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The Dr. Phil Podcast

March Moronic Behaviors - The REAL Story with Dr. Phil

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

March Madness ends tonight when Florida plays Houston in the National Championship. But in addition to shining moments, we've seen terrible sportsmanship from players, coaches, and fans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Dr. Phil here, and I want to talk to you about March Madness.

0:03.1

You know, this is the time of year where everywhere you turn on every channel, you're

0:06.7

either watching basketball or you're watching highlights about basketball.

0:10.4

And this can be and has been really exciting, right?

0:14.4

You're always watching buzzer-beaters and people going nuts in the stands, cheering, jumping

0:19.0

up and down.

0:20.0

But if you notice there's a drift in what's happening,

0:23.5

now instead of watching these buzzer beaters,

0:26.5

watching people make these last great shots

0:29.4

and people getting all excited,

0:31.4

we're watching a bunch of divas,

0:34.0

a bunch of meltdowns, a bunch of tantrums,

0:37.3

like they're brats throwing tantrums.

0:40.3

And now you got an all-out fight.

0:44.3

Look, this game is bigger than one coach, one player, one game.

0:48.3

And I think it's reflecting a cultural shift and not in a good way.

0:55.0

Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

1:01.0

When you see people throwing that out the window and just running their own agenda, it tells us something deeper about the state of our society. It tells us about people that are entitled

1:13.6

and think they're bigger than the game.

1:15.6

Now, I want to talk about some examples.

1:19.6

We've got a coach from Connecticut that I'm just telling you,

1:22.6

was a shameful and sore loser.

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