The Beat of Sports

UCF Athletic Director Danny White joined the show from the USTA National Campus to talk about the NCAA Tennis Championships. He and Marc discuss the rise of the transfer portal being used in college football and basketball.

Zion Williamson’s stepfather, Lee Anderson, said in a recent interview that Zion is excited about joining the Pelicans. “One thing that Zion has always been taught, 'You accept the things that you can't change and change the things that you can change.'” Marc talks about the chances that Zion and his people will need to decide how to handle this situation if they want to give it a shot or try to force their way out of New Orleans.

Last year the Big Ten distributed $54 million to each of its 12 members. Back in 2017 roughly 80% of the NCAA Division I public schools outside the Big Ten had total athletics revenue of less than $54 million. Marc talks about the crazy money that some fo these conferences bring in every year.

Orlando City SC is in the midst of a 3 matches in 7 days stretch and after a loss to Atlanta they find themselves in Seattle for some mid-week action against the Sounders. Evan Weston of the broadcast team joins the show to talk about the state of the team through the first few months of the season.

Yes the NBA Draft Lottery is in the books so is it a foregone conclusion that Zion Williamson has to play for the Pelicans? Well not necessarily, the deadline to withdraw from this years NBA Draft isn't until the end of May. Marc talks about the options that Zion has if he really doesn't want to end up in New Orleans.

After the New Orleans Pelicans won the NBA Draft Lottery last night the people for Zion Williamson quickly got him out of the building. Clearly he is not happy about where he will end up, but could he publicly state he does not want to play for the Pelicans. Marc talks about how it isn't uncommon for a player to refuse to play for the team that drafts him.

The NBA Draft Lottery has come and gone with the New Orleans Pelicans getting the #1 pick. But while things are looking great in the Big Easy one person can't be happy with how things turned out, Zion Williamson. Even though Zion and his people wanted him to end up in a bigger market (New York) this isn't the opportunity for Zion to be the villain.

Golf fans have seen the warning sign at Bethpage Black and it will be featured prominently throughout coverage of the PGA Championship, but one question looms large. Where did the sign come from?

More and more television channels are adding gambling related content and now Major League Baseball is getting involving. Eben Novy-Williams from Bloomberg joins the show to talk about the growth of gambling coverage and what viewers can expect over the years.

Everyone has said that Major League Baseball has a lot of problems it needs to fix, mainly that it is boring to watch. And you can see that those complaints are starting to cause a dent in baseball attendance. So what can the sport do to fix this? MLB teams are making the same amount of money but they aren't generating new fans to the ballpark, is this something that speeding up the game can fix?