The Sports Reporters - Episode 277 - Plans to Restart Sports Leagues Take Shape. The Impact of Don Shula

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How important is the fan experience at sporting events? Could you imagine the Iron Bowl being played in an empty stadium? Can college football actually return if students aren't on college campuses? Baseball seems the closest to restarting... What has change to make us think this could happen soon? And for the NBA, is there a way to salvage a season with so many compelling storylines? And remembering Hall of Fame head coach Don Shula! The impact he had on the game and his interesting relationship with Bill Belichick.

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers. No topic out of bounds. No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information. This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Mike Lupica of MLB.com, the NY Daily News,
0:19.8	and my new book, Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match.
0:23.5	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:26.0	And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and you are listening to the Sports Reporters podcast.
0:30.8	And we're glad to have you join us here on this Thursday, the podcast that we do twice a week.
0:35.3	And yes, if you're joining us for the first time, you say, sports reporters, I watch that show Sunday mornings on ESPN.
0:41.4	We're like 100 years.
0:42.8	What the heck?
0:43.4	And we've now taken it into podcast world.
0:46.3	So you get to sit in the comfort of your home.
0:48.3	We are coronavirus friendly.
0:50.7	We were in your home before.
0:52.6	There even was a virus.
0:56.0	So it works out perfectly well.
1:01.5	And we find ourselves, there's plenty to talk about on the COVID-19 front and sports trying to get back to business with Major League Baseball making some actual concrete plans for a June or July
1:07.1	recurrence and telling their players about that. The NBA has a big call.
1:11.1	The NFL is open at facilities.
1:13.1	But before we get to any of that, a legend in football coaching, Don Schuel, passed away a few days back.
1:21.1	And he was a remarkable guy, the length of time that he spent in the sport, certainly
1:27.1	warrants his Hall of Fame status.
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