Opinion & Commentary

Dear Pepe, I have been a big fan of yours for a while. I think the humor and laughter you bring to social media has been second to none for a long time. Your popularity has earned you respect and a lot of fame. This in turn has made you…

Twenty-five years ago, coach Sam Johnson and I launched an organization dedicated to providing a place where Liberty City kids could play baseball and football while learning they didn’t have to sling drugs on a street corner. For close to three decades, the Liberty City Optimist Club has mentored African-American…

The Miami Dolphins newest head coach started off his tenure with a 38-10 steel-toed-roundhouse-kick square in the face of the Tennessee Titans. From beginning to end, it was apparent that all the pump-you-up-shenanigans Dan Campbell had been using over the course of the last two weeks had lit a fire…

The Miami Dolphins couldn’t have planned the beginning to this season any worse. Between the 1-3 start that led to Joe Philbin getting fired, the rash of injuries to key players, and the shocking under performance of others — this year seems over before it even began. Dolphins fans are…

South Florida is still home to the most head-turning female TV reporters in the nation. That’s why it’s time for another list of the ten hottest women delivering the news. After all, they work in a medium that places a high priority on being ridiculously good-looking while reporting stories. To…

In the Winter of 2013, I interviewed Ruth and Marvin Sackner for The Miami Rail in anticipation of a show of word image art pieces from their collection at the grand opening of the Perez Art Museum Miami. The interview is here, but in my mind the most important thing…

The owners of Miami New Times on Monday completed a sale of New York’s Village Voice to investor Peter Barbey. Voice Media Group, which took over the publication in 2013, did not announce financial details of the deal, but said in a press release that the company would continue managing…

This weekend, it was close, but no cigar yet again for UM fans as the losing streak to FSU marches on. Its now been 2,228 days since the Hurricanes last win over FSU and counting.  Miami’s 29-24 loss to FSU Saturday night was quite possibly the final nail in Al…

Dan Campbell is the new sheriff in town, and everyone is on notice. Now that the Miami Dolphins have sent Joe Philbin into coaching exile, it’s high time to assess what parts of this team can be fixed on the fly. Campbell seems like a fiery guy that will use…

Since the beginning of the University of Miami’s football season, anonymous angry fans have been paying for planes to fly banners over every game demanding that head coach Al Golden be fired. While the Canes were losing against the University of Cincinnati last week, for instance, a banner proclaimed, “I…

The season is only three games old, but the Miami Dolphins are already a bigger disaster than Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall. Rumors that Joe Philbin is about to get canned and this roster blown up aren’t all that far-fetched.  So bear with us here: If Stephen Ross indeed fires Philbin mid-year,…

What do African-Americans need to succeed? Too often, people who live outside of Miami’s black communities focus on negative issues such as gun violence and police-involved killings. Reporters have no qualms about naming the city when a crime occurs in Miami Gardens, a predominantly black city. But when a theft…

The Miami Dolphins first two games have been disappointing. Fans expected the team to perform much better thanks to all the offseason moves the team made. Last week’s 23-20 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars proved the team still has major flaws, though, and expectations may have been set too high…

It’s a new season, but it’s now clear we’re watching the same old Dolphins. After an uninspiring win in the season opener against Washington, the Dolphins looked to put more of a definite stamp on this season that would show the team has changed their mediocre ways. But Miami did…

Last weekend, Jarvis Landry helped the Miami Dolphins snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with his electric, game-deciding fourth-quarter punt return touchdown. The 69-yard clutch-sprint was the exact defibrillation the team needed in what was an otherwise underwhelming, sleepy Miami Dolphins opening performance.  In just Landry’s second season, it’s already…

Mike Huckabee can’t climb past 5 percent in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. So the former Arkansas governor, who moved to Florida like many other carpetbaggers, is getting insanely desperate. He went full Ku Klux Klan. Last week, he compared Kim Davis — the Kentucky court clerk whose…

Brice McCain is a Miami Dolphin. You may or may not have known that before Sunday, but you’re definitely aware of that fact now. Because with Washington driving down the field late looking for the game tying touchdown, McCain made one of the more impossible plays you will see in…

It’s been more than 20 years since Miami New Times columnist Jim DeFede wrote a series of columns that called Miami Heat owner and Carnival Cruise Line chief Micky Arison “a greedy corporate pig.” Since then, the newspaper has written hundreds of stories about Heat championships, charities, and kind acts…

Most Miami Dolphins fans haven’t even considered that their team could contend of a Super Bowl this season; hell, everyone is just happy the vibe around the team is they are destined for the playoffs — but could the improbable become a reality?  Probably not! Now that we have set…