1) It's SATURDAY, MAY 16. Our Greg Cote Show podcast is now separately on Twitter and Instagram. Follow us on both! 2) In The Previous Blogpost (ITPB): Hot Button Top 10, our Don Shula tribute columns, our Greg Cote Show Shula-tribute podcast & more. 3) Join us on Twitter.com/gregcote and Instagram.
GREG COTE SHOW PODCAST: NEW ALL-SHULA TRIBUTE EPISODE 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
ANTICIPATION OF EXCITEMENT, RELEVANCE ARE THE GIFTS TAGOVAILOA HAS GIVEN DOLPHINS. NEW COLUMN: Tua Tagovailoa surprised his mom on Mother’s Day with a brand new black Cadillac Escalade, a giant red bow on its hood. Now that we know the Miami Dolphins’ new quarterback is pretty good at gift-giving, we can only imagine what surprise he might have in store for the city that made him a first-round NFL draft pick. The gift of relevance, perhaps? Of excitement, if we aren’t getting too greedy? (Or how about the gift of younger brother/quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, who reportedly might transfer to the Miami Hurricanes?) Dolfans haven’t felt much of relevance or excitement from their team for 20 years, since Dan Marino retired and took the franchise’s stature with him. We have shrunk to become an off-radar, regional club. Few fan bases in all of sports long more for a rebirth, for new glory days. Anticipation is about all that’s left of sports for now, thanks to the continuing coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic that shut down live events and big crowds two months ago, with talk of a gradual resumption without fans but still no clear plan or timetable set. (We are so desperate in the void of sports that anything resembling competition is seen as better than nothing. Hence the following actual headline seen this week: "American Cornhole League: Live on ESPN!" That’s the same network that recently listed the top 74 sneakers in NBA history. How I wish I were kidding). As we wait for the return of actual sports, and eventually cheering crowds, anticipation at least — and at last — has become something long-beleaguered fans of the Dolphins can savor. Maybe the death of iconic glory-days coach Don Shula at age 90 last week was a sign, if only symbolically. Has a page turned? Is a franchise that relies way too much on its distant past for sustenance in the absence of more recent glory finally poised to win again? To matter again? We explore in our recent column. To read in full, please visit Anticipation of Relevance, Excitement Is Tua's Gift to Miami.
Featured most recent other columns:
Our newest: As NBA, MLB Plot Return, We Miss Them -- And Yet Sports Have Never Seemed More Trivial
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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