Heat Fans Have Officially Shut Up the Haters This Season

It’s official: Miami Heat Nation has put their money where the haters’ mouth is.  Heat playoff tickets went on sale this past Thursday, and if the regular season was any indication, they are sure to sell out fast. And Forbes recently released their 2015-16 NBA team evaluations equations, in which they…

The Ten People You Meet During an UberPool Ride in Miami

It’s been almost five months since Uber launched UberPOOL in Miami, the carpool version of their original service that connects riders traveling along the same routes in an effort to save them money. As expected, the results have been interesting. After all, it’s one thing to ride with a group…

Shaquille O’Neal’s Ten Best Moments With the Miami Heat

This week, ex-Heat center Shaquille O’Neal was one of the ten inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. That should come to as a surprise to no one. “The Big Aristotle” was a Four-time NBA champion, league MVP and three-time Finals MVP. What has been a surprise to…

Everything You Need to Know About the 2016 Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins kick off their 2016 season tomorrow, making this as good a time as any to brush up on our hometown baseball team. It’s like when your iPhone asks you to update. You put it off until you’re sick of seeing the alert and just give in. That’s…

Miami’s Five Biggest Sports Fools

Heads-up, it’s April Fools Day! No, LeBron James did not say publicly he wants to return to the HEAT. No, Publix isn’t opening stand alone sub shops. No, Hialeah isn’t getting an In-And-Out, yet. I’m sorry, you’ve been duped. I know finding out this way is devastating. In-And-Out is delicious.  Instead…

Five Signs Mark Richt Has the U Headed in the Right Direction

By now you’ve dropped off all your orange ties at the local Goodwill and picked up a pair of Mark Richt shades instead. The Mark Richt Era is barreling through its first offseason, and in a few short months, you’ll be able to witness the results firsthand on a football field…

Miami Dolphins About to Score a Huge Stadium Naming Rights Deal

Stephen Ross is about to make back a chunk of the reportedly $350 million in private funds he pledged to renovate his now unnamed stadium. Last month the naming rights deal between Canadian-based Sun Life Financial Inc. and the Dolphins ran out, meaning the Dolphins are now free agents, looking…

Hurricanes Basketball Gets Clobbered by Villanova in Sweet 16

Here lies the Miami Hurricanes basketball season, gone too soon.  March Madness ended for Jim Larranaga and his Miami Hurricanes basketball team last night at 9:10 p.m. The cause of death was a disappointing 92-69 butt-stomping loss to the second-seeded Villanova Wildcats. The Canes will have to wait a year…

Five Ways Adam Gase Can Make Ryan Tannehill Great

New Dolphins coach Adam Gase is known as a sort of quarterback whisperer. Besides the fact that Gase seems like the sort of guy who will relate to players much better than Joe Philbin, the boldest part of his coaching resume is his ability to get the best out of…

Five Reasons to Love the Heat More Than the Dolphins

It’s the debate that seems to continually have legs; Is Miami a basketball town — or does its heart belong to football? The answer depends on whom you ask. Some point to eyeballs on TV sets, but comparing ratings from an 82-game season to one of 16 games (in which…

Erik Spoelstra Should Win NBA Coach of the Year

Erik Spoelstra has accomplished quite a bit since taking over as head coach of the Miami Heat in 2008. He’s won nearly 400 regular season games, 63 playoff games, and two championships. He led the Heat to four straight NBA Finals appearances. He’s coached an All-Star team. He’s the second-longest…

Five Reasons LeBron James Can’t Replicate What He Had in Miami

You can take the LeBron out of Cleveland, but you can’t take the Cleveland out of … Cleveland. Unfortunately for LeBron, the honeymoon on his return to Ohio seems to have a quickly approaching expiration date. The Cavs have become increasingly inconsistent, and even as they remain the first seed…

Miami Dolphins Have the Worst Future of Florida’s Three NFL Teams

For a long time, Dolphins fans have thought of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars as the Winn-Dixies to the Dolphins Publix. The KIA to Miami’s Lexus. The community college to their University of Miami.  Well, times are-a-changin’. At this moment in history, is sure seems like the Dolphins…

The Miami Heat Can Win the East

Not many saw this coming. Not when the Heat lost Chris Bosh for the season. Not when Dwyane Wade was ruled out for a pair of games after the All Star break. Not when Hassan Whiteside seemed to be regressing after another suspension. Not when Luol Deng looked washed. But…

Miami Dolphins Cheer Auditions Have Gone Global

The Miami Dolphins have taken their search for beautiful and talented ladies to join their cheerleading squad worldwide. Somewhere Pitbull is fist-pumping.  In an effort to further widen the talent gap between itself and the rest of the NFL, the football team has expanded its cheer auditions to a global…

The Dolphins Should Do Whatever It Takes to Draft Jalen Ramsey

Jalen Ramsey is everything the Miami Dolphins need. He’s strong, confident, smart, versatile, athletic, a leader, and a champion. And most importantly, a he’s a cornerback. Ramsey might just be the best player in the 2016 NFL Draft, and he just so happens to fill the biggest need the Dolphins…

Ranking South Florida’s Creepiest Mascots

On Monday night the Los Angeles Clippers unveiled their new mascot: Chuck the California Condor. Unfortunately for Clippers fans, it was not free therapy session giveaway night. The image of Chuck will haunt their dreams until the end of time. Chuck’s ill-fated debut got us thinking; Which of our South Florida…

Five Reasons the Miami Heat Has Turned It Around Without Wade and Bosh

Just when you think the Miami Heat are dead-and-buried, they come out of the All Star break looking like they spent the time off filming an NBA-themed edition of Extreme Makeover.  This pleasant rejuvenation has coincided with the complete absence of both Chris Bosh and the Dwyane Wade, proving sports continues…