Chad Pennington

Miami Dolphins Open Preseason Against Bucs: Five Things To Look For

Your Miami Dolphins open their 2012 season tonight when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a pre-season matchup FUCK YEA. It's a whole new start (again!) for the Dolphins, as they unveil a new coaching regime (again!), a offensive scheme (again!), a new defensive scheme (again!) an ... More >>

Amar'e Stoudemire Now Part of What's Likely the Most Athletic Neighborhood in Broward

shortshortsweakprose.comAmar'e Stoudemire​New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire bought a new house in Southwest Ranches, which made headlines a few weeks ago largely due to the fact that his new pad is enormous and expensive -- $3.7 million for 14,555 square feet.Is it obnoxiously large wi ... More >>

Best Sports Bust: Chad Henne -- An Explanation

sportsgreed.comChad Henne: New Times' Best Sports Bust.​New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.If you noticed that Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne took the cake for biggest sports bust, you might wonder if we're second-guessing our selection of Henne over LeChoke LeBron ... More >>

Chad Pennington Featured in Tom Brady ESPN Documentary

Chad is the only QB taken in 2000 that came close to hanging with Brady​This week ESPN is airing a documentary about Tom Brady, or more specifically, about the six quarterbacks who were taken before him in the 2000 draft. The movie, "The Brady 6," chronicles the careers (or lack thereof) of the me ... More >>

Chad Pennington Tears his ACL Playing Basketball

​Chad Pennington, the two time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, would surly make a third run at the award if he returned to the field next season. But that doesn't seem likely now. The former Dolphins quarterback, and current free agent, tore his ACL while playing a game of pick-up basketball and ... More >>

Five Quarterback Options For the Miami Dolphins

flickr.comCould Vince Young be the QB of the future in Miami?​A lot of things are up in the air for the Miami Dolphins this off-season. There are serious question about the general manager, the head coach, the starting running backs, and, of course, the quarterback position.For a little while, it ... More >>

Five Best Parts of the Miami Dolphins Season

flickr.comCameron Wake was one of few good things about this year.​Yesterday we brought you a list of the five worst moments of this dreadful Miami Dolphins season. And though the team went 7-9, finished third in the division, and missed the playoffs for the second straight year, the season wasn't ... More >>

Quarterback Quandaries

Five Videos of Athletes Dancing (Get Well Soon, Chad Pennington!)

All that dancing must have made Chad Pennington tired.​Our pal Bob Norman over at the Daily Pulp posted an awesome video last Sunday of the Dolphins' Chad Pennington dancing to Eminem.Presumably white-boy-style dancing was intended to pump him up. That obviously failed since Pennington is now out ... More >>

Could Anonka Dixon Be the First Female Player in the NFL--and the Answer to the Dolphins' QB Woes?

C. StilesAnonka Dixon before last year's LFL playoffs.​The Miami Dolphins are desperate right now. Less than a week after benching Chad Henne in favor of Chad Pennington, the team may have lost both players for the remainder of the season. Third-stringer Tyler Thigpen finished Sunday's win against ... More >>

Five Nice Things Tony Sparano Said About Chad Henne the Day He Benched Him

flickr.comIn Pennington we trust?​With the Dolphins 4-4 at the halfway point in the season, head coach Tony Sparano announced today that starting quarterback Chad Henne will be benched this week in favor of former savior (and two-time comeback player of the year), Chad Pennington. (Insert "hanging ... More >>

Defeat the Douchebags

Bill Parcells May Have Been Fired, and He May Have Deserved It

flickr.com​This week brought news that Bill Parcells is leaving his post as vice president of football operations for the Dolphins. Upon closer inspection, it sure seems like the Tuna was given the hook. And though he's nothing short of a football legend -- and it might sound almost sacrilegious t ... More >>

Chad Henne Outplayed by Backups -- His and the Cowboys

Photo from drunkathlete.comHenne, back in his Michigan days.​Earlier this week, as the Dolphins were getting ready to play the Cowboys in last night's exhibition game, starting QB Chad Henne described to the media what he hoped to do.Well, I mean, I definitely want to come out with a lot of pluses ... More >>

The Top Five Miami Dolphins Storylines from This Offseason

flickr.comSleeping with the enemy.​The Dolphins are probably going to try to fill some holes in the defensive line or the linebacking corps in tonight's NFL draft. Coaches, executives, draftologists, and fans with nothing better to do will pour over notes and highlight reels from players all over ... More >>

Top Five Dolphins of the Decade

flickr.comPennington may have been the best Phins QB of the decade, but he only played one year.​Without a doubt, this has been the worst decade on record for one of the winning-est franchises in league history. It started with Jimmy Johnson retiring and Dan Marino following suit not long after. T ... More >>

Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano Is a Risk-Taking Conservative

Circle Your Fun Wagons

Hanging Chad: Jets Aiming to Beat Up Another Dolphins QB

Flickr user: lb_ice_dogs_fansDolphins and Jets face off tonight at 8:30 on ESPN​Are you ready for some football? Well, Chad Pennington isn't. He was supposed to provide the Monday Night Football storyline. He was to avenge his being dumped by the Jets before the 2008 season. Instead, Pennington go ... More >>

Tell Us Who's Best in South Florida

Earlier this year, we asked you to tell us your favorite things about Broward and Palm Beach counties in our Best Of 2009 Readers' Poll. Below is a random sampling of the projected winners so far. Some categories have yet to be voted on, like Best Politician (we're still optimistic there is such a t ... More >>

Draft or Bottle?

Drew Rosenhaus to NFL: Anyone Want a Troubled Wide Receiver from South Florida (or Three)?

Pop quiz sports fans: What do Bengals' receiver Chad Ocho Cinco (formerly Chad Johnson), Cardinals' receiver Anquan Boldin, and Giants' receiver Plaxico Burress have in common? They all have histories of insubordination (and one shot himself in the leg in a nightclub). They all have homes ... More >>

The Pro Bowl Blows

I wish I could say that today's appointment of Kerry Collins as Brett Favre's replacement in the NFL Pro Bowl was the fatal blow to this game's credibility. But that credibility left long ago. So let's just call this a signal that the powers that be don't believe that Chad Pennington isn't even in ... More >>

Cinderella Story to Date Rape: Fins Season Gone in Sixty Minutes

A Baltimore Raven defense led by two former University of Miami stars, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, thrashed our spunky Dolphins yesterday, 27-9. I could've sworn the Ravens were playing with 14 men on defense, but I'll have to go back to the tape to make sure. At any rate, those blitz packages seemed to ... More >>

The Greatness of Small Expectations

How do you keep fans -- and sportswriters -- happy in the NFL? Make sure you toss in a few ridiculously bad seasons in the mix of a bunch of mediocre ones. It's all about expectations, folks. Remember that. Don't believe it? Let's look at the Dolphins, a team that during the last couple deca ... More >>

Do You (Not) Believe in Miracles?

The Miami Dolphins beat the Jets Sunday to win the division and make it to the playoffs. It's a great achievement for a team that went 1-15 last year and a nice gift for the fans. But a miracle? That's what a headline on the the Sun-Sentinel's front page called it this morning -- a " ... More >>

Miami Dolphins: Hope Or Nope?

Nope. Fact is, this team isn't nearly as good as its record suggests. Overrated? Maybe, but you can't really over-rate a team that spent the previous season flirting with a record for professional football futility. So let's try this: If next week the Dolphins defeat the New York Jets, then the Dolp ... More >>

Letters from the issue of December 11, 2008

Meh-rino!

Hanging Chads

Nothing spices up a storyline like QB Controversy

Fins vs. Foes