Update 5: Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra during Friday’s practice: “In terms of all the rumors and speculation, we’re aware of all the things that are out there. Everybody’s jumping the gun right now. Frankly, there is not a full diagnosis, so for everybody to speculate at this stage is…
Pat Riley has done it again. As the NBA’s trade deadline loomed Thursday afternoon, the Miami Heat was able to pull off a trade that netted them Goran Dragic from the Phoenix Suns, immediately improving the Heat’s point guard situation while still keeping key pieces. According to several reports, the…
Even with plans for a land-use change for a baseball site still up in the air, it looks like the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals will be making West Palm Beach their permanent spring training home for at least the next three decades following the 2016 season. Gov. Rick Scott…
South Florida sports fans have not had a lot to be excited about this year. LeBron left, the Heat are racked with injuries, the Marlins are an enigma, the Panthers are a roller coaster of crazy, and the Dolphins are forever mediocre. But all is not lost. Because hope has…
In case you were trapped under something heavy, the big news is that the New England Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl last night by defeating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24. Much to the chagrin of Dolphins fans everywhere, the Patriots are the picture of sustained excellence in the NFL. This…
For years, boxing fans the world over have been waiting for Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to agree on a date and get things rolling already. There’s no argument that this card would be the most highly anticipated, most viewed boxing match in decades. But for one reason or another,…
Miko Grimes, wife of Miami Dolphins Pro Bowl cornerback Brent Grimes, went full scorched Earth on the NFL on her Twitter last night. Though Miko’s saying inflammatory things on Twitter is nothing new and though she says nothing revelatory about the NFL, it’s still the most public lambasting of the…
The Miami Heat has had something of an inconsistent season. While the team has struggled to find some coherence trying to overcome mediocre play and injuries, hope may have come in the form of a seven-foot journeyman who is capable of head-butting skyscrapers and obliterating basketballs like flies. Hassan Whiteside,…
Ten-time All Star free agent Ichiro Suzuki has agreed to join the Miami Marlins this season, according to multiple reports. Ichiro, who will enter the season at 41 years of age and is 157 hits away from his 3,000th hit, is being brought in as depth and insurance to a…
The Miami Dolphins finally did something right, it would seem. After a three-year relationship with SeaWorld, the Dolphins are ending their marketing partnership with the theme park. For SeaWorld, it’s yet another company that has broken ties. Southwest Airlines, Virgin America, STA Travel, Hyndai, and Taco Bell have all distanced…
While the Dolphins finished another year without making the playoffs and their owner has bungled things up yet again by building a confusing hierarchy, there’s been at least one bright spot: Ryan Tannehill’s emergence. And now reports from Dolphins camp have begun to surface that the team is ready to…
Super sports agent and South Florida resident Drew Rosenhaus was apparently involved in a domestic incident with his wife Sunday evening. According to a report by TMZ, police were called to Rosenhaus’ Miami home where his wife, Lisa Thomson, says she was verbally attacked by Drew and his brother Jason…
Last year, the Florida Panthers ended the season at the bottom of the conference standings and among the worst teams in the league. They’re a team constantly mired in controversy. For various reasons — from terrible management to a lack of fans buying tickets to the fact the South Florida…
It was recently announced that retired Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo would be part of the ownership group that purchased the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. With his World Cup-winning pedigree and well-known grin, Ronaldo is expected to lend his name to the North American Soccer League and the Strikers, which is never…
A visibly shaken and emotional Rob Konrad held a news conference in Palm Beach to recall his nearly 16-hour ordeal of being forced to swim nine miles to shore after he had fallen off his fishing boat. Konrad, 38, was aboard his 36-foot boat last Wednesday when he tripped and…
Rob Konrad, a popular former fullback for the Miami Dolphins, reportedly fell off a boat during a fishing excursion, then managed to swim nine miles to shore off the coast of Palm Beach. According to the Coast Guard, Konrad was out on the waters alone on Wednesday, fishing for about…
After yet another mediocre season in which they missed the playoffs and lodged themselves firmly in the middle of the draft, the Miami Dolphins have gone ahead and hired Mike Tannenbaum to be their next head of football operations. Who is Mike Tannenbaum, you ask? He once ran the New…
FSU’s dreams of repeating as National Champions were rebuffed with extreme prejudice Thursday night after the Noles were demolished by Oregon in the Rose Bowl by the score of 59-20. It was the end of what has been a tumultuous run by the Seminoles and their polarizing star QB Jameis…
Let’s face it. 2014 was a big heaping pile of crap of a sports year for us down here. The Heat got destroyed in the Finals, which led to LeBron James’ leaving for Cleveland. The Dolphins still suck. The Marlins missed the playoffs and lost their star player for the…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is either blind, indifferent, or nuts. One would have to be, no? The NFL season for the Dolphins has come and gone and, exactly as we predicted, Miami finished with an 8-8 record and failure to once again enter the playoffs. And as it is…
We laughed, we cried, then we laughed again. Merry Christmas, Heat fans. In LeBron James’ first game back in Miami, the Heat put together its most LeBron-era-like performance Thursday, beating the Cavs 101-91. That one felt damned good and couldn’t have come at a better time or on a bigger…
The day Heat fans have been anticipating all season has finally arrived; LeBron James’ return to American Airlines Arena is just hours away. The Heat’s struggles this season may have taken some of the luster off the match-up, but you can be sure LeBron returning to Miami will be the…
