...even though the Lakers will get knocked out, it has been fun seeing Nash and Kobe go at it once again. These two show what MVPs do. Kobe has tried to rally his team even with limited talent. Nash dishes out what seems like 900 assists a game and keeps playing exceptional basketball.
  
• Rockets on the Road...T-mac finally put the series on his shoulders, but at home. Tracy needs to play his best basketball at Utah and not shoot 30%. The combo of Tracy and Yao is like a poor man's Kobe and Shaq but it is getting the job done. If Gundy can rally his bench and get this team going, they could get to the Conf. Finals.
  
• Eastern Conference Sweeps...the Southeast goes 0-12 in the playoffs and shows why the Central is such a strong division. The Eastern Conf. is a one way road to good basketball! Cavs vs. Nets and Bulls (my pick to make it to the NBA Finals) vs. the Pistons!
  

NFL Draft

• 7 Longhorns get drafted and it seems like UT is now the new defensive back school! Mack can def. bring in the best talent and show them that they will get drafted.
  
• The Texans draft another D-line. Amobi Okoye should be a good fit in the system but at the same time can go the roads of Travis "Mr.T" Johnson. No one will remember this draft for the Texans, they will still talk about last year and the passing of Young.
  
• The Patriots become win hungry...who would have thought the Patriots would draft and trade on talent and not character? Are they going down the slow path of being just another team that will do anything to win? I think Moss will fit in just fine with the Patriots and Meriweather will not stomp on any other helmets.
  
• The Draft is boring...I could not watch the draft. Maybe I'm not one of the millions who wants an early Christmas. I think the NFL draft is long and boring. Please, make your first round picks and leave me alone. Don't force 100 rounds down my throat.
  

April 24th Show!

What up Everyone!

This week on the show we previewed the NFL draft with Dan "the man" Weiner and gave you our picks of best players in the draft based on names.
Also this week, we continued our Discovering New Sports segment with the UT Cricket Club Team. We talked to them about their upcoming match with the Baylor Cricket team this Sunday at 2pm at the Intramural Fields. Check out their website for more information. If you are a member of facebook you can check out the event from this link.
We also recapped the Eastern and Western Conf. playoff race. Listen to find out who The King picked to go from the East to the Finals and the rest of his predictions.


This weeks YouTube Pick comes from a mother and daughter who would do anything for some tickets.

April 17th NBA Playoffs Show

NBA Playoffs are here!

We broke down every single first round matchup on the show! Also, Aly Chandwany, the winner of the NCAA tournament Pool, joined us for the show! Check out his segment in SEX and his thoughts throughout the show.

We will break down second round matchups next week and also preview some NFL Draft.

April 10th Show!

What up Everyone!

This week on the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup we had a lot of MLB talk, Kevin Durant going to the NBA talk, the Coaching changes around the NCAA and we picked up our Discovering New Sports Series with the UT Kendo Team.

You can check out the UT Kendo Team at their website Once we want to thank Walter and Eric for stopping by to the show.

This week on Shan Entertainment X-change, we talked about my continued hatred of Wild Hogs and some two new bands from Shan's Underground Band Segments. Check out the whole show.





Some Kendo for everyone



Video from the Augustana concert in Austin...the band of the year.

April 3rd MLB Preview Show!

The boys of summer are back and the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup is ready to cover them! We had the big MLB Preview Show today and boy was it a blast! We also covered the NCAA Title Game and why this Florida team is one of the best repeat teams of all time.

Programming Note: Due to a problem on Odeo we were unable to bring last week's show to everyone. We will be featuring the UT Sailing Team once again for our Discovering New Sports Segment! Check out their website at www.texassailing.org.

Enjoy the show...The sound on the AL East segment is filled with static so if you cant hear it just know that the Yankees will dominate.

Check out the show every Tuesday morning from 9-11 a.m. on www.kvrx.org



YouTube Pick of the Week:

March 27th Mayhem show!!!!

Hows it!

This week on the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup we discussed the Final Four and gave our picks. Find out if Georgetown will continue their run thanks to the TMLR karma.

We also talked about the NBA and Kobe for MVP in the NBA Tie up Segment. Will anyone take over Nash for MVP?

Also on the show, We continued our 6-week long series Discovering New Sports with the UT Sailing Team. You can check out their website at www.texassailing.org. Listen to the segment for more information.

The YouTube pick of the week comes from Peyton Manning and his SNL debut.

Enjoy the Show and tune in live every Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. on www.kvrx.org

March 20th Madness Show!!!!!

What up!

This week on the show we recapped the NCAA tourney and our brackets. We also talked about who is leading the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup facebook pool.

In an exclusive to the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup, we had no.1 ranked NCAA Tournament pool player on our show Kiley Weidman. She leads all of Facebook with 61 points and hit 93 percent of her picks! Check out how fame has taken over her life since being No.1.

Starting this week the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup is hosting a six part series called “Discovering New Sports.” We will bring on club teams, teams and UT sports that do not get enough mainstream media coverage. This week we sat down with UT Softball play-by-play guy Austin Bush to talk about the current stage of softball and UT Softball.

Check out the show every Tuesday morning from 9-11 a.m. on www.kvrx.org







Youtube Pick of the week:

March 6 Madness Show!!!!!!!!!!!

How's It!
If you missed the big show you missed some great talk about NCAA basketball, the Big 12 tourney and the return of the monster Owl in SEX.

Check out Pass or Fail to see what we thought about Acie Law's future in the NBA...

Join the Facebook NCAA pool...you can find it as "The Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup"

Feb 27th Show! (Featuring Carlos Alazraqui)

What up everyone!

If you missed the show you missed out on some great sports talk and Carlos Alazraqui from Reno 911. He plays Deputy James Garcia and has done other well known work such as the voice for the Taco Bell Yo Quiero Dog. Check out Carlos on Saturday March 3rd at Alamo Draft House Lake Creek. The shows start at 7 and 10 p.m.

Make sure to listen to all the big time NBA and NCAA talk.

As always, the show airs live every Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. (central) on www.kvrx.org.



YouTube Pick:

Feb 20th Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup

What a big show! We recapped the All-Star game, talked a lot of College basketball and Shan received a HUGE surprise during the show! Enjoy the show! Also, we need more people in the Facebook group so invite your friends!

As always, we are live on Tuesday morning 9-11 a.m. on www.kvrx.org




YouTube Pick of the Week: Vince Carter's 2000 slam dunk contest recap


Pictures from the V-day Shootout!

Feb. 13 Show!

Valentines Day is upon us and so is the NBA All-Star game!! We broke down a lot of All-Star weekend events and also talked about the UT Men's Basketball team! Check out the show on the Flash Player or Odeo.com! Enjoy the All-Star weekend!!

----Valentines Day Get Together with the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup---

Are you a UT student and do not have plans for Valentines Day?! Well, join the Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup at the shooting range on the UT Campus for some free gun shooting! For more information, E-mail rramzanali@gmail.com. We will be meeting at the ROTC building (behind Gregory) at 7 p.m.! See you then and bring your shooting skills.

February 6th 2006 SHOW!!!

If you missed the show this is what happened…We recapped the Super Bowl and I bragged about picking the Colts margin of victory. Up next we talked about what’s wrong with UT basketball in the big losses…After a game of Pass or Fail and some Shan’s Entertainment Xchange we ended the show on some NBA All-Star talk.

In honor of Gerald Green making the NBA Dunk Contest and winning it (that’s right, I’m calling the win right now)…The YouTube pick of the week is Gerald Green’s dunk of all dunks. Enjoy the SHOW!!!!

January 30th SHOW!

Hey Everyone!

This week's show was rock solid! We had our big Super Bowl preview which included position by position breakdown and our picks!

We also had our first segment with Coach David Thorpe from the Pro Training Center and ESPN Insider with Scouts Inc. Coach talked about Kevin Durant and also the best player in the NBA! Check it out!

As always, you can listen to the show live every Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. on www.kvrx.org

January 23, 2007 SHOW!!

As always, Pardon the Raheel Ramzanali is the exclusive home of The Tuesday Morning Longhorn Roundup.

This week on the show, we talked about the playoffs, minority coaches in the NFL and how the NFL should not be tooting their own horn about having two African American coaches in the Super Bowl, UT Men’s Basketball and the NBA breakdown!

Due to technical issues, we could not get the S.E.X segment on the podcast but to make up for it, we put up the Intro for the segment.

On next week’s show, we will look at the line for the Super Bowl and give some free picks. In addition, we will also have pro NBA trainer Coach David Thorpe. He will talk about the best guards in the league, Kevin Durant vs. Greg Oden as the No.1 pick and much more! Enjoy the SHOW!!!!

T-mac Hater??

So after the Rockets dismantling of the Lakers, I got a few text messages depicting me as a T-mac hater. That is the last thing I am. In fact, I think T-mac is a good player but just think Kobe is a better player because he is more consistent. Many people also label me as a Rockets hater but that is not true. The Rockets have given me the happiest moments of my life. As a matter of fact, if you listen to the Tuesday Morning Longhorn at all, you know I picked the Rockets to make it to the Western Conference Finals with a HEALTHY T-Mac and Yao Ming. The proof is attached below in the podcast. I still stick to this because with a healthy Yao and T-Mac, the Rockets are a very efficient and dangerous team. So please stop making it seem like you need to rub it into my face every time the Rockets win or T-Mac does well. I am happy that the Rockets are doing so well right now without Yao because this is a tough stretch for them. If the Rockets even finish .500 in the games Yao misses, they will be okay.


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So Who Do You Root For?

Ever since I started working at KVRX and hosting my sports shows, I learned the important lesson of being unbiased. After spending a year in San Antonio, I started rooting for the Spurs. But now when they lose, it does not hurt. (The only team I am bias for are all the Longhorns' teams...I feel like crap when they lose.) I do not have ONE team that I can make mine and that's one thing I hate about my job. I wish I could argue about my team with other passionate fans and be a homer. I love getting in sports debates for the sake of debate and trying to improve my skills but I never do it as a homer.

I root for a lot of players and don't mind it all when people call me a "bandwagon fan" because it is hard for me to be a fan. I love watching Kobe Bryant play because of his work ethic and his passion to win. I love AI because he never stops with the grind. I love seeing good basketball in the NBA. I think the NBA is the best league in the world and has the best athletes. I am a journalist at the end of the day when it comes to basketball so I try to be unbiased as much as I can.

Football Roundup

Never Doubt Them

I was one of those idiots that picked the Jets to beat the Patriots on Sunday. Boy did I doubt the Patriots. They dominated the Jets in every manner and showed the young Jets that they are still a few years away from making a strong run in the playoffs. Coming into the season the Patriots were getting cocky about their "team concept" and that they could plug in anyone into the system. I thought this was going to bite them in the butt this week but it did not. For crying out loud, the Patriots made Jabar Gaffney into a go to receiver. JABAR FREAKING GAFFNEY!! If you are a Texans' fan then you know how bad Gaffney is. Even though they beat the Jets and ManGenius, they will not beat the Chargers next week. This goes against my No. 1 rule in the NFL playoffs, A first time playoff QB's team will not win a game. For some reason (the Patriots are not fast enough on defense), I think LT will open up some easy throwing lanes for Rivers.

Tony OH-NO!!!

"Tony Romo will guide us to the playoffs...He is the greatest QB ever...yes even better than Troy Aikman"...That was Cowboy fan on Thanksgiving day when Tony Romo had a great game against the less than impressive Bucs. Now, Cowboy fan hates Romo because he blew the season. A first time playoff QB will not win a playoff game for his team! The rule holds up once again! How bad must it feel to have your season end on a botched snap! I really hate the Cowboys because I am a Texans fan but in all honesty, the Cowboys have a bright future. Tony OHNO will come in as the starter and get more time to get down routes with his players during camp. The Cowboys chances will only get better if Parcells and T.O. come back. If the Cowboys let Tony OHNO's number one weapon go, they will regret it.

Major Applewhite does it again

If you have not heard, UT legendary QB Major Applewhite was offered a job at Alabama to be on staff with new head coach Nick "Pack your things" Saban. There is nothing Applewhite can't do. People doubted his play when he was a QB here and he ended up being one of the greats in UT history. Now, Major is moving up the coaching ranks. He is the offensive coordinator at Rice and after one year has been given an offer at a big time program. He turned around Rice in one year and got them to a bowl game. Major Applewhite will be the UT offensive coordinator in three years and the head coach after Mack Brown. Mark my words.

NFL Playoffs

The Colts won with Peyton having a bad game. Next week's match up of the Ravens and Colts is going to be awesome. I am getting chills just thinking about the Ravens' defense taking on the Colts' offense. This game is very similar to last year's Steelers loss for the Colts. A tough and nasty defense is the Colts' weakness.

Farewell to Tiki Barber. It is sad to see such a great athlete and person leave the sport. He is one of the few true good people in sports. He left the sport in his prime because he knows there are more important things he can do. I would have loved to see him leave on top but sometimes fairy tales only happen for buses.

Buckeyes win BCS Title

I have the Bucks winning by at least two touchdowns. Florida is too young to upset this powerful monster. UT upset USC because that team had been together for almost three years. Florida does not finish the basketball and football sweep. Troy Smith will have a MONSTER GAME! final score: Buckeyes 31, Gators 17

NBA Round-up

Gilbert, Gilbert, Gilbert

Talk about a hot player. Gilbert Arenas is a kid and the League is his playground. For those of you who listen to the show, you know I am a huge Gilbert fan. RIGHT NOW, he is the best offensive player in the game. He is making shots from 40-feet out with ease and at the same time taking it to the hole. The best thing about Gilbert is that he knows he is this good but never comes off as cocky. He has a personal vendetta against anyone who doubts him. Even if your favorite NBA's water boy doubts Gilbert, he will come after your team and light them up. Gilbert is that kind of player. For the season, Gilbert is putting up 30.5 points, almost five rebounds and 6.6 assists. He is shooting 44% from the field and only getting 9 freethrows a game (making about 7.5 of them)...Those are MVP numbers. Gilbert Arenas is the MVP right now.

The Tables Turn

With the big win over the Spurs on Friday, the Dallas Mavericks have turned the table. Now they are the team that dominates opponents and wins the big games against their fierciest rival. I think the Spurs are a good team but they lack that winning edge at the end of games. The championship Spurs teams would be winning all the close games but now it seems like every close game goes agaisnt them. The Mavericks have more talent right now and have made more moves to upend the Spurs. The Mavericks are made to beat the Spurs and thats it (hence the horrible showing in the Finals)...The best move they made was signing Devean George. He is a finals tested player who can make big shots in the clutch. Dirk is playing his best basketball yet. Harris is panning out to be a solid NBA player and Jason Terry is still thanking the Houston Rockets for his coming out party two seasons ago.
---The X-Factor--- In the first meeting between the Spurs and Mavs, Coach Pop used Francisco Elson to keep Dirk in check and it worked. Since then he has not used Elson...He is probably doing this to leave the matchup for the Playoffs where both teams know they will face each other. I'm not saying Elson will shut down Dirk but he will give him problems like Haslem did for the Heat.

Shhhh Dont Jinx Him

This is what every Tracy McGrady fan is saying. If you have not noticed, T-mac is on a very hot streak right now. Since coming back from injury, he has lead his team to big wins against the Jazz and the Nets to name a few. During the team's five game winning streak, he is putting up 32 points, 4 assists and about 6 rebounds a game. He is taking the Rockets and putting them on his back while the best center in the league is recovering. The most impressive stat from this steak is that he has only shot 42 freethrows (making 31)! In a day where most stars get 15-25 freethrows a game, T-Mac is putting up 30+ points with about 5 freethrows a game. Now this is impressive to me but at the same time it says that T-Mac can get a lot more points from the charity stripe. It seems now that T-Mac is like a very hot girl that you have no chance with, he is a tease. Whenever he really gets going it seems like something bad happens to him. Now the only thing T-Mac can do for Rockets' fans is not get hurt while Yao is out.

T-mac vs. Kobe

Just to get the NBA season going, here is a poll about one of the most debated topics in Houston. Feel free to leave comments about your vote!

Who would you want to build your franchise around?
	Kobe
	T-mac
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Who would you want to guard the oppositions best perimeter player?
	Kobe
	T-mac
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Who would want to take the last shot?
	kobe
	T-mac
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Who has the most upside?
	Kobe
	T-mac
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Who do you want taking free throws at the end of a game?
	Kobe
	T-mac
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Who is the most prolific scorer?
	Kobe
	T-mac
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December 12th: The Final Show for the Semester

Hey everyone!

Thanks for listening all semester long. Thanks to Dan "the man, the true voice of the south" for being a great co-host. We wish him the best now that he is going into the real world, g'luck Dan! Please leave comments about Dan and your memories about him!

Listen to Dan's Farewell segments...here is the breakdown
part 1: fall 2002 until spring 2004
part 2: fall 2004 until spring 2005 with special guest Dan's Dad
part 3: fall 2005 until now

Betters Note: Listen to the Bowl Parlay segment to find out about our picks for the bowl season...guaranteed winners!

Shan and I will be back next semester for more of the Roundup and I will put up more information about show timings. Thanks once again and enjoy the Show and the awesome youtube pick of the week, Kobe style.

Come back to the Blog for my take on the NBA, NFL and college football...