Miami Heat Should Trade Hassan Whiteside for Carmelo Anthony

Phil Jackson, the New York Knicks, and Carmelo Anthony are in the final stages of a messy divorce. All that is required to finalize the breakup is a trade partner willing to give the Knicks a player of value for their veteran star. The Miami Heat should be that homewrecker…

Miami Heat Fans Need to Embrace Tanking for Draft Picks

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.

Obama Shouldn’t Have Ended Wet Foot, Dry Foot

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…

Heat Needs to Blow Up Its Roster and Begin Rebuilding With Patience

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.

Remembering the Many Rebirths of David Bowie

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.

Why Was Matt Moore Allowed to Play After Vicious Helmet-to-Helmet Hit?

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.

Why the Dolphins Will Upset the Pittsburgh Steelers This Weekend

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 Should Win NFL’s Coach of the Year

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…

Next Generation of Black Politicians Is Changing Miami for the Better

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…

Holy Crap, the Miami Dolphins Are Going to the Playoffs

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 Buffalo Bills Have the Worst Fans in the NFL

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.

Miami’s Five Biggest Sports Stories of 2016

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.

Hey, Florida, It’s Time to Stop Blindly Adoring Publix

If a huge company like Best Buy or Walmart had a history of anti-LGBT accusations, fought Miami Beach’s attempt to ban Styrofoam, had ties to someone donating millions of dollars against medical marijuana, and battled a proposal to raise the minimum wage, protests would rage in the streets of Miami.