{"podcast":{"title":"The Morning Kick-Off w/Mike Hardball Hardge & Mark Henry","slug":"the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604","podcast_index_feed_id":6692604,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6009644/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://iheart.com/podcast/128170448","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/615247186f1e3086df9690bbf1591c53.jpg","author":"AM 1300 THE ZONE (KVET-AM)","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Welcome to “The Morning Kick-Off Show” with Mike “Hardball” Hardge and Olympian & WWE Legend, “The World’s Strongest Man” Mark Henry!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:17:05.513105+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604"},"episode":{"title":"Feel Good Friday: Longhorns Hoops Rising, Rodgers Returns & NBA Playoff Shakeups","slug":"feel-good-friday-longhorns-hoops-rising-rodgers-returns-nba-playoff-shakeups","published_at":"2026-05-08T14:41:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604/feel-good-friday-longhorns-hoops-rising-rodgers-returns-nba-playoff-shakeups","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/feel-good-friday-longhorns-hoops-rising-rodgers-returns-nba-playoff-shakeups--71924090","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71924090/1_morning_kickoff_show_05_08_2026.mp3","summary":"Today is “Feel Good Friday.” The Texas Longhorns basketball team is expecting to rise next season. The Cleveland Cavaliers are on life support as the Detroit Pistons defeated them 107-97 with Cade Cunningham scoring 25 points and 10 assists. The Oklahoma City Thunder dominates the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 with both Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren scoring 22 points. Texas softball wins first game in the SEC Tournament. Aaron Rodgers is back; we break down the AFC North Division. The NCAA is moving forward with expanding the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, with the possibility of expanding the college football playoffs. “The World’s Strongest!” Plus, we have Texas Golf Head Coach John Fields on the show to talk Texas golf. You can hear it all here on “The Morning Kickoff Show!”","meta_description":"Today is “Feel Good Friday.” The Texas Longhorns basketball team is expecting to rise next season. The Cleveland Cavaliers are on life support as the Detr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4680,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604/episodes/feel-good-friday-longhorns-hoops-rising-rodgers-returns-nba-playoff-shakeups/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-kick-off-w-mike-hardball-hardge-mark-henry-6692604/feel-good-friday-longhorns-hoops-rising-rodgers-returns-nba-playoff-shakeups.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}