Luckily for Miami Heat fans, the NBA offseason feels the shortest of any of the major league breaks. The NBA Finals end toward the end of June, the NBA Draft follows soon after, the free agency rumor mill keeps us busy until August, and before you know it, the preseason…
After the Dolphins traded away disgruntled running back Jay Ajayi to the Philadelphia Eagles last offseason, many wondered how in the hell the Dolphins planned to run the ball. Without a traditional workhorse back or proven veteran backup on the roster, the reins would be handed over to…
The Major League Baseball season just passed the midway point, and as far as the Marlins’ record is concerned, there hasn’t been any great surprise: The Fish are dead last in the NL East. Sadly, there have been no miracles or Cinderella stories thus far for the Marlins. They’re a straight-up bad baseball team. As most observers expected, there is no getting around the fact that 2018 will not be the year the Marlins break their 15-year playoff drought.
Being a Miami Marlins fan is a lot like being a garbage man: No one truly appreciates you, and they talk about you only when you don’t show up. It’s truly a thankless job. It wasn’t always that way, though. Being a Marlins fan was once cool. The Marlins were the new thing in town, and being a fan of them was your duty as a South Floridian.
It’s time to have a serious talk about the future of the Miami Heat organization — not between fans and the media, but within the organization. It’s time for the Heat to plan for four years from now, not four months from now.
We’re beginning to think Las Vegas just isn’t a fan of the 2018 Miami Dolphins. First, they peg the Fins with one of the lowest over-under numbers in the NFL; now they’ve taken it a step further and placed Adam Gase as the second-to-likeliest coach in the NFL to be fired this season — not cool, Vegas!
Mascots have somehow been grandfathered in as normal in sports, but many of them closely toe the line between absolute horror show and lovable knockoff Disney character. Locally, we have quite a few that are pushing the envelop of creepiness. We love them, but even the biggest fans have to admit they’re nightmare fuel.
Udonis Haslem wants to continue playing basketball. Confirmed. You can forget about him hanging it up. Return all of those golf clubs and fishing lure retirement gifts — he’ll be putting on a jersey next season. Which jersey Udonis dons, though, is a surprising story now. Even more surprising is the fact that his jersey could belong to a team in China, Europe, or any another country overseas.
Jarvis Landry has had a lot to say about the Miami Dolphins since he signed this offseason with the Cleveland Browns for an eye-popping $75.5 million over five years, and none of it has been good. The former Pro Bowl receiver is obviously unhappy the Fins decided he wasn’t worth nearly what the market ended up netting him, and he’s making sure he leaves massive fireballs of exploding cars and demolished buildings in his wake.
Whatever the reasoning behind it, Miami doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation in terms of fan bases around the country. Actually, that’s putting it nicely: Most people think sports fans in Miami are a disgrace. They really dislike us. We’re like putting ketchup on eggs. They scoff at us and tell the people who are OK with us that we are actually very bad.
Now that the NBA season is over, the LeBron James free-agency watch has begun. Every team will be lining up to make a pitch at him. Whether he opts into his lucrative contract and demands a trade or decides to enter free agency on his own, LeBron will have his pick of teams around the NBA. He can go wherever he wants.
If there is one thing we’ve learned about LeBron James over the course of his career, it’s that those who doubt him do so at their own risk. Whether screaming that LeBron was making a mistake coming to the Miami Heat or giving the Cleveland Cavaliers no chance at coming back from a 3-1 deficit in the 2016 NBA Finals…
Let’s be completely honest, Miami. Many Heat fans are only now getting over the fact that LeBron James left four years ago to return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. We had to journey through a full 12-step process to reach acceptance, and along the way, many Heat fans had to collect a medallion at each achievement.
Where have all the Miami sports rivalries gone? There aren’t any left in any South Florida professional sports. The only truly simmering local rivalry is the University of Miami Hurricanes versus the Florida State Seminoles.
The Florida Marlins are back this week, but only for a handful of days. If it were up to the fans, though, the Florida Marlins would be here to stay. In fact, the fans are right: Now that the hated Jeffrey Loria regime is gone, the Miami Marlins should move back to their roots and rebrand themselves the Florida Marlins — complete with a return to their distinctive teal attire.
If you spent seven years doing only one job, you and your co-workers would probably know by now if you were any good at it. Other people have gone from high-school students to doctors in less time.
It’s been only a month since the Miami Heat played its last game of the season — a 104-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs — but it feels like ages. Because the Heat has no picks in next month’s NBA Draft and little to no money to spend in free agency this summer, it seems fans are in for a ho-hum, eventless off-season.
Hassan Whiteside isn’t happy with the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat isn’t happy with Hassan Whiteside. If this were a marriage, lawyers would have already been involved. Unfortunately, especially for the Heat, parting ways with the team’s disgruntled center won’t be as easy as filing for divorce. Their relationship is a mess, with no sign of reconciliation in sight.
This past Wednesday, the NFL took extraordinary measures to stop its employees from silently protesting during the National Anthem in hopes of forcing a conversation about racial inequality and injustice. The NFL said every player “shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem,” and if they choose not to…
If you ask the experts, the Miami Dolphins will be a special sort of bad this season. But if you ask Dolphins fans, many will tell you the team is better off without all the talented players the team jettisoned this off-season.This is pretty much standard procedure in South Florida, where fans take the team’s off-season bait…
Unsurprisingly, no one is attending Marlins games this year. Well, that’s not true. A few people are going to Marlins games this year. But by the standards of a normal Major League Baseball team, the league-worst 10,000 fans the Fish are drawing per game is bad — on the verge of historically bad. You know your attendance is a special kind of bad when the Tampa Bay Rays are outdrawing you by nearly 50 percent.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Heat was rudely dismissed from the playoffs by the Philadelphia 76ers. Though the result of the series doesn’t tell the entire story of how close the games against the Sixers were, one thing is certain as the Heat enters the offseason: Miami isn’t close to being a serious contender, and it won’t be in the conversation for an NBA title anytime soon.
