It was a jampacked episode Saturday with the news of SIU parting ways with men's basketball coach Bryan Mullins, both Meridian and Benton are competing for boys basketball state titles Saturday, and they found time to slip in some Cardinals and NFL talk too.

John A. Logan men's basketball coach Kyle Smithpeters joined the first Talkin Vols show of the year Tuesday night.  Mike Murphy and he discussed the big news of the day - Logan's #1 ranking in the NJCAA preseason poll - as well as some of the new arrivals on the team and dealing with a strange upcoming season.

The first team selected as the Southern Illinois Healthcare Team of the Week this year was the Christopher Bearcats just after they knocked off an undefeated Goreville team.  Hear Matt Varney and Coach Eric Stallman talk about that win and more in this podcast!