The Ig Nobel Prizes -- basically awards for science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think -- just honored researchers studying things like cockroach milk, using underwear to analyze soil health, and the physics of blowing your nose.

Someone around here is having a very good morning! Check those Florida Lottery tickets. A Publix and a Miami gas station sold two of Sunday’s three big draw-game winners. And this comes just after Publix stores sold winners worth $875,000 and $118,000 in Friday’s drawings. Meanwhile I bought grapes and a Pub Sub over the weekend.

Marlins get hit hard at home yesterday, Mets beat the Fish 9-4...The Dolphins have named their six captains for the new season: quarterback Malik Willis, De’Von Achane, Jordyn Brooks, Aaron Brewer, Patrick Paul and Zach Sieler. And now it gets real, Miami opens the season Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas against the Raiders. Kickoff is 4:25 our time.