Do you think that when Nick Saban goes down to the cement dungeon underneath his Alabama mansion to unwind and walks past his trophy case full of CFB National Championship, his collection jarred tears secretly obtained from rival SEC coaches and the collection of locks of hair he’s pruned from…
LGBT athletes have increasingly come out and into the spotlight over the past couple of years, but what about the high profile journalists who cover them? Obviously there’s more than a few gay people in the sports reporter ranks, and former Miami Herald reporter and still South Florida-based ESPN personality…
Yesterday, the Miami Marlins went full Deadspin, for all the most Deadspin-y reasons. The story details a tip New Times had looked into last month — one that turned out to be to complete-and-utter bullshit — that involved a brief, secret, and poorly-recorded audio clip that supposedly caught David Samson saying some…
On Friday August 22, Andres Pombo was in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon with three friends competing in a paddelboarding competition. They were on a practice run, stand-up paddling in gusty downwind conditions. Three miles short of the finish line, the group stopped for photos amid the swells. That’s…
The Miami Marlins’ 2015 season started off as so many of them do with slight hope. Some predicted they might even compete for the wildcard. It soon however devolved into the type of stunning tragicomedy that only the Marlins can pull off. Owner Jeffrey Loria fired manager Mike Redmond less…
Pelting rain has glued red-and-yellow-striped jerseys onto the soaked bodies of 6,000 fans scattered around Lockhart Stadium’s metal bleachers. The waterlogged pitch looks more like a World War I battle site than a soccer field, but the true believers in the stands chant and sing ecstatically. For the first time…
While David Beckham is still trying to nail down a spot for his MSL stadium, Miami’s other brand new professional soccer team is moving fast and furious. Today, Miami FC announced that they’ve hired Italian soccer legend Alessandro Nesta as their head coach. Though, Nesta has never been a head…
Thirty years after after it’s debut, the pastel aesthetic of Miami Vice continues to define Miami. So much so that the show’s logo’s colors of teal and pink are almost the unofficial colors of the area. So it wasn’t all that surprising when a Reddit user with some freetime and…
Sports talk radio is not known as a haven for nuanced discussion of mental health, and sports jock around the country stumbled around talking about Jonathan Martin’s Facebook post from yesterday detailing his long struggle with mental health and numerous suicide attempts. Perhaps no one went further out of the…
Former Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin, the victim of a bullying ring lead by teammate Richie Incognito, announced his retirement from the NFL at the end of July. He officially cited a back injury that would have kept him out for the entire 2015 season anyway, but earlier this morning…
A group of Miami Heat fans will stop at nothing until Hassan Whiteside accepts their challenge: to come play them at a pick-up game. The group, which runs a regular game they’ve dubbed “Heat Twitter Classic,” already draws local radio personalities and media types to play. Now, they’re setting their…
The year was 2005, ten years removed from Don Shula’s retirement. The Dolphins were very much in the midst of a mediocrity-strewn identity crisis that stretches on to this day. Nick Saban was the hottest coach in college football. He had turned LSU into national champs. So when the Miami…
While David Beckham’s proposed Miami MLS team is still trying to hammer out the details of where it will call home, Miami FC, the team’s newly announced NASL team, is breezing along and already has a logo. Announced just months ago, Miami FC will play in the second tier North…
Stephen Ross has trouble filing seats for America’s most beloved sport, so he can help launch an entirely new sport? We’re about to find out. The Dolphins owner has invested $1 million in a new drone racing league through a venture firm he co-founded. Yes, drone racing. The Drone Racing…
America is rarely timid when it comes to a chance to put ads on anything possible …except our professional sports teams jersey. That’s not true over in Europe, where soccer team’s jersey routinely prominently feature the logos of corporate sponsors. Florida has decided to take full advantage of that, and…
It should be of little surprise that the tradition of pretty young women in tight costumes dancing at professional basketball games started right here in Miami. Back in the late ’60s, the ABA’s Miami Floridians’ Ballgirls became national sensations and lead the way for similar squads becoming de rigueur amongst NBA…
Remember that whole messy Miami Dolphins saga involving the Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito. Of course, who could forget that? But the NFL hired mega-lawyer Ted Wells to come in and do an independent investigation of the matter, and when that report came out we all thought that was the…
In the wrestling ring of South Florida pro sports, Jeffrey Loria is the always-hated heel, a villainous mix of Vince McMahon and Rowdy Roddy Piper. This year was supposed to be different, with his Fish poised to contend in the East. Instead, Loria stayed true to character: firing his manager…
Last night, Dan Kolko — the Washington Nationals’ broadcaster on MASN — was sitting in Marlins Park press box before the game when he noticed something weird going on with the audio as the Nats took batting practice. It’s normal procedure for the opposing team to have upbeat music playing…
CJ Jackson is 27 years old and weighs approximately 145 pounds. He’s a military veteran and University of Miami pre-medical student. He’s also a hellaciously talented boxer, and his first big bout — scheduled for August 15 in Wynwood — might just be the start of a pro career worth…
Though it was tweaked a few times over the years, historically the Miami Dolphins logo retained some constants. It featured a Dolphin in a jumping position wearing a helmet with an “M” on it juxtaposed over a design meant to evoke the sun. That changed back in 2013 when the…
It’s that time of year again; football is back. Tomorrow, the Dolphins hit the practice fields at Nova Southeastern for the first time, marking the official return of the NFL to South Florida. Die hard Miami sports fans — in a desperate need for anything to look forward to —…
