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The Miami Dolphins are back. Well, sort of almost back. It’s that training-camp time of year again, a time when optimism and hype are as high as the South Florida sun is hot.

For years, it seemed the Miami Marlins and Papa John’s were a perfect match — consuming both Papa John’s alleged pizza and Marlins’ alleged baseball for hours will leave you feeling exhausted, ashamed, regretful, deeply unsatisfied, and mysteriously sweaty all at once. ‘Twas a partnership forged in the deepest,…

Yanina Corbea first noticed the new signs at Dinner Key Marina on Sunday, when she and her husband went to take their son for a ride on their Jet Skis. “NO JET SKI’S ALLOWED STRCTLY ENFORCED TOW AWAY ZONE,” the incorrectly spelled sign read. It wasn’t there last week,…

Miami Dolphins fans are a proud bunch. Whether you’re a 10-year-old Fins fan who only knows Dan Marino from YouTube mixtapes or a 40-year-old lifer who vividly remembers when the Dolphins making the playoffs wasn’t weird, there’s plenty to feel good about as a Dolphins backer…

Luckily for Miami Heat fans, the NBA offseason feels the shortest of any of the major league breaks. The NBA Finals end toward the end of June, the NBA Draft follows soon after, the free agency rumor mill keeps us busy until August, and before you know it, the preseason…

Being a Miami Marlins fan is a lot like being a garbage man: No one truly appreciates you, and they talk about you only when you don’t show up. It’s truly a thankless job. It wasn’t always that way, though. Being a Marlins fan was once cool. The Marlins were the new thing in town, and being a fan of them was your duty as a South Floridian.

Mascots have somehow been grandfathered in as normal in sports, but many of them closely toe the line between absolute horror show and lovable knockoff Disney character. Locally, we have quite a few that are pushing the envelop of creepiness. We love them, but even the biggest fans have to admit they’re nightmare fuel.

Jarvis Landry has had a lot to say about the Miami Dolphins since he signed this offseason with the Cleveland Browns for an eye-popping $75.5 million over five years, and none of it has been good. The former Pro Bowl receiver is obviously unhappy the Fins decided he wasn’t worth nearly what the market ended up netting him, and he’s making sure he leaves massive fireballs of exploding cars and demolished buildings in his wake.

Whatever the reasoning behind it, Miami doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation in terms of fan bases around the country. Actually, that’s putting it nicely: Most people think sports fans in Miami are a disgrace. They really dislike us. We’re like putting ketchup on eggs. They scoff at us and tell the people who are OK with us that we are actually very bad.

It looks very likely that the biggest sporting event on Earth could land in South Florida in eight years. This morning, FIFA voted to give the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from the United States, Canada, and Mexico — and Miami was one of the host cities pitched in the winning package.

Fresh off a playoff beatdown by the Philadelphia 76ers, plenty of salty Miami Heat fans laughed their way through a report in the Ringer this morning that exploded a tactical weapon wielded by Philly’s front office. The story documents how the Sixers’ president of basketball operations, Bryan Colangelo, has almost certainly kept at least five secret Twitter accounts. On them, he has bashed his team’s biggest stars, divulged secret medical information, and, most important, fiercely defended the weirdly gigantic collars he wears.

It’s been only a month since the Miami Heat played its last game of the season — a 104-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs — but it feels like ages. Because the Heat has no picks in next month’s NBA Draft and little to no money to spend in free agency this summer, it seems fans are in for a ho-hum, eventless off-season.

If you ask the experts, the Miami Dolphins will be a special sort of bad this season. But if you ask Dolphins fans, many will tell you the team is better off without all the talented players the team jettisoned this off-season.This is pretty much standard procedure in South Florida, where fans take the team’s off-season bait…

NFL cheerleaders have been in the news lately, and not for the right reasons. In April, the New York Times published a story in which cheerleaders from around the NFL told how sexual harassment, groping, and an overall lack of respect were almost a part of their job description. They were expected to escort high-paying season ticketholders and donors to functions. If they refused, they would be fired.

For a guy who once had fangs permanently bonded onto his teeth, who rose from a ring of fire for a televised audience of millions, who made the tabloids after spitting a goblet of blood in Donald Trump’s face, David Heath is actually kind of a wallflower. When he first…

LeBron James is taking his talents to Wynwood. Unfortunately for Miami Heat fans, those skills won’t include the chest-pounding, buzzer-beating, basketball-unicorn variety they’d prefer.

Welcome to the deadest of the dead time in South Florida sports history. That’s right now. It’s happening. Well, actually nothing is happening, which is the historic part.

Tyrese Cooper, an 18-year-old who’s one of the ten fastest mid-distance runners in the world, was arrested for trying to steal cars at Miami International Airport. Now he might not be able to take part in this weekend’s state tournament in Jacksonville.

Leading up to the NFL Draft, there was massive speculation the Dolphins might be in the market for a quarterback in the first round if things went their way. With Ryan Tannehill coming off 19 months on the shelf after a pair of knee injuries, and his contract only getting pricer…

This Thursday, the 83rd-annual NFL Draft will kick off at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which means the Miami Dolphins are about to add some new employees. For Fins fans, the draft sparks both good and bad memories. There’s getting Dan Marino in 1983, and then there is, well, nearly everything else.

Breaking news: The Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers do not particularly care for each other. If that fact wasn’t already confirmed before the Heats’s disappointing 128-108 loss to the Sixers Thursday night, it certainly is now. There are intense playoff games; then there are games that border on a Jason Statham movie.