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On May 18, National Football League owners will congregate at some swanky Fort Lauderdale hotel to decide, among other things, whether they should add regular season games to what is currently a 16-game schedule.The USA Today reports that one influential member of that fraternity, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, wants 18…

Some important background on last night’s Heat game:  Before last night, Dwyane Wade had never beaten the Indiana Pacers in Conseco Fieldhouse. After last night, same deal. But it was close: 90-88. Wade had the second-worst shooting game of his career; it included missing the final shot of the game…..

The Heat crushed the Grizzlies at home last night, 94-82. And Dwyane Wade dropped 27 to break his own franchise single-season scoring record. The Heat started on an 11-0 run and never trailed O.J. Mayo and his Memphis crew. The real excitement came after the game though, when D-Wade gave…

[jump] The Heat won the game 101-96. In the first quarter, Wade hit a basket that put him over 2,000 points for the season. That makes him only the fifth player in NBA history to notch 2,000 points, 500 assists, and 150 steals in a single season. Miami also inched…

Yesterday afternoon, as Bostonians eased out of whiskey-induced hibernation (doctors call it “alcohol poisoning”) in a blanket of their own green vomit, they got a piece of good news: Police decided to drop the charges in exchange for an apology and a promise never to treat a lamp post like that again…

A South Florida charter school company says that Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has failed to live up to his end of the deal to promote education to at-risk youth, and this afternoon it formally ended its association with him. The company, called Mavericks in Education and based in Fort…

You probably aren’t a huge fan of the Dominican Republic baseball team. I know because you wouldn’t be reading this–your eyes would still be far too teary to stare at a blog. ESPN is reporting that hundreds of D.R. fans had already purchased plane tickets to Miami and tickets to the second…

The first time came at the end of the first half. Then again to tie the game at the end of regulation. Then, after he stole the ball from John Salmons with three seconds left in the second overtime, Wade hit a running three as time expired to give “El…

Most every hockey fan enjoys the clash of a few goons, but imagine how the goons’ parents feel. Here’s an article about Boca Raton resident Gilles Roy, a project manager for a South Florida construction firm, who can hardly bear to watch his son in action.“Nobody in their right mind…

Like a wise-cracking, slam-dunking movie monster (not to be confused with Kazaam), Shaquille O’Neal has returned to South Florida. And like Godzilla, he is doing his share of crushing — even if it’s not on the basketball court. Last night, Shaq made the Miami stop on what he’s calling his…

At this point, they are the two leading candidates for league MVP. They are the NBA’s top scorers, top names (with Kobe Bryant, perhaps), good friends, and oh yeah, Olympic teammates. There was no way a game in March could live up to hype like this. Except it did. In…

C. Stiles Johnson training in Hollywood for a fight last November By the time most professional boxers turn 40, the days of lacing up the gloves and dancing around the squared circle are long gone. But that’s just not the case with Miami-based former IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Glen Johnson…

You know what really pisses off Mardy Fish, winner of yesterday’s Delray Beach Championship final? When his opponent takes a 20-minute break before Fish’s serve. He believes this is “bush league” and “bullshit” and if anyone tries it, Fish will “beat his fucking ass.” Or so he said in a…

It started around Presidents’ Day. ESPN has been picking the “Mt. Rushmore of Sports” in every state, then choosing the top five states. This week, it decided Illinois had the best mountain, with Michael Jordan, Ernie Banks, Walter Payton, and Mike Ditka. Hard to argue those guys aren’t Da Best…

It is officially a fashion trend. Since he took a Juwan Howard elbow to the face earlier this month and needed six stitches, the ever-stylish Dwyane Wade has been brandishing a series of personalized Band-Aid-like adhesive bandages (not to be confused with Band-Aids, pictured here) under his left eye. Soon, the…

With the NFL combine this weekend, 21-year-old future millionaires are gathering in Indianapolis, doing everything they can to get the right kind of attention. Darius Butler, a cornerback from Coral Springs who attended UConn, is impressing scouts with his superhuman ability to get high. Jump that is. Not only does…

Last evening I endured the mind-numbingly slow commute west from downtown Fort Lauderdale to see in person whether this Florida Panthers squad was for real, or just a fringey playoff team. The Atlantic Division leading New Jersey Devils would make a good measuring stick.  The Cats dominated the Devils all…

Deuce McAllister that is. He was released yesterday by the New Orleans Saints. He might be a good fit with Miami, though the Dolphins’ 11-5 record puts them near the bottom of the waiver priority list.  Still, this is a day for immature headline writers across this nation to celebrate…

Miami’s Doral Golf Resort & Spa certainly hopes so. There’s been speculation that Tiger Woods would return from his knee surgery at the course’s WGC-CA Championship March 12-15 — almost a month before the Masters is to begin. But at this weekend’s Allianz Championships in Boca Raton, golf buddy Mark…

A bit of controversy at a boxing match this past weekend at the BankAtlantic Center, which hosted a WBC Championship bout between two super welterweights — Sergio Martinez, the interim champ, and Kermit Citron, a former IBF champ who used to train in West Palm.HBO showed the fight, which was…

You’ve got college coaches like Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden whose longevity is equal parts genius and ego — they stay as coach in part because they can’t bear to give control to someone else. Then you have coaches like Rollie Massimino, who won a national championship at Villanova in…