The Beat of Sports

UCF Men's Basketball Head Coach Johnny Dawkins joins the show and looks back at 1990, when his Sixers lost to Michael Jordan and the Bulls. Plus he talks about how a college basketball coach handles off-season workouts.

As the world has adjusted to a new normal will people wearing face masks and hand sanitizer being made available everywhere, is there more than can be done? Dr. Hendrix of AdventHealth joins The Bridge to talk about what has been done in Central Florida to flatten the curve and what we should be doing over the next few weeks to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Throughout his entire tenure NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has drawn negative attention from NFL fans. From his handling of the Ray Rice situation, to anthem protests fans have wanted him gone but as Marc points out not only is he still in charge, he has made the league more and more money and after the favorable reaction the virtual draft got, Goodell was one of the biggest winner from the weekend.

Attorney Dan Lust joins the show to talk about the legal roadmap for sports to return during this pandemic, some positive recent developments, and the history behind the NFL Draft.

One of the ideas being kicked around for this coming college football season is could everything just become regionalized to help limit the amount of travel that teams and players would have to deal with.

After the coronavirus shutdown the sports world, many team owners promised to pay stadium and arena workers for lost games. But how many have actually done it?

Mike O'Donnell joins the show for his weekly basketball segment and compares the drafts of the NBA and NFL. He talks about how the NFL is more about watching and scouting video while in the NBA a majority of the players are drafted based on their potential.

In this weeks sports legal segment, Marc and Richard Hale talk about the rise of baseball fans suing Major League Baseball over the cancellation of games due to the coronavirus shutting down the league. Then they talk about the lawsuit Oliver Luck has filed against Vince McMahon after the XFL filed for bankruptcy.

Night 1 of the first ever virtual NFL Draft is in the books! Marc and Scott give their thoughts on what they thought of it, and talk about how it was fun to watch something when no one knew what was going to happen. Like a normal sporting event.

With "The Last Dance" premiering this past weekend the basketball has turned its attention to Michael Jordan again. Kurt Badenhausen joins the show and talks about how MJ built a sports marketing empire.