Gators-Hurricanes Rivalry Might Return in 2019

That greatest college football rivalry rarely played may be making a comeback in 2019. The Miami Hurricanes and Florida Gators are reportedly very close to coming to terms to playing each other again in a neutral site matchup to open the 2019 season.  “We’re still looking on that game in…

29-Year-Old Stadium Now Known as New Miami Stadium

The stadium christened as “Joe Robbie” 29-years ago now officially has its seventh name. After the “Sun Life” naming rights expired last month, Stephen Ross and the Miami Dolphins decided not to return to the most recent generic name, Dolphin Stadium, and have instead picked a new name. Emphasis on the…

Shaquille O’Neal’s Ten Best Moments With the Miami Heat

This week, ex-Heat center Shaquille O’Neal was one of the ten inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. That should come to as a surprise to no one. “The Big Aristotle” was a Four-time NBA champion, league MVP and three-time Finals MVP. What has been a surprise to…

Everything You Need to Know About the 2016 Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins kick off their 2016 season tomorrow, making this as good a time as any to brush up on our hometown baseball team. It’s like when your iPhone asks you to update. You put it off until you’re sick of seeing the alert and just give in. That’s…

Miami’s Five Biggest Sports Fools

Heads-up, it’s April Fools Day! No, LeBron James did not say publicly he wants to return to the HEAT. No, Publix isn’t opening stand alone sub shops. No, Hialeah isn’t getting an In-And-Out, yet. I’m sorry, you’ve been duped. I know finding out this way is devastating. In-And-Out is delicious.  Instead…

Beckham’s Overtown Stadium Moves a Step Closer to Reality

The party may finally be started….the soccer party that is. Miami Beckham United, the soccer club that announced three years ago it was ready to construct a stadium and field a team, has finally bought several pieces of land.  The club now owns two-thirds of the nine acres it needs…

Hurricanes Basketball Gets Clobbered by Villanova in Sweet 16

Here lies the Miami Hurricanes basketball season, gone too soon.  March Madness ended for Jim Larranaga and his Miami Hurricanes basketball team last night at 9:10 p.m. The cause of death was a disappointing 92-69 butt-stomping loss to the second-seeded Villanova Wildcats. The Canes will have to wait a year…

Five Ways Adam Gase Can Make Ryan Tannehill Great

New Dolphins coach Adam Gase is known as a sort of quarterback whisperer. Besides the fact that Gase seems like the sort of guy who will relate to players much better than Joe Philbin, the boldest part of his coaching resume is his ability to get the best out of…

Five Reasons to Love the Heat More Than the Dolphins

It’s the debate that seems to continually have legs; Is Miami a basketball town — or does its heart belong to football? The answer depends on whom you ask. Some point to eyeballs on TV sets, but comparing ratings from an 82-game season to one of 16 games (in which…

Erik Spoelstra Should Win NBA Coach of the Year

Erik Spoelstra has accomplished quite a bit since taking over as head coach of the Miami Heat in 2008. He’s won nearly 400 regular season games, 63 playoff games, and two championships. He led the Heat to four straight NBA Finals appearances. He’s coached an All-Star team. He’s the second-longest…

Five Reasons LeBron James Can’t Replicate What He Had in Miami

You can take the LeBron out of Cleveland, but you can’t take the Cleveland out of … Cleveland. Unfortunately for LeBron, the honeymoon on his return to Ohio seems to have a quickly approaching expiration date. The Cavs have become increasingly inconsistent, and even as they remain the first seed…

The Miami Heat Can Win the East

Not many saw this coming. Not when the Heat lost Chris Bosh for the season. Not when Dwyane Wade was ruled out for a pair of games after the All Star break. Not when Hassan Whiteside seemed to be regressing after another suspension. Not when Luol Deng looked washed. But…

Ranking South Florida’s Creepiest Mascots

On Monday night the Los Angeles Clippers unveiled their new mascot: Chuck the California Condor. Unfortunately for Clippers fans, it was not free therapy session giveaway night. The image of Chuck will haunt their dreams until the end of time. Chuck’s ill-fated debut got us thinking; Which of our South Florida…

Miami Marlins Ban Beards, Because That Will Probably Turn Things Around

The Miami Marlins, a professional baseballing team and a suspected longform improv troupe specializing in dark comedy, have tried everything in recent years to turn their fortunes around: a new stadium, three different managers, and occasional star signings followed by roster shaking trades. Nothing has worked.  Well, maybe just maybe newly…