A few short days ago, the future didn’t look so great for Miami Heat fans. LeBron James decided he was homesick, Chris Bosh was close to joining the Houston Rockets, and the Bulls were calling Dwyane Wade to check if he wanted a get-out-of-Miami-jail-free card. Then Pat Riley got to…
Dwyane Wade has not only announced his intentions to return to the Miami Heat, but he apparently could also end up retiring in a Heat jersey someday. Update: Udonis Haslem is coming back too. See also: Chris Bosh Is Re-Signing With the Heat; Wade Reportedly Working On New Deal…
I’ll never forget how regretful I was. In 1993, just six days shy of my 14th birthday, Michael Jordan abruptly announced his retirement from the NBA. I promised myself if he ever came back, I would watch every game intently and appreciate him for what he was — a once-in-a-lifetime…
When LeBron dropped his back-to-Cleveland bombshell this afternoon, Miami Heat fans weren’t just confronted with losing the greatest player in the game. Suddenly it seemed all too possible that MIA could go to from the Finals to the cellar overnight, with Chris Bosh fielding a monster offer from Houston and…
In Cleveland they burned jerseys when LeBron left. In Miami it only makes sense that instead we’d deface some LeBron James-inspired street art. Yes, a mural of the Miami Heat that has remained on a wall in Midtown Miami since Art Basel 2010 has already been defaced. Update: “It’s been…
Four years and a few weeks ago all Miami wanted was the return of Dwyane Wade. Heat mascot Burnie was placed atop the sign at the American Airlines Arena and refused to come down. The county commission voted to temporarily rename the county Miami-Wade. All we wanted was Wade, another…
Well, as local fans we went through one of the most surreal sports experiences of all time, got four trips to the NBA Finals and two championships out of it, and now it’s all over. LeBron James has picked the path of the prodigal son and is taking his talents…
All hell has broken loose, and everyone is a suspect. Everything is a sign. Everyone knows; nobody knows. Yesterday was one of the most ridiculous days in the history of the internet, as Heat fans and Cavs fans sat around their Twitter feeds all day waiting for something, anything, to…
Sure, you could say Miami was the beneficiary of some of the biggest sports betrayals in history (LeBron leaving Cleveland, Don Shula leaving Baltimore). Sure, you could also point to the fact that Miami has been lucky in the loyalty department (Dan Marino and Bob Griese never left, and some…
The Cleveland Cavaliers are either doing a real fine job of actually luring back prodigal son LeBron James or at least making Miami Heat fans really jealous in the process. The Cavs completed a three-team trade today that would free up just enough money to sign James to his desired…
Heat fans are on pins and needles this week, hoping LeBron James ultimately decides once again his best choice is to take his talents to 601 Biscayne Blvd. Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the first LeBron James “Decision,” and unlike this year, the 2010 Decision came with a capital…
Out of the Big Three, Chris Bosh was the most vocal throughout the season that he’d hope to stay in Miami with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. In contrast, James has maintained an indecipherable silence, causing the media to chase every crazy theory. Apparently, even Bosh himself has no idea…
Last time Miami got a Major League Soccer team, it actually played in Fort Lauderdale. Could history be repeating itself? The Miami Herald reports David Beckham and his Miami Beckham United partners are set to talk to Broward County commissioners about the possibility of building a stadium there. Is it…
The Dolphins just can’t catch a break. Defensive end Dion Jordan, the Fins’ first round pick in 2013, has been suspended for the first four games of next season without pay after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs…
Last week, video of a little kid busting out into some seriously sick dance moves after he found himself on the Marlins’ Jumbotron went viral on the Internet. It was the most anyone has paid attention to anything related to the Marlins in a long, long time. So, of course,…
The dream is over, and “#belief” has been replaced with fact. Indeed, Team USA mathematically cannot win. The United States’ rousing run at the World Cup ended Tuesday afternoon with an extra-time 2-1 loss to Belgium. Tim Howard put the United States on his back all game, recording a World…
We’re not sure how a sports columnist in Portland, Oregon, managed to break big Miami Heat news, but John Canzano of the Portland Oregonian has tweeted that Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh are prepared to re-sign with the Heat for a pretty heft pay cut. No one else is confirming…
It’s Tuesday. It’s rainy. You’ve got a head cold. There’s a three-day weekend coming and you’re just coasting until it’s time for roman candles and Coronas. Well, snap out of it, dammit. The Fourth of July may be Friday, but America’s fourth World Cup game is today. This afternoon, Team…
After Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, and Udonis Haslem opted out of their contracts over the weekend, conventional wisdom has it that the Big Three are angling to re-sign with the Heat under restructured deals. After all, the trio was spotted lunching at Soho Beach House last week. However, it’s not…
I’ve held off writing about Ann Coulter for a decade — or about the length of time her average fan takes to read one of her books — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any attacks on the sport of soccer are downright un-American and offensive…
Sure, most of us are paying attention to what’s going on in an existing soccer stadium an entire continent away as of this writing, but the future of a brand new soccer stadium right here in Miami is still very much a floating issue. Yesterday, County Commissioner Xavier L. Suarez…
The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, is the site for tonight’s 2014 NBA Draft, also known as the “Hey, LeBron, look what I can do!” show. A normal NBA Draft already has lots of moving parts — more than any other professional sport — but with the added pressure…
