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The Miami Dolphins lost to the Detriot Lions 32-21 Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium. It amounted to an all-around sleepy effort in the Fins’ second game without starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill. The loss dropped them to 4-3 and, because of the Patriots’ win over the Bears, to second place in the AFC East. All in all, the Dolphins’ first seven games of the season will be remembered for blowing a chance to catapult the squad into the upper tier of AFC playoff teams.

Pumpkin-flavored everything is back, Publix is stocking up on turkeys, Christmas has overtaken an entire corner of Walmart… which can only mean: The Miami Heat is playing basketball again. Hallelujah! It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s been a long six months since…

Installing a whirling, neon home-run sculpture in cavernous, empty Marlins Park felt like putting one of those wacky, waving, inflatable tube men inside a funeral parlor. When the mediocre Marlins actually smashed a homer, the gizmo’s fish would dance, music would play, and basically no one would ever be there to witness it. It was perpetually dancing in a void, begging for one person to notice it.

The Miami Hurricanes’ instant-classic 28-27 comeback win over the Florida State Seminoles last weekend marked the midpoint of the team’s 2018-19 season. The now-15h-ranked Canes have reeled off five straight wins since their season-opening loss to LSU, putting themselves back within striking distance of their first playoff berth.

For the life of me, I’ll never understand the concept of fans getting into fights over sporting events, and let’s be honest, there are degrees of absurdity in this behavior. It’s one thing to start a brawl and risk assault charges over perceived disrespect of your professional team, standing up…

For those of you who were busy watching the Miami Dolphins win their first three games, we now rejoin your typical Dolphins season, already in progress. Sorry — all good things must come to an end. Vacation over. Don’t be angry it’s over; be happy it happened at all.

There’s a New York Times best seller called The Book of Awesome written by Neil Pasricha that’s based on his award-winning website, 1000awesomethings.com. The concept of both the book and the site is simple: Pasricha writes every day about one awesome thing.

Even if you’re not a fan of South Florida sports teams, you know these people. They exist in large numbers and walk among us every day. They work in your office. They ride in your Uber Pool. They’re related to you. Hell, maybe you are one of these special brands of sports fan. These are the craziest-ass sports fans in Miami. Talk crap about them at your own risk.

Most Americans outside the Midwest have probably never seen an Indianapolis Indians game. The Indians are the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Minor League Baseball affiliate — they play in the AAA International League in a stadium that holds a maximum of about 14,000 people. The single most exciting thing about attending…

On November 27, 2016, Naples resident John O’Brien, his adult children, and his two young grandchildren slid into their seats at Hard Rock Stadium for a Miami Dolphins game. A huge San Francisco fan, O’Brien, decked out in a red 49ers shirt, was ready to watch his team take on Miami.

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be wrong? What if right was left, and up was down? What if, for just one year, all the things you knew to be bad were actually, uncharacteristically, not so bad?

I’ve had many epic accomplishments in my entertainment career, but the most important project of my life will debut later this week. For months, a favorable buzz has been building for Warriors of Liberty City, the six-episode Starz docuseries that follows the lives of everyone involved in the youth sports program that the late Sam Johnson and I founded 28 years ago.

The Miami Hurricanes’ turnover chain made its much-anticipated season debut Saturday night during the Canes’ NSFW 77-0 beatdown of the Savannah State Tigers. At least we think they’re called the Tigers. When you lose 77-0, we’re not even bothering to Google your mascot. While everyone was expecting the Canes to…

Whatever comes of David Beckham’s long-running quest to bring Major League Soccer to Miami, the city has left no doubt it will absolutely pack a stadium to watch the top fútbol teams in the world. For the past several summers, tens of thousands of fans have jammed into a sold-out Hard Rock Stadium to watch preseason friendly games between the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The Miami Dolphins are set to open their season this Sunday, September 9, at Hard Rock Stadium against the Tennessee Titans. This 1 p.m. game is the NFL equivalent of a midday nap or, if you will, the missionary position of the NFL.

For quite some time, watching the Miami Dolphins play football has been more work than pleasure. Things were much easier when Dan Marino was slinging the football every Sunday at 1 p.m. and the Fins were winning more games than they lost.

Penalties, turnovers, botched punts, and an inability to make any sort of big plays: These are just a few of the reasons the Miami Hurricanes were absolutely pantsed by the LSU Tigers for three quarters last night, only to make the score look respectable with a frantic fourth-quarter comeback that…

Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team. To some, those are the opening lyrics to the best fight song of all time: “Miami Dolphins Number One,” penned by Lee Ofman prior to the Fins’ undefeated 1972 season. To others, that sentence is a good sign someone needs to be Baker Acted or has been in a coma for the past three decades.

Two years ago, New Times dropped an investigative bombshell: The Miami Dolphins are cursed because their stadium is built on an Indian burial ground. Probably. Maybe. We’re as sure as one can be that a thing is cursed without coming face-to-face with a poltergeist.

The last time there was a Miami Heat roster that did not include Udonis Haslem was 2002. According to various reports, 2018 will not be the year that impressive streak is broken. All signs point to the Heat and Haslem settling on a deal that will keep the Heat’s longest-tenured player in uniform for at least one more season…

David Beckham’s quest to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami has so far run as smoothly as Daphne Campbell’s campaign to return to the Florida Senate. Beckham and his partners have spent so long fumbling between various stadium schemes that it takes the kind of faith usually found only in remote Benedictine monasteries to believe his franchise will ever take the field in South Florida.

Unlike the NFL, college ball has no preseason appetizer to holds fans over until the football is real. Instead of getting a quarter-season of fake games like in the NFL, the best college fans get are a few sparse clips on Twitter of their favorite school’s team half-assing a practice in shorts before the season opener.