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00:00Tonight on 106 in Sports, we're counting down the top sports stories that matter to the coaches.
00:05WWE superstar Bianca Belair talks to us about the future of her career.
00:10Plus the latest news about Jalen Brown.
00:13And we continue to cover HBCU football like no one else can.
00:17This is 106 in Sports.
00:30Before we even get into the introduction, this is the best dress crowd.
00:37Yes!
00:37I'm trying to tell you!
00:39Oh my God!
00:40Man!
00:42Thanks!
00:43Man!
00:44Welcome to 106 in Sports!
00:51We're counting down the top five moments in sports that matter to the culture.
00:57But before we get started with the countdown, here are some of our favorite highlights from this week.
01:02Jonathan Taylor went beast mode in Berlin.
01:05Taylor legit went all-mad and rushing for 244 yards, three touchdowns, including a game-winning overtime over the Falcons.
01:15Taylor is, in the history books, becoming the Colts' all-time career leader in touchdown runs.
01:20Congratulations to that.
01:21And, if Taylor keeps this pace, he could be the first running back since Adrian Peterson won the MVP in 2020.
01:32Ooh!
01:33Okay.
01:34Look, the Hawks were the underdogs against the Lakers, but I don't know if it's because Cam and I were in the building.
01:40The Hawks got that win, 122 over 102.
01:44Yeah.
01:44Yeah.
01:46Yeah.
01:46We're not gonna discuss what Cam may or may not have been yelling to the Lakers players on the bench.
01:51Stephon Diggs was toe-tapping in Tampa Bay with a fire touchdown catch, and this was on fourth and goal.
01:59But let me go back to Jonathan Taylor potentially being a MVP frontrunner.
02:05Best running back in the NFL right now?
02:07Easily.
02:08Easily.
02:08Best player in the NFL right now.
02:10See, now you're stretching.
02:11Okay, just now.
02:12No Pilates.
02:13But right now, I think he means more to his team than any other player means to their team.
02:19Ooh.
02:20And that's saying something.
02:21Jonathan Taylor has been able to literally put the whole team on his back, though, which alleviates the stress load for Indiana Jones.
02:32Indiana Jones.
02:33And it's been one of the things that the Indianapolis Colts have made it abundantly clear, that we're trying to win yesterday.
02:38Like, now, like, I need it.
02:40It's my money.
02:42I need it now.
02:44Like that.
02:44That's why, man.
02:46But on to the HBCU football.
02:47The rivalry game between Clark Atlanta and Morehouse is known as the Big Cat Classic.
02:52And the Clark Atlanta Panthers defeated the Morehouse Maroon Tigers 48-45.
02:58This was the highest-scoring Big Cat Classic on record with 93 combined points.
03:05Yeah.
03:05And look, shout out to Venus Williams, who confirmed, everyone get ready, she will play her 33rd season.
03:1233rd season, Cam.
03:18Yeah, is that your serve?
03:21Gee, I'm what they call an athlete.
03:24Uh-huh.
03:25Heavy on the F, and you know what the F stands for.
03:28I'm a athlete.
03:31I mean, I've seen you box with Clarissa Shields.
03:34I don't know if I'd, you know, say you were an athlete.
03:37Did you see me box with the, no, you know what, no way you worry about it.
03:40Okay, who's ready to get into the countdown?
03:50Look, Chimery of his dad, everybody.
03:52Cop it up for Cam Nguyen.
03:57Today's number five story is about Jalen Brown.
04:00Is he rubbing people the wrong way?
04:03Oh, my gosh.
04:04Well, Jalen Brown's been trending after back-to-back viral moments,
04:09and the internet is absolutely losing it.
04:11Now, look, the first was during the Celtics game against my New York Knicks
04:15when fans noticed his hair dye rubbing off on Ogie Ananobi's jersey.
04:21Yeah!
04:30Okay.
04:31Is that the, is that you spraying the?
04:32That's the, that's that Beijing.
04:34Mm-hmm.
04:34Huh?
04:35Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
04:36That's what I figured it was.
04:37Oh, my folks in Texas gonna love it.
04:39It's the ice cream paint job.
04:41Huh?
04:42It's that, uh, it's that, it's that man paste that really kind of get you there when,
04:47uh, you ain't got nothing there.
04:48Huh?
04:49But it's all right, though.
04:50And then again, versus the Wizards, Ricky Kashawn George ended up with the same black smudge
04:58on his shoulder.
05:00Look, um...
05:01Not the smudge.
05:02Why y'all put the smudge in there?
05:04Within hours, it was everywhere.
05:06Memes, debates, think pieces.
05:08But underneath the jokes, it opened a real conversation about image and identity in sports.
05:13And it's also cool that Jalen is in on the joke.
05:16Let's take a look at some of these tools.
05:19We got one that says, bro, hairline got traded mid-game.
05:22Ooh.
05:25Diatholical.
05:26This one says, from Jalen Brown himself, AI is getting out of hand.
05:32Yeah.
05:32I get it.
05:34Now, let me ask the crowd.
05:37Oh, no.
05:38Let me ask my sisters, huh?
05:41Is it okay for your other half to have a little extra...
05:47It's no?
05:53Be careful now.
05:54Be careful.
05:55Be careful.
05:57By show of hands, if you like your partner to have a little ice cream at the top, raise your
06:01hand.
06:02But y'all tough.
06:04Y'all tough.
06:04See, in a world where we believe in equality, huh?
06:07Yeah.
06:08In a world where we believe, like, if they do it, we should be able to do it.
06:13Everybody ain't gonna have a good grade of health.
06:16Everybody ain't gonna understand that, hey, when I hit mid-20s, mid-30s, God willing, if
06:23he good to me, mid-40s, I may not have it.
06:25George Jefferson was a direct understanding of what is to be for most people.
06:33If you're playing a sport that causes you to sweat, it probably isn't wise to spray-paint
06:40your hairline.
06:40Okay, cool.
06:41You know?
06:42Okay, cool.
06:43What I'm gonna say is like this.
06:45I'm gonna get off my beautiful, illustrious quid.
06:47That'd be smart of you, Cam.
06:48And I'm going to, it's not smart, because I do have a point, don't I, brothers?
06:53To hello.
06:54Your point is really old.
06:54I'm gonna make this point to Jalen Brown.
06:57Uh, Mr. Brown, my Atlanta, uh, uh, person.
07:00Uh, keep spraying the top of your head.
07:02Matter of fact, spraying toucans on it this time.
07:05Because we believe in equality.
07:08We believe in equality.
07:11Okay.
07:11We believe in equality.
07:14I just want to make a note for everybody who's not in the audience.
07:17The only people chanting that were the men.
07:19Um, okay.
07:20Well, moving on.
07:21Every week, no matter how focused the athletes are, there always seems to be that one story
07:26that makes you say, that's a mess.
07:29Wow.
07:29Yeah.
07:30You know a thing or two about being messy, don't you?
07:34Now, I have some mess for y'all.
07:36Y'all ready for my mess?
07:37Yeah, let's see.
07:39It started when a grambling player took a swing at a Bethune-Cookman player.
07:42Afterwards, Mickey Joseph, Grambling State's head coach, said,
07:45we're not going to tolerate disrespect here at Grambling.
07:48You won't disrespect us.
07:49We're going to meet disrespect with disrespect.
07:52Now, I have an issue with this.
07:55Okay.
07:56I understand the disrespect part.
07:58Mm-hmm.
07:59But how many weeks have we been doing this show?
08:03This is our fifth show, so that would be five weeks.
08:05Have we not stood on the table and said that we need HBCU exposure?
08:11Yes.
08:11Have we not said we're going to take this platform of 106 in sports
08:16and highlight the totality of sports?
08:19That includes African Americans, minority sports as well?
08:24Yes.
08:24Well, I said last week that it will take media deals
08:29to now penetrate the HBCU ecosystem.
08:34But this is why I don't like this.
08:37I actually despise it.
08:39Why?
08:39Wow.
08:40It's because if the people who sign the checks to put you on national television
08:46and they were to see a halftime melee, Royal Rumble,
08:53and then all of a sudden we wonder why we don't got no media deals
08:57and no media contracts.
08:59And this is the thing.
09:00And I could probably hear a coach or a representative say,
09:02well, they started it first.
09:04Well, two wrongs.
09:06And the right.
09:07Well, you have opportunities to shift the narrative,
09:11especially in our culture where we are already starting, you know,
09:15on an uphill battle with one good foot, the other one got gout,
09:19the other one got athlete's foot, one hand strapped around your back.
09:24And you do this?
09:25You can, though, admit that that obviously is a double standard
09:28because we have seen at a lot of the power universities
09:30fights like this break out all the time.
09:32So that you can acknowledge, though,
09:33that because you're already at a disadvantage,
09:35that that's where the...
09:36So if we're trying to go get us a bag...
09:38Right.
09:38And this is coming from an individual that went to a PWI.
09:41Mm-hmm.
09:41Right?
09:42I've never had the HBCU experience.
09:44And I'll be the first person to tell you that.
09:46I'm the first person in my family not to go to college.
09:50Everybody in my family went to college.
09:52Mm-hmm.
09:52But I was the first one that went to a PWI.
09:55Mm-hmm.
09:55So for me, all I knew was HBCUs.
09:58All I knew was homecomings.
10:00And all I knew was to be prideful and wear your team colors.
10:03Win, lose, or draw.
10:04Right?
10:05I get jealous sometimes when my sister-in-law and my brother say,
10:10H-U, you know.
10:12Oh, Big Blue and TSU and these type of things.
10:15But if we're sitting up here and we're taking time and time and time again,
10:19and on BET's beautiful platform and network, we've said that we want equality.
10:24And this happened?
10:25I don't give a doggone who was wrong.
10:27That can't be the narrative.
10:28Because if the people who are signing the checks, chances are,
10:31let's keep it a bigger buck than that.
10:33They don't even look like us.
10:34They want every single reason to say, see, see, see, see, Ashley?
10:38I told you why.
10:40This is true.
10:40We can't do that.
10:41And I'm not going to go for that.
10:43So that's why I'm disappointed.
10:44It's not about a slap happening.
10:46Okay, cool, bro.
10:47Take the slap.
10:48Tell the ref.
10:49If the ref don't do it, then walk on about your business.
10:51We got to do right by ourselves, but also start by holding each other accountable.
10:55And that's why I just don't appreciate that is because it could have been handled in many different ways.
11:01And it's always handled many different ways.
11:05Okay.
11:05Well, look, for you at home, join the conversation using the hashtag 106inSports.
11:10But don't go anywhere because still on the show tonight, we have WWE superstar Bianca Belair is here.
11:17You don't want to miss it.
11:19To see who's up next in the world of sports, go to BET.com for our next up series presented by Jeep Grand Cherokee.
11:35Welcome back, everybody, to 106inSports, where culture meets the game.
11:39We are still counting down our top five moments, and we're going to continue the countdown right now.
11:45Is everybody ready for number four?
11:49All righty, then.
11:50The number four topic is near and dear to my heart.
11:53It's about BDE.
11:56Y'all don't know what BDE is?
11:57I know what BDE is.
11:58I'm trying to figure out why you just said that.
12:00Huh?
12:00Huh?
12:01It's big dad energy.
12:03Oh, never mind.
12:08Ashley!
12:10Sorry.
12:10Slow down now.
12:12Listen.
12:13T. Morant's back in the headlines after Kevin Durant was caught courtside yelling at him, quote,
12:18your son don't want to be here, meaning Memphis.
12:21Hmm.
12:22Then from an all-star, Kenyon Martin jumped in saying, Tee should sit down and shut up.
12:26Ooh.
12:27It's reopened the whole conversation that started with Richard Williams and LeVar Ball and even
12:32Deion Sanders about sports parents, especially Black fathers.
12:36When does being visible turn into being too visible?
12:39Hmm.
12:40And why do we criticize Black dads for showing up when that's exactly what we ask them to
12:46do?
12:47Um, I think this situation is a little different.
12:51Okay.
12:51Tell me why.
12:52I've been the biggest Ja fan, as well as Tee.
12:56It's one of those things that you see an individual, he's not happy.
13:00This is true.
13:01But what does the dad do?
13:04You know what I'm saying?
13:04And it's like, sometimes I don't think we're able to really process big personality from
13:10individuals that we're not used to seeing big personalities from.
13:14We've also seen the antics or what look to be antics with him being courtside.
13:19I think that's where his rap gets, you know, kind of skewed a little bit because as a person
13:25observing the whole situation, it's like, I don't like that.
13:28And the reason why you may not like that is because we're not used to fathers having or
13:33making it about them.
13:35And I will be the first person to say, I don't think that Tee is making it about him more
13:40so than showing unwavering support.
13:42And it may not look like how you are used to a father looking like.
13:47So from one parent to another, as long as your child says, dad, mom, and he knows that
13:57you're there as a parent, man, my hat goes off to you.
14:01Yeah, absolutely.
14:03I mean, my take on it is this.
14:06I feel like John Moran is a grown man with a child.
14:10So how much control do you expect his father to have over him when it comes to his actions
14:15and his decision making?
14:17Yes, obviously, the guidance of your parents is important at any age.
14:21And you go to your parents, you go to your elders, you go to whoever it is in your family
14:25that you look for or you look to for guidance.
14:28But at the end of the day, after a certain point, your decisions are your decisions.
14:32And whatever comes of those decisions is your responsibilities.
14:36Tee Morant is Tee Morant.
14:37I am your father.
14:38I am not the player on the court.
14:40It is your responsibility to show up and do your job while you are still part of the Memphis
14:45Grizzlies, whether you want to be there or not.
14:47Why is that his problem as his father to make sure his son acts right?
14:51He's a 20-plus-year-old man with a kid.
14:54But our own kind, this ain't coming from the propaganda that people will say.
15:01Cam Newton's dad, Cecil Newton, LeVar Ball, Richard William.
15:07Like, this is something different.
15:09It's like he's getting ridiculed by his own.
15:12And I'm not, that's not my, I'm not trying to make that point more than saying that,
15:17hey, we're looking at Tee as an individual.
15:21It's like, hey, bro, you're doing too much.
15:25Per what we're reporting now.
15:28Raul Madunze's father actually recently took issue with his son's treatment.
15:32And he took to X to kind of repost criticism and respond to it.
15:37And his son had this to say.
15:39He said, I don't make a big deal out of it.
15:40Obviously, he has his opinions and I have mine.
15:43And he feels the need to voice those things on social media.
15:46That is his prerogative.
15:47He speaks for himself and I speak for myself.
15:50Which I think, after a certain point, is the way you handle it.
15:54Obviously, it is your parents' nature to want to defend you.
15:58And when you have a kid of your own, that trickles down to you as a parent.
16:02But it also, after a certain point, much like the Halliburton situation with Tyrese and then his dad.
16:08That was different, though.
16:09But what I'm saying is, is that Tyrese's fault?
16:11No.
16:12His father's responsible for his own actions.
16:14And I think that works both ways.
16:17How about that?
16:17Like, from an athlete.
16:19Yeah.
16:19He's lucky he ain't got swung on him.
16:21I'm trying to tell you.
16:22I love Tyrese Halliburton and all the energy that he plays with.
16:26But I said it before, he just caught the sports holy ghost.
16:29He probably didn't know what he was actually doing, going in front of, you know, Giannis' face and, like, whatever.
16:34But it is what it is.
16:35Everybody has their own different thing.
16:38Even with, you know, Patrick Mahomes' father, you know, a couple years back saying, like, I'm smoking on that burrow pack.
16:43Now, Giannis is a gentle giant, but what if he would have run across Cam Newton?
16:47How'd that have gone?
16:48Well, in the famous words of Kanye West, I guess we'll never know.
16:52Listen, let us know what you think using the hashtag 106inSports.
16:58Is Bianca Belair returning to the WWE ring before the year is out?
17:03We got the answers for you.
17:05Coming up next, more on 106inSports.
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17:13Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome back to 106inSports, where culture meets the game.
17:27Are you guys ready for our guest?
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17:33Listen, our next guest is an elite athlete who went from track star to CrossFit competitor
17:40to All-American hurdler.
17:42She broke the records on the field before breaking barriers in the ring.
17:47Now she's one of the most decorated wrestlers in the world, a triple crown champion and the
17:52first black woman.
17:53Yes, that's right.
17:54The first black woman to ever main event the biggest stage in wrestling.
17:57Yes.
17:57Please welcome Bianca Belair.
18:00Woo!
18:01Woo!
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18:06I'm unfortunately, I'm not the junior.
18:07Why are you?
18:07I have one.
18:08How are you doing?
18:08How are you doing, darling?
18:09We just had a reunion moment because when I
18:39was at Sports Illustrated once upon a time,
18:43Bianca came on my show and we got in the ring together.
18:46We were in Orlando. It was the whole thing.
18:48What?
18:49Yeah. So this is a very full circle moment.
18:51Very full circle moment.
18:52Very excited to be here.
18:53For a lot of individuals, they don't realize how athletic
18:57you actually have to be to be a wrestler.
18:59What did you do? How did you train?
19:01And how did you become, to what we know, huge feet now?
19:04Yeah. So my journey into WWE is a little bit different
19:07than a lot of people when I first came in.
19:09Like a lot of people, they have been watching wrestling
19:11since they were like five and they dreamed of being WWE champion.
19:14I did not.
19:16I ran track.
19:17I did gymnastics.
19:18I did cheerleading.
19:19I did soccer.
19:19I did almost every sport in the book.
19:21But in college, I was a collegiate hurdler, all-SEC.
19:25And then afterwards, I went into CrossFit and I was powerlifting
19:28and I was making some of my own outfits.
19:30And then Mark Henry, who's a WWE Hall of Famer.
19:32Big slow.
19:33Yeah, he saw a video of me, he's like, you got everything it takes
19:37to be a wrestler, you ever thought about it?
19:38Mm-hm.
19:39Got me a tryout, I did two tryouts, and I had no idea
19:42what I was getting myself into.
19:44But I played almost every sport in the book, and I've been able to use that
19:48to get into wrestling, and I think that that's really what's been able
19:51to make me be so successful in WWE.
19:53So my journey's a little bit different, but it found me.
19:56Yeah.
19:56I know that's right.
19:57Look, but I also feel like what's made you so successful
20:00and just so different is that you are so in touch with your femininity,
20:03but also like your power.
20:05The way she walked out is how she walks out in the ring,
20:08the ponytail swinging, the makeup, the looks, yes, all of it.
20:12And, um, listen, one of the best in your sport,
20:17just in so many different ways, but we gotta talk about WrestleMania.
20:20You obviously sustained an injury earlier this year.
20:23How have you been dealing with it?
20:25And tell us kind of a little bit about how the injury occurred.
20:28Yeah, so I broke my knuckle, which is not my finger.
20:32I broke my knuckle, I broke the joint.
20:33It's something that I thought was gonna be a very straightforward,
20:36you know, eight to 12 weeks.
20:38It's been almost six months at this point.
20:40But it was WrestleMania, and I was in a triple threat
20:42with Rhea Ripley and Eoskai,
20:45and we were going to the top rope, because that's what we do.
20:48And we came off the top rope, and Rhea landed straight on my hand,
20:51and it just crushed everything in my finger.
20:53So, it's been a crazy journey.
20:56And, you know, being an athlete and having an injury,
20:58you rely on your body, and now my body's not doing
21:01what it's supposed to do, but, you know,
21:03I'm hoping I can be back in the ring soon.
21:04So, how does one be a part of the storylines?
21:09A lot of people think that we go in there,
21:11and we just hit each other over the head with chairs,
21:13and we do moves.
21:13A lot more orchestrated.
21:14It is so much more to that.
21:17Like, it's a story, and that's really what invokes
21:20people's emotions, is through the story.
21:22That's what gets people to feel something.
21:24So, to have a good story, you have to be...
21:27You have to have a good guy, you have to have a bad guy.
21:28Right.
21:29And so, that's exactly what we do.
21:31If you come to a show, you'll be cheering or booing,
21:34depending on whatever the story is.
21:36I don't know how familiar you are with, like,
21:38WrestleMania crowds and things like that,
21:40but every time you are in a crowd,
21:42you see the infamous ponytail.
21:45Yeah.
21:45And little girls wearing their ponies and swinging it,
21:48and I just think that representation
21:49and just that impact, the beauty and the beast,
21:52if you will, is just so important,
21:54and I just think it's really cool to see that.
21:56What would you say to the person that's watching this
21:59for the minority or just women in general
22:02to give them the confidence to say,
22:03hey, yo, like, this is a dope thing to be a part of,
22:07and what actions should they go about taking
22:09to become one?
22:10Yeah, well, I love meeting people who say,
22:13ah, I used to watch Resolent,
22:14or it's not really for me because that used to be me.
22:17Right, right, right, right.
22:18I was one of those people.
22:19When I first got into it, I was like,
22:20I don't know about this,
22:22but I completely fell in love with it,
22:24and I'm always saying, just come to a show
22:25and you will fall in love with it.
22:27For anybody that wants to get into it,
22:29it is a possibility,
22:30and especially for black women,
22:32the door is open for any of you,
22:34and I hope that little girls see themselves in me.
22:36That's why anytime I have a WrestleMania entrance,
22:38my last WrestleMania,
22:39I had a whole bunch of little girls on stage
22:41because I don't want them to just see themselves in me.
22:44I want them to see themselves up there
22:45and know that this is a possibility.
22:47This is a door that's open for you,
22:49and it's not a thing where there's just space for one of us.
22:52It is so many black women in WWE right now,
22:55and they're killing it,
22:57and we're so different.
22:58So there's room for everybody.
23:00Absolutely.
23:00Look, it's time for us to get into the third topic
23:05on our countdown,
23:06and it's an important one
23:07and one that's impossible to ignore.
23:09The sports world is still processing
23:11the tragic passing of Marshawn Nealon,
23:14the young defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys
23:16whose death has reopened the conversation
23:18about mental health in sports.
23:20It's the pressure to perform,
23:22to please, to stay perfect.
23:24It all adds up and takes a toll.
23:26Players like Doc Prescott, Brandon Marshall,
23:28and Noah Lyles have been honest
23:30about their mental health
23:31and how it has affected their performance
23:33and their lives.
23:34Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have also said the same.
23:37I'll say this,
23:39and I'm curious to kind of hear your point too, Bianca,
23:43but the reality is
23:44I challenge the support system.
23:49That's not to say,
23:49and I'm not speaking of Marshawn's specific situation,
23:54but, hey, bro, are you good?
23:56No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
23:58Are you really good?
23:59Because the thing that we all have in us
24:03is I have to figure it out by myself,
24:06and that's not the case.
24:08Those type of connections can save a life.
24:12So, Bianca, when you hear the situation
24:14about mental health, what's your take on it?
24:17I think mental health is so important.
24:19I think that it's amazing that a lot of athletes
24:21are speaking up about it now
24:22and being more vocal about it
24:23because I feel like as an athlete,
24:26we are looked at as superheroes
24:28in whatever field that we're in,
24:31and sometimes we think we have to live up to that,
24:33and sometimes we are not really being our true selves
24:35when we're out there.
24:37We're putting on.
24:37We're putting everything to the side
24:39so that we can go out there and perform,
24:40and then when we go home,
24:41we're dealing with these things,
24:42and sometimes the people closest to us,
24:45they may not even notice the signs,
24:46but you really have to lean on your support system
24:49and trust that they'll be there for you.
24:52I also think that now with athletes,
24:54it's another layer too.
24:55You're not just an athlete,
24:56but you're a social media influencer,
24:59and there's social media that ties into that.
25:01So I think people and friends and family and fans,
25:05you have to approach athletes with grace
25:07and know that they're humans
25:09and know that sometimes it doesn't matter
25:11if they just had an amazing game.
25:13When you're in that moment,
25:14yesterday doesn't matter,
25:15and you can't see the future.
25:16It's only what's happening right then and there,
25:18so you definitely have to sometimes
25:19pull up on that person,
25:21and sometimes, you know,
25:22maybe I'm being annoying.
25:23I don't know,
25:24but maybe you need this right now.
25:25It's like being intrusive.
25:29You know what I'm saying?
25:29I would agree, yeah.
25:30It's one of those things like
25:31we have so much access to us as public figures.
25:35The exes, the Instagrams,
25:38the TikTok,
25:39one comment can have a person spiraling.
25:43Don't let it happen.
25:44Don't let it be you.
25:45Understand that, okay,
25:46everybody's entitled to their own opinion,
25:48and let's not overread it.
25:50You know, when I interviewed Bianca a few years ago,
25:52we had a conversation about imposter syndrome,
25:54and at the time,
25:55I was, like, so early in my career
25:56that, like, that wasn't something
25:58that ever really was a burden to me.
26:01You know, I heard it.
26:02I heard what it meant.
26:03I knew what it meant,
26:04but it wasn't something that really infiltrated
26:06and, like, affected my life,
26:07and I will say,
26:09as I've grown in my career,
26:10the imposter syndrome gets more and more relevant, right?
26:14And, I mean, I'll be very honest,
26:16obviously not being an athlete
26:17and not knowing what that struggle is like,
26:19but I just had an episode of imposter syndrome
26:22not that long ago,
26:23but I want everybody in this room to know
26:25there are so many days that I wake up
26:29or I'm going to set,
26:30and I question,
26:31am I good enough?
26:31Am I doing a good enough job?
26:32Is my impact enough?
26:34You know, do I deserve to be in this position?
26:36And I don't want anybody to ever look at me
26:39or anybody on this set.
26:40I've just mastered the ability to work through it,
26:43and I just want everyone to know
26:44that, like, it may be a day,
26:46but it's not going to be every day.
26:49You know?
26:51So, if you know anyone who is struggling,
26:55please, please, please know
26:57that you are not alone.
26:58Help is available,
26:59and reaching out is a sign of strength.
27:02We'll be right back
27:04with more 106 in Sports.
27:13Okay, welcome back to 106 in Sports.
27:16Bianca Belair is still here.
27:17Let's talk about your pregame playlist.
27:21Mmm.
27:21We got some songs here.
27:23We got KODJ Cole.
27:25We got some Kirk Franklin.
27:26We got some Cardi B.
27:29Explain the mix, though.
27:31My playlist is kind of all over the place.
27:33Yeah.
27:33So, whenever, like, name your favorite five songs
27:36you want to listen to before you wrestle,
27:38I'm like, y'all going to think I'm crazy.
27:40But, because when you think that you need to go out there
27:44hyped up,
27:45but if you can't go out there too hyped up,
27:47like, I need to be calm,
27:49I need to be grounded,
27:50I need to be relaxed.
27:51So, I'm a big J. Cole fan in KOD.
27:54That's the name of my finish, Kiss of Death.
27:56So, like, that gets me in, like, wrestling mode.
27:58I have some songs in there for lyrics that ground me.
28:00I have Kirk Franklin that, you know,
28:02just puts me in a great mood.
28:04And I got some hype me up songs with Megan Glow.
28:07So, it's a mix.
28:08Speaking of music,
28:09let's get into our second topic on our countdown.
28:13And that is all about the Grammys,
28:15because the Grammy nominations just dropped,
28:17and the lineup looks like a March Madness championship bracket.
28:21March Madness?
28:21March Madness.
28:22Like future March Madness?
28:23Future March Madness.
28:24The Grammys are basically the playoff of music.
28:27You got stats, you got rivalries,
28:29and you got comeback.
28:30The only difference is,
28:31the field just happens to be a stage.
28:35Um, what do you make of the Grammy nominations?
28:36Let me give you some information here,
28:39in case you needed it.
28:40First of all, rap is coming out big,
28:43because Kendrick got a nomination for album of the year.
28:45So, the Clips,
28:46so, the Tally, the Creator,
28:48first of all, clap it up for them, for sure.
28:50Yeah.
28:53Uh, it's the first time that three rap albums
28:57are in the category for album of the year.
29:01Clap for it, but this is the thing, though.
29:03Like, it's all about robberies, as I just mentioned.
29:06Mm-hmm.
29:07Drake has still produced great music, too, along the way.
29:10Like, for those people that do not want to acknowledge it,
29:13it's either this or that,
29:14I think as fans, we get the best of both worlds.
29:17It really challenged great artistry to be had,
29:20and I appreciate that, not just from Kendrick's petty side.
29:24Drake's side as well, too.
29:26And I'm just here for all artists
29:29that be able to or have that platform to do so.
29:32But, all right, here we go.
29:34Okay, Bianca, before you go,
29:35we want to play a little game,
29:37and it's time for a star...
29:38Star...
29:39Bit...
29:40Bit...
29:41Train...
29:42Train...
29:43We're gonna head over there.
29:45We're gonna go to the game going into it, ma'am.
29:47Yeah.
29:47Yeah, for sure.
29:51Look, no dodging, no PR answers.
29:54You gotta keep it 100 authentic, all right?
29:57So, the ball is in your court,
29:59or in your ring, I should say.
30:01Is everybody ready to play?
30:03Yeah!
30:04Round one is going to be all about
30:08who you would want as your tag team partner.
30:12Now, these aren't gonna be your usual names, okay?
30:14These aren't gonna be wrestlers.
30:16I'm just gonna give you the heads up, all right?
30:18It is going to be a combination of...
30:21Jocelyn Hernandez,
30:24aka the Puerto Rican princess,
30:27Baddies, Natalie Nunn,
30:29and then one of my favorite housewives of all time,
30:32Teresa Giudice from the Rural Housewives of New Jersey.
30:36Ooh.
30:37Basically, everybody got some hands.
30:39Who you gonna start?
30:40Bench or trade?
30:42I'm going to...
30:44I gotta start Jocelyn.
30:45Okay.
30:45Yeah!
30:46That Puerto Rican princess.
30:48That Puerto Rican princess.
30:50Yeah.
30:51Yeah.
30:51She, at that point, like,
30:53she's my tag team partner,
30:54she might not even have to tag me in.
30:57She gonna take over.
30:58That's an easy night for me.
30:59You know, she gonna start,
31:01she gonna get the pin,
31:02and she gonna get the titles for us.
31:03Mm.
31:04So definitely start in Jocelyn.
31:06I think I'm gonna...
31:07trade Natalie.
31:11Okay.
31:13The baddies.
31:14You will not get your baddie chain this time,
31:16Miss Natalie Nunn.
31:17I'm gonna trade her.
31:18Okay, any reason why?
31:20Because she stay active.
31:21Ooh.
31:21She gotta stay active on the roster.
31:22So I'm gonna trade her somewhere,
31:23you know, she could still be used.
31:24Okay.
31:25But then I might be fighting against her if I trade her.
31:27Okay, so we're gonna take then,
31:29Teresa on the bench.
31:30She can flip a table.
31:31Teresa on the bench.
31:31Clip some chairs.
31:32Yeah, we'll put it on the backstage.
31:33Okay.
31:34I'm not mad at it.
31:36All right, so round two
31:38is who is the most stylish WWE superstar outside of yourself?
31:44We got Cody Rhodes.
31:45We got Jade Cargill.
31:46And we have Seth Rollins.
31:51I'm starting Jade.
31:52Ooh.
31:52Ooh, I know that's right.
31:55Because every time she pop up on the screen,
31:58she got that on.
31:59And the hair's always laid.
32:00Yeah.
32:01She's like the modern-day version of Storm.
32:04Yeah.
32:05Like Jade, face T, hair T, outfit T, everything.
32:08So I'm starting Jade.
32:09Um, then I'm going to trade Seth.
32:15Okay.
32:15And then I'm gonna bench Cody,
32:18because I feel like he plays it safe a little bit.
32:20This is a very nice suit set.
32:21It's nice.
32:22It's very classic.
32:23But for wrestling,
32:24sometimes it's just, it's like safe.
32:26Sometimes you have to take risks.
32:27Okay.
32:28Can I insert one?
32:29Sure.
32:30I want to insert one.
32:31Like, my start bench training,
32:32I really grew up watching wrestling
32:34in a time where, like,
32:35it was the Attitude Era.
32:38You know what I'm saying?
32:39Like, who's the greatest smack talker of all time?
32:42The Rock, Stone Cold,
32:45or Ric Flair?
32:47Ooh!
32:52Wow!
32:56Start bench training.
32:57You got Dwayne Johnson and The Rock,
32:59Can you smell...
33:01What The Rock is cooking?
33:04Okay.
33:05I'm starting to rock.
33:07Okay.
33:09This one's hard.
33:11I'm going to...
33:12What's she say?
33:13Bench...
33:14Ric Flair.
33:15Yeah.
33:16Oh!
33:16Oh!
33:19And Trade in Stone Cold?
33:20And Trade in Stone Cold.
33:22Trade in Stone Cold?
33:24I feel like...
33:24I'm not mad at it!
33:25Honestly, I feel like this whole thing is a lose-lose.
33:28Lose?
33:28My guy is literally having everybody crash beers.
33:32That might go on the record as the hardest start bench trade on 106 in sports, courtesy of...
33:39That's cool!
33:40That's cool!
33:41I got my help from a crowd.
33:42And we should do this in the locker room.
33:44Hey, give me two clacks to the Ric Flair!
33:45Yeah!
33:46Woo!
33:47Woo!
33:47But Bianca, before you go, what can we expect from you?
33:51Obviously, you're going to continue rehabbing.
33:53We can't wait to see you back in the ring.
33:54But what else do you have in the works?
33:55Yeah, I'll be back in the ring soon.
33:57Hopefully, sooner than later.
33:58We have War Game Survivor Series coming up.
34:01It's Thanksgiving weekend.
34:02It's going to be on ESPN.
34:03Ooh!
34:04So, y'all tune in for that.
34:05And I'm actually working on a children's book, hopefully, that's going to come out.
34:09So, super excited about that.
34:10We love that!
34:11That's so good.
34:12Okay, everybody make some noise for our fiancée Bel-Air!
34:16Yes!
34:17Woo!
34:18And if you want to know who you would start, venture trades, let us know using the hashtag
34:23106inSports.
34:24More 106inSports is on the road!
34:27Woo!
34:38Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome back to 106inSports.
34:41Our number one story today is actually about our first ever guest on this very show, and
34:47that is Clarissa Shields.
34:49She just made history.
34:50Wow.
34:51Yeah.
34:52Woo!
34:53She just signed one of the biggest contracts ever in women's boxing history, an $8 million
34:59deal.
35:00Dang!
35:01Woo!
35:02Clarissa, let me borrow it.
35:03Who from Michigan?
35:04No, who from Detroit?
35:05Who from Detroit?
35:06Who from Detroit?
35:07Who from Detroit?
35:08She's already won two Olympic gold medals and is the first boxer, male or female, to hold
35:15all four major titles.
35:17And now she has the bag, too.
35:20The biggest question now is, does this make her the quote, which is what she refers to
35:25as the greatest woman of all time?
35:27Now, I want to make sure that I read this, and I read this very carefully before we discuss,
35:32okay?
35:33So, um, she is now officially the highest-paid female boxer in history, signing the $8 million
35:40guaranteed multi-fight deal that's bigger than the combined career earnings of some of her
35:48male peers.
35:49That is a power move that puts her in her own league.
35:54The only thing that I do not like about this...
35:57Uh-oh.
35:58...for every great fighter...
36:00Okay.
36:01...whether it's UFC or boxing, what do they need?
36:07A great rival.
36:09Hmm.
36:10Who's her rival?
36:11They're the rival.
36:12She's been whooping everybody.
36:13Oh!
36:14So that's the only thing that I don't like.
36:17Clarissa is so dominant that she literally does stomp and just sissy and stepped on all
36:24her competition.
36:25I need the rivals to step front and really hold their own because we already know what
36:30to expect if we hear that ding, ding, ding, and she on one corner and the other person.
36:35It don't necessarily matter.
36:36I want that.
36:38We want that as fans of the sport.
36:40Congratulations to Clarissa.
36:42That's the only thing that I want.
36:43But if she is the greatest, that means you're in a league and a lane of your own.
36:47When you think about some of the rivalries, you know, in boxing, when you talk about
36:50her male counterparts, there were a lot of greats at the same time.
36:54You know, you think about Holyfield and Tyson.
36:57You think about Pacquiao and Mayweather.
36:59You think about some of the other matches.
37:02But there's really nobody quite on Clarissa's level.
37:05So anybody that she'd fight is essentially fighting down, no?
37:09Yeah.
37:10But that's why I said the only thing that I don't like is that she doesn't have a rival.
37:16Anybody that fights Clarissa knows that it's not just an uphill battle.
37:22Mm-hmm.
37:23It's a steep battle.
37:25And boy, oh boy, she is on her throne and she gonna whoop you.
37:30Well, okay.
37:31Who would you like to see her fight?
37:33I...
37:34Don't get me to lie.
37:35Don't get me to lie.
37:36I just challenge everybody that's in that division in her weight class to really start
37:42to make noise.
37:43And step up.
37:44Because...
37:45We wanna see it.
37:46We gonna see it.
37:47Maybe we need someone to call her out.
37:50I think somebody did call her out.
37:52Layla, that's you?
37:53Oh, oh.
37:54No, no, no.
37:55No, no, no.
37:56But for real, it's like, when you see a situation like Clarissa...
37:59Yeah.
38:00Uh, you know, the talks of her and Layla, would I wanna see that fight?
38:04No.
38:05Absolutely not.
38:06No.
38:07I wanna see all worthy opponents that should have opportunities, but just make it interesting.
38:14I want...
38:15I really wanna see how great she can be.
38:17Get your Don King on.
38:18Make it happen.
38:19Say that.
38:20We got the same here.
38:21Okay.
38:22Listen.
38:23Well, look, that's gonna do it for us.
38:24Thank you so much for rocking with us.
38:26As usual, we want you to hit us up using the hashtag 106inSports.
38:30Cam, take us away with the last word.
38:32All right, all right.
38:33In the state of this world that we live in as individuals, as a unit, as a nation,
38:40I want you to grab the purse of hand that you're sitting next to.
38:44And collectively, one of my favorite movies is Home Alone.
38:48And in Home Alone, they have a quote.
38:50We love you.
38:53We really, really love you.
38:56And as I always say, one finger, one pinky, one thumb, one love.
39:01Appreciate you guys.
39:02Thank you so much.
39:33Thank you, Phil Spè­°ć“Ą.
39:34Woo-hoo, love you written down with me.
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