1) It's TUESDAY, MAY 12. Hope all of the wonderful moms had a Happy Mother's Day! Not the rotten ones. Only the wonderful ones -- led by my children's mother and my own late great one. 2) Visit BIMD: Face Masks! for our latest Back In My Day from the Le Batard Show on ESPN Radio. 3) Our Greg Cote Show podcast is now separately on Twitter and Instagram! Follow both at The Greg Cote Show. 4) In The Previous Blogpost (ITPB): Don Shula dies with my two tribute columns, Greg Cote Show podcast & more. 5) Join us on Twitter.com/gregcote and Instagram.
It's Radio Tuesday!: I'm back in the Zoom Room on the Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz today on ESPN Radio. Aits 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join us for some virtual fun.
GREG COTE SHOW PODCAST: SPECIAL ALL-SHULA EPISODE 11 OUT NOW!: Our new(ish) Miami Herald podcast, "The Greg Cote Show With Greg Cote," debuted in early March and a very special Episode 11 is out now -- a full hour-long tribute to Don Shula, who passed away last Monday at age 90. Find a new episode every Monday morning on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, iTunes, Megaphone, Stitcher or wherever you do your podding, and of course at MiamiHerald.com. Find all 11 episodes we've done so far right here. Please listen, subscribe, rate and review! Our podcast is a variety show: Sports and non-sports, 3-0-5 and national, fun and (when necessary) serious. Now, though, for the first time, we devote an entire podcast to Shula, with special guests including Larry Csonka, Larry Little, Dave Shula, Dan Marino, Bob Griese, Dan Le Batard and more. Dolphins fans of all ages won't want to miss this new podcast.
My Shula tribute columns: DON SHULA, 1930-2020, R.I.P. and WHAT SHULA MEANT TO A FATHER & SON. THE BOY WAS ME
HOT BUTTON TOP 10 (MAY 10-11): WHAT SOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS FANS ARE TALKING ABOUT: Our blog-exclusive Sunday-into-Monday feature is part week-in-review, part look-ahead. Hot Button means what's on our minds, locally and nationally, from a Miami perspective, as the (non)sports week just past pivots to the week ahead. This week's HB10:
1. DON SHULA: Dolphins icon passes away at 90: An era ended quietly as the NFL's winningest coach left us. R.I.P., architect of the Perfect Season and father of the Dolphins' glory days. You were the best, a man whose integrity equaled his accomplishments in the game.
2. DOLPHINS: 2020 schedules out for Miami, NFL: The apparently not yet ready for prime time Miami Dolphins have but one game under the lights in 2020. That of course presumes there will be a 2020 season. Meantime the Fins proposed a coronavirus-era contingency plan to limit fans to 15,000 per game with social distancing.
3. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: NCAA says fall sports tied to campuses reopening: NCAA President Mark Emmert said that unless college campuses are open to the entire student body in the fall, there are no plans to risk the health of student-athletes for the sake of sports -- including football.
4. MLB: Baseball pondering early July start: MLB is weighing a plan to begin in early July and play roughly an 80-game season, in home stadiums where possible but with no fans, at least initially.
5. CORONAVIRUS: The updated South Florida Games-Lost Tracker: The SFGLT updates you each week on how many local pro sports games have been lost to the coronavirus shutdown. Through today/Sunday -- 82-plus games lost: Marlins 41, Heat 19-plus, Panthers 13, Inter Miami 9. Marlins have missed first 41 games of regular season. Heat missed last 17 games of season and at least two first-round playoff games based on NBA standings when season stopped. Panthers missed last 13 games but would not have made playoffs based on NHL standings at time of stoppage. Inter Miami, after playing first two games of season, has missed last nine.
6. TUA TAGOVAILOA: Fins' No. 1 pick chooses number 1: He couldn't have uniform number 13 because that was retired with Dan Marino. So Tua picked number 1.We can all rest easy now.
7. HEAT: Arena reopens for limited player workouts: Heat players may now practice on a limited individual basis ... for a season that may or may not resume.
8. UFC: Octagon reopens for business, sort of: Justin Gaethje beat Tony Ferguson in UFC 249 in Jacksonville Saturday, albeit with no fans there. urday night in Jacksonville, Florida. Meanwhile, a Jorge Masvidal-Connor McGregor fight reportedly is in the works.
9. NCAA: Hammer time for Kansas hoops: The NCAA is investigating the Kansas men's basketball program for five Level I violations that it calls "egregious" and says "undermine and threaten" college athletics. Uh oh.
10. TV: Shakeup in the MNF booth: Not sure yet who will be in the Monday Night Football booth in 2020, but ESPN says it won't be Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland.
Missing the HB10 cut: OK, I'm officially getting tired of that Michael Jordan documentary series ..... Giannis Antetokounmpo's Twitter account was hacked. I apologize. Won't do it again ..... NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke to players via conference call but said nothing definitive ..... Blake Snell faced Lucas Giolito in a virtual World Series to end the MLB The Show '20 players league video game season, and I've never heard of either guy and don't care who won ..... Two actual headlines this week on ESPN.com, in case you forgot we're starving for sports: 'Ranking the top 74 sneakers in NBA history' and 'American Cornhole League: Live on ESPN' ...... Almost forgot: ESPN is televising Korean baseball, too ..... Answer: A 1910 Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card just sold at auction for $492,000. Question: What makes you say some people don't know what to do with their money? ..... Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are fronting the "Stay At Home Slam," a live virtual tennis tournament via Mario Tennis Aces video game. Maybe Maria will have better luck vs. Serena when it isn't real tennis? ..... The eventual French Open tennis major in Paris is likely to be staged without spectators. Sacré bleu! ..... The Greg Cote Show podcast is out with Episode 11 Monday -- devoted entirely to Don Shula ..... Update: Countdown now 2,240 days (give or take) until Miami hosts its first match in soccer's 2026 World Cup. Hopefully we'll be out of the house by then?
Featured most recent other columns:
Hall of Famer Andre Dawson On Baseball and Owning a Funeral Home Amid COVID-19
Miami Sports Right Now If Coronavirus Never Happened and Games Never Stopped
Dolphins Are Winning Rebuild With 3-Year Plan That Won't Rush Top-Prize Tua
Also: Dolphins Aim High, Win Big With Tua Tagovailoa Pick / Greg Cote's 2020 NFL Mock Draft / Hackers, Barking Dogs, Crazy Pressure: Why Virtual NFL Draft Is Biggest Ever For Dolphins / Coronavirus, Tua Make This Dolphins' Weirdest, Most Interesting Draft Ever / Amid a Pandemic, to Florida, Pro Wrestling is 'Essential' / A Pie Chart of QB Possibilities For Dolphins / Baseball's Bizarre Restart Plan Would Be Unfair to Players / and NFL Draft Will Offer Blunt Verdict on Canes' Talent
Other featured recent columns: Ultimate All-Time South Florida Major Sports Trivia Challenge / Sports Should Stop Pretending It Will Resume Anytime Soon As Coronovirus Rages / How a Longtime Herald Sport Writer Came to Own a Top Contender in Saturday's No-Fans Florida Derby / Time for NBA, NHL to Shut it Down, End Seasons / Le Batard Show Deals with Coronavirus-Related Upheaval / Brady Leaving Patriots for Tampa. Will Belichick Be Proved Right In Letting Him Go? / Desperate Fans Turn to NFL After Reality Of First Weekend With No Games / Miami Sports Now Utterly Engulfed By Coronavirus Threat -- But Precaution Is Justified / It's Dominate Or Bust For Dolphins GM Grier Over Next 6 Weeks.
Select other columns from earlier in 2020: Inter Miami Is Market's Sleeping Giant As Home Opener Nears / Jeter Arrives At Camp, Calls Marlins 'Layered With Talent' / Dwyane Wade, His Transgender Daughter And A Lesson In Love / Pressure On Marlins for Big Improvement Now -- and It's About Time / It's Time For Anonymous Lone Voter Who Denied Jeter To Step Forward / Heat And Gloriously Impatient Riley Win In Trade For Iguodala / Return Of Ed Reed, Even If Mostly Symbolic, Leads Surge By Canes Football / Our two-part series: How One Man Long Forgotten Changed Everything For the Miami Dolphins and How Shula Made Dolphins Perfect and Made Miami Matter, And the Coach Today at 90 / Kobe's Death Sends Sports World Reeling, But Immortality Is His / Jimmy Johnson's Biggest Triumph? Knowing When To Quit -- And Why / and Announcing Miami Dolphins' 2010-19 All-Decade Team
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