Here’s a fact: The Miami Heat have not won a playoff game since Prince died. Think about it. Here’s another fact: The officiating in the Heat’s first round series against the Charlotte Hornets has been decisively skewed towards the Hornets in a series that is now tied at 2-2. Coincidence?…
Now the NBA playoffs have really started for the Miami Heat. After two games of absolutely scorching shooting to open the playoffs had the Heat as the talk of the postseason, Miami was undoubtedly the hottest team in the NBA, and seemingly on a collision course with the Cleveland Cavs. The Charlotte…
The number of murdered children in Miami’s African-American communities continues to climb. Seven-year-old Amiere Castro was killed in a drive-by. Six-year-old King Carter was shot on his way to buy candy. And so far this year, 11 Dade teenagers have been murdered with guns. Meanwhile, adults are clueless about how…
Yesterday the NBA announced Kawhi Leonard had won his second-straight NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. This surprised almost no one. Kawhi Leonard is something out of the Matrix. He is somehow always in five places at once. He is an unsolvable Rubik’s Cube of a defender. He alone…
The Miami Heat returned to the NBA playoffs for the first time since losing that guy that left for Cleveland but still somehow can’t stay seem to away from the 305 on Sunday night, and proceeded to step inside the Charlotte Hornets’ asshole in a 123-91 Game 1 route. And,…
“There’s a unique emotional bond between Udonis Haslem and Miami because of how proudly he represents this city, and this city’s story,” Dan LeBatard once said of Haslem’s relationship with the city he’s called home his entire life. With the Miami Heat’s regular season ending tonight in Boston, most everyone’s…
For more than a year, Miami-Dade school board member Raquel Regalado has been positioning herself as the antidote to the county’s current mayor, Carlos Gimenez. Regalado recently came out against Gimenez’s multimillion-dollar bailout of the Frost Science Museum and chided commissioners for it: “What are we telling our kids if…
It’s official: Miami Heat Nation has put their money where the haters’ mouth is. Heat playoff tickets went on sale this past Thursday, and if the regular season was any indication, they are sure to sell out fast. And Forbes recently released their 2015-16 NBA team evaluations equations, in which they…
By now you’ve dropped off all your orange ties at the local Goodwill and picked up a pair of Mark Richt shades instead. The Mark Richt Era is barreling through its first offseason, and in a few short months, you’ll be able to witness the results firsthand on a football field…
Stephen Ross is about to make back a chunk of the reportedly $350 million in private funds he pledged to renovate his now unnamed stadium. Last month the naming rights deal between Canadian-based Sun Life Financial Inc. and the Dolphins ran out, meaning the Dolphins are now free agents, looking…
President Barack Obama did a poor job selling his trip to Cuba, especially in Miami. Cuban exiles have not forgotten how Castro’s revolution destroyed their country and families. While Obama is pondering his legacy, the journey to the communist island will only further divide African-Americans and Cubans in Miami. Here’s…
Polls show Hillary Clinton enjoys overwhelming support from African-Americans in Florida over Bernie Sanders, but black people are not excited about voting for her. They haven’t forgotten how her husband, President Bill Clinton, screwed Kendrick Meek six years ago in the U.S. Senate race. You may remember that election. Marco…
For a long time, Dolphins fans have thought of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars as the Winn-Dixies to the Dolphins Publix. The KIA to Miami’s Lexus. The community college to their University of Miami. Well, times are-a-changin’. At this moment in history, is sure seems like the Dolphins…
The Miami Heat is better and more entertaining without Chris Bosh. Since the All-Star break, the team has been scorching the scoreboard. Why? The six-foot-11 power forward’s absence has forced head coach Erik Spoelstra to implement a fast-tempo offense led by point guard Goran Dragiç. After Bosh was diagnosed with…
Jalen Ramsey is everything the Miami Dolphins need. He’s strong, confident, smart, versatile, athletic, a leader, and a champion. And most importantly, a he’s a cornerback. Ramsey might just be the best player in the 2016 NFL Draft, and he just so happens to fill the biggest need the Dolphins…
Ben Carson on being black, Marco Rubio vs. Donald Trump as a video game, and Chris Christie as an outer space creature. It’s been one helluva week. On this Super Tuesday, when the Donald is preparing to wrap it all up and move to the White House, Pepe Billete spouts…
With the Florida primary less than two weeks away, about 250,000 Republican voters have already cast their absentee ballots. That can’t be a good sign for onetime Tea Party golden boy Marco Rubio and the other three remaining Republican presidential contenders dreaming about knocking off frontrunner Donald Trump. Last week,…
As the Golden State Warriors inch closer to breaking the Chicago Bulls’ twenty-year old NBA record of 72 wins, talking heads have begun arguing over which team is the best of all time. Sports fans love to claim that whatever we’re witnessing at the moment is the best ever, while…
Just when you think the Miami Heat are dead-and-buried, they come out of the All Star break looking like they spent the time off filming an NBA-themed edition of Extreme Makeover. This pleasant rejuvenation has coincided with the complete absence of both Chris Bosh and the Dwyane Wade, proving sports continues…
This past Saturday, stray bullets killed King Carter, a 6-year-old first-grader who played little-league football for the Liberty City Optimist Club. I founded the club more than 25 years ago. I’m also a friend of the boy’s family. Little King was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between several…
Even today, it’s impossible to think about the Miami Dolphins for more than five minutes without the name Dan Marino popping into your head. There are Dolphins fans who watched their child age from birth to high school graduation all while Marino was under center. Dan Marino is treated like…
The 2016 election may be the most Miami in history — two Cuban guys and a Communist. So Pepe Billete, the city’s most profane Cuban puppet, just had to get involved. Last night, the little man with the big voice tossed his half-smoked puro into the street, stamped on it, and…
