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Dave hosts a Zoom group call which will feature, hopefully, a lot of familiar faces from the past 15+ years of the DITCOW/Sandwich Corner podcast. We'll chat about everything from Rory's historic Masters win the other day to the years of our conversations about sports and other stuff. Then we'll bring down the curtain on our small but mighty podcast which gave us memories, laughs and more. Saying goodbye is hard, but if we're going to end it, let's end it with a big party. Thank you all so much for tuning in all these years. The Corner may make an occasional return to break particularly big sports stories, but this episode marks the end of its original run. What a run it's been!

Chris in Syracuse, a.k.a. Get Your Own Show joins Dave as we recap the first weekend of the 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. It had a lot of blowouts, but there were also some nice surprises and great battles throughout the field. UConn made a big bid for the Sweet Sixteen only to come up just short to the very tough Florida. We had Duke continuing its dominance with easy wins over their two opponents and BYU pulls together two solid wins to make the Sweet Sixteen. Plus we cover what's to come in the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight rounds of the Big Dance. The Corner continues its own road to our series finale and it'll be great to hear from GYOS once more before it's all said and done.

Ari in Philadelphia and Gerry in Piscataway join in with Dave for our final MLB spot of the series, for the forseeable future. We'll get into some improvements with the MLB uniforms, the swan song season for ESPN until they end their partnership with baseball next year, plus what's to come for the two World Series teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees. All this plus much more from MLB as we look ahead, plus look back on all the years covering baseball on the podcast. Ari, Gerry, and Dave had some good times chatting about All Star Games, Postseason Games, first-guessed releiver decisions, and much more.  Plus, a cameo from Ari's son Jacob as he breaks down some of the numbers behind key players and muses on the woeful White Sox, among other topics.

As the farewell tour continues, Dave and Junkie reunite one last time to take on the chat's questions and the rest of the world. We look back on all the fun, charming moments of doing Random Questions segments together, a recurring segment that goes back to 2011. Plus we look at what's new : Junkie's family life, Dave's metamorphosis into a musician, and obviously many other twists and turns neither of the two will see coming via their tangents.

Dave announces the "Farwell, for now" podcast tour as the long run of DITCOW/Sandwich Corner begins its journey until the Finale in Early April. Joining in are our golf panelists, John in CT, Mike in North Jersey, and Andy in Seattle. No real topic tonight, but we'll have some golf, football, and basketball talk among other things.

John in CT joins Dave once again for part 2 of our 2024 College Football Preview.  This time out we'll cover coaches on the hot seat, then preview the Group of Five conferences: Mountain West, Sun Belt, MAC, AAC, and Conference USA. There could be some battles between Appalachian State and Texas State for Sun Belt, while Fresno State, UNLV, and others fight it out for the Mountain West title. In Conference USA, Liberty is not just a favorite to win, but potentially a favorite to make the playoff out of the Go5. There's also some changing of the guard afoot in the MAC, known America's favorite Tuesday night pastime. Later we'll make predictions for each of the conferences, both Power Conferences and Go5 conference, and offer any other predictions for the season.

John in CT joins Dave to break down the Power Teams in FBS Football, plus our season storylines for 2024.   Bama enters a new era after Nick Saban retires, Georgia tries to bounce back after their unexpected early exit with a really exciting new quarterback, the Pac 12 folds and gets poached by the Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC, and Texas and Oklahoma start their first season in the SEC. In addition, we have the first ever 12 team playoff on the horizon.  We'll look ahead to how the new format will work and which teams could really take advantage of the bigger field.

John in CT is back to recap the Open Championship won by Xander Schauffele at Royal Troon Golf Club.   We'll also look at some of the other players from the tournament which had many twists and turns. Later, we'll segue to the Olympic Games, where the crew will preview this Olympiad's Golf Tournament in Paris, France.  There will be a lot of heavy hitters in this tournament including Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler who's had some struggles of late, Jon Rahm, Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, and many more.

Our good friend Parcells joins us to recap what have been really exciting international soccer competitions in both Europe and the U.S. First, we'll recap a thrilling, spectacular Euro 2024 tournament that was exciting until the very end with a great England/Spain final where the Spaniards went ahead in the final minutes.  Next, we'll recap the more infamous Copa America back in the U.S. where the event was tarnished by terrible fields, poor security, awful performances by the USMNT and Mexico, and more, but still full of great storylines like Canada's Cinderella run to the Semifinals, Lionel Messi's presumed final game with Argentina that ended in a Copa championship, and more. We can also take a few moments to chat about what's to come for international soccer in the next few months, plus a pretty cool friendly between Manchester United and Arsenal at SoFi Stadium later in the month.

Chris in GA is back with Dave to catch us up on the latest in the NBA's offseason.  We'll cover everything from the draft to Summer League and some big trades and free agent signings so far.   Big names on new teams, including a signature name in Klay Thompson going from Golden State to Dallas.  DeMar Derozan is on a new team, plus we look at the Lakers' new coach hiring in JJ Redick, JB Bickerstaff (Cavs' Former Coach) taking a new role as the Pistons coach, plus much more.

Mike in North Jersey and John in CT return to chat about the U.S. Open, won by Bryson DeChambeau after fighting off Rory McIlroy in a riveting finish. John also has an update from the Travelers Championship in CT where he made his annual in-person visit.   This was another exciting finish, but a more unusual ending than normal that included protests on the 18th green. All this plus additional golf coverage and a look-ahead to the Open next month.

Chris and Dave are back to put a cap on the fairly short, very successful, NBA Finals for the Boston Celtics who extend their NBA record to 18 championships.    We'll cover how this likeable, very deep, very strong defensive team put away the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 and what they did to limit Luka and Kyrie's impact on the series for Dallas. The Celtics find their moment, and we can also look ahead to the future to see if the C's may be back for more next year.   We'll chat about the NBA Playoffs in review as well, recap what has been a very exciting playoffs overall despite the short NBA Finals.

Chris and Dave recap Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Mavericks and Celtics from Boston. We also took comments from chat and recapped other items from the 2024 Finals after Boston's convincing 107-89 win in Game 1.

Chris and Dave return to recap a really disappointing, pretty short Conference Finals in the NBA, both East and West, where the Celtics and Mavericks both won their series very quickly. Later the two will preview the NBA Finals between said Celtics and Mavericks and all the incredible star power that goes with it. It's Jayson, Jalen, and Kristaps vs. Luka, Kyrie, and Daniel (Gafford). It's quite a matchup and the Mavericks, coming from nowhere, might even be a live dog. We'll preview the NBA Finals and take you through what to expect.

Mike and Andy are back to recap one of the most thrilling majors in recent years at Valhalla. Xander Schauffele finally gets his first major after a spectacular first round and a tremendous final round including some huge shots late, getting out of trouble and landing the ball when he needed it most to win the 2024 PGA Championship. This was quite a battle, featuring great performances by Bryson DeChambeau, Viktor Hovland, and many others. The crew will look at the event in total, the bizarre and tragic morning leading into Round 2 that put Scottie Scheffler in jail for a few hours, the low scoring in Round 3 coupled with the excitement of a tight leaderboard in Round 4, media coverage, and much more.