Prime Cuts - Final Four Preview, Tiger’s Troubles, Elite NBA Draft Class

About this episode

Colin Cowherd discusses the Final Four, Tiger Woods' recent troubles, and the upcoming NBA draft class with guests Doug Gottlieb and Danny Parkins.

Colin’s top takes of the week. First, Colin is joined by Doug Gottlieb, men’s basketball coach at University of Wisconsin Green Bay They start by reacting to UConn’s last second win over Duke in the Elite 8 quarterfinals (3:30), break down the Big Ten’s dominance in the tournament  (12:30) and preview a stacked NBA draft class and debate who should be the top 5 lottery picks (16:30) Then he’s joined by Danny Parkins, host of “First Things First” at FS1. They start with Tiger Woods crashing his car in another suspected DUI, and discuss why his value is so high to the PGA and sponsors that they’ll never cut ties with him. They recap Tiger’s history of surgeries and why it’s likely he’s developed a reliance on opioids to deal with chronic pain and that he probably should never be behind the wheel of a car (27:00). They react to the potential of the NFL using replacement referees after contract talks broke down. Colin argues that NFL officials overwhelmingly get calls right and paying full-time officials won’t make the product better, and that the only argument for full-time refs is the NFL has the money…

People in this episode

Host: Colin Cowherd

Guests: Doug Gottlieb, Danny Parkins

Topics covered

• Final Four
• NBA Draft
• Tiger Woods
• PGA
• NFL Referees

Keywords

• Final Four
• NBA Draft
• Tiger Woods
• PGA
• NFL Referees
• Doug Gottlieb
• Danny Parkins

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Wisconsin Green Bay, PGA, FS1

Places: UConn, Duke, Big Ten

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