Pat Riley is fishing for a whale with his hands tied behind his back. Just imagine Riley strapped to a fishing chair, grasping a fishing rod between his toes, and trying to hook the biggest fish in the sea. Those are essentially the odds the Miami Heat president is faced with today if he’s to acquire a big-time NBA player before Thursday’s trade deadline.
This must be the year of the black movie. The Miami-made film Moonlight is nominated for eight Oscars at this Sunday’s ceremony. But Hollywood has a long way to go before it can claim that African-American movies and TV shows are on equal footing. In fact, Moonlight’s success doesn’t make…
When he was campaigning, Donald Trump courted black voters by doing something he rarely does: telling the truth. At an Ohio rally in August 2016, he took the Democratic Party to task for having “failed completely in the inner cities.” He told African-American voters: “Year after year, failure after failure,…
In its quest for “good TV,” the Grammys ignore some of today’s best artists.
Toss this hot take into the ever-growing pile of takes about the Miami Heat hitting the web over the past week that would have seemed downright senile just three weeks ago: Erik Spoelstra has delivered the best coaching performance of his career in 2017. The fact that this take didn’t just burn a hole through your computer screen, drop onto your keyboard, and roll into your lap is reason enough to call this one of the oddest Heat seasons of all time.
Lady Gaga’s halftime-show protest was a continuation of her career activism.
It took more than a decade, but a full-service recreation center for youth in Liberty City is finally open. Last month, the City of Miami officially unlocked the doors of the Samuel K. Johnson Youth Center at Charles Hadley Park. Now kids from one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, which…
Miami is pegged at +4000, or 40-to-1 odds, to win Super Bowl LII, according to Sports Insights. Those odds are smack-dab in the middle of the pack as far as AFC teams go and 16th out of the entire NFL.
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…
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…
