If you’re a fan of South Florida’s teams, Stephen Ross doesn’t think you’re a good sports fan. The Miami Dolphins’ owner made that sentiment clear earlier this week when he said as much during an impromptu interview with the New York Daily News. Ross made sure to hedge his hot take by pointing out that Miami is a “great city,” just not so hot when it comes to sports fandom.
As long as Miami had to stomach Jeffrey Loria, the spawn of Scrooge McDuck and Cruella de Vil, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross got a pass. Sure, his teams were just as putrid as the Marlins, but at least Ross didn’t donate to Donald Trump and stood up for his players’ right to protest police brutality during the National Anthem.
The Miami Dolphins are boring. They lack star power. They aren’t appointment television unless you’re marking it in your calendar to miss their games. Their decades-old sad act has their fans finding much more in common with apathetic Marlins lovers than they do Heat Nation. The Dolphins are in desperate need of an exciting change of course, and fast, or South Florida will lose interest.
Recently, rumors have swirled that the Miami Dolphins want to trade Jarvis Landry in order to jump into the first five picks of April’s NFL draft so they can snatch an elite-quarterback prospect. That would raise an obvious question: Uh, so what’s up with Ryan Tannehill? Head coach Adam Gase publicly backed…
Miami learned today what a difference it can make when you show someone you appreciate their work. Less than 24 hours ago, it seemed Alberto Carvalho would leave sunny Miami-Dade for the bright lights and cold days of New York City. Reports that the Miami-Dade County Public Schools chief had accepted…
Last month, cops and federal agents were quick to arrest rapper Kodak Black for probation violation and gun-related charges after he posted photos of himself brandishing weapons on social media. Meanwhile, Nikolas Cruz — the Parkland shooter who killed 17 innocent people — posted images of himself with weapons and also made comments about killing people. Even when someone who knew Cruz contacted the FBI to stop him, nothing happened.
Black Panther is an epic that every African-American must see. I never thought I’d see a Hollywood movie that goes over the heads of white people, but the latest Marvel film does the trick. Black Panther speaks in a code only black revolutionary minds can understand.
Marco Rubio was still in his first year as a senator when a madman with an assault rifle murdered 20 schoolchildren and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary. After the Miami Herald pressed him for a response, he said he hoped to “take a break from the politics of shooting for a few days to mourn.”
For those who have been too busy working in a coal mine or filming an episode of Deadliest Catch over the past week to keep up on local sports news, let’s get you up to speed: Dwyane Wade is once again a member of the Miami Heat.
For months, Miami Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo has insisted that any federal budget bill must include help for the millions of Dreamers — undocumented immigrants brought to America as children — before their legal protection under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan ends early next month.
Everywhere you turn in Miami, gentrification is in full swing. Real estate prices are booming in Allapattah, Brownsville, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Overtown as the same developers who bought up and transformed South Beach and Wynwood set their sights on new territories to exploit. Here’s how it…
The NBA trade deadline is this Thursday, February 8, and teams have reportedly seen the Miami Heat come up on their caller ID with increasingly regularity as the team explores all options to improve itself. With nearly zero salary-cap space, a shortage of draft picks, and a roster full of players that other teams aren’t exactly tripping over one another to acquire, the Heat has limited assets at its disposal in trade talks.
For all Wade has done for the franchise, he deserves to return to the Miami Heat, but on the Miami Heat’s terms. If he agrees to those terms, it would seem only right that a reunion take place next season while Wade still has some playing days left in him.
In a sane, moral, or just world, Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran would be forced to resign for the advertisement his political action committee just released. It’s that bad. Honestly, he should resign anyway. The ad is basically a ripoff of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 pro-Ku Klux Klan film Birth of a Nation…
The fútbol fanatics who packed the Knight Concert Hall Monday afternoon primed for a big fiesta starring David Beckham and his best political and business buds got just what they wanted. But the hundreds of reporters and photographers from around the world who came hoping for more concrete info about his planned Major League Soccer team might as well have stayed home and watched some old Real Madrid highlights.
Democrats haven’t had much to celebrate in South Florida recently, but they’re pretty sure they can gain back a Congressional seat this fall with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen retiring from a heavily blue district. Among the cluster of eight candidates slugging it out in the primary, there are some legitimately good options…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez once again has proven he doesn’t care about African-Americans unless he needs our vote. The county mayor was a no-show at a January 16 community meeting to address the epic gun violence that is plaguing Northwest Miami-Dade, home to a majority of the county’s black residents…
More than a 120 people gathered last night at the Greater Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church on NW 93rd Terrace to solve the problem of gun violence in Miami’s black neighborhoods. Neither Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez nor the county’s police director, Juan Perez, attended.
Last week, armored vehicles, two helicopters, and more than 40 officers picked up a notorious cocaine-era assassin who was first arrested a quarter-century ago after police shot and missed more than 130 times.
South Florida law enforcement has put a bull’s-eye on the Bikes Up, Guns Down movement that will take over local streets and highways this Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Gun-toting thugs are besieging Miami-Dade’s inner-city neighborhoods, and county cops are missing in action. Since early December, more than a dozen people, including children, have been shot in unincorporated parts of Northwest Miami-Dade. Five of the victims are dead. On January 3, two others were fatally gunned down in Liberty City and Little Haiti.
There was a brief period, a little more than a year ago, when it seemed Boca Raton’s multibillion-dollar private-prison juggernaut, the GEO Group, might go extinct. The Obama administration had just dealt a huge blow to GEO, which is among the nation’s largest private managers of prisons…
