The narrative surrounding the Miami Dolphins has changed. Around this time last year, the Fins were the butt of everyone’s jokes. They were an annual disappointment. Fans were lucky to even be disappointed, because that meant that at some point, the team had at least tricked you into expecting something from it. For years, Miami sat by and watched other NFL fans open presents, while they got nothing.
Marlins Park remains the worst stadium deal in American history. Miamians are still on the hook for more than $2.4 billion in costs for a ballpark they didn’t want, all to benefit the most hated owner in professional sports. Taxpayers were so pissed that they recalled the Carlos Alvarez, the…
Here is a brief list of things Marco Rubio has no opinion about: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Russia ties, Donald Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban, climate change, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ lies about his contacts with Russian officials, and, now, Trump’s outrageous firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Did you see what happened April 30 in Edmonton, Canada? The hometown Oilers and the Anaheim Ducks were moments away from dropping the puck for Game 3 of their Round 2 National Hockey League playoff game. Only the formality of the singing of “O Canada” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” stood between fans and game action.
A bunch of filthy-rich white Republicans and their circus-clown leader, Donald Trump, did a victory lap in the Rose Garden Thursday after the House passed Trumpcare, the legislation that will repeal and replace Obamacare. It was their way of saying, “We finally got that nigger.”
Jeffrey Loria is about to get away with the heist of the century, and there is nothing anyone can do. With the Marlins reportedly on the verge of a sale that would net the team’s owner more than $1 billion in profit off his initial $158.5 million investment in 2002, Loria is the big winner.
No apology from Florida Sen. Frank Artiles is going to change the fact that he is a scumbag racist who needs to resign. The Kendall Republican is under fire after his slur-filled tirade in front of two black legislators at a private dinner Monday night went public. During the…
Everyone rightfully hates Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, so it’s easy to immediately hate his decision to build a ten-foot bronze statue in honor of Jose Fernandez. And plenty of people did just that. The Miami Herald’s Fabiola Santiago accused Loria of “cashing in” on the ballplayer’s death, while Fox Sports Radio’s Ben Maller argued that anyone who killed two other people while high and drunk doesn’t deserve such a public honor.
New York Knicks President Phil Jackson made it pretty clear Friday that ten-time NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony is on the trading block when he told reporters that Melo “would be better off somewhere else.” Let the negotiations with teams that would like to acquire his services begin! Even though Melo and Jackson haven’t seen eye-to-eye, it was pretty stunning to see him straight-up announce that his best player and future Hall of Fame forward is a goner.
The best college football coaching staff in Florida has just set up camp in Boca Raton, and that should concern University of Miami Hurricanes fans. Florida Atlantic University’s new head coach, Lane Kiffin, has brought in top-tier assistants who put the Owls on the ESPN highlight reel. The Owls’ spring practice shows that the Lane Train is moving fast to make FAU a respectable program.
Donald Trump’s token black friend Ben Carson came through Miami yesterday to tour public housing projects with two other token African Americans, Rep. Frederica Wilson and Miami Heat executive Alonzo Mourning. The highlight of the HUD secretary’s day came when and six other federal bureaucrats got stuck in an elevator…
Black people voted big against Donald Trump. He won only 8 percent of our vote. Whites elected him. And now they need to impeach him. And then Barack Obama should sue him for slander.
The Miami Heat are a fun team. How much fun? The most fun? Probably not, because LeBron James and winning championships and stuff was peak fun, but this season has been really dang fun. The fact that the word “probably” had to be placed in front of “not” in the previous sentence should be enough reason to question if the past two months of Heat basketball are real life.
Donald Trump’s false accusation that Barack Obama tapped phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign is nothing more than a diversionary tactic. The 45th president wants to deflect the media attention from his closest advisers’ criminal behavior.
Miami Heat fans are a spoiled bunch. They should know — most are also Dolphins fans who have waited nearly five decades for another Super Bowl win, so they are well aware that getting three titles in 11 years is legit good. Being a spoiled Heat fan, however, doesn’t mean you’re a bandwagon jumper. In fact, there’s a good argument that being spoiled makes you a better fan. This season is the proof.
When film director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney took the stage to accept the best adapted screenplay Oscar for their movie, Moonlight, they let the world know where they came from. “Thank God for my mother who proved to me through her struggles, and the struggles that Naomi…
It’s that time of year again, when disgruntled quarterbacks and high-priced free agents are linked to the Dolphins because the Fins are always looking to throw money at a problem. But not this year, and definitely not at quarterback. Not with Ryan Tannehill’s knee declared fully healthy…
Pat Riley is fishing for a whale with his hands tied behind his back. Just imagine Riley strapped to a fishing chair, grasping a fishing rod between his toes, and trying to hook the biggest fish in the sea. Those are essentially the odds the Miami Heat president is faced with today if he’s to acquire a big-time NBA player before Thursday’s trade deadline.
This must be the year of the black movie. The Miami-made film Moonlight is nominated for eight Oscars at this Sunday’s ceremony. But Hollywood has a long way to go before it can claim that African-American movies and TV shows are on equal footing. In fact, Moonlight’s success doesn’t make…
When he was campaigning, Donald Trump courted black voters by doing something he rarely does: telling the truth. At an Ohio rally in August 2016, he took the Democratic Party to task for having “failed completely in the inner cities.” He told African-American voters: “Year after year, failure after failure,…
Toss this hot take into the ever-growing pile of takes about the Miami Heat hitting the web over the past week that would have seemed downright senile just three weeks ago: Erik Spoelstra has delivered the best coaching performance of his career in 2017. The fact that this take didn’t just burn a hole through your computer screen, drop onto your keyboard, and roll into your lap is reason enough to call this one of the oddest Heat seasons of all time.
It took more than a decade, but a full-service recreation center for youth in Liberty City is finally open. Last month, the City of Miami officially unlocked the doors of the Samuel K. Johnson Youth Center at Charles Hadley Park. Now kids from one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, which…
