Marlins Park has been open for four years now. The team continues to lack in both wins and attracting much attendance. The county Mayor who oversaw the deal was long ago recalled by voters, and other politicians who went along with the deal are also out of office. However, it appears…
For baseball fans, Spring Training is a time for hope, naive innocence and the glorious chance to drink ballpark beers that cost less than 15 bucks. Sure, the Marlins were wretched again last year, but in Jupiter at least, Fish fans can forget all that pain, snag a few autographs…
The constant college football recruiting race knows only the bounds the NCAA places on it, and the body says nothing about how old a potential player has to be to start getting attention from coaches. In fact, recruiting mega-website Rivals.com now has profiles on players in the sixth grade! New…
“The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish.” — Pat Riley Arguably the most memorable, and consistently-sports-relative part of Pat Riley’s book The Winner Within is a portion where he speaks about an…
Lakatriona Brunson has been a lot of things in her life: A high school track star, a college basketball player, a 10-year-veteran of a woman’s football league, and a physical education. Perhaps she’s best known as her alter-ego “Bernice,” the cult hero of the reality TV program South Beach Tow. …
Ah, the Super Bowl. The one non-international soccer match sporting event that Miamians will watch en mass that a Miami team won’t actually play in. The only problem for many of us is figuring out which team to root for. Sure, in some cases it was obvious. Take last year…
Max Martinez spent his youth worshipping David Beckham’s exploits on the soccer pitch. Growing up in Miami with a Real Madrid fanatic for a father, Martinez used to wear his number 23 Madrid shirt everywhere. So when MLS made it official that Beckham will be bringing an MLS club to…
Ten years ago, if you would have told anyone that the Miami Hurricanes basketball team trouncing the Duke Blue Devils would become a regular occurrence, they probably would have scoffed. The Blue Devils are the most successful college basketball team since 1985. They’re the elite of an already stacked ACC…
Miami Heat fans are a fragile bunch at the moment, much like the team itself. Twitter arguments are erupting. Families are fighting families. Because midway through this wobbly season, so many questions remain for a Heat team that most figured would be on a roll by now. Instead, the Heat suffered…
A coach being fired and replaced can often wreck havoc on a college football team’s recruiting class during the first year, but Mark Richt seems to be determined to make sure that the Miami Hurricanes keep their class in the top 25. And he’s doing something sort of odd to…
Things have taken a turn for the worse for the Miami Heat this month, and it doesn’t appear they are trending toward getting any better any time soon. The Heat’s loss to the Clippers on Wednesday was their third straight, dropping the team to 22-17 — good for sixth in…
New coaches can have the effect of having causing an immediate turn around for a team, but if you think new Miami Hurricanes coach Mark Richt is going to be able to come in and collect a National Championship in his first year, well, Vegas wants to tamper your expectations…
When Cristiano Ronaldo spent his Christmas holiday in Miami and popped up at a Miami Heat game, local fans couldn’t help but fantasize about the idea of the Portuguese soccer superstar someday playing for David Beckham’s Major League soccer team in Miami. It was, at the time, the stuff of what basically…
“You know the old song, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? We’re going to find out, apparently,” Eugene Stearns, a lawyer for the Miami Open tennis tournament told the AP. After losing a court battle, he’s now threatening that his clients will move the popular tournament elsewhere. The…
Another Miami Dolphins season has come and gone, which can only mean one thing — your Christmas tree is still up. For those of you keeping score at home, you could now officially fit four World Cups between the Dolphins last playoff victory and their next one, whenever that happens. Seven-straight…
In the Atlantic Ocean, 17 miles southeast of Miami and 100 feet under the surface of the water, Lazaro Cabrera reaches the sunken remains of a steel freighter and swims inside. The lean 41-year-old, in an army-green camouflage wetsuit, scans for movement. Thirty seconds pass, and then he sees it:…
Miami Dolphins fans going on profane Twitter tirades against the team happens everyday. They can be entertaining, but its usually not news. Unless of course the person behind the Twitter account happens to be married to a Miami Dolphin player. Miko Grimes, wife of cornerback Brent Grimes and well known…
Just when you thought the Miami Dolphins couldn’t possibly hurt you any further, they ended Sunday’s game in such an embarrassing fashion that fans felt like someone superman-punched them in the gut. Down six with just 27 seconds left, the Dolphins found themselves faced with a 4th & goal with just…
Soccer superstar Cristian Ronaldo is in Miami to celebrate the holidays. Why? Well look at him. He looks like the kind of guy who should spend his entire life sitting by a South Beach hotel pool. But when he showed up to last night’s Miami Heat game, Miami sports fans…
We know the exact day the 2015-16 Miami Dolphins season will rest in peace; January 3, 2016, when the clock mercifully strikes zero against the New England Patriots. There is no intrigue in the Phins final two games. There is no more “in the hunt.” Another Dolphins season has perished far…
#HeatTwitter, here is your chance to use your terrifying social media powers for good; stuff the ballot box and send Udonis Haslem to the NBA All-Star game. No, I’m not joking. Years ago you almost got Joel Anthony there. You’re capable of anything. Udonis has just about it all. He’s…
Earlier this year we found out that Miami Dolphins fans have the third worst spelling and grammar skills in the NFL. Well, turns out that fans of Miami’s other teams aren’t exactly aspiring English professors either. The revelation comes from Grammarly, a souped up spell check web app. To determine the…
