The Beat of Sports

This past weekend the Basketball Hall Of Fame announced their newest group of inductees: Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and Tim Duncan are just a few names. Marc talks about the interesting journey to the NBA for KG and how he had an impact immediately in Minnesota after going straight into the pros from high school.

With the country under stay at home orders during the coronavirus, Joey Grant the former UCF Knight offers a virtual combine to football players to train leading up to the NFL Draft.

Mike O'Donnell joins the show for his weekly basketball segment and talks about the idea of putting the NBA in a bubble within one city and resuming the season. Then he talks about the basketball talent of the characters from White Men Can't Jump.

WWE Superstar Charlotte Flair joins The Bridge to preview this weekends WrestleMania. She talks about what it means for WrestleMania to provide sports fans something to watch while so many other sports are on hold due to the coronavirus. She discusses what it means for her to compete for the nXt Championship at the Performance Center in Orlando. Plus she talks about carrying on the Flair legacy while also forging her own.

Dave Mason the sportsbook manager of Bet Online explains a business getting creative when there's no games being played.

Alexander Kuqali the Orlando Solar Bear player joins the show to talk about what's being done to help the many players in the ECHL during the shutdown.

Josh Robbins covers the Orlando Magic for The Athletic and joins the show to talk about if Orlando could be a city to host NBA games if the league looked at 1-2 cities to send teams. Plus he discusses what the Magic front office and coaching staff did to make sure that their players had enough workout equipment to stay in shape during the leagues shutdown.

We've had a lot of Tom Brady news over the last few weeks, first he signs with the Buccaneers and then he got his no. 12 from Chris Godwin but now we know where he will be living. A house owned by Derek Jeter. This leads Marc to wonder how this deal went down, is Brady going to be paying rent every month or is this being done for free? Marc has so many questions.

Dr. Luis Allen of AdventHealth joins the show and gives tips on how people can take care of their mental health while practicing social distancing. He talks about how maintaining a regular sleep schedule and avoiding binging the news can help ones mental well-being.

This would be the second week of the Major League Baseball season but due to the coronavirus we are still waiting for Opening Day. Sal Butera, the MLB executive joins the show and talks about what may lie ahead of the season.