The Beat of Sports

It is early in the NBA preseason but so far we've got a small sample size to learn from the Orlando Magic. John Denton joins the show to talk with Mike Tuck about what the Magic have shown us so far this preseason.

When Enes Kanter was feuding with the president of Turkey the NBA supported the player but once Daryl Morey tweeted his support of the people of Hong Kong protesting the government in China statements were released with some calling for the Rockets GM to lose his job. Marc talks about how this is an example of the NBA being hypocritical and only caring about the bottom line.

The trip to Cincinnati for the UCF Knights did not go well on Friday night as they suffered their second loss f the season. Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel joins the show to talk about what went wrong with the Knights. He and Marc discuss how there will be growing pains for freshman quarterback Dillion Gabriel. Then they talk about some of the other college football news from the weekend that was.

Marc got the opportunity to watch a lot of college football this Saturday and noticed a couple things that really puzzled him leading him to think, if this is your college football job then... Jobs like holding up towels around the coaching staffs to avoid television cameras from spotting anything or all of the get back coaches jumping around on kickoffs.

It is the beginning of a tough stretch of games for the Gators as they took down Auburn on Saturday, now they set their sights on LSU. Marc talks about how if Florida is able to survive this stretch of games then they will have a better resume than some of the teams ahead of them in the polls including a team like Clemson.

This week for his weekly segment Mike O'Donnell and Austin Lyon discuss the fair pay to play law which is being implemented in California with many other states close to follow. Mike talks about how he feels about the law after being a former student athlete and an employee within a university fundraising department.

We've reached week 7 of high school football action! Buddy Collings of the Orlando Sentinel joins Austin Lyon to run through the slate of high school games tonight.

One of the biggest stories through the first few weeks of the NFL season has been the popularity of Jacksonville Jaguars QB Gardner Minshew, but Austin Lyon isn't buying it. He runs through the list of darlings we've seen in the league that never lived up to their initial popularity.

Dan Hoard the Cincinnati Bearcats radio voice joins the show and previews UCF's big game tomorrow night. He talks about how the team has changed under head coach Luke Fickle. Then he discusses what the Bearcats can do to slow down the Knights offense and if they can learn anything from what Pitt did.

Who could the be first NFL coach fired, who is the favorite for win the MVP, and what kind of cameos could we see in the Super Bowl Half-Time show? All that and more numbers and trends from the NFL season so far.