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…
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…
The Miami Dolphins’ stadium is currently nameless. The naming rights deal with Canadian-based Sun Life Financial, Inc. ran out last month, so the era of calling it “Sun Life” is over. It was the park’s seventh appelation in just under 30 years. According to The Herald, The Dolphins expect to have a…
The party may finally be started….the soccer party that is. Miami Beckham United, the soccer club that announced three years ago it was ready to construct a stadium and field a team, has finally bought several pieces of land. The club now owns two-thirds of the nine acres it needs…
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…
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…
For the past three years, the Miami Dolphins had a very fine cornerback in Brent Grimes. They’ve also had a very prominent critic in Grimes’ Twitter-happy wife Miko. So when the Dolphins parted ways with Mr. Grimes earlier this month, everyone couldn’t help but wonder if Mrs. Grimes (AKA @iHeartMiko)…
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…
The future of the Miami Open is in doubt. The facilities at the Crandon Park Tennis Center are woefully out of date. IMG, a sports management firm that owns the tournament, wants to spend $50 million to renovate and expand the facilities. Miami-Dade voters approved of the plan at the ballot box…
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…
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…
Growing up in Palmetto Bay, 26-year-old Nick Katz might never have met his childhood best friends if it hadn’t been for skateboarding. He was a Jewish kid who lived in a nice home next to Biscayne Bay. The guys he skated with were young Jamaican dudes from West Perrine. “The…
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…
A who’s who of Miami’s mascot community came out last night to American Airlines Arean to “Feel the Burn.” No, that’s not a political statement. It was Miami Heat mascot Burnie’s birthday, and the team celebrated during the game against the Philadelphia 76ers. Some of the mascots ended up feeling…
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…
If Miamians and our leaders thinks a five-minute walk covering just three blocks is “too far,” well, we probably don’t have much hope for more effective mass transit in this city. Sure, we know the humidity can get bad here during the summer, but how sweaty can you get in…
The Miami Marlins, a professional baseballing team and a suspected longform improv troupe specializing in dark comedy, have tried everything in recent years to turn their fortunes around: a new stadium, three different managers, and occasional star signings followed by roster shaking trades. Nothing has worked. Well, maybe just maybe newly…
Marlins Park has been open for four years now. The team continues to lack in both wins and attracting much attendance. The county Mayor who oversaw the deal was long ago recalled by voters, and other politicians who went along with the deal are also out of office. However, it appears…
For baseball fans, Spring Training is a time for hope, naive innocence and the glorious chance to drink ballpark beers that cost less than 15 bucks. Sure, the Marlins were wretched again last year, but in Jupiter at least, Fish fans can forget all that pain, snag a few autographs…
The constant college football recruiting race knows only the bounds the NCAA places on it, and the body says nothing about how old a potential player has to be to start getting attention from coaches. In fact, recruiting mega-website Rivals.com now has profiles on players in the sixth grade! New…
“The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish.” — Pat Riley Arguably the most memorable, and consistently-sports-relative part of Pat Riley’s book The Winner Within is a portion where he speaks about an…
Lakatriona Brunson has been a lot of things in her life: A high school track star, a college basketball player, a 10-year-veteran of a woman’s football league, and a physical education. Perhaps she’s best known as her alter-ego “Bernice,” the cult hero of the reality TV program South Beach Tow. …
