The Beat of Sports

News broke on Tuesday about the Jacksonville Jaguars announcing that they'll be playing more games in London, this time in consecutive weeks. Matt Hayes a resident of Jacksonville joins the show and talks about why the Jags are moving two home games to London and what the fan reaction has been. He and Marc discuss whether or not team owner Shad Kahn is the in it for the long haul in Jacksonville.

Who is Obi Toppin and why might he be the first overall pick in this years NBA Draft? Brian Bennett of The Athletic joins the show and talks about why Obi Toppin might be the best player in college basketball.

Yesterday in what one of the most surprising stories Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio announced that he is stepping down from the team. Marc tries to understand why Dantonio decided to make this move now and if he totally buys the reasoning the statement gave.

It is a sad day for Red Sox Nation as they team is shipping former MVP Mookie Betts to Los Angeles in what is basically a salary move. Marc talks about why fans get so upset when teams have to make moves for purely financial reasons.

With the NBA trade deadline 24+ hours away, will the Magic make a move? Josh Robbins covers the Magic for The Athletic and talks about what they might do. He and Marc discuss if the Magic missed out on acquiring Malik Beasley, are they afraid to trade away Aaron Gordon, and the continued rehab for Chuma Okeke.

An interesting story that merges both politics and sports has been the saga of UCF and FAU trying to do naming rights deal with RoofClaim.com. Marc gives some information on this story and hopefully explains it further.

In a move that probably won't surprise anyone the Jacksonville Jaguars will now be playing 2 games in London, on back to back weeks. This is the first time this has ever happened. This leads Marc and Scott to wonder how much longer Shad Kahn will keep the Jaguars in Jacksonville and if they'll be in London long-term.

A full season of safe and profitable alcohol sales at many SEC schools has eased the concerns over the added risk and it has lead to increased optimism about more revenue. Emily Caron of Front Office Sports joins the show and talks about if it has been worth the risk of the millions it has brought in.

This month the NASCAR season kicks off with the Daytona 500, just a few years ago they'd get 20 million viewers but now they'll be lucky to get 9 million. Marc wonders where the NASCAR viewer went and what can be done to fix the sports that seen steep viewership declines over the last few years.

In the Nike trial against claims made by attorney Michael Avenatti an interesting thing was said by the shoe company that got no attention. They didn't deny paying players. Yep, and Marc points out that we've reached the point that we as sports fans understand this is how it works and don't care anymore.