Opinion & Commentary

Last season, Kaepernick infuriated a small racist segment of NFL fans and sports pundits by taking a knee during the singing of the National Anthem to protest police brutality against blacks

The Miami Heat is reportedly one of more than 20 teams that have inquired about acquiring disgruntled Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving. ESPN reports Pat Riley and the Heat are willing to send Goran Dragic and Justise Winslow to Cleveland in exchange for Irving. Not all Heat fans are thrilled by the thought of breaking up an overachieving Miami Heat team poised to run it back in 2017, though.

John McCain is a maverick for real. The Arizona senator upended his party’s seven-year mission to eradicate Obamacare by voting no late last night on a Republican bill that would have eliminated parts of the Affordable Care Act after the GOP-led Senate failed to repeal and replace the health-care law.

More than 30 states have provided their residents’ personal information to Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, which is charged with digging up proof that millions of Americans voted illegally in last year’s presidential election and robbed the billionaire real-estate developer of the popular vote.

O.J. Simpson has provided the blueprint on how to get out of prison early when facing a long sentence. It’s really simple: Keep your nose clean. Considering all the controversy the Juice got himself into prior to his 2008 conviction for strong-armed robbery, that was no easy task. The Hall…

With Miami Dolphins training camp just a few days away, it’s time for South Florida to pay attention to a new-and-improved team doing big things in Davie. On July 27, the Dolphins officially start a season with more promise than any in recent memory. The Fins are…

When it comes to supporting inner-city youth programs, the Miami Heat is nowhere to be found. Team owner Mickey Arison and president Pat Riley should be ashamed. The organization has won three world championships with some of the greatest African-American players in the history of hoops.

This July 4, there’s nothing to feel patriotic about, not when President Donald Trump is acting like a fool on Twitter, threatening journalists, and posting memes of himself to rile up his racist base. The commander in crazy has taken the fun out of Independence Day. He’s not the only…

Over the weekend, the Miami Heat’s pursuit of Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward got personal — not for the Heat or Hayward, but for the cities involved in the chase for his services. Hayward reportedly has the Boston Celtics, Utah Jazz, and Miami Heat at the top of his list. One of those cities is definitely not like the other two.

“Miamians are savages.” I’ll never forget those words, uttered to me by a Hialeah Metrorail station janitor. How a city handles public transit says a lot about its culture. I’m referring to not only the agency that runs transit — surely, that can’t be easy — but also the riders themselves.

Udonis Haslem is the last Miami Heat Mohican. He is the proverbial cockroach that survived a nuclear blast. If the Miami Heat’s roster over the past decade were a Hunger Games movie, the odds have definitely remained ever in U.D.’s favor.

The Democratic Party is in desperate need of a major overhaul. Nationally, the party lost the crucial special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District earlier this week. And here in Florida, the state’s Democratic Party chairman, Stephen Bittel, badly alienated black Democratic lawmakers by calling them “childish,” sparking accusations of racism.

In the spring of 2013, during a time Miami Beach city leaders proposed to bulldoze the Fillmore to make way for chic condos, Lauren “Lolo” Reskin, the owner of Sweat Records, blogged about what the suggested demolition meant to her.

University of Miami defensive end Chad Thomas has the talent and skills to be a number one pick in next year’s NFL draft. That’s if he doesn’t sign a multimillion-dollar recording deal. Thomas, a Liberty City native, has become one of Miami’s most sought-after music producers under the name Major…

Did you hear LeBron James claim he has never played for a superteam? But he has. We were all there. We were all witnesses. For his comments, LeBron has rightfully caught some side-eye, as well as a hearty chuckle from Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, who joked…

Dion Waiters went out of his way to make sure everyone knew that Miami is a different kind of franchise and that he owes a ton of credit to the organization for taking him from a player that surprisingly couldn’t find a deal last offseason to one that is highly coveted in this year’s free-agency period. The Heat makes players money. It’s what they do. It’s who they are. Sometimes the Heat pays those overachieving players to stay here, but sometimes the team looks for the next reclamation project instead.

As another Memorial Day Weekend in Miami Beach ended in bloodshed, city leaders keep struggling with how to deal with black people. This time around, Commissioner Michael Grieco is trying to score brownie points with Miami Beach voters for his mayoral run by proposing the type of prohibition African Americans…

Though Billy Corben claims to be a good judge of bad characters, he has Keon Hardemon all wrong. The Miami documentary filmmaker recently attacked the Miami City Commission chairman for selling out the black community. Corben used alternative facts only Donald Trump would be proud of.

A South Florida superstar is at the center of today’s biggest and most tragic news story. A suicide bomber struck an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, last night, killing 22 and injuring more than 50 others.