1) It's MONDAY, MAY 4. Welcome, May! You can't be any worse than March and April. Can you!? Hang in, stay apart and eventually we rise together! 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 TheGregCoteShow. 4) In The Previous Blogpost (ITPB): Hall of Famer Andre Dawson on owning funeral home amid COVID-19, Miami sports today had coronavirus never happened, Dolphins' Tua-led 3-year plan, Greg Cote Show podcast & more. 5) Join us on Twitter.com/gregcote and Instagram.
GREG COTE SHOW PODCAST: EPISODE 10 OUT NOW!: Our new(ish) Miami Herald podcast, "The Greg Cote Show With Greg Cote," debuted in early March and Episode 10 is out now! 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 10 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. In new Episode 10 (obviously recorded prior to the news of Shula's death), we celebrate our anniversary podcast, welcome guest Andre Dawson and bring you a new edition of "Greg Doesn't Watch Movies."
The iconic former Miami Dolphins coach -- and winningest coach in NFL history -- passed away Monday morning at age 90. Click on the headline above for my remembrance column.
Featured most recent 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 / Dolphins' Grier Says He Has An Idea On Top Pick. He'd Better Be Right / 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
HOT BUTTON TOP 10 (MAY 3-4): 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. NBA: It now seems next season may be delayed, too: As the NBA tries to figure out if, when and how it will resume and finish its 2019-20 season, there reportedly is growing ownership support for also delaying the start of the 220-21 season at least five weeks, until December.
2. NFL: King Sport set to release full 17-week schedule: The NFL, declining to bend a knee to the coronavirus, plans to release its 2020 schedule late this week with no changes and expectations of fans in attendance. Season is scheduled to begin Sept. 10 with full 16-game schedules ... for now.
3. DOLPHINS: Fins trade 1st-round bust Harris: In 2017 he arrived as a No. 1 draft pick. He just left in a trade to Atlanta for a 2021 7th-round pick. So it's official then. Edge rusher Charles Harris slips quietly and sadly into Miami's Draft Bust file.
4. NFL: Dalton to Cowboys, Winston to Saints: Quarterback wheel keep-a turnin' as Cincinnati releases veteran Andy Dalton after nine years and he signs with Cowboys, after free agent ex-Buc Jameis Winston agrees to one-year deal with Saints. Cam Newton remains the best available proven arm. What say, Belichick?
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 -- 74-plus games lost: Marlins 34, Heat 19-plus, Panthers 13, Inter Miami 8. Marlins have missed first 34 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 eight.
6. NASCAR: No-fans racing resumes this month: NASCAR is resuming races, but sans fans, on May 17 at Darlington. Homestead-Miami Speedway also is a possible future site for races, which will be held in states that have eased restrictions. NASCAR becomes the first major American sport to resume following the massive March 11-12 coronavirus shutdown.
7. HEAT: Reopening facilities to players delayed: Miami planned to reopen arena facilities to players May 1 on a limited basis but the NBA now says such reopenings will not be before May 8 at earliest. Meantime, Magic's Aaron Gordon recorded a diss track on Dwyane Wade over Wade's '9' vote costing Gordon the slam-dunk title that Heat's Derrick Jones Jr. won. But they spoke and it's cool. Oh thank God we have detente!
8. SOCCER: MLS to allow individual player workouts: Major League Soccer, beginning Wednesday, will allow Inter Miami and other teams to open facilities to voluntary individual player workouts where that does not conflict with local policies. When the season will resume has not been announced.
9. BASEBALL: Hall of Fame's 2020 induction weekend canceled: Derek Jeter (and Larry Walker) must wait. The Hall's 2020 inductees will now be inducted the following July along with whomever is elected for 2021. Maybe by then then the one guy who didn't vote for Jeter will have come forward?
10. PHILANTHROPY: Brady experience raises $800K to fight hunger: A package that included dinner or a workout with Tom Brady after his first game as a Tampa Bay Buc, tickets to the game and his jersey and cleats raised $800,000 in the "All In Challenge" benefiting charities that feed those in need. Meantime NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Marlins CEO Derek Jeter are the latest sports kingpins suspending their lucrative salaries to reduce layoffs as the shutdown sucker-punches league and team revenues.
Missing the HB10 cut: It'll be Blake Snell vs. Lucas Giolito today at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN in the best-of-five virtual World Series to wrap up the MLB The Show '20 players league video game season. I have heard of neither finalist and cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to not watching! ..... A California federal judge ruled against the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team in its wage discrimination suit against the the sport's U.S. governing body. The judge was male. Unless that went without saying ..... ESPN's "The Last Dance" 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls is doing terrific ratings, but noted documentarian Ken Burns is not impressed. Jordan’s production company, Jump 23, is a partner on the series, meaning he has some say in how he is portrayed. "Not the way you do good journalism," complains Burns ..... Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova front "Stay At Home Slam," a live virtual tennis tournament today/Sunday at 4 p.m. via the Mario Tennis Aces video game and streaming live on the Facebook Gaming page. Ten players and celebs will be involved, including (!) Ryan Tannehill ..... ESPN on Friday had a special E:60 edition titled "Project 11," on the gruesome 2018 leg injury and slow comeback of Redskins QB Alex Smith. If it involved a replay of his injury, it was must-not-watch TV for me ..... United Soccer League teams are playing an eCup FIFA '20 video tournament, with Miami FC repping England ..... The Greg Cote Show podcast celebrates an anniversary Monday with the birth of Episode 10! ..... The Tour de France postponed ..... ESPN is looking into buying WWE. Or did that go without saying? ..... And in other news, Terry Bradshaw has recorded a quarantine country song ..... Update: Countdown now 2,247 days (give or take) until Miami hosts its first match in soccer's 2026 World Cup. Hopefully we've all ditched the face masks by then.
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 / Backlash Over NBA Coronavirus Testing Mirrors Growing Anxiety, the New National Mood / 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 / Beckham, Inter Miami Survive To Finally Reach Opening Week / 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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