This time last year, Miami Heat fans had no idea what to do with their hands. Since 1992, when the Heat first made the playoffs, the team has missed the postseason on only five occasions. Last year was one of those dark moments. Still high off the LeBron James-fueled years of annual NBA Finals appearances and butt-clenching playoff runs, fans felt weird knowing American Airlines Arena sat empty in May and June.
Late last week, things between Marlins Man and his beloved home team got messy. Miami lawyer Laurence Leavy, better known as “Marlins Man” after getting prime TV seats at sporting events nationwide in his Day-Glo orange jersey, announced that for the first time in 25 years, he wouldn’t be paying for Marlins season tickets.
The Marlins’ five-year plan to win a championship looks much better than the Dolphins’.
Meet the new Miami Marlins! To say a few things have changed since last season would be a Giancarlo Stanton-sized understatement. It would be like taking a two-week vacation to get a bunch of plastic surgery done on your face, then coming back and pretending nothing happened. On…
You probably know Kristen Hewitt from her sideline reporting and television work for the Miami Heat and Fox Sports Sun, but for the purpose of this article, think of her as just a mom. A concerned mom. Like the rest of us, Kristen couldn’t believe what she was…
Heat fans should hope the team draws LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs this year. It’s meant to be. It’s needed to make the universe right. Without a Heat-Cavs LeBron-Wade series, there will forever be a void no other matchup can fill.
The Marlins will probably lose more than 100 games this season. Players you’ve never heard of will take over for stars such as Giancarlo Stanton and Marcelo Ozuna, who were shipped off to save cash. There will probably be some nights that will take Marlins fans back to a time when they sat in a cavernous Pro Player Stadium surrounded by orange seats and foul balls nobody wanted. The Marlins might make history this season, and not the good kind.
By now, you’re probably aware that the Miami Marlins will debut their new and, um, well, different lineup at Marlins Park next Thursday during a nationally televised Opening Day afternoon matchup against the Chicago Cubs. What you likely didn’t know, though, is the team will be roll out a new anthem featuring DJ Khaled titled “Just Gettin’ Started,” which will be performed and released during the season opener.
With fewer than a dozen games left in the season, the Heat seems a virtual lock to make the playoffs after a one-year hiatus from the postseason. What seed the Heat will capture and the identity of Miami’s first-round opponent, though, are still very much up in the air. Whichever team the Heat draws…
The Dolphins should already be on the phone with Colin Kaepernick to get him on a plane to Miami for a workout. He’s the best option available to back up Ryan Tannehill.
Before last season, any NFL fan asked to name the Miami Dolphins’ biggest star could list at least a few options: Jarvis Landry, Mike Pouncey, Jay Ajayi, Ndamukong Suh, and maybe Ryan Tannehill. Now, after a slew of offseason moves, that list has dwindled to one: Tannehill, who hasn’t played football for the Dolphins in 19 months.
There are definitely pros and cons that come with being a fan of each South Florida team. Here are a few that any true believer knows all too well.
Miami Dolphins fans deserve better. Or worse. But not this. Not the in-between place. The latest example of the Dolphins taking one step forward and one and a half steps back came Friday when they traded Jarvis Landry to the Cleveland Browns in return for two draft picks.
If you’re a fan of South Florida’s teams, Stephen Ross doesn’t think you’re a good sports fan. The Miami Dolphins’ owner made that sentiment clear earlier this week when he said as much during an impromptu interview with the New York Daily News. Ross made sure to hedge his hot take by pointing out that Miami is a “great city,” just not so hot when it comes to sports fandom.
Wade should play at least one more season with the Heat. Here’s why.
The Miami Dolphins are boring. They lack star power. They aren’t appointment television unless you’re marking it in your calendar to miss their games. Their decades-old sad act has their fans finding much more in common with apathetic Marlins lovers than they do Heat Nation. The Dolphins are in desperate need of an exciting change of course, and fast, or South Florida will lose interest.
Recently, rumors have swirled that the Miami Dolphins want to trade Jarvis Landry in order to jump into the first five picks of April’s NFL draft so they can snatch an elite-quarterback prospect. That would raise an obvious question: Uh, so what’s up with Ryan Tannehill? Head coach Adam Gase publicly backed…
The first Miami Marlins spring training of the Derek Jeter era kicked off last week at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter. That much we know happened. Who actually played in the tune-up games for the Marlins is largely a mystery we are still trying to solve. When a team trades the NL MVP…
Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs seem destined for a breakup, and the Miami Heat should pounce, offering them Hassan Whiteside and Justise Winslow, just as a start.
This time, Derek Jeter has gone too far. Marlins fans remained relatively quiet when he sold off all of our favorite players to other teams for prospects. We didn’t like it, but most of us understood there was a process in action.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” a man wearing a “Ban the AR-15” shirt yelled as Sen. Marco Rubio entered the BB&T Center for Wednesday night’s CNN town-hall special about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.
The Heat probably isn’t going to make the NBA Finals this year. But, yanno, it could! Here is how that totally improbable thing could happen, thus making us look really smart for saying it could (even when we didn’t really believe it would).
