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Named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Jacksonville," Sam Kouvaris is the President and CEO of Pegasus Media Productions operating Samsportsline.com. From 1981-2018 Sam was the Sports Director/Managing Editor at WJXT-TV, Channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Fans Love And Hate Their Jaguars

December 12, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

During my television career, whenever line producers or news directors wanted to steal time from the sportscast for more weather or a story about a cat with cute spots on its face, I’d try to explain why we needed the two and a half minutes they were allotting to cover the sports news of the […]

Bortles to Minshew and In Between. What Happened

December 7, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Just two years ago the Jaguars were one play away from the Super Bowl. Since then, they’ve won nine of their last twenty-eight games. Nine. How did they get here so quickly? In his post-game press conference after the loss to New England in the AFC Championship game, Head Coach Doug Marrone was spot on […]

Minshew Foles and A Mistake

December 6, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Watching the New Orleans Saints the other night I saw former Jaguars offensive lineman Patrick Omameh starting at left tackle in front of Drew Brees. Omameh is a solid backup who was making his first start ever at left tackle. It’s a tough job to begin with but having your first start out there on […]

Namath Reflects in All The Way

November 29, 2019/in Football/by Sam Kouvaris

Who’d have thought the guy considered the icon of the “Me First” decades of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s is actually most interested in helping others. “We have to learn from each other’s shortcomings and triumphs,” Joe Namath told me this week from his home in Jupiter. It’s a line also included in the forward of […]

Jaguars At A Crossroads, Again

November 22, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s a crossroads for the Jaguars franchise, again, against Tennessee in Nashville this week. There are a lot of factors that go into the cauldron of who the Jaguars are now and who they’ll be in the future but they’re all lined up for the game against the Titans. How they perform could set the […]

Foles Leadership Unquestioned

November 15, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

For the Jaguars, Gardner Minshew is fun to watch as a leader. He is a jorts-wearing, mustache sporting, sunglasses-headband owning, cool guy who gives a swashbuckling tone to everything he does. He’s fun to be around. He jokes with his teammates and inspires them with his performance. So what kind of leadership can they expect […]

Stats Can Make You Better

November 8, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

Each September my brother Gust invites me to play in the fall Member-Guest golf tournament at his club in Detroit. It usually happens near the middle of the month and I’ve always been amused at the conversations we have with our competitors. It’s one of their final tournaments of the year so much of the […]

Minshew or Foles? No Rush

October 31, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

In some ways the game against the Texans in London will help determine what happens with the Jaguars for the rest of this season and beyond. The decision at quarterback won’t be an easy one, and it could have franchise implications for years to come. With a win at Wembley, the Jaguars will have won […]

Bailey, Wuerffel Say FL/GA is Special

October 25, 2019/in College Football/by Sam Kouvaris

Now that the city has a new contract with the universities, maybe they’ll put their efforts into making something of the Georgia/Florida weekend. There’s been a tepid move in that direction with a party and a concert but I’m talking about something on a much grander scale. Not Super Bowl grand, but a festival weekend […]

Learning To Win

October 17, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Watching the Jaguars play New Orleans last week, you just got the feeling that the Saints would figure out a way to win and maybe the Jaguars didn’t quite know how. Wanting to win is something we’re born with, but learning how to win is something we develop. “It comes innately,” said Sheldon Kaplan, PhD, […]

Mullen Has Florida Headed in Right Direction

October 11, 2019/in College Football/by Sam Kouvaris

Regardless of the outcome of last night’s game in Baton Rouge, Dan Mullen’s tenure at Florida so far has been nothing but positive. Riding a 10-game winning streak going to LSU after beating Auburn last week at The Swamp, Florida was undefeated through their first six games in 2019 for the fourth time since 2006 […]

Minshew is More Than Magic

October 3, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s fun to talk about Gardner Minshew’s mustache, “Minshew Magic,” his clothes and his resemblance to Uncle Rico from ‘Napoleon Dynamite.” But somewhere in all of that hype, the kind of quarterback he actually is can get lost. He’s twice been named the Offensive Rookie of the Week Twice and this week was named NFL […]

Calais Campbell

September 27, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

I liked Calais Campbell the first time we met. You know that feeling when you meet somebody and they emit some kind of aura that’s instantly disarming. His handshake, his body language, how he looks you in the eye during conversation. “I feel the same way,” Jaguars Guard A.J. Cann agreed. “When I first met […]

Ramsey Answer Is In The Mirror

September 20, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

After the Jaguars 20-7 win over Tennessee at home on Thursday night Head Coach Doug Marrone called it the ”longest short week we’ve had in the NFL.” While prepping for a division opponent and still looking for their first win, the Jalen Ramsey story hung over the Jaguars like a dark cloud that wouldn’t go […]

Jaguars Loss Shows What To Fix

September 12, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Pretty often my favorite Jaguars fan asks me, “Are we the Browns? We’re the Browns of the South right?” I’ve always laughed the question away but when you look at the 24 years of Jaguars history, their lack of consistent success certainly puts them in a category something other than perennial favorites. After Week 1 […]

Where Do the Jaguars’ Wins Come From

September 5, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Every team is ready to win going into the first week of the season. A lot of teams think they can be good. A few know they’re good. For the Jaguars, thinking they can be good might be half the battle after last season’s collapse. If there’s a flaw in their thinking, it’s what they […]

When A Team Is A Team

August 30, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

One thing I like about this Jaguars team is it’s honest. That might sound like a strange thing to say about a team but after walking into locker rooms for over 40 years, you can tell when they’re feeding you a line. Most of Jack Del Rio’s teams were full of it. Gus Bradley’s teams […]

At 36 Vince Covello is Finally a Rookie

August 23, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

This week the PGA Tour season ends in Atlanta with the Tour Championship at East Lake. The payout this week is $45 million. That’s not a typo. The 30 players who made it to Atlanta will split $45 million with $15 million going to the winner. The eighth place finisher takes home $1.1 million. Finish […]

Coaches and QB’s Make the Difference

August 15, 2019/in College Football/by Sam Kouvaris

When it comes to where the University of Florida and the University of Georgia football programs have gone in the last ten years, it’s apparent where the success or failure in Gainesville or Athens comes from. To win in either of those places you need a coach with an offensive philosophy and you need a […]

Preseason Injuries Are The Worst

August 9, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Doug Marrone is probably scared to death right now. It’s got nothing to do with wins and losses, not scoring against the Ravens, what his team might do this year or his job security. He’s too good of a coach, too good of a guy, too well respected in the league and has been around […]

Colt Fever 40 Years Ago Was the Start

August 2, 2019/in Football/by Sam Kouvaris

There’s a bit of irony this week as the NFL football team from Jacksonville is visiting in the city of Baltimore. That’s because it’s happening nearly 40 years to the day since the NFL owner from Baltimore started threatening to leave town take his team to Jacksonville. That’s the start of the story that ended […]

Jaguars Ease Into Camp

July 26, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

In the first week of training camp all 32 NFL teams believe. They’re healthy, their free agents are signed and generally everybody’s ready to go. Yannick Ngakoue and the Jaguars negotiations notwithstanding. They’ll come to a deal. There are different approaches to training camp. Since there used to be six preseason games, NFL camps were […]

USFL Was Real Football

July 19, 2019/in Football/by Sam Kouvaris

This week marks the 34th anniversary of the United States Football League’s final game. The Baltimore (previously) Philadelphia Stars defeated the Oakland Invaders at Giants Stadium to win the USFL Championship behind MVP Kelvin Bryant and Head Coach Jim Mora. The Jacksonville Bulls were part of the USFL in its final two years, 1984 and […]

Season of ’73 Saved Baseball in Jax

July 14, 2019/in Baseball/by Sam Kouvaris

There’s s rich list of names and dates that are a part of Jacksonville’s baseball history: Henry Aaron 1953, Tom Seaver 1966, The Bragan’s 1984, Alex Rodriguez 1994 and even 2019 as current All-Stars Brad Hand, J.T. Realmuto, Christian Yelich and Clayton Kershaw all spent time In town during their ascent to the Majors. But […]

George Hincapie Still Riding High

July 5, 2019/in Cycling/by Sam Kouvaris

As they start the 106th edition of the Tour de France this weekend in Belgium, 17-time Tour finisher George Hincapie knows what the riders are feeling. “All of the Grand Tours are hard,” Hincapie said, looking fit and relaxed as we talked sitting in the study of his bike-centric Hotel Domestique in Travelers Rest, South […]

Racin’ and Fishin’ at Daytona

June 27, 2019/in Fishing, NASCAR/by Sam Kouvaris

I’ve been pretty fortunate in my journalism career to do some exciting things and meet some interesting people. I’ve often said that I had the second best job in the world, Pat Summerall and now Jim Nantz topping that list. And you might have heard me say more than once, “I’ve flown with the Blue […]

This Team Wins Titles

June 21, 2019/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

To find National Champions, and lots of them, look no further than the Sporting Clay, Skeet and Trap team at JU. A shooting team? At JU you say? Exactly. They’ve won nineteen National Event Titles, at least two outright National Championships and have had thirteen team members invited to the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Each […]

Jaguars Locker Room Leadership

June 14, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Don’t spend any time worrying about Yannick Ngakoue not coming to the mini-camp. I can tell you this: the players don’t care. They all know this is the business part of the season and running around in his “pajamas,” as Head Coach Doug Marrone likes to say, isn’t going to make a bit of difference […]

World Golf Hall of Fame

June 7, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

This week the World Golf Hall of Fame will welcome five new members of the Class of 2019. In now what has become a bi-annual event, Peggy Kirk Bell, Jan Stephenson, Billy Payne, Retief Goosen and Dennis Walters will be inducted at Pebble Beach, site of this year’s U.S. Open. While they’ll be inducted in […]

Shoot Your Age 500 Times Former Cubs Manager Jim Frey Did That This Week

June 1, 2019/in Baseball, Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

You never know who you might run into on the golf course. A few years ago I saw Jim Frey headed to the first tee at Marsh Landing. Sports fans know Jim as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in the mid-‘80’s. The Cubs were broadcast every day on WGN “Channel 9” on the cable […]

Holzhauer Streak on Jeopardy! Impressive!

May 24, 2019/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

Lots of smart people come through the Jeopardy! pipeline but haven’t come close to what James Holzhauer is doing. Holzhauer is plenty smart and being a professional sports gambler, he knows how to play the odds but has the confidence and competitiveness of a top-level athlete. It’s a rare combination. It is impressive during Holzhauer’s […]

Tiger Misses Cut, Still Wins

May 18, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

Yes I said Tiger wouldn’t win again and reiterated that he certainly wouldn’t win a Major for the rest of his career. In the crow-eating category, several of my friends charitable endeavors were bolstered out of my bank account thanks to Tiger winning last year in Atlanta and again at Augusta. I joked with them, […]

Odds Against Rookies in the NFL

May 10, 2019/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Pictures courtesy of the Jacksonville Jaguars/Rick Wilson There’s a prevailing thought that “all jobs are open” during the offseason in the NFL. There are 90 players on every roster once OTA’s start. Eventually that number gets pared down to the 53 on the team when the season starts. That means when the 32 teams get […]

Can’t Measure Heart

May 2, 2019/in Featured, Running/by Sam Kouvaris

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the measureables of athletes: height weight, 40-time, shuttle run, bench press. And some talk about production and “getting to the next level.” As anyone who’s played anything knows one of the best cliché’s in sports is “you can’t measure heart.” Because you can’t. That’s why Donnie Horner […]

Jaguars Take Allen, Easy Pick

April 26, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

When you pick a player in the first round of the NFL Draft, you expect him to step in a be a starter for ten years. That’s what first round talent is supposed to be: solid, reliable and sometimes spectacular. But despite the millions of dollars spent and the millions of man-hours dedicated to the […]

Hitch Our Wagon to Shad Khan and Let’s Go!

April 19, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

I’m not sure what the downside is to hitching our wagon to Shad Khan and going along for the ride. If a rising tide floats all boats, Khan IS the rising tide. Not many cities have a patron who is among the wealthiest people in the world. He has the vision and the wherewithal as […]

Culture, Not X’s and O’s Jaguars Focus

April 18, 2019/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s called the “Offseason Conditioning Program” officially by the NFL but as we know, there is no “off-season” in the league. They’ve stretched it out to 12 months, hoping you’ll keep teams in mind when shopping, discussing and whetting your sports appetite. For the Jaguars, they’re hoping it’s a new beginning, or more specifically a […]

Episode 49 – Back to Work, The Jaguars Regroup

April 17, 2019/in Podcast/by Sam Kouvaris

Sam and Lonnie talk Off-season conditioning player additions and subtractions and more!

The Masters is Emotional

April 14, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

They played early at Augusta National in yesterday’s final round of The Masters because of weather.  But it didn’t make a difference. Early or late, it’s the same. Because this is The Masters. It was a leaderboard fitting of The Masters with Major Champions trying to add to their collection and others trying to make […]

Masters Memories

April 4, 2019/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

Receiving an invitation to cover the Masters when I was at Channel 2 in Charleston in late 1978 was an unexpected and welcome surprise. I took my Dad as my cameraman since I was a one-man sports department at the time. We rented a room through the Augusta Housing Bureau and were both amazed the […]

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