Show Recap - Friday January 27, 2012

If you had told me 8 years ago, when JRIB debuted, that I’d be leading my last JRIB episode later today with Peyton Manning getting run out of Indy, I would have (laughed in your face). He had rattled off 5 consecutive 4000 yard seasons, was just named the league MVP and was halfway to getting his yellow blazer and becoming one of the greatest quarterbacks ever. Believe me, one day, he would let the Colts know he was done with them; they weren’t going to tell him jack.

Or so I thought. Because 8 years and 1400 plus JRIB episodes later, the icon is about to get kicked out of the house he built. After seeing he and owner Jim Irsay trade blows in the media this week, not only is this over, it’s ending terribly... Whatever slim chance Manning had of returning to the team vaporized in the series of nuclear bombs Irsay dropped on him yesterday. He cracked Manning for being a “politician” and then blasted him for not keeping it in house after his sit-down with the... More »

Info & Stats: Memphis Grizzlies Forward | 2010 World Championship Gold Medal

Photos: Highlights

Rudy on the short 2011-12 season: “It's a tough grind.”

Topics: The good old “Team Bus” interview | Getting older as a player | Best season of his career last year before he got hurt | It was tough to sit and watch last year’s playoffs | Short season this year | Playing so many games in such a short period of time | A lot of injuries this season | Quality of play | Being a camper on a video game | Gamers mad at him |

Info & Stats: Former NFL Head Coach | Super Bowl XXXV Champion

Brian on being a head coach in the NFL now: “There is no off-season.”

Topics: Winning the Super Bowl in his second season with Baltimore | Quarterbacks | Trent Dilfer | It was a different time of quarterback play when we won the Super Bowl | Joe Flacco | Free Agency | Matt Flynn | Alex Smith | Thinks Jim Harbaugh is very supportive of Alex Smith | The Business side of things with Alex Smith | Coaching in the Super Bowl | Never had bed checks | New York Giants 4 man front | The New England Patritos offense has a lot of weapons | Tom Brady | Peyton Manning | Manning’s future | Peyton’s health | His broadcasting career | There is no off-season for NFL Head Coaches now a day | Jeff Fisher |

Info & Stats: University Of Kansas Head Basketball Coach | 2008 National Champions | 2009 AP Coach Of The Year

Photos: Career

Bill on Larry Brown: “He’s just a basketball junkie.”

Topics: Losing 4 starters from last season | This group is exceeding expectations | Didn’t really like this team up until Christmas and they probably really didn’t like me | The team light has come on | The Morris twins leaving for the NBA Draft | Thomas Robinson | Before the season started he thought Robinson had a chance to be player of the year in their league | Tyshawn Taylor | Robinson losing his grand parents and mother last year | Marcus Morris calling Bill to tell him Thomas had lost his mother | Thomas has been through so much | Thomas’ perseverance | I won’t coach Thomas differently than any other player | Won his 250th career game at Kansas recently | Good run at Kansas | Other jobs than KU’s | The grass is not always greener | Expectations at Kansas | Evaluating his team and staff | Love outsiders coming in and telling him he’s doing something wrong | Larry Brown |... more >