On September 2, 1963, 18-year-old Stephen Hertz made a decision that changed his life forever when he signed as a third baseman with the Houston Colt 45s (now the World Series-winning Houston Astros). Fresh out of school at Miami Senior High, Hertz couldn’t help but feel starry-eyed as he walked onto the field for Opening Day against the Cincinnati Reds in the spring of ’64.
It’s time to call it: The U is back. For real this time. No hyperbole. No bullshit. Facts only. After the Hurricanes’ 28-10 undressing of the No. 13 Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday night, the rest of the nation is finally in on the open secret that South Florida has known all season: The Hurricanes are true contenders, regardless of whether the talking heads respect the teams that UM has beaten.
There was a brief and, for Philadelphia residents, all-too-rare moment when major talents actually wanted to come play for the Phillies. Typically, nobody wants to play for the Phillies, who have lost more games than any major-league sports franchise. Most years, the team plays to crowds so empty you can…
The College Football Playoff Selection Committee doesn’t respect the Miami Hurricanes. UM fans know this for a fact after the undefeated Canes were slotted only tenth in the committee’s initial playoff rankings. Even though the Canes are one of only five undefeated teams in college football, the decisive championship rankings place Miami behind six one-loss teams. UM will need help to make the four-team playoffs in January.
Halloween is as wonderful as it is odd. As coworkers dress up as coke-snorting Dolphins coaches and smokin’ Jay Cutler, the imaginary line of acceptable behavior moves so far beyond the norm that it barely exists. It’s also the day where we decide what’s a trick and what’s a treat. Candy…
It shouldn’t be this way. Watching Dwyane Wade play basketball was never supposed to hurt. It was never supposed to make Miami Heat fans’ pettiness flare. There was never supposed to be so much animosity toward the greatest second-greatest athlete in the history of South Florida sports.
Early in the first quarter of the Dolphins’ 31-28 comeback win over the Jets, Kenny Stills punched his ticket to the ESPYs with one of the most spectacular catches you’ll ever see. At first, the pass was ruled incomplete, but while the officials were watching the video that proved otherwise, Stills was busy making more headlines as he took off his helmet to unveil a Mad Max look.
Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team. For one half. In Atlanta. On October 15, 2017, at least. Hey, when you’re a Dolphins fan, you celebrate the small victories along the way. You never know when the next one will come along.
In 2015, the Miami Marlins were ready to “live in the lap of luxury” after the team contracted with a swanky private jet company that promised to whisk players away on a Boeing 767-200 with couches, a massage table, and a premium open bar.
Jeffrey Loria may be riding off into the sunset with $1.2 billion freshly minted bills stuffed into his pockets, but Derek Jeter’s new ownership group has serious repair work to do with a battered and cynical fan base. One of his most pressing questions will be whether to continue pursuing the lawsuits that Loria’s regime filed against nearly a dozen former season ticketholders who walked away from multiyear packages.
Meet the 2017 Miami Heat, which is almost exactly like the 2016 Miami Heat! Pat Riley and the team brass liked last year’s overachieving squad so much they decided to run it back again, but this time with a few different ingredients.
The Los Angeles Dodgers just finished steamrolling through the NL West en route to 104 wins, the best record in baseball and a hell of a shot at their first World Series since 1988. One of the team’s top prospects, however, has a very different kind of fight on his…
Oh, no. Not again. Just when you thought it was safe to stick those Miami Hurricanes flags on your car, fill it with gas, and head north on the Turnpike for this Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. game against the Florida State Seminoles, Mother Nature has once again wagged her dreaded hurricane finger in the general direction of the Sunshine State.
A lot of smart journalistic voices are writing about sports right now. But for every thought-provoking, boundary-pushing thinker, there’s an Armando Salguero, the Miami Herald Dolphins columnist who once told a war veteran he “sucked as a soldier” and now has the gall to lecture black athletes on how to respect the flag.
If you’ve been saving a particularly nice bottle of bubbly for the day when Jeffrey Loria’s fat, greedy face finally leaves Miami baseball fans to suffer in peace, it’s time to pop the cork. Major League Baseball’s owners have unanimously approved the sale of the team to a group led by investor Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter.
Between the entire league coming together to push back against Donald Trump’s divisive comments last week and the amazing slate of games that took place, the NFL had one helluva showing last weekend. The Dolphins? Not so much. They had a very bad weekend. One of their worst ever perhaps. So, so bad.
The dramatic tale of a boxing obsession turned to murder, as told by Miami New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink in the feature story “Sucker Punch,” has been selected for Best American Sports Writing 2017.
Wide receiver Kenny Stills kneeled. So did tackle Laremy Tunsil, safety Maurice Smith, and tight end Julius Thomas. The entire team locked arms in solidarity.
This season hasn’t exactly had a fairy-tale beginning for the Miami Dolphins. After losing starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill to a knee injury before the preseason, the team had to skip its first game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while Hurricane Irma lashed their hometowns.
It’s been a little more than a week since Hurricane Irma rolled through South Florida, but just now are communities beginning to make a dent in the cleanup. Recovering from the strongest storm to hit South Florida since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 won’t be easy, but with everyone pitching in, things seem to be coming together day by day.
In just a few months, Miami will finally be rid of Jeffrey Loria. Whenever he finalizes his deal to offload the Marlins to a new ownership team including Derek Jeter, Loria’s big, dumb, taxpayer-cheating face will presumably never appear on this news site again. We can all hold a big party.
The wait is almost over. Only two football-free Sundays stand between Miami Dolphins fans and the regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers September 10 at Hard Rock Stadium. After a strong close to last season that saw the Dolphins finish 10-6 and make their first playoff appearance since 2008, Fins fans are more excited than they’ve been in a long time to see football return.
