The Beat of Sports

Over the last few baseball seasons we've seen some big changes to extra innings and now universal Designated Hitters, but with pitch clocks being rumored and changes to ball to help hitters is the sport trying to change too much too fast?

Once Name, Image and Likeness was legalized in Florida it opened up the floodgates for athletes to make money and now we've reached the point when collectives are getting involved with the recruitment of players. Corey Staniscia joins the show talks about what is happening across the country, what can be done to protect players and more.

NBA Icon Jerry West is demanding an apology as well as a retraction for what he calls "a malicious assault" over the portrayal of his character in the HBO show "Winning Time." Marc and Scott talk about the whether or not the show needs to be historical accurate or if it just exists as pure entertainment, what an apology would mean and the future of the show.

The company is worth over 3 trillion but why would Apple pay $2.5B for the NFL Sunday Ticket package?

Another year and another new spring football league is here, Bill Shea joins the show to talk about how opening weekend went for the USFL. He and Marc talk about what went right and what went wrong for the new league.

The spring games across the state are in the books and Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel joins the show to wraps up spring games from this past weekend and answers the question on if playoff expansion on the back burner?

Many college athletes have cashed in on NIL. But how many remembered to file taxes for their new found money? Laine Higgins of the Wall Street Journal joins the show to talk about the number of athletes that didn't realize this and what is being done to help them in the future.

Roki Sasaki tossed a perfect game in Japan's Nippon Professional League on April 10th. He struck out 19 in his perfect performance. A week later Sasaki had eight perfect innings......and was pulled. He struck out the side in the 8th inning and his fastball was hitting 101 miles-per-hour. He has put down 52 consecutive batters but his manager- Tadahito Iguchi- said Sasaki had reached his limit in his opinion and he was thinking about the long run. WHAT?

Spring football leagues have been a place to try new things when it comes to the game and even when it comes to applying technology to advance the game.

Sadly, those old men wearing odd uniforms holding sticks and a chain are going to be a thing of the past.

Most spring games are designed to showcase offenses. Quarterbacks were not allowed to be hit on Saturday and that always favors the offense as plays are whistled before additional things can happen that makes the defense look better.

But Gus Malzahn has a nice problem. He has two quarterbacks that have a ton of weapons around them in an offense that looks like it will be able to move the ball and score a lot.