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The Open Run With Will Strickland

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01:40:35

Critiques x Credentials

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2025/11/19

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 235 – Critiques x Credibility Who would hire a cab driver to build a new home for them?Oft times, in today’s sports media landscape, the rough equivalent of that same cab driver is given the keys to the reporting car, spouting baseless drivel about a gamethey’ve never played.On many an occasion, it's reared its ugly heads in the most beautiful game of basketball.Here to fight the tomfoolery, Wall $t., along with former Sporting News digital content

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01:32:08

Interruptin' My Kung Fu

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2025/11/12

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 234 – Interruptin’ My Kung Fu “If You’re Going Nowhere In Life, Any Road Will Take You There…”This bar from Wall $t’s Dear Ol’ Grams (Bless The Dead), uttered to him when he was but a wee lad, set the groundwork for his decision to trail blaze and never path find.The wise woman’s words came with an additional caveat: don’t allow distraction to derail your destination.Our special guest this week rides a similar wave as we call on Canadian professional hooper,

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01:28:49

Strategic Amnesia

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2025/11/05

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 233 – Strategic Amnesia Misremembering… Learning how to forget… Convenient tools on occasion.In the ongoing battle of era toughness and credibility, the past and those who hold it dear, some to the point of grossly misrepresenting the goings on of the time. This week’s guest, Senior Advisor – Basketball, for Capelli Sport, Mike Parker, taps his thinktank for his belief in yesterday, as well as today and tomorrow on the new preps-to-college landscape,

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00:47:57

Wanna Bet?

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2025/10/29

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 232 – Wanna Bet? Appealing to someone’s competitive nature is one thing; crafting an environment where greed and excess are normalized to the degree that people see it as aspirational is another.Gambl—ahem… pardon us… “gaming”, legal or otherwise, in sports has, is and will always be a divisive topic for many.When the integrity of a league, organization or person comes into question as it pertains to gambling’s more pernicious elements, well… prepare for

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02:08:56

Untitled

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2025/10/22

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 231 - Untitled Ever been on the outside of an inside joke?Make sure you are not as Wall $t. might crack a smile, but ain’t a damn thing funny about mixing it up with Austin, Texas’ AM 1300 The Zone’s The Morning Kickoff’s duo! Former Major League baseball player, Friend of the Program and high school hoops teammate of your host, Mike “Hardball” Hardge, and The World’s Strongest Man (or second-strongest, depending upon who you ask), WWE Hall of Famer Mark

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01:34:44

Screams Beneath The Soil

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2025/10/15

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 230 – Screams Beneath The Soil What you focus upon will grow.Be it is negativity or positivity in your crosshairs, your energy will reveal and yield.On the show this week to help our hoops goodness bloom and blossom is Friend of the Program and co-host of CBC Gem’s The Great Canadian Baking Show, Alan Shane Lewis. Though we should have hailed the 2025 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces in the face of a potential momentum-stunting work stoppage and reviewed the

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01:27:41

The Violence Of Truth

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2025/10/08

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 229 – The Violence Of Truth My Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) used to say that there are two sides to every story… three when you include… Well…Friend of the Program and all-everything Canadian sports broadcaster Savanna Hamilton will help me to get to that.Whether we’re discussing Kawhi and the Clippers using the NBA like it’s the Fifth Amendment in the face of a league investigation into potential cap circumvention, the conflict between Napheesa Collier and

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00:40:24

Anti-Social Media

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2025/10/01

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 228 – Anti-Social Media I’ve always had a Love | Hate relationship with these rough interweb streets.Working in sports media in Canada didn’t change it; only amplified it.Circumstances changed. We’re here wow, but I’m revisiting its relevance in Life. The Internet is Forever… and so is one of the hotly contested WNBA semifinals ever, including an all-time coaching crash out that would lead to something even greater.The first week of Fall brings us closer to

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01:04:42

Outta Town Shooters

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2025/09/24

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 227 – Outta Town Shooters Despite the adage that in order to get a job done right, you gotta do it yourself, sometimes in Life, you may be required to count on outsourcing talent to complete a mission.With the NBA’s first wave of training camps and media days upon us, outside of lingering questions about the future of the hashtag #HeWhoShantBeNamed, random “expert lists” judging the best players in The Association and the new All-Star Game format, the query

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00:36:14

Ordered Steps

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2025/09/17

⁠The Open Run With Will Strickland⁠Episode 226 – Ordered Steps“It Was Written”… or so it says.What is the difference between Fate and Destiny?Is there any?As the 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association is a scant few days away, we explore the stumbling blocks and stepping stones lain before us as a team in the Pacific Northwest changes ownerships and fans are nervous about their tomorrows, unique storylines abound with the start of the WNBA’s “Second Season”, a EuroBasket win for a

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01:09:21

Get The Day Back

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2025/09/10

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 225 – Get The Day BackNo matter when you are reading this, you’ll never have that exact time ever again.What do you do with that knowledge?Inevitability… As the sand in the hourglass waits for no one, and yet somehow, we often wish it would stand still, the WNBA playoffs loom large as does a potential lockout for the ladies.The 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association is on the horizon and an icon of the game may soon take his leave from the fine

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01:33:53

BBall Bong Bong

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2025/07/02

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 224 – BBall Bong BongOn the last episode before our #PartsWellKnown Tour across Canada for The World’s Most Unique BasketballTournament, Wall $t. summons the wonder twin powers of Los Hermanos Del Baloncesto by calling upon El Jefe Supremo of FC21 All World, Friend Of The Program and cultural renaissance man, Bobbito Garcia.The guys do a deep dive on Bob’s latest project, a memoir called “Bobbito’s Book Of BBall Bong Bong”, and share why the growth of the

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00:45:40

Engagement Farming

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2025/06/26

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 223 – Engagement FarmingWe all join things to fit in… belong.It could be the band, chess team, the military or a book club, but we join to be a part of something greater than ourselves. This week, a new champion will be crowned in The Association, a basketball team rooted in teamwork making the dream work.There will also be 59 young men, looking to be chosen to fulfill their dreams of belonging to a brotherhood that lasts for life.It won’t be a drive-by,

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01:05:57

Faded Pictures

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2025/06/11

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 222 – Faded PicturesLiving in the past can be tough. Nothing ever changes.Not accepting the natural evolution of things can be even tougher.We’re hear to ease the transition toward acceptance, revolution… or both.Wall $t. calls on former St. Bonaventure forward, 2x Nike Battlegrounds Toronto winner and head honcho of King Nation youth basketball club Vidal Massiah to run the wings with him on everything from the NBA Finals, Canadians battling forthe crown and

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01:01:41

Proof Of Concept

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2025/06/04

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 221 – Proof Of Concept1,307 total games played in the 2024-2025 campaign, but… will we see seven more?The roads the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder and the Eastern Conference-conquering Indiana Pacers took to get here matter little at this point.The time is now and both teams are ready to face the challenge ahead in their quest for ultimate glory, capturing the Larry O’Brien Trophy.Wall St. calls on OKC beat writer Brandon Rahbar from The

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00:41:15

Belts In Motion

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2025/05/28

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 220 – Belts In MotionThe end of May brings reminiscence for several things past, be it a long lost loved one, the real origin story of MemorialDay, and why one NBA conference finals series is more compelling than the other, despite an alleged lack of star power.Wall $t. does the knowledge on this curiosity as well as dueling superagents supporting their clients and coming up Klutch, FC21CA’s 6 weeks away from touching earth in the T-Dot, Week 2 of the WNBA

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01:24:41

Hardwood

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2025/05/21

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 219 - Hardwood Even though we’re about a month away from Father’s Day, the relationship between Black fathers and sons can be simple and direct… complex and complicated or a number of othervariables in between.That unique dynamic is explored, as Wall St. goes on the road to discovering Black male redemption with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis.The two break down the matchups and ex-factors for each of the NBA’s final four teams as the

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00:38:48

Uptempo

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2025/05/14

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 218 - Uptempo What is The World’s Most Expensive Commodity?In the NBA, it’s spent in 48 minute blocks… Occasionally, when the game gets restless, it generally requires at least 5 more.Of the eight teams left to battle for professional basketball’s greatest prize, some are on the verge of exhausting their supply... others replenish theirs after every win.And while The Association’s best battle for the crown, the WNBA kicks off its 29th campaign with a momentum

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01:12:33

Engine Light

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2025/05/07

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 217 – Engine Light The Elite Eight.30 started the journey where only one with reign supreme.Wall $t. calls on frequent collaborator and super podcast producer Ryan Antonio Henry to get on the road to riches and NBA diamond rings, where real hoopers do real things to wrap up all first round exits, offer report cards, preview the conference semis, doing some early destination station projections for a couple of all-timers, anticipate an exciting WNBA season

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00:42:12

The 2d SZN

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2025/04/30

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 215 – The 2d SZN Never Forget.The Regular Season is where All-Stars are made.The Postseason is where Superstars emerge.The feeling is in the air as we’re close to rounding our who the NBA’s conference semi-finalists will be, but in the meantime in between time, Wall $t, goes in this week!Black Privilege, second generation stars and double standards, #tackleBoxSZN, Top 10 lists issues, WNBA training camp, curious case of Chennedy Carter, Nico Harrison is a

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