The Beat of Sports

The biggest story from the sports weekend was the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder fight, and it overtook all of sports Twitter on Saturday night. Marc talks about how although it is a niche sport, fights like this prove that boxing is still more popular than UFC and calling the sport dead is too premature.

Mike O'Donnell joins the show and talks about the latest hoops news like whether or not we are watching the end for North Carolina head coach Roy Williams. Then he and Marc discuss if San Diego State has enough of a resumé to get a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. Plus they debate if Trae Young will ever be an adequate defensive player in the NBA.

Chris Peters from ESPN takes a statistical look back at how impressive the USA's upset of the Soviets in the Miracle on Ice was.

Austin Lyon from Spectrum Sports joins the show and discusses the removal of a local baseball coach for a profane celebratory speech.

Although so many MLB players have talked about how commissioner Rob Manfred needs to do more when it comes to penalizing the Houston Astros, Richard Hale talks about how Manfred did the best he could with the situation especially with the legal handcuffs he was dealing with.

The newest iteration of the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement has been approved by the owners and is now up to the players to approve. Marc talks about how although it would be a smart deal for some player it isn't for all players. Marc also talks about how he thinks the deal will still get done just not as quickly as many NFL insiders are expecting.

This weekend will be the 40th of the Miracle On Ice, and Marc talks about what the country was like in 1980 and how when a national team has great success it has the power to unite a country.

On today's episode of The Beat Of Sports:
- Marc Daniels returns fresh off the UCF win over Cincinnati
- Firing a high school coach for bad language
- Kalyn Kahler the SI Football writer on NFL going primetime with the combine
- Joshua Robbins spoke with Darrel Armstrong, who enters Magic Hall of Fame
- NFL makes changes to the playoffs
- The News
- Movie Wednesday on a Thursday
- Dave Sheinen on how the Nationals knew about the Astros cheating ways before the World Series
- Should the NFLPA look into the best interests of players

Jordan Reed the tight end for the Washington Redskins has just exited the concussion protocol after suffering his 7th concussion since joining the NFL. Marc wonders if at some point the NFLPA should look into the best interests of players like Reed and tell them when it is time to hang up the cleats before it gets worse.

Dave Sheinen joins the show and talks about how the Nationals knew about the Astros cheating ways before the World Series and that there was no shortage of teams that wanted to help them defeat Houston.