Late last week, things between Marlins Man and his beloved home team got messy. Miami lawyer Laurence Leavy, better known as “Marlins Man” after getting prime TV seats at sporting events nationwide in his Day-Glo orange jersey, announced that for the first time in 25 years, he wouldn’t be paying for Marlins season tickets.
Heat fans should hope the team draws LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs this year. It’s meant to be. It’s needed to make the universe right. Without a Heat-Cavs LeBron-Wade series, there will forever be a void no other matchup can fill.
The Marlins will probably lose more than 100 games this season. Players you’ve never heard of will take over for stars such as Giancarlo Stanton and Marcelo Ozuna, who were shipped off to save cash. There will probably be some nights that will take Marlins fans back to a time when they sat in a cavernous Pro Player Stadium surrounded by orange seats and foul balls nobody wanted. The Marlins might make history this season, and not the good kind.
The TV news industry cannot get enough of Stormy Daniels, the porn star who allegedly had a sexual affair with Donald Trump 12 years ago. For months, the mainstream media has been chewing on the story that the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 to keep her mouth shut about her liaison with Trump.
Yesterday Donald Trump called up Vladimir Putin — a strongman who was recently caught deploying nerve gas to kill dissidents on the soil of America’s oldest ally — to heartily congratulate him for winning a sham election. Trump made the call despite the fact that his own aides told him not to and even typed in all caps on his morning briefing “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” regarding an item about Putin’s victory.
The Dolphins should already be on the phone with Colin Kaepernick to get him on a plane to Miami for a workout. He’s the best option available to back up Ryan Tannehill.
It’s time to mount a serious campaign to end tolls in Miami-Dade County. Any time the government wants to charge people money, we should be allowed to vote on it. Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) are highway robbers preying on predominantly poor motorists struggling to have a roof over their heads, put food on the table, and take care of their families.
Before last season, any NFL fan asked to name the Miami Dolphins’ biggest star could list at least a few options: Jarvis Landry, Mike Pouncey, Jay Ajayi, Ndamukong Suh, and maybe Ryan Tannehill. Now, after a slew of offseason moves, that list has dwindled to one: Tannehill, who hasn’t played football for the Dolphins in 19 months.
If you’re a fan of South Florida’s teams, Stephen Ross doesn’t think you’re a good sports fan. The Miami Dolphins’ owner made that sentiment clear earlier this week when he said as much during an impromptu interview with the New York Daily News. Ross made sure to hedge his hot take by pointing out that Miami is a “great city,” just not so hot when it comes to sports fandom.
As long as Miami had to stomach Jeffrey Loria, the spawn of Scrooge McDuck and Cruella de Vil, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross got a pass. Sure, his teams were just as putrid as the Marlins, but at least Ross didn’t donate to Donald Trump and stood up for his players’ right to protest police brutality during the National Anthem.
The Miami Dolphins are boring. They lack star power. They aren’t appointment television unless you’re marking it in your calendar to miss their games. Their decades-old sad act has their fans finding much more in common with apathetic Marlins lovers than they do Heat Nation. The Dolphins are in desperate need of an exciting change of course, and fast, or South Florida will lose interest.
Recently, rumors have swirled that the Miami Dolphins want to trade Jarvis Landry in order to jump into the first five picks of April’s NFL draft so they can snatch an elite-quarterback prospect. That would raise an obvious question: Uh, so what’s up with Ryan Tannehill? Head coach Adam Gase publicly backed…
Miami learned today what a difference it can make when you show someone you appreciate their work. Less than 24 hours ago, it seemed Alberto Carvalho would leave sunny Miami-Dade for the bright lights and cold days of New York City. Reports that the Miami-Dade County Public Schools chief had accepted…
Last month, cops and federal agents were quick to arrest rapper Kodak Black for probation violation and gun-related charges after he posted photos of himself brandishing weapons on social media. Meanwhile, Nikolas Cruz — the Parkland shooter who killed 17 innocent people — posted images of himself with weapons and also made comments about killing people. Even when someone who knew Cruz contacted the FBI to stop him, nothing happened.
Black Panther is an epic that every African-American must see. I never thought I’d see a Hollywood movie that goes over the heads of white people, but the latest Marvel film does the trick. Black Panther speaks in a code only black revolutionary minds can understand.
Marco Rubio was still in his first year as a senator when a madman with an assault rifle murdered 20 schoolchildren and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary. After the Miami Herald pressed him for a response, he said he hoped to “take a break from the politics of shooting for a few days to mourn.”
For those who have been too busy working in a coal mine or filming an episode of Deadliest Catch over the past week to keep up on local sports news, let’s get you up to speed: Dwyane Wade is once again a member of the Miami Heat.
For months, Miami Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo has insisted that any federal budget bill must include help for the millions of Dreamers — undocumented immigrants brought to America as children — before their legal protection under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan ends early next month.
Everywhere you turn in Miami, gentrification is in full swing. Real estate prices are booming in Allapattah, Brownsville, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Overtown as the same developers who bought up and transformed South Beach and Wynwood set their sights on new territories to exploit. Here’s how it…
The NBA trade deadline is this Thursday, February 8, and teams have reportedly seen the Miami Heat come up on their caller ID with increasingly regularity as the team explores all options to improve itself. With nearly zero salary-cap space, a shortage of draft picks, and a roster full of players that other teams aren’t exactly tripping over one another to acquire, the Heat has limited assets at its disposal in trade talks.
For all Wade has done for the franchise, he deserves to return to the Miami Heat, but on the Miami Heat’s terms. If he agrees to those terms, it would seem only right that a reunion take place next season while Wade still has some playing days left in him.
In a sane, moral, or just world, Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran would be forced to resign for the advertisement his political action committee just released. It’s that bad. Honestly, he should resign anyway. The ad is basically a ripoff of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 pro-Ku Klux Klan film Birth of a Nation…
