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Oh, no. Not again. Just when you thought it was safe to stick those Miami Hurricanes flags on your car, fill it with gas, and head north on the Turnpike for this Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. game against the Florida State Seminoles, Mother Nature has once again wagged her dreaded hurricane finger in the general direction of the Sunshine State.

A lot of smart journalistic voices are writing about sports right now. But for every thought-provoking, boundary-pushing thinker, there’s an Armando Salguero, the Miami Herald Dolphins columnist who once told a war veteran he “sucked as a soldier” and now has the gall to lecture black athletes on how to respect the flag.

Between the entire league coming together to push back against Donald Trump’s divisive comments last week and the amazing slate of games that took place, the NFL had one helluva showing last weekend. The Dolphins? Not so much. They had a very bad weekend. One of their worst ever perhaps. So, so bad.

The dramatic tale of a boxing obsession turned to murder, as told by Miami New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink in the feature story “Sucker Punch,” has been selected for Best American Sports Writing 2017.

Wide receiver Kenny Stills kneeled. So did tackle Laremy Tunsil, safety Maurice Smith, and tight end Julius Thomas. The entire team locked arms in solidarity.

This season hasn’t exactly had a fairy-tale beginning for the Miami Dolphins. After losing starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill to a knee injury before the preseason, the team had to skip its first game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while Hurricane Irma lashed their hometowns.

It’s been a little more than a week since Hurricane Irma rolled through South Florida, but just now are communities beginning to make a dent in the cleanup. Recovering from the strongest storm to hit South Florida since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 won’t be easy, but with everyone pitching in, things seem to be coming together day by day.

In just a few months, Miami will finally be rid of Jeffrey Loria. Whenever he finalizes his deal to offload the Marlins to a new ownership team including Derek Jeter, Loria’s big, dumb, taxpayer-cheating face will presumably never appear on this news site again. We can all hold a big party.

The wait is almost over. Only two football-free Sundays stand between Miami Dolphins fans and the regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers September 10 at Hard Rock Stadium. After a strong close to last season that saw the Dolphins finish 10-6 and make their first playoff appearance since 2008, Fins fans are more excited than they’ve been in a long time to see football return.

If you’re a Miami Dolphins fan, give yourself a round of applause: For all you’ve been through over the past four decades, you’ve earned it. Dolphins fans have been through the ringer. It would be one thing if Miami’s NFL team were a perennial dumpster fire, but that is not the case.

Yesterday news broke that team owner Jeffrey Loria will officially sell the Miami Marlins for $1.2 billion and return to living in the primordial bog that birthed him two millennia ago. Former Yankee Derek Jeter will invest $25 million of his own cash into the team, but the major money is coming from investor Bruce Sherman, who lives in Naples and appears to be only a marginal improvement over Loria.

A week ago, the Miami Dolphins had the NFL world by the nipples. Ryan Tannehill was healthy and the Dolphins were a trendy dark-horse Super Bowl pick. Now, before they’ve even played their first preseason game, Tannehill is likely out for the season, and Jay Cutler…

For years, Jason Taylor was the clean-cut face of the Dolphins, a family-friendly celeb with the charisma to earn jobs as a TV commentator and a Dancing With the Stars appearance and a Hollywood romance with his wife Katina, the sister of his star teammate Zach Thomas. Tomorrow, Taylor will…

Miami’s soccer faithful waited years for last night’s Major League Soccer owners’ meeting in Chicago. David Beckham’s group finally has big-money investors, land for a stadium, and a plan to bring top-tier fútbol to the Magic City. On Wednesday, the local faithful hoped, MLS would finally sign on the line that is dotted.

You read the headline, so you’re either here to scoff at the notion that the Miami Dolphins could be the last team standing on Sunday, February 4, after Super Bowl LII in Minnesota concludes, or you’ve happily arrived at the official Fins hype party, six-pack in hand. Either way, welcome to a place where positive words are about to be written about the Dolphins football team. Yes, it must be August.

For the second year in a row, the Miami Hurricanes hosted their Paradise Camp last week in Coral Gables to bring in top high school football talent from all around the country. The football portion of the camp made plenty of news in college football circles but until today, the world…

Well, well, well. Rumor has it the milk has begun to sour in good old Believeland. LeBron James was already bothered by the Cavaliers’ lack of free-agent signings and the inexplicable decision by owner Dan Gilbert to let go of the team’s universally respected general manager, David Griffin. But then came Kyrie Irving’s shocking demand for a trade.

Quick, what would be the single most embarrassing way for superstar guard Kyrie Irving to utterly upstage his Cleveland Cavaliers partner-in-crime LeBron James? If you said “abruptly quit the team, abandon LeBron, and flee to Miami to play for Pat Riley,” congratulations! Because this seemingly insane scenario…

The Miami Marlins, a Ponzi scheme operated by Major League Baseball’s premier flip-phone enthusiast, made national headlines last week after New Times reported that the team was suing at least nine season ticket holders and even trying to seize one fan’s building. The team is such a noxious trash heap…