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But let's get started with our top stories of the day. We'll start off with a sigh of relief, somewhat for the Denver Nuggets. Now, last night, they lose to the Miami Heat, 147 to 123 in South Florida. But ESPN reported just 30 minutes ago that a very tough injury to Nikola Jokic appears to be not as serious as initially feared. He potentially could miss a month with a hyperextension in his. Left knee. So that is the latest on Jokic, who will miss all of January and then hopefully for him, get back on the court after that. By the way, you have to play 65 games to win the MVP in the NBA. So this could potentially take him out of the running for that. Shay Gilgs Alexander is the overwhelming favorite now at -425. So Jokic, not an ACL or anything like that, that was initially feared, hyperextension. Four-week injury to arguably the best or second-best player in the NBA depending on how you feel about it. Jokic, by the way, averaging almost 30 points a game, 60% uh from the field goals and also, uh, basically it's a triple-double every single day. All right, last night in the National Football League, we got a game where we did not expect one. How about the Atlanta Falcons jump out. To a 21 to 0 lead, they end up salvaging because that's really what it was, a win against the Los Angeles Rams, who drove all the way down the field at the end of the game and almost pulled off one of the massive upsets of the season, 27 to 24. I probably shouldn't call it an upset cause the Rams were seven-point favorites in this game. But at halftime, you probably had no thought whatsoever that the Falcons would lose Bejon Robinson, rewarded his fantasy owners with his biggest game of the season, and now the Rams will go into the playoffs as the 6th seed. So it looks like they'll probably have to face off with either Chicago or Philadelphia. Falcons, by the way, could factor in. Last game of the season, although they can't make the playoffs, they do control the destiny of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right, now back to the game last night. Sean McVeigh didn't like the way that the game ended, but liked the effort in coming back. This is, uh, but we weren't good enough. I do like the fight of this group, the way that we handled ourselves in the second half. Um, and we had our chances to be able to close that game out. And, um, here we are again in a, in a disappointing situation, but This is a humbling league and, um, we got humbled tonight. I wish I had an answer. You know, I thought they had a good week of preparation. Um, we just didn't have that bounce in our step and missing some guys, but it's no excuse. And so, um, you know, we got to be able to figure it out. Uh, in a lot of instances, it comes back to, um, you know, our collective, are we putting our guys in the right sort of spots and then ultimately, are we executing and we'll look at it, but, uh, it wasn't good enough as a whole and it starts with me. Um, great to do it in front of our fans. I thought they provided a great, you know, home atmosphere tonight. Um, you know, fun to win on Monday Night Football, um, and, um, you know, it's just great to, great to see our team as a whole team win. I thought our defense really made a major difference tonight. Um, special teams came up with some big plays, so really felt like we all kind of leaned on one another and uh. Um, feels good to be walking out of here with a victory against a good football team. Meanwhile, some disturbing news from a member of the New England Patriots, a television station in the New England area reporting that wide receiver Stefon Diggs has been charged with felony strangulation for suffocation and a misdemeanor count of assault and battery related to an incident that occurred early. Earlier this month, he's scheduled to be arraigned on January 23rd, just two days before the AFC championship game. Diggs, according to a reporter in New England, denies the charges and the Patriots, at least for the time being, saying they're standing by Diggs and letting this. A legal situation play out. So, uh, we're just getting this information about 20 minutes ago, giving you what we know. All right, now, we don't know who's gonna start for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night. It would appear at quarterback that at the very least, if they plan on winning the game, Lamar Jackson's gotta start this one. His status against the Steelers to be determined. Baltimore, 3.5 point favorites on the road at Pittsburgh for the 8. FC North title. John Harbaugh yesterday not really giving any true indication as to whether or not Lamar will play in the do or die game. Do you expect, um, Lamar to be able to play this week or is that still to be determined? Yeah, uh, well, it's to be determined, you know, I mean, still, he's coming off, he's coming off a very serious injury and, uh, And uh he's working at it. I saw him here today working at it. So I think we'll know a lot more on Wednesday. Might you go lighter with the hitting this week knowing the physicality that the Steelers Ravens? Uh, well, you must have been watching the, uh, the shows. Coach Cower talked about that. I happened to see that because I was watching TV this, this weekend, unlike other weekends. Um, you know, we, we don't really, I mean, at this point in time in the season, we haven't been in pads for about 3 weeks now, um. Rules, the rules don't really allow you to be in pads too much, but also we haven't wanted to be, we haven't needed to be. Uh, we, we are focused, we will focus on technique for sure, blocking technique and all the different things that we do, but it's not at this point in time of the season, there's not a lot of hitting that you do in practice anyway, so it's kind of where we're at. The Chargers plan on resting some of their starters on Sunday. The game really doesn't mean all that much, so, uh, Justin Herbert not gonna play, not a surprise for the Chargers as they head into the playoffs. Trey Lance, by the way, remember him, he will start. Meanwhile, Andy Reid seemingly making it official yesterday at his media session. Reed was questioned as to whether or not he plans on returning for next season. He gave an answer that sure would indicate that he is. Uh, I know you've, you've gone through this every year for the last few years, but, you know, is there any scenario that you can imagine where you're not back as the coach next year? Um, I, no, I'm, I'm, listen, I'm, I think I'm coming back, right? If they'll have me back, I'll, I'll come back. You never know in this business, Matt, so that's a, you know, that's a, that's a tough one, but I, I plan on it, yeah. Chip Kelly's career will continue this time. He's headed folks to Northwestern. According to several reports, he'll be the offensive coordinator there. He was fired. By the Raiders this past season. Georgia Southern beats App State 29 to 10 in the Birmingham Bowl, so they covered that 9.5 point spread. Tennessee, 3.5 point favorites in the Music City Bowl. That set kick is 5:30 p.m. Eastern. And then tonight we have the Alamo Bowl, pretty good game, by the way. USC 5.5 point favorites over TCU. All right, the Oklahoma City Thunder didn't play the San Antonio Spurs yesterday, so, of course, They won. Shay Gilges Alexander had 39 points. OKC beats Atlanta 140 to 129 amidst a lot of rumors surrounding potentially Trae Young of the Hawks being traded over the next couple of weeks. We will see. Uh, SGA had 39 points, as I mentioned, OKC 28-5 on the season. Atlanta's lost 7 straight games, but, uh, Shea after the game wearing shades, said that the defense, uh, certainly could have been better. I think we could have did a better job of tonight. Of like still guarding them, they made a lot of shots, but they also got a lot of easy stuff, especially in the first half, um. That's not the recipe uh to um to win big so uh we definitely gotta get better in that area but nonetheless we uh. We did whatever it took to win tonight and the NBA is gonna look different every night. Um, teams are really good no matter who you play, and, uh, getting a W is, uh, first and foremost. Whatever you wanna call it, I, I don't know what, where you put this game, but, um, with the guys that we had out. For this group to compete on the level that they did, you know, against the team that is the reigning world champions, you know, to be down for 4 minutes to play, um, particularly after, The 3rd quarter, when we talked about it, they're really good in the 3rd quarter and they were, but, you know, we were resilient during that stretch, so this is one of those moments regardless of the score that you feel really proud um to coach your team. Despite 26 points from Victor Wimbayama, the Cavs go to San Antonio and beat the Spurs 113 to 101. San Antonio was favored in the game. The Knicks win again. They beat the Pelicans 130 to 125. Jalen Brunson ended up having 28 points in that game. Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports. Great. Always great to catch up with Dustin Gawker. He's got a great sub-stack that breaks down everything happening in the prediction market space, the story of the year in sports betting. 2025 as we head toward 2026. Don't see that changing anytime soon, Dustin. Happy New Year. Thanks for coming on the show. And we'll start off with the uh hot story, of course, which just continues to be Calci, the company that burst onto the scene a little bit over a year ago, and now we're offering prediction markets in places that sports betting, obviously, is not legal, but people are jumping on board and jumping on their app at unprecedented rates. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. If we had been having this conversation a year ago, almost nobody would have heard of Calci. There was some betting on the election, the 2024 presidential election, and other elections, but very few people had heard of this. Now, I'm not sure it's a household name, but a lot of people know what Calhi is now, and the numbers kind of back that up. We, uh, just last week, uh, with, uh, some busy sports days with, uh, with all the college football and And pro football island games, uh, they were up to 1.6 billion for, uh, trailing seven-day period. I, I've actually tracked them as high as 1.8 billion over seven days just, uh, more recently. So, lots of people betting, trading, whatever you wanna call it on Calhi. Uh, just, I think it's important to note this is not a 1 to 1 with sports betting handle that. We talk about a lot on this show. I know, uh, something like, I don't know, 50%, 60% of that could be understood as what we look at as handle in the sports betting industry. That's retail activity. Every time you're talking about volume, that also captures what's on the other side of that, the market makers who are, are taking the other side of your bet. So it's not the, not the same as We're this is sports betting handle. So you know this is, while this is still very big, billions of dollars being traded every week, this is still pretty small compared to the state regulated sports betting industry. I'd say this is, you know, if you take a, a few of the top states in, in state regulated sport. Sports betting, that's about how much trading you're having, um, at, at Calci right now. Obviously, other market, other operators coming in and, and more of this. It's gonna start looking bigger and bigger, uh, especially over the course of 2026 as we, as we, as we see more prediction markets ramp up. Yeah, I, you know, I, I, I kinda have like a side question to this, Dustin, and, and look, maybe I'll be off here and I'll make my predictions on the, the prediction market, so to speak, is that it, it felt like when we went back to sports betting, that it felt like ESPN's failure. was not getting in front of sports betting, waiting and waiting and, and striking a deal eventually while DraftKings and FanDuel had it going. Now, I do think that DraftKings and FanDuel, you'll see where I'm going with this, Dustin. I do think that they are now on board with offering these prediction markets, but I'm just not sure that they're gonna have the same success that a company like Calhi is because Calhi essentially is branded. As a prediction market company. That's not to say that DraftKings and FanDuel can't succeed on some level, but is this apples and oranges what I'm trying to compare here? Because I wonder if 6 months ago they had started this versus now, everybody probably has an a Calhi account if they want to, uh, you know, put money on predictions. Yeah, I, it's gonna be a story of 2026 is who wins this space, um, and I, I think we'll get a pretty good answer to that over the course of the next year. Um, yeah, I mean, DraftKings and Fanel actually moved really fast, right? Again, we're, if sports event contracts were not a thing a year ago. They have, they now have launched their product a year later, so that's moving at like at light speed, at least in the gambling industry, I'd say. Can they win? Yeah, who knows? Um, you know, DraftKings and FanDuel are very good at offering sports betting, customer acquisition, customer retention. Um, and you know, from the Calhi side of things, this volume is expressed as Cwhi volume because their markets being traded, but we understand that to be more than half coming from Robinhood, a financial trading app that lists Kawhi markets. So, Kawhi still has a lot it can do on customer acquisition, um, but a lot of this volume is being expressed as all of its partners, a partner with, as we've talked about before, it's partnered with Coinbase, they have partnered with prize picks. Um, you, you get all the, the, that volume number I'm talking about is all of those things mashed up together. So, You know, it's, it's a, it is a fascinating question though, um, and tracking, that's why I track these numbers and, and all of this so closely because it's, it helps us understand like who's winning and where are people trading and betting and where all this is headed, um, because, yeah, anybody tells you so that they know where it's headed, uh, they're, they're probably lying to you, but it's, it'll be a fascinating thing to track, uh, moving forward. Yeah, and, and, and what about this report on the pricing at, at Calci as far as the odds and, and things of that nature? Are they worse than the sports books? Um, so far, at least at Calhi, they are. Um, it's, it's interesting to note that, um, Calhi, they show you odds and they show you a price that you can buy, uh, buy a sports trade on. And that number also will, once you actually make the transaction, it will include feed. So, um, some analysts who track the prediction markets and the gambling industry space are really great. Manually tracking this. So citizens put out this report, and they're putting out reports pretty regularly now saying that once you include fees on Calhi markets, it's actually worse prices than you're getting at DraftKings and FanDuel, which sounds kind of bonkers because, you know, Calhi, again, not the house, this is an exchange, but Um, by the time Cushi takes his cut, by the time the, you know, the, the market makers who are, you know, serving as kind of like the sportsbook put up their odds, you're sometimes getting just worse odds, um, and this is the promise though of sports betting exchanges is that you're gonna get better prices eventually as more, as there's more competition, as there's more people. You know, doing this, polymarket has very low fees, for instance, um, but a lot of the, a lot of the early days of prediction markets is high fees, and this is actually not better than sports books. Again, availability and access is what prediction markets and Calci offer, uh, kind of in the grand scheme of things and maybe not better pricing yet, although that's gonna come eventually. All right, so here's the final question, Dustin, and you can read more about all these topics over at Dustin's sub stack where he dives into all of the hot topics in the prediction markets. Did the Chicago Blackhawks break the dam with partnerships in prediction markets, or is this a one-off? That's the question that everybody has moving forward in 2026. I think we'll see more NHL teams. I think the other teams, the other leagues are a big question mark here. We've had the NFL really come out against it, um, up against prediction markets. Major League Baseball and NBA haven't said that much about it, but it's hard to believe that they're gonna jump in with. With both feet on this. Um, you know, Calci and Poly Market did deals with the NHL that opened up the avenue to have team deals. First one, Chicago Blackhawks, uh, obviously, doing this deal, um, in a place where, you know, Illinois already has sports betting. It's a curious one. Um, but we're gonna see more, we're gonna see more in lower level, you know, Calci and polymarket have done deals with other things, polymarket with the UFC. Calci has done this with a bunch of lower-level leagues that are, uh, much, much lower than the NHL and, and some of the major leagues in North America. But we're gonna see more of this over time. Whether we see NFL, NBA, MLB do this, that, that remains an open question and, and I'd probably bet against that. All right, well, we'll find out in 2026. Happy New Year, Dustin. Thanks again for coming on the show. You as well. Thanks as always for having me.

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