Last year, the Orange Bowl hosted the BCS Championship college football game, in which Alabama murdered Notre Dame. Exciting? Not really. And to Miamians, the game meant nothing except another opportunity to joke about Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend. This year, the Orange Bowl, which will be played at Sun Life…
It’s the final Miami Dolphins game of the year, and of course it’s against the stinking Jets. This Sunday’s matchup against the New York Jets is a double-edged sword, because there is a chance that for the first time in five years the Dolphins will actually make the playoffs. All…
It’s gonna be a strange Monday for Miami sports fans. On one hand, it’s the day after the final game for the Miami Dolphins, marking the end of the NFL’s regular season in South Florida. There are playoff hopes for the Fins, sure, but they’re remote. On the other hand,…
There’s something about comedy that requires it to come from a really dark place. Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison, and a whole litany of comedians have such notorious dark histories that they usually read like the lyrics to rap songs. But unlike rap, it’s not made-up bullshit;…
Miami Dolphins, why you gotta play with our emotions? You came charging out of the gate at the beginning of this season, winning three straight games, giving Miami hope that we’ve got a chance at a great year. Then you rack up four straight losses, putting us back in the…
The mental image of LeBron James in a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey is slowly fading into the annals of NBA history. In the meantime, the Miami Heat’s de facto team leader is being immortalized in the familiar black and red after leading our hometown team to three NBA Finals in a…
Yamil Piedra is doing everything possible to launch his career beyond his previous accomplishments as the left nut in comedy duo A Pair of Nuts. Since the group split several years ago, Piedra has been perfecting his craft of comedy in Miami’s underground comedy scene and pulling it all together…
To the Detroit Pistons, the Miami Heat must seem like the embodiment of everything that has gone wrong in their history. The beef goes back ten years ago to the 2003 NBA draft, one of the best of all time. The Pistons had landed the number two pick from the…
Face it, Miami: Your professional football team sucks. Try and try as we might, there is no amount of cheering, participation, ticket purchasing, blogging, or calling into local sports talk radio that will change that fact. It’s something we’ve been trying to get used to for years, as we watched…
The Miami Heat is doing everything it can to make the 2013-14 season interesting. After three years of media scrutiny, vocal naysayers, and the formation of some hard-core Eastern Conference rivalries, all the possible side stories have been explored and regurgitated so many times that not even Skip Bayless is…
Do the Miami Dolphins even play football anymore? For the past couple of weeks, Dolphins football news has been dominated not by events on the field, but by the alleged “bully culture” of the offensive line. It’s getting old, to say the least; all any Dolphins fan wants is for…
“The comedian I am now is not the comedian I started out being,” Eric DaSilva told me in the middle of a Starbucks in Kendall while reflecting on his career. “I thought I would be like a Bill Hicks… then I had my first kid and I started talking about…
There was a point when many considered the Atlanta Hawks contenders in the Eastern Conference. But after years of underachievement, perennial team leaders Josh Smith and Joe Johnson moved on, and now the franchise is trying to rebuild around guard Jeff Teague and potential all-star center Al Horford. It’s funny…
Now that the Miami Dolphins have gotten a four-game losing streak, ended by way of a miraculous Cameron Wake safety, out of their system, it’s time to get back to winning some football games and making a second-half-of-the-season push to the playoffs. The Dolphins finished the first half of the…
The Miami Heat play the Milwaukee Bucks this Tuesday. For the two-time defending champions, the game will likely feel like they’re driving behind a really old person on a single-lane, one-way street. The Heat may get incredibly frustrated, driving their metaphorical $2 million Bugatti Veyron behind the Bucks’ 1995 Buick…
The Washington Wizards suck. Sure, they’ve been assembling a nice group of young talent around potential all-star point guard John Wall, whom many experts consider the fastest basketball player in the NBA. But Washington fans who have aspirations for the playoffs this year? That’s cute. Don’t be fooled — the…
This Miami Dolphins season is taking a turn for the worse. After starting with a promising 3-0 record, the Fins have dropped three in a row. They’re coming off a loss to the New England Patriots. All the hype and hysterics of the Dolphins’ return to greatness are now being…
After three short months of the off-season, the Miami Heat is back to defend its 2013 NBA Championship. It seems like just yesterday when Ray Allen knocked down the most important three-pointer in Heat history, propelling the team to back-to-back championships. This Tuesday, the 2013-14 campaign begins to capture yet…
Week after week, the Miami Hurricanes are forcing the critics to ask the same question: “Is the U back?” The answer: Not yet, but they might be on their way. The team finally ranked in the Associated Press Top 10 for the first time since 2009. Considering that Miami is…
The Kool-Aid has been spilled, the air has been let out of the balloon, and someone has stepped on our puppy’s tail. When the Miami Dolphins took the playing field two Sundays ago, Fins fans watched as defending champs the Baltimore Ravens kicked us in the groin, spoiling a stellar…
The last time the Miami Heat faced off against the San Antonio Spurs, they ended up drenched in champagne and passing the Larry O’Brien trophy around the home locker room in the belly of the American Airlines Arena (701 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). This time, it’s only the preseason, and appearances…
Wait, what? The NBA is back already? It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the Miami Heat’s third championship by littering Biscayne Boulevard with seemingly endless streams of exploding confetti. Actually, it’s been only three months, so maybe that’s not such an unreasonable feeling. The Heat enters year four…
