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 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.
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.
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.
Even as Mark Richt prepares the University of Miami Hurricanes for their first major bowl game in years, his mission is in major jeopardy. New threats are all around. Butch Davis, recently appointed as Florida International University’s new head coach, will try to steal Richt’s potential recruits. You remember Davis…
Fact: The Miami Dolphins are an 8-5 football team with a real chance of making the playoffs for the first time since the 2008 season. Counterpoint: Matt Moore, the new Dolphins quarterback, has been a part of roughly 1 percent of that 8-5 record and has completed 19 passes since the week the South Korean recording artist Psy released his megahit “Gangnam Style.”
Signs of the apocalypse were everywhere in 2016. Great Britain voted to leave the European Union, Donald Trump was elected president, and white supremacy rose from the dead. Some of America’s most iconic people dropped dead like Zika-infected mosquitoes caught in a haze of insecticide. Among others, we lost David…
The Dolphins beat the Arizona Cardinals 26-23 on a 20-yard field goal as time expired yesterday. But Miami fans were not celebrating. Just when he looked to be finally fulfilling years of teasing promise, Ryan Tannehill tore his ACL during the game. The team has confirmed he’s out for the season.
The Miami Dolphins are spending this week licking their wounds after the Baltimore Ravens blew them out last week. But even after that ugly loss, it’s clear the Fins have the brightest future of all the South Florida sports teams.
It has begun again. Sports agents have launched attacks on African-American college football players. Now someone needs to stand up for the students. College coaches, the NCAA, and the NFL Players Association (NFPLA) certainly aren’t helping enough.
Welp, it was fun while it lasted, but at some point you knew the Miami Dolphins would eventually have to put their pants back on. The Baltimore Ravens’ 38-6 ass-humbling blowout of the Dolphins yesterday was that time. The party is over. Everyone, please help pick up these red Solo cups all over the lawn.
Writing in the New York Times earlier this week, Miami-based journalist Brett Sokol interviewed Gean Moreno, one of the three curators for the forthcoming Whitney Biennial, about the lack of local representation in the coveted bi-annual NYC exhibition. Despite being the curator of programming at Miami’s Institute of Contemporary Art…
Wins haven’t been easy to come by for the Miami Heat this season, but according to a new study, Heat fans keep winning off the court. They don’t need science to prove they are among the best fans in all of sports — but science keeps stepping in to prove it’s true.
Once again, it’s time to recognize the beautiful, smart women who deliver the news in South Florida. Outside of our tropical oasis, female television reporters are forced to adopt conservative attire and tone down their sensuality. Not in Miami, where news women have no qualms about getting dolled up like…
The Miami Dolphins beat the San Fransisco 49ers 31-24 Sunday, running their improbable, holy-shit-is-this-really-happening-right-now winning streak to six straight games. But there’s far more important news from yesterday’s game, because a member of the Fox telecast drew a big ol’ penis on the telestrator during the game.
President-elect Donald Trump is making it known that white power will have a place in his administration. Last week, he made his campaign chairman — former Breitbart News Network executive chairman and white nationalist Stephen Bannon — his White House chief strategist. This is a man who didn’t want his…
Ah, Thanksgiving — a time of happiness and warmth, when families come together to put aside their differences and celebrate the love that binds them with delicious food and thoughtful conversation. Kidding! The hallmark of a successful Thanksgiving for most people has traditionally been ignoring Aunt Martha’s obvious drinking problem…
Breaking news is coming into the New Times newsroom: These aren’t your same old Miami Dolphins. Nope. The same old Dolphins would have tanked when they lost a third starting offensive lineman before halftime of Sunday’s game against the Rams.
A new nationwide movement, promoted by firebrand columnist Shaun King, launched this week with the aim of punishing businesses with leaders who gave money to white-nationalist-enabling President-Elect Donald Trump. King’s campaign, called the DJT Resistance, has focused on the biggest Trump givers, such as New Balance, Yuengling, and Herbalife.
Hold onto your butts, South Florida — the Miami Dolphins are almost definitely not bad. They might not be good, but after a four-game winning streak that has swooped down and saved their season from the fiery pit of mock-drafts-in-November hell, we can pretty much guarantee the Fins aren’t that bad.
Just when you thought the Dolphins would go out of their way to Dolphins away another victory yesterday, they went and totally redeemed themselves. These might not be your same-old Miami Dolphins, people. We’re falling for it, aren’t we? Eh, we’ll enjoy it regardless. It feels right this time.
Last night, in the midst of a liberal social media meltdown over Donald Trump’s increasing likelihood of winning the presidency, actor George Takei launched a rallying cry. “We must stand up defiantly to any dark or divisive acts, and look out for the most vulnerable among us. It is more important than ever.”
