It was the perfect play for LeBron James to win a game at the buzzer — one-on-one, driving to the basket against a smaller defender, Joakim Noah nowhere near the play. But this time the locomotive skidded off the tracks. This time that unstoppable force of athletic greatness never made it to the rim. This […]
If you like parity, you loved Sochi. Five countries won more than 20 medals, signifying the strength of the Olympic movement worldwide. The U.S. team held its own, winning more medals that it ever had in a Winter Olympics outside North American soil, but the Americans, with 27 when this story was published, still will […]
Sage Kotsenburg of the United States won the first gold medal of the 2014 Olympics on Saturday, soaring to victory in the men’s snowboarding slopestyle final. Kotsenburg had a score of 93.50 to edge Staale Sandbech of Norway. Mark McMorris of Canada, who barely made the finals, took bronze. Canadian Max Parrot, who topped qualifying […]
Super Bowl XLVIII was billed as a showdown between the NFL’s No. 1 offense against the No. 1 defense. In the end, it didn’t turn out to be much of a contest. The Seattle Seahawks defense dominated the Denver Broncos from start to finish, rolling to a 43-8 win to capture the first world title […]
Dennis Hickey wasn’t the Dolphins’ first choice. Far from. But he was their last — and they hope their best. Hickey agreed early Sunday to become the team’s latest general manager, the Dolphins announced, but only after the team wooed two others — Nick Caserio and Lake Dawson — who had issues with the team’s […]
It was a very busy week and weekend in South Florida sports last week, that’s why BB Insurance Marketing is giving you the low down on all the sports stories in your hometown from last week. The Dolphins fire offensive coordinator Mike Sherman, University of Miami coach Al Golden will remain with the Hurricanes, and […]
It was a very busy week and weekend in South Florida sports last week, that’s why BB Insurance Marketing is giving you the low down on all the sports stories in your hometown from last week. The Dolphins beat the Patriots, the Panthers rattle off a 3 game win streak, and FSU’s Jameis Winston wins […]
Dolphins-Steelers had more plot lines than Game of Thrones, but none more encouraging for Miami fans than this: Just miles from the neighborhood where Dan Marino spent his formative years, Ryan Tannehill delivered some legacy-building late-game heroics of his own Sunday afternoon. Playing in snow for the first time, Tannehill connected with Charles Clay on […]
It was a very busy week and weekend in South Florida sports last week, that’s why BB Insurance Marketing is giving you the low down on all the sports stories in your hometown from last week. The Dolphins embarrassed the New York Jets at home, the Heat have won 10 games in a row, the […]
The saving grace is that the NFL is a league built mostly for parity, and there are so many flawed teams in the AFC that one of them will be not so terrible enough as to sneak in as the last playoff qualifier. And the Dolphins, losers of six of their past eight outings, are […]