Now that the NBA season is over, the LeBron James free-agency watch has begun. Every team will be lining up to make a pitch at him. Whether he opts into his lucrative contract and demands a trade or decides to enter free agency on his own, LeBron will have his pick of teams around the NBA. He can go wherever he wants.
If there is one thing we’ve learned about LeBron James over the course of his career, it’s that those who doubt him do so at their own risk. Whether screaming that LeBron was making a mistake coming to the Miami Heat or giving the Cleveland Cavaliers no chance at coming back from a 3-1 deficit in the 2016 NBA Finals…
Where have all the Miami sports rivalries gone? There aren’t any left in any South Florida professional sports. The only truly simmering local rivalry is the University of Miami Hurricanes versus the Florida State Seminoles.
The Florida Marlins are back this week, but only for a handful of days. If it were up to the fans, though, the Florida Marlins would be here to stay. In fact, the fans are right: Now that the hated Jeffrey Loria regime is gone, the Miami Marlins should move back to their roots and rebrand themselves the Florida Marlins — complete with a return to their distinctive teal attire.
If you spent seven years doing only one job, you and your co-workers would probably know by now if you were any good at it. Other people have gone from high-school students to doctors in less time.
Hassan Whiteside isn’t happy with the Miami Heat. The Miami Heat isn’t happy with Hassan Whiteside. If this were a marriage, lawyers would have already been involved. Unfortunately, especially for the Heat, parting ways with the team’s disgruntled center won’t be as easy as filing for divorce. Their relationship is a mess, with no sign of reconciliation in sight.
The National Football League is downright un-American. Its billionaire owners are out-of-touch with the players and the African-American community. This is an organization in which the employers see themselves as plantation masters and the employees as their slaves.
This past Wednesday, the NFL took extraordinary measures to stop its employees from silently protesting during the National Anthem in hopes of forcing a conversation about racial inequality and injustice. The NFL said every player “shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem,” and if they choose not to…
As Memorial Day approaches, Miami Beach is gearing up to make tens of thousands of Urban Beach Week visitors feel like unwelcome houseguests who deserve to be ripped off and thrown in jail.
Two years later, New Times is still getting hate mail for telling Floridians in 2016 to “stop loving Publix.” You all yelled at us then and called us “carpetbaggers” for pointing out that the beloved supermarket chain has abysmal politics. But now, after the Tampa Bay Times detailed the gobs of cash…
Unsurprisingly, no one is attending Marlins games this year. Well, that’s not true. A few people are going to Marlins games this year. But by the standards of a normal Major League Baseball team, the league-worst 10,000 fans the Fish are drawing per game is bad — on the verge of historically bad. You know your attendance is a special kind of bad when the Tampa Bay Rays are outdrawing you by nearly 50 percent.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Heat was rudely dismissed from the playoffs by the Philadelphia 76ers. Though the result of the series doesn’t tell the entire story of how close the games against the Sixers were, one thing is certain as the Heat enters the offseason: Miami isn’t close to being a serious contender, and it won’t be in the conversation for an NBA title anytime soon.
Joe Carollo. Even uttering his name can raise the blood pressure among those who have followed Miami politics since the early ’90s. Miamians tend to shrug off political lunacy, so it takes a special kind of elected official to earn the moniker “Loco Joe.” Remember when a shark rode Metromover in 2009 and most locals simply shrugged and moved on?
This time of year usually brings a sense of optimism to every NFL fan base. As teams add exciting new players in the draft and sign established talent in free agency, coaches and owners always seem to have solved all the teams’ problems by May. Everyone is undefeated, and nearly every team is picked by someone as this year’s potential sleeper that will come out of nowhere to win the Super Bowl.
Charles Barkley thinks the Miami Heat sucks and Dwyane Wade is embarrassing himself. He said these things this week, and it’s nowhere near the first time he’s spoken ill of D-Wade.
A judge Monday sealed tapes of hours of jailhouse phone calls made by chart-topping Lauderhill musician XXXTentacion. The decision is an affront to anyone who believes in open-record laws. It also violates state law.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez still has two years left of his final term, but now is the time to start identifying the best candidate to replace him in 2020. For my money, it’s Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert.
The Miami Dolphins are putting all of their eggs in Ryan Tannehill’s basket this season. They made that clear when they failed to select a quarterback in the NFL Draft. Everyone — from head coach Adam Gase to president of operations Mike Tannenbaum — has hitched their jobs to the health and performance of Tannehill this season.
Pat Riley has not only reinvented the Miami Heat roster numerous times in his two-plus decades running the team, but also, for all intents and purposes, invented the Heat. Riley repeatedly has taken the ordinary and made it extraordinary. Past or present, he is the Miami Heat. Without him, everything is different.
Based on everything he’s said since the end of the playoffs, Dwyane Wade is beginning to seriously contemplate whether to return to the Miami Heat for his 16th season in the NBA. As greedy local fans, we hope Wade decides to run it back one more time — if only so Miami can embrace an entire season of properly soaking in his victory lap. We’d like more time to say goodbye.
The Miami Heat has what many longtime South Florida sports fans would readily identify as a “Miami Dolphins problem.” The Heat thinks it’s close to being a contender for a championship when in reality the team is as close to the bottom as it is to the top. A simple glance up and down the rosters of Miami’s opponents shows…
Since the offseason began, the Miami Dolphins have been cleaning house. Fans tuning into the NFL Draft tonight expecting the Fins to get the pieces they need to make a playoff run are in for a rude awakening, though. This will be a rebuilding year for Miami’s pro-football franchise.
