The Beat of Sports

When you look at the highest paid talent at ESPN you see names like Stephen A. Smith, Joe Buck and Scott Van Pelt but one name that isn't among that group is Chris Fowler. Marc muses that with his contract coming up this year, is there a chance the he leaves the mothership and head to another network like Fox?

History tells us winning is much tougher even you are moving from one P5 to another. The few examples of moving from a G5 league to a P5 have been more successful with their move.

The Knights kicked off their first spring practice, and with this being their first year in the Big 12, Marc explains why this spring is different than years past for UCF.

We can all agree that there is no perfect time for the World Baseball Classic to take place but that argument aside, it has been must-watch television.

The first weekend of the NCAA Tournament was a wild one and with a number of teams like Duke, Kansas and Purdue not advancing, we have a few Cinderella teams still alive. Marc explains that while we enjoy seeing upsets in the first round, we would much rather see traditional brands in the later rounds.

NFL Free Agency is only a few days old, so which teams have made the best moves so far? Leger Douzable joins the show to talk about his favorite signings, can Aaron Rodgers be the real difference maker for the Jets and the pro prospects for Jalen Carter.

We've already had some upsets in the NCAA Tournament, were they as surprising as it seemed and who is poised to make a deep run?

These days we spend more time on who is leaving via the transfer portal, how much money does the collective need to acquire and retain players, is your coach on the hot seat and if you did fire your coach who do you want to replace him. But even those topics take a backseat more often than not to conference media deals, expansion and realignment. So let's dive into some of the bigger stories and give a guess to what might happen to the many stories out there.

You know the NFL Draft is approaching when schools begin hosting Pro Days and the first was Georgia. Cam Mellor joins the show to talk about the takeaways from the Georgia Pro Day, he talks about the shakeup at the top of the draft and more.

Ever since Brett Yormark took over the commissioner of the Big 12 there has been discussion about him working to add more schools to the conference, with the Pac-12 being the likely conference to be poached. Marc talks about how with tall the re-alignment and media deal talk this is just what a conference needs to do, look out for themselves.