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The guys talk about the scheduling mess facing college football, the good start on the field the Marlins have gotten off to in 2020 and then talk to George Richards about what went wrong with the Panthers this season and Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald about the Miami Heat's upcoming off-season decisions with free agents. Recorded on SlamMiami SeriusXM Channel 145 at noon on Aug. 11, 2020. 

The guys catch up with longtime local journalist Chris Perkins to talk about his Texas roots, covering the Miami Dolphins, Miami Heat and Hurricanes football and get a good Behind Las Cortinas story about Eddie Jones. 40 minutes. 

Manny Navarro (The Athletic) and Walter Villa catch-up with former ACC Player of the Year and Miami Hurricane Shane Larkin, who has become a star in Europe. Larkin, 27, was the Turkish League Finals MVP in 2019 after leading Anadolu Efes to the championship. He talks about becoming a Turkish citizen, growing up with a Hall of Fame baseball player for a father, his battle with obsessive compulsive disorder and what might be next for him including a venture back to the NBA. 36 minutes.

We hosted our first live podcast on SiriusXM Channel 145 Slam Miami and talked Marlins, Heat and shared some of the highlights from our weekly interviews including FIU coach Butch Davis. 54 minutes. 

Manny Navarro (The Athletic) and Walter Villa catch up with FIU football coach Butch Davis to talk about the Panthers' win over the Miami Hurricanes in 2019 and how it is still helping the program today. We also get into why Butch is so good at evaluating talent, what he learned from Jimmy Johnson and what FIU hopes to accomplish this season with a new quarterback. Plus, did you know Butch was a kicker in college? We didn't either. 25 minutes. 

The guys caught up with new local NBC6 Sports Anchor Ruthie Polinsky who started in March right in the middle of the pandemic and only got to cover one Miami Heat game. Polinsky, who was raised in St. Louis and is a Michigan grad, covered the New England Patriots for three years when she worked in Providence and has some good Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Bill Belichick stories to share. We also got her to dish on her favorite shows, why she's listening to Taylor Swift and her guilty pleasure. 53 minutes.

We catch up with longtime Miami High girls' basketball coach Sam Baumgarten Jr. and Miami Suns AAU program director Miguel Diaz to talk about Miami native Sylvia Fowles becoming the WNBA's all-time leader in rebounds and all of her great accomplishments. Fowles was a standout at Miami Edison High and Gulliver Prep and once kicked Manny Navarro's butt in a 1-on-1 game. We also talk about the three local starts playing in the WNBA including former Miami Hurricane Beatrice Mompremier. 42 minutes.

Baseball America's co-executive editor Matt Eddy joins to guys to talk about the Marlins farm system, which could get put to use here soon because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of the best baseball prospects to come out of South Florida. 25 minutes.  

The guys tackle the big story involving the Marlins and COVID-19, high school sports and if Miami-Dade high schools would be better off breaking off from the FHSAA and share Florida Panthers beat writer George Richards' funny Behind Las Cortinas story. 60 minutes.

The guys caught up with Mark Schusterman, the Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame coach who now serves on the board of directors of the FHSAA and has votes on major decisions including the sports calendar and how school athletic programs are adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Schusterman played a role in the FHSAA's decision to delay the start of the sports calendar to August 24 after the organization initially voted to maintain its start time of July 27. Schusterman discussed what the FHSAA is doing and what it might do moving forward when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.