This week: Breakering news, college is expensive, building the NBL, knocking down the A-League, midweek champions, Dysfunction Junction, get your Hinkie on, Heath hazards, swerving Earvin, be here now, performative blowhards, the Nuremberg defence, collecting the full set, game one overreactions, very eastern Europe, the morals of fandom, Doc solves the Middle East, Sarri for leaving, some sort of Champions League final preview, trading MDA, saving dumb owners from themselves, brown bag journalism, all-finals teams, can someone please come and get Drake, active suck, defying the supernatural, Bud’s plan B and the return of the Boogieman.Hear more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter, Facebook and email.