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The Valenti Show with Rico is Detroit’s must-listen daily sports show — where strong opinions meet smart analysis. Hosted by Mike Valenti and Rico Beard, The Valenti Show brings unfiltered takes on the biggest national stories and dives deep into all-things-Detroit sports: the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Michigan and Michigan State. Whether it's NFL drama, playoff stakes or college football storylines, Valenti and Rico tell it like it is — no fluff, no fan service, just real talk. Catch The Valenti Show with Rico live Monday through Friday 2pm - 6pm EST on 97.1 The Ticket (WXYT). Full episodes, individual hours and show highlights drop daily wherever you get your podcasts.
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Valenti and Rico discuss Michigan State's firing of Jonathan Smith and the corresponding hiring of Pat Fitzgerald as their new head football coach. Plus, the guys have a hilarious discussion about the Rocky movie franchise, Rico gives his top 14 NFL teams, and they all react to the Lions' win over the Cowboys.
From 'Cash The Ticket' (subscribe here): What are the realistic expectations for Pat Fitzgerald and the Michigan State Spartans? Download the latest episode of Cash the Ticket today.
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The Michigan State Spartans have a new head coach and Costa and Jansen and the Valenti Show with Rico dive into expectations and the new norm for MSU.
On this week's Best Of Lions, Costa & Jansen and Valenti & Rico discuss the Lions' season-saving win against the Cowboys this past Thursday.
Valenti and Rico kicked off the show with their reactions to the Lions' win over the Cowboys. They dedicated the majority of the remainder of the show to this and the various takeaways they had, pausing briefly to do their usual Friday segments and discuss the big NIL news for MSU.
Mike and Rico spent the first hour breaking down the Lions' win over the Cowboys before doing the "Prop Bet Casino".
The guys continued the Lions talk in the second hour with more of your calls while mixing in various related questions that they attempted to answer.
Mike and Rico dedicated the third hour to two staple segments.
The guys opened the final hour discussing the Michigan State NIL news. Then, they took a few of your calls before Wojo and Riger joined in cross-talk to wrap up the show.
Valenti and Rico hear from the people for the final time this week.
Valenti and Rico discuss the news that MSU will get a $401 million donation from Greg Williams.
The guys do this week's "The Picks".
Mike and Rico hear from more of the people on the Lions topic at hand.
Will the scriptwriters have the Lions' season come down to the final week?
The guys discuss whether their confidence level in the Lions is above or below the 53% chance they have to make the playoffs.
The guys do this week's "Prop Bet Casino".
Valenti and Rico take your calls and read your ticket texts on the Lions' win last night.
The guys continue their recap of Cowboys-Lions from last night.
Mike explains why he doesn't think it's possible that the Lions make a run to the Super Bowl.
From 'Kickoff with Boomer & Valenti' (subscribe here): Kickoff with Boomer Esiason and Mike Valenti for week 14 in the NFL. The boys go over what happened in week 13. They pick every game against the spread and Boomer hands out his awards for the season.
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Ricos takes are dumb
Skip made millions out of being a troll
Rico, love the podcast. However, what is with the Exorcist-type music that plays about every two or three minutes? Very weird.
Evan's audio sounds great.
I like this pod. I do have to ask though ... did Always Aggravated kick it when Sully left?
I felt this in my soul. We moved in to our new house three months ago. DIY all over the place. The last three months have been a cocktail of sweat, swearing and self-sabotage.
I came here to listen about the Andre Drummond trade not about the shity ass Spartans
This is exactly how I feel. I kept wondering yesterday if I was a psycho for not crying over this like my friends. Good to know I'm not alone.
Now last week's remarks on UM vs Army. 🙏🏻
So are we just done podcasting daily segments or what.
My Florida State fan wife scheduled our wedding on Ohio State's bye week in '14 (I'm from central Ohio, as was my whole side of the wedding) because she didn't want everyone watching their phones. One of my groomsmen is a UM fan so that was one of many setbacks for him that season. We went to school in Indiana so our IU friends were there, but not even they cared about Hoosier football. The one downside was missing the 61-58 Baylor-TCU game. It was a good year. Wife in October, title in January.
have you been paying attention at all? I'm going to answer that for you. No. not even a lil bit.
Definitely aren't Columbus. Columbus didn't have a terrible recession 😂
This is just a Michigan hate segment