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Morning Cup Of Joe

March 30th, 2026

Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction.

Distraction of the Day

Fernando Mendoza already studying Raiders playbook. [PFT]

Solid free agent additions on defense. [CBS]

NFL may allow teams to sell their preseason TV rights to streamers. [Yahoo!]

Minnesota manager Derek Shelton (remember him?) run from game over a robot call. See what you’ve done to yourself, baseball? [Outkick]

Dino Tomlin, former Boston College cornerback and son of Mike Tomlin, said if he got into college coaching he’d be just like Lane Kiffin and bang too many college chicks. LOL!!! Guessing young Tomlin knows a lot more about Kiffin than most do. 🙂 [TikTok]

Fail Mary warning II: NFL must make a deal with the zebras. How about returning sanity to the NFL. Let defenders hit. Let receivers catch the ball. Two feet down, ball possessed, catch. Simple. The more suits tinker, the harder it is for refs to call a game. [SI]

FanDuel TV begins a 20-month wind down to trim over 100 jobs. However, “Up and Adams” with Kay Adams won’t be touched, network suits say. Smart! [Awful Announcing]

“This Joe” is a college basketball fan and when March hits, Joe’s glued to the tube watching the conference tournaments and March Madness like a Bucs marathon. The CBS/TNT presentation is the worst of the four networks that carry college hoops. Ian Eagle/Bill Raftery/Grant Hill just suck. Eagle thinks he’s doing standup at the local suburban Chuckle Hut, Raftery thinks he’s Snagglepuss (Joe never cared for Raftery and his forced Snagglepuss routine) and Hill is as worthless as ta-tas on a log. Hollerin’ Kevin Harlan sounds like a leaf blower stuck on the “ON” switch for two hours straight. Stan Van Gundy cannot get through a half, forget a game, without whining how college basketball isn’t the non-basketball association, even though 80 percent of the viewers don’t give a s(p)it about the non-basketball association. How about embracing the game and focusing on the game and spare America all this nonsense? Joe misses Gus, Jason Benetti and Tim Brando when it comes to March Madness. (CBS actually did a nice job adding Chris Webber who is good.) And don’t get Joe started on the halftime studio feces. CBS coverage of college hoops’ biggest event is shameful. [TMSPN]

Someone lifted a full truckload of Kit Kat bars, which may result in a shortage of candy throughout Europe for Easter. If this was not on a legitimate news site, Joe would otherwise have thought it was some earlybird dumbarse April Fools stunt. [CBS News]

Food? [TikTok]

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4 Responses to “Morning Cup Of Joe”

  1. FortMyersDave Says:
    March 30th, 2026 at 6:04 am

    Derek Shelton must have set some sort of record for number of no hitters, one hitters and two hitters thrown against his lineup when he was hitting coach for the Rays under Joe Maddon yet he managed to become skipper of the Pirates for several years before taking over for Rocco Baldelli as the new manager of the Twins this season. Dude has to be doing something right to keep getting work despite not having much success in the W/L column.

  2. Irishmist Says:
    March 30th, 2026 at 8:15 am

    I love the robot calling balls and strikes. No more “rookie strike zone” and no more deciding what the strike zone is going to be on any particular day depending on the umpire’s time of the month. Now let’s get some robot refs on the football field and maybe we’ll get some consistency with holding and pass interference calls.

  3. Lt. Dan Says:
    March 30th, 2026 at 8:24 am

    And DUKE goes down!!

  4. garro Says:
    March 30th, 2026 at 12:53 pm

    Zebras

    You said it Joe! Roger wants to pretend it’s not a problem and says its all about player safety while adding games. What a freaking joke! Too many games now! The overseas ones are nuts! But…Money is driving this train no matter what Roger and Rich say. NFLPA should be raising Cain if they truly did care about player safety but…Something fishy about that as well.

    Go Bucs!