What are the Dolphins’ most pressing needs as they enter one of the most exciting and crucial offseasons in recent memory? Here are a few matters that might be keeping the Fins’ front office up at night.
Frederica Wilson is unfit to serve as U.S. congresswoman representing much of black Miami. She didn’t attend Saturday’s women’s march against Donald Trump, and though she skipped the inauguration, her criticism of the president has been tepid. “He’s not a good role model for our children,” she said at a…
Miami fans found themselves in a weird place at the American Airlines Arena this past Saturday. Obviously, they were thrilled to see the Heat spank the Milwaukee Bucks for their third win in a row. But many fans also had a little Pat Riley-shaped devil on their shoulder, whispering that what this team needs right now are losses — because tanking for a draft pick is about all the Heat has to work for this year.
It’s finally setting in: Football is gone, and it’s not coming back for a long time. A lot of good came from the Miami Dolphins 2016 season, though.
As the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th U.S. president draws closer, who will be his celebrity White House Negro? The nominees vying for this unofficial, yet crucial, role in the president-elect’s cabinet are Kanye West, Jim Brown, Ray Lewis, and Steve Harvey.
President Barack Obama was wrong to end the “wet foot, dry foot” policy for Cuban immigrants. He went along with Democrats, Republicans, and a majority of Cuban-Americans — including Sen. Marco Rubio — who favored ending the policy. Some critics claim Obama’s decision puts Cuban on the same playing field…
It’s time for Pat Riley to accept a simple fact that has been obvious for months to everyone else: The Miami Heat isn’t a player or two away from contending for a championship. LeBron James and the Western Conference elites are far ahead of the Heat, and there is no shortcut to getting on their level in the near future.
The 2016 season just ended, but Miami Dolphins fans should already be looking forward to 2017.
A small-time actress is looking for a quick paycheck from NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp. She’s accusing the former University of Miami football star of tackling her two years ago at a Super Bowl party and causing her serious injury.
Though 2016 will be remembered as the year when a slew of iconic celebrities died, none will have gone out with as much style as David Bowie. Today marks a year since the British singer-songwriter seemed to have turned his death into an artistic statement.
There was a split second during the Miami Dolphins’ embarrassing 30-12 wildcard-playoff-game loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday when it appeared the Fins might still have a chance to pull off an upset. That moment, as well as portions of Matt Moore’s upper torso, were quickly destroyed thanks to a vicious — and illegal — second-quarter hit that had just about everyone expecting the worst.
The Miami Dolphin’s aren’t supposed to still be playing football, and according to Las Vegas, they won’t be playing much longer. Vegas pits the Fins as ten-point underdogs in Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the biggest dog on the slate of playoff games. Even though Miami beat Pittsburgh 30-15 in mid-October, everyone assumes the Dolphins are about to get their asses whooped by the big, bad Steelers this weekend.
Adam Gase is the NFL coach of the year. He’s made the Miami Dolphins relevant again. Before the first game this past fall, most pundits expected the coach to spend the year determining whether Ryan Tannehill was really worth his $90 million contract. It seemed the Dolphins would disappoint their…
Hold onto your butts, South Florida — the Miami Dolphins are back in the playoffs. Put your mock drafts and your lists of available free agents away. Forget what coaches might be available this offseason. The Miami Dolphins are a handful of games away from winning the Super Bowl.
A brash young generation of black politicians is slowly wresting power away from the old guard beholden to developers, corporate executives, and lobbyists. And that is great for Miami’s African-American community. For too long, pols such as former Congresswoman Carrie Meek and ex-county Commissioners Betty Ferguson and Barbara Carey-Shuler kept…
On Christmas Eve, old Saint Nick brought Miami Dolphins fans an amazeballs 34-31 win over the Buffalo Bills. The victory was the tenth of the year for the Dolphins and, according to Nate Silver and the website FiveThirtyEight, moved their chances of making the playoffs to 92 percent. A Kansas City Chiefs win over the Denver Broncos Christmas Day would bring that number to 100-holy-shit-the-Dolphins-are-in-the-NFL-playoffs-percent.
The Miami Dolphins travel to Buffalo this Saturday for a huge 1 p.m. game against the Bills. That makes this as good a time as any to remind you of something that you no doubt have been fully aware of forever: Buffalo Bills fans are legitimately the craziest group of assholes in the NFL, and they are scaring the rest of us.
For Miami sports fans, 2016 has been a trying year with some of the lowest lows imaginable, moments likely to make national lists of “worst sports disasters.” But don’t forget it’s also been a year when we’ve seen a lot of change, and some of it has been unquestionably for the best.
Even as Mark Richt prepares the University of Miami Hurricanes for their first major bowl game in years, his mission is in major jeopardy. New threats are all around. Butch Davis, recently appointed as Florida International University’s new head coach, will try to steal Richt’s potential recruits. You remember Davis…
Fact: The Miami Dolphins are an 8-5 football team with a real chance of making the playoffs for the first time since the 2008 season. Counterpoint: Matt Moore, the new Dolphins quarterback, has been a part of roughly 1 percent of that 8-5 record and has completed 19 passes since the week the South Korean recording artist Psy released his megahit “Gangnam Style.”
Signs of the apocalypse were everywhere in 2016. Great Britain voted to leave the European Union, Donald Trump was elected president, and white supremacy rose from the dead. Some of America’s most iconic people dropped dead like Zika-infected mosquitoes caught in a haze of insecticide. Among others, we lost David…
The Dolphins beat the Arizona Cardinals 26-23 on a 20-yard field goal as time expired yesterday. But Miami fans were not celebrating. Just when he looked to be finally fulfilling years of teasing promise, Ryan Tannehill tore his ACL during the game. The team has confirmed he’s out for the season.
