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On November 27, 2016, Naples resident John O’Brien, his adult children, and his two young grandchildren slid into their seats at Hard Rock Stadium for a Miami Dolphins game. A huge San Francisco fan, O’Brien, decked out in a red 49ers shirt, was ready to watch his team take on Miami.

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be wrong? What if right was left, and up was down? What if, for just one year, all the things you knew to be bad were actually, uncharacteristically, not so bad?

I’ve had many epic accomplishments in my entertainment career, but the most important project of my life will debut later this week. For months, a favorable buzz has been building for Warriors of Liberty City, the six-episode Starz docuseries that follows the lives of everyone involved in the youth sports program that the late Sam Johnson and I founded 28 years ago.

The Miami Hurricanes’ turnover chain made its much-anticipated season debut Saturday night during the Canes’ NSFW 77-0 beatdown of the Savannah State Tigers. At least we think they’re called the Tigers. When you lose 77-0, we’re not even bothering to Google your mascot. While everyone was expecting the Canes to…

Whatever comes of David Beckham’s long-running quest to bring Major League Soccer to Miami, the city has left no doubt it will absolutely pack a stadium to watch the top fútbol teams in the world. For the past several summers, tens of thousands of fans have jammed into a sold-out Hard Rock Stadium to watch preseason friendly games between the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The Miami Dolphins are set to open their season this Sunday, September 9, at Hard Rock Stadium against the Tennessee Titans. This 1 p.m. game is the NFL equivalent of a midday nap or, if you will, the missionary position of the NFL.

For quite some time, watching the Miami Dolphins play football has been more work than pleasure. Things were much easier when Dan Marino was slinging the football every Sunday at 1 p.m. and the Fins were winning more games than they lost.

Penalties, turnovers, botched punts, and an inability to make any sort of big plays: These are just a few of the reasons the Miami Hurricanes were absolutely pantsed by the LSU Tigers for three quarters last night, only to make the score look respectable with a frantic fourth-quarter comeback that…

Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team. To some, those are the opening lyrics to the best fight song of all time: “Miami Dolphins Number One,” penned by Lee Ofman prior to the Fins’ undefeated 1972 season. To others, that sentence is a good sign someone needs to be Baker Acted or has been in a coma for the past three decades.

Two years ago, New Times dropped an investigative bombshell: The Miami Dolphins are cursed because their stadium is built on an Indian burial ground. Probably. Maybe. We’re as sure as one can be that a thing is cursed without coming face-to-face with a poltergeist.

The last time there was a Miami Heat roster that did not include Udonis Haslem was 2002. According to various reports, 2018 will not be the year that impressive streak is broken. All signs point to the Heat and Haslem settling on a deal that will keep the Heat’s longest-tenured player in uniform for at least one more season…

David Beckham’s quest to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami has so far run as smoothly as Daphne Campbell’s campaign to return to the Florida Senate. Beckham and his partners have spent so long fumbling between various stadium schemes that it takes the kind of faith usually found only in remote Benedictine monasteries to believe his franchise will ever take the field in South Florida.

Unlike the NFL, college ball has no preseason appetizer to holds fans over until the football is real. Instead of getting a quarter-season of fake games like in the NFL, the best college fans get are a few sparse clips on Twitter of their favorite school’s team half-assing a practice in shorts before the season opener.

Coming off a 10-3 season that saw the Canes end the year ranked 13th in the USA Today Coaches Poll, few were surprised to see the Canes debut at 9th in the same poll this year. With much of last year’s defense returning and a plethora of talent on the…

Billy Corben has made a career out of turning the most quintessentially insane Miami stories into compelling documentaries, from the Cocaine Cowboys depiction of the ’80s yeyo heyday to The U and The U Part Two’s retelling of two generations of madness and football domination by the Hurricanes. For his latest…

You know what your grandma used to say: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Any Miami Dolphins fan will tell you trying to abide by that rule over the last two decades has been harder than convincing a dieter…

It’s August, and Dwyane Wade has not yet committed to playing for the Miami Heat next season. So it’s officially time to wonder if he will ever play for the Heat again or if, instead, he will choose an alternate ending to his career. He has plenty of options, such as shocking the basketball universe by…

Being a fan of South Florida sports teams is a microcosm of the city itself: The highs are extremely high, but the lows — oh, the lows — they are so low. Whether you’re a fan of the Dolphins, Panthers, Hurricanes, or Marlins, supporting each team has its major ups and downs.

The Miami Dolphins are back. Well, sort of almost back. It’s that training-camp time of year again, a time when optimism and hype are as high as the South Florida sun is hot.

For years, it seemed the Miami Marlins and Papa John’s were a perfect match — consuming both Papa John’s alleged pizza and Marlins’ alleged baseball for hours will leave you feeling exhausted, ashamed, regretful, deeply unsatisfied, and mysteriously sweaty all at once. ‘Twas a partnership forged in the deepest,…

Yanina Corbea first noticed the new signs at Dinner Key Marina on Sunday, when she and her husband went to take their son for a ride on their Jet Skis. “NO JET SKI’S ALLOWED STRCTLY ENFORCED TOW AWAY ZONE,” the incorrectly spelled sign read. It wasn’t there last week,…