Coco Puffs

SOUTH FLORIDA - I know that's not an official dateline, but its an accurate description of this blog.

I have now official covered every team in South Florida as a reporter for ESPN Radio 760 and apparently I'm so good at it that I'm now covering multiple teams in a day.

WEST PALM BEACH - Today started in West Palm at the ESPN radio studio, where I had the chance to produce two riveting fishing shows (well maybe to the listeners). It's always hard to enjoy a show talking about nothing your interested in especially after waking up at 4 40 a.m. !!!

At 9 a.m. the Saturday Sports Page got rolling and Mike tried to talk as much baseball as possible in the five minutes of on-air alone time.

CORAL GABLES - Arriving to the 'Canes a little late turned out to be a blessing because I got a five minute reprieve from the mind numbing "action" that was taking place formally know as the Orange Bowl (now its just a bowl of something).

Kyle Wright was average, he made some big throws like his touchdown pass to Sam Shields, and he made some bad plays, like sliding short of a first down and killing a critical second half drive.

The defense was pushed up and down the field in the second half, and Calais Campbell was nowhere to be found (except on the sidelines trying to pump up the sparse crowd). In fact the only 'Canes defenders that did show up were Tarvares Gooden and Bruce Johnson. And Eric Moncour did make some big plays, tipping away a forth down try from Georgia Tech and later laying a big hit on the quarterback.

The problem was the 'Canes had too many blocking penalties and were fooled too often by misdirection plays on defense. The Yellow Jackets scored two touchdowns on a naked bootleg.

One bright spot would be Shawnbrey McNeal, he had a 39 yard touchdown run and would of had a 41 yard run if it wasn't for a holding call.

After the game Shannon preached accountability for this years team and the hope that new recruiting classes will provide the talent that this group does not have.

SUNRISE - I am now at 12 hours of work and at least I have the freezing Bank Atlantic Center to keep me awake. I'll confess I'm not a huge hockey fanatic, but I enjoy seeing games in person and the Panthers are the only team in South Florida that I like.

Tonight the 'Cats got off to an early 4-1 lead and Vokoun looked good for the second straight night, improving his record with the team to 2-2 (Cats are 2-3 overall). They ended up adding a few more goals in the third and won 6-4.

The best part about the Panther games are the commercials that run on the floating scoreboard (does that have an official name?). My favorite is "Get to know your Florida Panthers", to understand why you must know who Oli Jokinen is. If you don't, he is a nice guy, but looks like a villain from a James Bond movie and he haunts my dreams every night. So this crazy Finish player does the "get to know" segment and in his best Drago impersonation he deadpans "Coco Puffs" to the question "Whats your favorite cereal." That is classic because I always love when hockey players are forced in front of cameras, they are the most akward people in the world when forced to "act".

Thats it, I'm out 15 hours is too much.