Walker County sports talk with fan logic.
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The Game Managers Podcast keeps a weekly sports-table rhythm, moving from Alabama and Auburn talk into NFL moves, March Madness, NASCAR, MLB, and odd side stories. It favors quick facts, casual reactions, and enough local WJLX texture to feel close to home.
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About The Game Managers Podcast
The Game Managers Podcast is a sports-talk show rooted in Walker County, WJLX, and the weekly rhythm of fans keeping tabs on everything that just happened. The structure is simple and sturdy. A sports item gets introduced with the facts, then the room reacts. That can mean March Madness brackets, Alabama basketball drama, Auburn in the NIT, NFL trade and signing news, NBA records, NASCAR race notes, MLB opening scores, NHL standings, or a local soccer playoff race. The show’s range is broad, but its point of view stays plainspoken. It asks the practical fan questions: who still has a team, what move makes sense, which game was boring, which roster situation looks broken, and what deserves a wait-and-see approach. Nick Norris is the steady recurring voice in the excerpts, with Patrick Hanna, Justin Knight, Caitlin Shortall, and Maddie Hanna appearing in different combinations. Some episodes are close to solo rundowns. Others feel more like a small table of friends checking scores, teasing each other, and sorting through the week’s messier headlines. The best texture comes from those detours. A NASCAR preview leads to Cookout talk. A pageant congratulations segment rolls into NFL news. A game-show appearance sits beside MLB opening night. World Cup banter opens into Heisman and bowl chatter. The show can get blunt about bad games, coaching problems, ugly losses, and roster drama, but it usually keeps the mood warm and moving. Serious items receive a brief shift in weight before the format returns to lighter sports conversation. It is not glossy national analysis, and that is part of the appeal. The Game Managers Podcast sounds like local sports radio that remembers sports are supposed to be fun, frustrating, weird, and shared.
Made for: For listeners who follow Alabama, Auburn, college football, NFL news, March Madness, and broader sports headlines without needing a polished national studio tone. It also suits fans who like local-radio personality mixed into their weekly rundown.
What sets it apart: The show pairs broad college and pro sports coverage with specific Walker County presence and casual side conversations. It can move from transfer-portal fallout to NASCAR, Cookout, pageants, and game-show stories without losing the sports-news spine.
In their own words
Talking Alabama, Auburn, college, pro, and Walker County sports every week! Join Nick Norris and Patrick Hannah as we keep it light, fun, and informational!
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A local sports radio hangout where college football, March Madness, NFL talk, and Alabama-area loyalties share the booth.
The Game Managers Podcast is a local sports radio hangout built around Nick Norris, Patrick Hanna, and the rhythms of college football and basketball.
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Episodes
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4/10/26 Mike Vrabel Drama!
Host Nick Norris and fiancée Caitlin Shortall co-host this April 10, 2026 episode, starting with Michigan winning the men's NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1989 and UCLA claiming the women's title.
Apr 9, 2026·50m·3 clips - 2
4/3/26 NCAA Final Four!
Nick Norris introduces the Game Managers podcast, waiting for co-host Patrick Hanna to join for a discussion on college football's biggest games.
Apr 3, 2026·1h - 3
3/27/26 Sweet Sixteen is Here!
Hosts Nick Norris, Patrick Hanna, and Maddie Hanna cover the March 27, 2026 sports landscape, including the Sweet 16 tipoff between number-one Michigan and number-four Alabama (Michigan a 9.5-point favorite at 6:35 on TBS), North Carolina's coaching search following the firing of Hubert Davis, and Tiger Woods' rollover car crash earlier that day with early reports of no serious injuries.
Mar 27, 2026·1h 6m·4 clips - 4
3/20/26 March Madness Is Here!
Solo host Nick Norris covers a wide range of sports news on this March 20, 2026 episode, opening with Alabama guard Aiden Holloway's drug arrest — removal from campus for possession of more than a pound of marijuana — and its impact on Alabama's March Madness run.
Mar 19, 2026·47m·3 clips - 5
3/13/26 How the Maxx Crosby Deal Collapsed
The hosts discuss NFL signing and trading news, including the collapse of the Maxx Crosby deal, along with NBA records and a new football league discovery.
Mar 13, 2026·1h 4m - 6
3/6/26 NFL Off-Season Break-Ups and More!
Mar 6, 2026·56m - 7
2/27/26 NFL Combine and Winter Olympics Recap with Jonathan Jordan
Feb 27, 2026·1h 1m - 8
2/20/26 KD's Burner Exposed & Winter Olympics Update
Feb 20, 2026·47m - 9
2/13/26 Super Bowl LX, NCAA Drama, and the Winter Olympics
Feb 14, 2026·1h 1m - 10
2/6/26 Super Bowl LX Predictions
Feb 6, 2026·1h 2m - 11
1/30/26 Ranking the Last 10 Super Bowl
Jan 31, 2026·1h 9m - 12
1/23/26 NFL Championship Preview
Jan 24, 2026·57m - 13
1/16/26 National Championship Preview & NFL Divisional Round
Jan 17, 2026·1h 18m - 14
1/9/26 CFP Semis, NFL Playoffs, and Black Monday
Jan 10, 2026·58m - 15
1/2/26 Alabama's BRUTAL loss to Indiana
Jan 2, 2026·1h 2m - 16
12/16/25 CFP Round 2 Preview!
Dec 26, 2025·59m - 17
12/19/25 Previewing the CFP - Round One
Dec 19, 2025·1h 10m - 18
12/12/25 - Michigan Fiasco, Notre Dame Drops Out, & Heisman Race
Dec 12, 2025·1h 5m - 19
12/05/25 SEC Championship Preview
Dec 6, 2025·1h 4m - 20
11/28/25 Iron Bowl Preview 2025
Nov 29, 2025·1h 5m - 21
4/10/24 March Madness Recap
Apr 10, 2024·36m - 22
2/8/24 Super Bowl LVIII Preview
Feb 8, 2024·54m - 23
1/12/24 Thank you Coach Saban + The 2024 TGMmies
Jan 12, 2024·1h 10m - 24
1/22 TGMMies Award Show Finale
Jan 22, 2023·58m - 25
1/15 National Championship Review and Wild Card Weekend
Solo host Nick Norris opens the January 15, 2023 episode with the tragic news that Georgia football player Devin Wilcox and recruiting staff member Chandler LaCroix were killed in a car accident in Athens less than a week after Georgia's national championship win.
Jan 15, 2023·47m·3 clips - 26
9/8 CFP National Championship Preview
Nick Norris and Justin Knight preview the CFP National Championship and discuss Auburn's recent win, along with New Year's resolutions.
Jan 8, 2023·56m - 27
12/18 Bowl Season Begins!
Dec 18, 2022·53m - 28
12/11 Army-Navy, Heisman, & Bowl Game Preview
Nick Norris and Justin Knight preview Army-Navy, Heisman, and bowl games, with Justin sharing his World Cup reporting experience.
Dec 11, 2022·53m - 29
12/3 Conference Championships and Final CFP Rankings
Dec 4, 2022·44m - 30
11/27 Iron Bowl Recap
Nov 27, 2022·58m - 31
11/13 Bama and Auburn Bounce Back
Nov 13, 2022·55m - 32
11/6 Alabama and Auburn BOTH lose in OT
Nov 6, 2022·51m - 33
10/30 Spooky Saturday with Halloween CFB Upsets
Nick and Justin return from a break to discuss Halloween and college football upsets.
Oct 30, 2022·56m - 34
10/16 Down Goes Bama
Oct 16, 2022·50m - 35
10/08 Bama Survives A&M, Georgia Destroys Auburn
Oct 9, 2022·50m - 36
10/2 Ark-Bama and LSU-Auburn Recap
Oct 2, 2022·51m - 37
9/25 Auburn Jesus Returns
Sep 25, 2022·53m - 38
9/18 Auburn is in Trouble
Sep 18, 2022·50m - 39
9/12 A WILD Week 2 of College Football
Sep 12, 2022·55m - 40
9/4 CFB Week One Recap
Sep 4, 2022·56m - 41
7/28 Week 0 Rewind
Aug 28, 2022·58m - 42
8/21 Previewing Week 0
Hosts Nick Norris and Justin Knight open the August 21, 2022 episode with tributes to WJLX broadcaster Johnny Elmore (42 years in the booth) and FIU football player Luke Knox, who died at 22.
Aug 21, 2022·55m·4 clips - 43
8/14 Predicting the Preseason AP Poll
Aug 14, 2022·51m - 44
8/7 Ranking SEC Football Stadiums
Aug 7, 2022·49m - 45
7/31 Saban Nearly Quit after Kick Six??
Jul 31, 2022·54m - 46
7/24 SEC Media Days
Jul 24, 2022·57m - 47
7/17 Guessing Bama and Auburn's '22 Season Records
Jul 17, 2022·55m - 48
7/10 Ranking 2022 SEC Coaches
Jul 10, 2022·56m - 49
7/3 USC & UCLA Joining the Big Ten
Jul 3, 2022·57m