GREG COTE'S RANDOM EVIDENCE BLOG: MIAMI. SPORTS. AND BEYOND
1) It's SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12. Was back in on Le Batard Show this week. Check out Tuesday's show podcasts. 2) Join me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Follow the Greg Cote Show podcast separately on Twitter, Instagram and now TikTok, too! 3) In The Previous Blogpost (ITPB): Hot Button Top 10, Columns on Dolphins' McDaniel hire and Flores/Ross scandal, new Greg Cote Show podcast.
GREG COTE SHOW PODCAST: NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!: Our 7th episode of 2022 and 98th overall is out now! A new pod drops every Monday morning at 7 ET on Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Stitcher, Megaphone, iHeart -- wherever you pod, and of course at MiamiHerald.com. Find all 98 we've done so far HERE, free. In our most recent episode, we continue The Greg Cote Show Non-Sport Olympics, but with a live audience, and talk Super Bowl, Brian Flores suit, and new Dolphins coach Mke McDaniel. Also in the the new episode: Drake (!): makes brief appearance on our podcast; Greg’s business lunch with LeBron James over Lobos Tequila; Greg brags about leaving a big tip; Would you rather lick a toad or a toe?; Chris can’t believe Brian Flores turned down lunch with Tom Brady; and Farding (not farting; farding. Get your mind out of the gutter). And, on a serious note, Greg's tribute to a dear friend who recently died unexpectedly. Thanks as always for the support, pod family. Please listen, rate, review and follow. (Our pod simulcasts on Sirius XM every Monday 5-6 p.m. ET).
OUR BENGALS-RAMS SUPER BOWL PREDICTION: We tell you why we think this is an intriguing, better-than-average SB matchup, and why one team has the edge. For our full predix capsule, who'll win and why: Super Bowl Gem.
HALL OF FAME SAID NO AGAIN. BUT DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR ZACH THOMAS: By the night of the big announcement Zach Thomas had already moved on with real life, with the wonderful, glorious routine of what folks do, what parents do if they’re lucky, when the fame has subsided and the cameras are no longer watching, and when the Pro Football Hall of Fame has said no yet again. Zach, now 48, one of the greatest and most popular players in Miami Dolphins history, was in the stands Thursday night at a soccer practice watching one of his and wife Maritza’s three kids play. They are 12, 10 and 6 now, two girls and a boy. The little one has already gotten a red card or two for physical play. “Sticks up for herself,” Dad says, his smile coming through the phone. Thomas had already been given the news ahead of Thursday night’s live announcement on the NFL Honors awards show leading up to Sunday’s Bengals-Rams Super Bowl in Los Angeles. They don’t want you flying in for a coronation that once again isn’t coming to you. He has gotten used to the call that doesn’t come, the one where they congratulate you for being inducted, for heading to Canton. This was the ninth year in a row Thomas was eligible to be called but was not -- the third straight year as one of 15 finalists. Was he disappointed? Is he human? Of course he was. But what flowed from him was gratefulness. For our ful latest column: Hall of Fame Keeps Saying NO, But Zach Thomas Keeps Feeling Gratitude.
MIKE MCDANIEL FOUND HEALING STRENGTH IN OWN LIFE. NOW HE MUST FIX BROKEN DOLPHINS: Here they are, trafficking again in the only drug that’s readily available, totally free and yet sometimes so hard to get hold of, that most powerful of all medicines: Hope. The promise of it is, a promise oft broken, is really all the Miami Dolphins have to offer their fans, and so the beleaguered team introduced the latest healer Thursday inside the massive training center on the grounds of Hard Rock Stadium. Mike McDaniel looks a bit like a pharmacist, oddly enough. He could be in a white smock. He is nobody’s stereotype of an NFL head coach. He gives off nerdy professor vibes. He is a slight, personable and youthful 38, barely 5-9, and no way going the 180 pounds the bio claims. For the full column: McDaniel Overcame Much In Own Life, Now Must Overcome Dolphins' Turmoil And Win.
BOMBSHELL WEEK FOR DOLPHINS: FLORES' NFL SUITTARGETS ROSS, MIAMI HIRES McDANIEL AS NEW COACH: Dolphins New Coach McDaniel Must Win, Heal Broken Franchise / Ranking Flores/Ross Bombshell Among Biggest Dolphins Scandals / and Ross Should Be Done As Fins Owner if Flores Allegations Are True
THE RETURN OF 'SUPER BOWL WITH A SMIRK'!": Super Bowl With a Smirk returns again this year with a daily needling of the self-important NFL and the gravitas of its big game. Flying under the banner, “Make Fun, Not War,” Smirk is an annual Super Bowl Week feature in the Miami Herald years we remember to do it.
Smirk V (5th of V) -- Here's what you get for a $1 million ticket (!) to Shaq's Fun House Super Bowl party. Also, pregame TV glut, Lion picks Rams, anthem scandal? and plastic zip ties for Eddie the Loon: SMIRK V.
Smirk IV (4th of 5) -- How the high-powered Super Bowl hip-hop halftime show is goung to great lengths (and noise) to keep its Sunday setlist a secret. Also, NFL Honors, counterfeiting, Ross: SMIRK IV.
Smirk III (3rd of V) -- Sweet story, or sad? The dwindling last members of the been-to-every-Super Bowl club. Also Goodell's state-of, SB's global reach, Qanon?, public safety, Puppy Bowl: SMIRK III.
Smirk II (2nd of V) -- Bengals' Joe Nickname, sneak peek at Super Bowl ads (shocker: a Clydesdale!), America's rooting interest, Brady visits Waffle House?, casting Rams movie, Madden back from dead to pick winner, Cambodian fried tarantula: SMIRK II.
Smirk I (1st of V) -- L.A.’s glitz, Cincinnati’s dullness, a Shula, Al Golden and a dead gorilla. Also, Hazmat suit, Cindernati, Mike McDaniel, SB Experience, chicken wings and Hollywood golden-age actress Bette Davis: SMIRK I.
Select other most recent columns: The G.O.A.T. We Never Saw Coming: From 199th Drafted To History, A Salute To Tom Brady / Like Him Or Don't, Antonio Brown Not Always To Blame -- And Wasn't In Bucs Divorce / Ortiz Makes Hall, But Final Denial Of Bonds, Clemens A Shame on Voters, Baseball / Mahomes-Allen Air Show A Reminder How Much Better Dolphins And Tua Need To Be / Time Is Right (But Running Out) For MLB to Reinstate Pete Rose /'There Was A Pall On Us': The Panthers Season That Would Not Be Derailed / No-Vaccine Is Your Right. But There Are Consequences as Djokovic Was Reminded / State Of Miami Sports: Every Major Team, Graded Top To Bottom /Dolphins Firing of Flores The Unjustified Travesty Of A Clown-Show Owner / Canes Land Grand Prize In Cristobal, So No Excuses Left. New Glory Days A Must and 50 Years At the Herald For Me -- And a Lifetime Of Gratitude.
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