Coming off an embarrassing, nationally televised 40-0 loss to the Baltimore Ravens last week, the Dolphins got a chance against the Oakland Raiders this past Sunday night to prove to the nation they’re actually not a bad football team.
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter claims he lost $70 million this week, at least partially due to the NFL controversy that centers on players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice and inequality. “This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago,” Schnatter said. “The [NFL] controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country.”
The Miami Heat is about to make a huge, completely avoidable mistake, and it can all be fixed by reversing a decision that doesn’t even go into effect next season. There is still time to keep coach Tony Fiorentino on the team’s broadcast in 2018.
On last night’s nationally televised Thursday Night Football, the rest of America got a taste of what Miami Dolphins fans routinely deal with on a weekly basis. The Dolphins’ embarrassing 40-0 beatdown at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens this past Thursday was just the latest episode of what has been a season of some of the most disgusting offensive football the franchise has ever seen.
Jay Cutler is done playing for the Miami Dolphins. Well, he’s done for at least a couple weeks after fracturing multiple ribs against the Jets this past weekend. But Cutler should be done playing for the Dolphins, period. Full stop. Like, it should never, ever happen again. What is the point, really?
There was a bright light, and her name was Frederica Wilson, the very same congressperson whom President Donald Trump called a liar this morning because she claimed he had told the widow of a soldier recently killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” (Trump’s hundreds of lies have been catalogued by the New York Times.)
In the words of the Miami Heat’s legendary TV host and courtside reporter, Jason Jackson: It’s time to ball, y’all. Miami will kick off its much-anticipated 2017-18 campaign tonight in Orlando when the Heat faces the Magic at 7 p.m.
Colin Kaepernick’s grievance threatens to expose the plantation mentality of the NFL team owners. They have banded together to blackball the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback because of the player protests he began during the National Anthem to raise awareness of this country’s oppression of minorities, especially African-Americans, who are recklessly killed by police officers.
The University of Miami Hurricanes will enter this Saturday’s showdown against the Florida State Seminoles after losing seven straight times to their biggest rival. It’s the most important game yet in the Mark Richt era, even though the Seminoles are coming in severely wounded and unranked. The loser will face devastating consequences in the competition for the best high-school players from South Florida.
Hurricane Irma delayed the University of Miami’s game at Florida State, which didn’t seem like the worst thing for the Canes at the time. UM was coming off a less-than-impressive season-opening victory over Bethune-Cookman, and Miami’s Week 2 game against Arkansas State had also been canceled because of Irma. And FSU was then the number three team in America.
Jay Cutler came to Miami infamous for his rocket arm and indifferent demeanor. Through three games, Dolphins fans have seen glimpses of Cutler’s strong arm and a heaping helping of his negative-cares face. In Miami’s 20-0 loss to the New Orleans Saints in London Sunday, one particular play stood out as “that’s so Cutler.”
This weekend, it’s breakfast with the Dolphins. After last week’s disastrous 20-6 loss to the New York Jets, though, you might want to eat before the Dolphins take on the New Orleans Saints at 9:30 a.m. in London, just to be sure your meal isn’t spoiled.
NFL owners are a racist lot, but Donald Trump threw them a lifeline by calling players who protest the National Anthem “sons of bitches” who ought to be fired.
Dwyane Wade’s triumphant return to his hometown is already over. Wade and the Bulls agreed to a buyout last night, meaning he is now free to sign with any NBA team. Even though D-Wade is now 35 years old, he’s still moving the needle around the NBA. Teams such as Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Milwaukee, and Miami are all reportedly interested in signing him on the eve of training camp, but the consensus seems to be that Wade is leaning toward a reunion with LeBron James in Cleveland.
For a minute, it appeared Donald Trump had sewn up the deadbeat-parent vote for his reelection campaign. Last week, an article declaring “Child Support Said to End by Beginning of 2018″ thanks to a new law signed by the commander in chief appeared on the Facebook page of the website react365.com.
The Hurricane Irma recovery effort is in full swing, but once again Miami’s hardest-hit African-American communities have to fend for themselves.
Four days after Irma, millions of Floridians are still stuck without power in the sweltering summer heat. Those outages have now killed eight elderly people trapped in a Hollywood nursing home without air conditioning, due to circumstances that FPL was warned about at least two days before the tragedy.
While the rest of the NFL was engulfed in the hope and excitement that comes with the first week of a new season, the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers sat at home, watching Hurricane Irma plow through their hometowns. The NFL did the right thing by canceling their game and deciding to make it up November 19, a week when both teams were supposed to have a bye.
If you steal three pairs of shoes from Foot Locker, a worldwide retail chain that made a $664 million profit in 2016, Florida’s news stations will broadcast images of you stealing things on TV, Fox News will call you a menace to society, and people will tweet about how you…
Miami Hurricanes fans didn’t learn much about the most recent incarnation of their football team in Saturday afternoon’s sleepy, business-like 41-13 win over Bethune-Cookman. To be honest, the biggest news to come out of the game was the fact that Hurricanes defensive players get to rock a gold “Turnover Chain” after each…
Giancarlo Stanton has always been known for murdering baseballs at an alarming rate, but this season his dong-shooting bazooka-bat has been working overtime at launching dingers straight into the sun. Stanton’s historic pace has transformed the Marlins’ 2017 from just another forgettable season of mediocrity into a year in which the Fish are just a couple of matchups out of the NL wildcard chase and playing games that matter well into September.
Dwyane Wade has a big decision to make. The Miami Heat legend clearly wants to leave the Chicago Bulls, who blew up their roster in the off-season after a disappointing year. But where to go? Heat fans have dreamed of him coming back to Dade County, but there’s another equally strong possibility: rejoining LeBron James, this time on the hated Cleveland Cavaliers.
