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Being a Miami Marlins fan sucks. It sucks bad. It’s legitimately painful and likely terrible for your health. This week, however, has especially sucked to root for the hometown baseball team.

All in all, 2017 was not a glorious sports year in South Florida. The Marlins and Panthers were awful, the Heat needed a second-half surge to go from dreadful to mediocre, and the less said about this season’s Dolphins squad the better. The only good news comes from Coral Gables,…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the ballpark, Derek Jeter and the Miami Marlins’ new ownership team have seemingly gone out of their way to make sure fans still feel like they are fans of the Marlins.

If you told Miami Hurricanes fans in July their team would go 10-2 and play in the Orange Bowl, people would have wondered what was in the oil in your vape pen. Sure, there were high hopes for the Canes coming into this season, but that sort of success seemed at least a year away.

The Miami Hurricanes got their asses handed to them in Saturday night’s ACC championship game versus the Clemson Tigers. Then, after the game, the Canes caught some serious shade from the South Carolina powerhouse. Miami’s 38-3 loss somehow doesn’t really reflect just how soundly the Canes were outmatched in the biggest game of their season.

This past weekend’s disappointing loss to Pittsburgh notwithstanding, 2017 has been one helluva storybook joyride for Miami Hurricanes fans. They’ve experienced a worst-to-first swing of emotions this year. Thanks to the new world order installed by head football coach Mark Richt and defensive coordinator Manny Diaz’s ingenious turnover chain, the Canes are back on top of the college football world and the talk of sports fans everywhere.

Wynwood brewery J. Wakefield Brewing is working on rushing out its new Turnover IPA in the hopes it will be ready to hit Canes fans’ lips in time for their team’s bowl game. The beer is named for the chunky gold necklace that Canes coaches award players on the sideline after they record turnovers.

Shortly after earning a medical degree from the University of Miami in 1958, Ybor City native Fernando “Ferdie” Pacheco set up a family practice in Overtown, Miami’s historic black neighborhood. Much like it is today, the area was mired in poverty.

In case you missed it, the U is back — and so are the haters. Many people love the Miami Hurricanes, but so many more hate them. Here are our best guesses as to why.

Perhaps don’t name your football team after a drunk ethnic stereotype hell-bent on violence. Notre Dame’s staggeringly drunk leprechaun mascot doesn’t seem to encourage great behavior. After the University of Miami Hurricanes laid a 41-8 beatdown on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, two drunk-looking Irish fans decided to…

On September 2, 1963, 18-year-old Stephen Hertz made a decision that changed his life forever when he signed as a third baseman with the Houston Colt 45s (now the World Series-winning Houston Astros). Fresh out of school at Miami Senior High, Hertz couldn’t help but feel starry-eyed as he walked onto the field for Opening Day against the Cincinnati Reds in the spring of ’64.

It’s time to call it: The U is back. For real this time. No hyperbole. No bullshit. Facts only. After the Hurricanes’ 28-10 undressing of the No. 13 Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday night, the rest of the nation is finally in on the open secret that South Florida has known all season: The Hurricanes are true contenders, regardless of whether the talking heads respect the teams that UM has beaten.

There was a brief and, for Philadelphia residents, all-too-rare moment when major talents actually wanted to come play for the Phillies. Typically, nobody wants to play for the Phillies, who have lost more games than any major-league sports franchise. Most years, the team plays to crowds so empty you can…

The College Football Playoff Selection Committee doesn’t respect the Miami Hurricanes. UM fans know this for a fact after the undefeated Canes were slotted only tenth in the committee’s initial playoff rankings. Even though the Canes are one of only five undefeated teams in college football, the decisive championship rankings place Miami behind six one-loss teams. UM will need help to make the four-team playoffs in January.

Halloween is as wonderful as it is odd. As coworkers dress up as coke-snorting Dolphins coaches and smokin’ Jay Cutler, the imaginary line of acceptable behavior moves so far beyond the norm that it barely exists. It’s also the day where we decide what’s a trick and what’s a treat. Candy…

It shouldn’t be this way. Watching Dwyane Wade play basketball was never supposed to hurt. It was never supposed to make Miami Heat fans’ pettiness flare. There was never supposed to be so much animosity toward the greatest second-greatest athlete in the history of South Florida sports.

Early in the first quarter of the Dolphins’ 31-28 comeback win over the Jets, Kenny Stills punched his ticket to the ESPYs with one of the most spectacular catches you’ll ever see. At first, the pass was ruled incomplete, but while the officials were watching the video that proved otherwise, Stills was busy making more headlines as he took off his helmet to unveil a Mad Max look.

In 2015, the Miami Marlins were ready to “live in the lap of luxury” after the team contracted with a swanky private jet company that promised to whisk players away on a Boeing 767-200 with couches, a massage table, and a premium open bar.

Meet the 2017 Miami Heat, which is almost exactly like the 2016 Miami Heat! Pat Riley and the team brass liked last year’s overachieving squad so much they decided to run it back again, but this time with a few different ingredients.

The Los Angeles Dodgers just finished steamrolling through the NL West en route to 104 wins, the best record in baseball and a hell of a shot at their first World Series since 1988. One of the team’s top prospects, however, has a very different kind of fight on his…