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Speaker 1: One of the best high school basketball events in the

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Speaker 1: country is going to be happening again shortly after Christmas,

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Speaker 1: the twenty seventh and twenty eighth of December. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be at the Centa Center on Xavier's campus. Twenty

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Speaker 1: two elite teams taking part in the fourth annual Beacon

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Speaker 1: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Holiday Hardwood Classic. This is a

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Speaker 1: great event. We talk about it every single year, and

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Speaker 1: Rich Newman helps put on this event. He joins us

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Speaker 1: as he does every year. It's like a rite of passage.

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Speaker 1: It's like an annual tradition. Rich, that's the verbage. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for. Good afternoon, Rich, awesome to have you as always.

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Speaker 2: How are you good afternoon. I'm doing great, and thanks

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Speaker 2: again for having me on. It seems like these years

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Speaker 2: keep rowing more quickly into each other. And I guess

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Speaker 2: that's when you're running at a runway like I am.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's what it seems like.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess. So it's a great event, happens every

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Speaker 1: year two days twenty two teams at the Centa Center.

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Speaker 1: Tell folks what will be happening December twenty seven to

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Speaker 1: twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Well, really, excited about the field This year. I talied

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Speaker 2: up this year. We're going to go over now for

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Speaker 2: the four years, we will have over fifty schools having

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Speaker 2: participated in this event since its inception, and the lineup

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Speaker 2: is strong, and we've got Mount under Dame versus Belbrook

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Speaker 2: from Dayton on Saturday to kick things off or tip

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Speaker 2: things off, and then by Sycamore versus Sun Newport versus Lebanon,

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Speaker 2: Princeton versus Cathedral coming over from Indianapolis. That's going to

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Speaker 2: be a huge game, and we'll circle back to why

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Speaker 2: it's become even huger if that's a word. Anderson versus

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Speaker 2: now Healthy Taylor versus Holy Cross from coming to two

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Speaker 2: really good small school programs. And then on Sunday we

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Speaker 2: start with another girls game, Milford versus will Cooda. We

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Speaker 2: have Milford Boys versus Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. Probably the

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Speaker 2: best game in the field is next Princeton versus Wittenwood's girls.

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Speaker 2: So we've got the returning undefeated D two state champs

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Speaker 2: playing the D one runner up last year in a

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Speaker 2: state tournament. So that's going to be a real, a

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Speaker 2: real great game for people to see. Best two matchups

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Speaker 2: Wyoming Small School of versus Centerville, always a perennial power

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Speaker 2: in the Dayton area and across the state. And then

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Speaker 2: Mason versus McNicholas is the night cap on Sunday. As

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Speaker 2: I said, we're really pleased with the caliber of a

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Speaker 2: play we're gonna have again this year.

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Speaker 1: So it's two days. It's at the Centa Center. Daily

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Speaker 1: tickets are thirteen dollars in advance. Got a Holiday Hardwood

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Speaker 1: class you can get day of event. Daily passes at

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Speaker 1: the Centas Center box office. Those are sixteen dollars you

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Speaker 1: also have for this year. First time this year, the

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Speaker 1: participating schools are engaged in a friendly sales competition Ticket

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Speaker 1: sales competition. Tell us about that well.

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Speaker 2: Decited that we want to do what we can to

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Speaker 2: give back to the community as part of this event,

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Speaker 2: and we are having what is a friendly competition, and

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Speaker 2: all the schools are going to participate and the school

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Speaker 2: each day that sells the most advanced tickets minium of

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty will have a five hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: donation made on behalf of a holiday Hardwood class at

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Speaker 2: either their booster club or the charity of their choice.

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Speaker 2: And another wrinkle in that is also Jaeger season ticket

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Speaker 2: holders if they purchase through the specific ticket link on

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Speaker 2: our website for Xavier season ticket holders, fifty percent of

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Speaker 2: the revenue generated from those ticket sales is going to

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Speaker 2: the All for One fund. So we're trying those two

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Speaker 2: things not only to gin up ticket sales, but also

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Speaker 2: to be able to get back to the community.

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Speaker 1: All right, tons of games all weekend long, all day

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Speaker 1: and night on Saturday, all day and night on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: The Beacon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Holiday Hardwood Classic at

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Speaker 1: the Centa Center the weekend after Christmas. This is an

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Speaker 1: awesome event. Is there anything else we need to know? Well?

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Speaker 2: I obviously have to give a shout out to our

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Speaker 2: presenting sponsors, the Ross Skyline, Hilli Holme City Ice back

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Speaker 2: again for year four, and our immediate partner is Fox nineteen,

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Enquirer, and you guys, ESPN fifteen thirty and

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Speaker 2: everybody at iHeart the only other thing I always wind

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Speaker 2: up our interview with, or at least inserted somewhere Bruce

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Speaker 2: three times. I just saw I saw Bruce three times

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. How about you?

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Speaker 1: I saw him zero times in twenty twenty five because

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Speaker 1: I did not go overseas need him to play Stateside.

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Speaker 2: I saw him in May and Phil it it's Citizens

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Speaker 2: Bank Park and a rescheduled show. And again I could

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Speaker 2: be I could be wrong, but I think I smiled

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Speaker 2: probably last year I saw him at Pittsburgh front the

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Speaker 2: rescheduled show. Anyway, right, Bruce is the Boss, and you

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Speaker 2: and I share.

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Speaker 1: That love we share, We share an affinity for the Boss.

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Speaker 1: I saw the movie, I've watched the doc. I need

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Speaker 1: to see a show in person in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: He's got to make that happen. And if so, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll touch base and be there together.

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Speaker 2: Sounds great, MO, you know this, and you have a

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Speaker 2: great holiday season, and thanks again for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciated you.

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Speaker 1: You got it. The Beacon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Holiday

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Speaker 1: Hardwood Classic December twenty seventh and twenty eighth at the

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Speaker 1: Centas Center. You can get tickets now daily passes thirteen

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Speaker 1: dollars in advance, and Holiday Hardwood Classic dot com you

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Speaker 1: can get them a day of game sixteen bucks at

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Speaker 1: the Cintas Center Box Office twenty two Elite teams playing

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Speaker 1: across two days, twenty seventh and twenty eighth at the

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Speaker 1: Cintas Center. It's eleven away from five o'clock, One more

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Speaker 1: guest between now and six, and you and I in

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Speaker 1: between on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station out here.

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Speaker 1: Every holiday gift should be one those