The Beat of Sports

After he parted way with the Clippers on Monday, Doc Rivers has found himself a new job with the Philadelphia 76ers. Mike O'Donnell joins the show to talk about this move and what it means for the team, then he talks about what the Heat can do to even the series tonight against the Lakers.

It hasn't been a normal high school football season this year, but games are happening. Austin Lyon joins the show to talk about the schools that have had to cancel games due to COVID as well as look ahead to the action we've got tonight.

2020 has become a year for sports leagues to pivot, we've seen sports go into a bubble or shorten their season. So it would seem tailor-made for the College Football Playoff to expand to 8-teams, but it doesn't seem likely. Marc runs through some of the reasons why the CFP should expand but also the reasons why it won't be happening.

Super Bowl winning coach Brian Billick has a new book out "The Q Factor" looking at the 2018 NFL Draft class of quarterbacks and their first two seasons. Among the many great stories Billick dives into was the chaos inside the Browns front office on who to draft before eventually choosing Baker Mayfield.

More and more we are seeing that sports fans have begun to gravity more to players rather than teams for who they cheer for. Alex Silverman joins the show to discuss Gen Z and the generation's following of sports and eSports.

Scott Stricklin should do whatever he thinks is best for Florida. But Marc has just a couple of questions for him. Is it just the position of no home-and-home series with G5s? Would Florida actually do a home-and-home with TCU? Wake Forest? Rutgers? Kansas? I doubt it. And what does UCF have to do on the field to move into the "home-and-home" category? Win a national title? Play in four straight major bowl games?

The baseball playoffs are here! After a shortened season for MLB we've reached the postseason, Rich Waltz joins the show to talk about expectations for the Rays, and why they are tired of being called underdogs this season.

It was a surprising news announcement when we learned that Doc Rivers and the Clippers are parting ways, Brendan Suhr joins the show to talk about that story along with looking ahead to the NBA Finals this week.

It was an NFL Sunday filled with everything, the Buccaneers rolled thanks to a defensive effort, Trubisky gets benched and the Falcons blew a lead, oh and both New York teams are already done. Marc runs through all of the games and more.

It was a matchup of two historic Florida teams with FSU-Miami this weekend, but on Saturday night it was a one-sided affair. Tom D'Angelo joins the show to talk about what is happening in Tallahassee, and why Mike Norvell might need to start getting rid of some players on the roster sooner rather than later.