Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra went from driving Dad’s Bugatti to piloting Mom’s minivan. Now we’ll see if the NBA’s first Asian-American head coach is really elite — in the mold of his mentor Pat Riley or Boston Celtics legends Red Auerbach, Phil Jackson, and Gregg Popovich. The team started…
Ready or not, another Miami Heat season kicks off tonight when the Miami Heat travels to Orlando to face the Magic in the 2016-17 season opener. Tonight’s game marks a new era for the Heat and its fans, one that, for the first time in a dozen years, will not include Dwyane Wade.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez doesn’t hold grudges. Five years ago, I endorsed his opponent, Julio Robaina. But Gimenez and his staff never held it against me. If I asked him to address inner-city issues, he and his staff followed through. On Election Day, Gimenez will face Raquel Regalado, a county…
When Kesha exploded onto the pop charts singing the chorus on Flo Rida’s 2009 song “Right Round,” she wasn’t even given a credit on the track. She also wasn’t paid for it, an experience she alluded to by ironically converting the s in her name to a dollar sign. Later…
The National Football League has a problem with players from Miami expressing themselves. How else can one explain the recent crackdown on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown, who was a formerly a star athlete at Miami Norland Senior High? During the first quarter of the Steelers’ October 10 game…
How nice was it yesterday seeing the Dolphins make someone else sick for once? Dolphins fans weren’t the only ones surprised that the Dolphins beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-15 on Sunday. Steelers defenders weren’t quite prepared for that either. They were so surprised, in fact, that one of them puked…
The Miami Dolphins season is over, and so is Ryan Tannehill’s time quarterbacking this team. The Dolphins 30-17 loss to the hapless Tennessee Titans on Sunday dropped the Dolphins to 1-4 on the year, and for all intents and purposes left them out of the playoff picture. No person in…
The University of Miami Hurricanes are slowly making their way back to national prominence under new head coach Mark Richt and senior quarterback Brad Kaaya. Now comes the undefeated team’s real test. This Saturday, the U will take on the Florida State Seminoles, a rival school that the tenth-ranked Canes…
The shrapnel is still flying off the explosion of the Big 3 era and wounding Miami Heat fans. Last week, news broke that Chris Bosh’s days of playing for the Heat were over. No more medical exams. No more additional opinions. No more Chris Bosh on the bench in a suit. No…
The way Booker T. Washington High football coach Tim “Ice” Harris tells it, police sometimes stop his players on their way home from practice. Then the cops force these amazing young athletes to lie on the ground. Officers just assume they’re criminals. Ice’s description of his players’ treatment was just…
One white lady talked about how unfair it is that black parents have to teach their kids how to act in front of cops so they don’t get shot. “I don’t have to teach that to my son,” she said. “Something has to change.” Then another white woman said it’s…
In the first quarter of yesterday’s Dolphins loss to the Seahawks, Ryan Tannehill let loose a bomb in the general direction of a wide open, streaking Kenny Stills. Nothing but green grass stood between Stills and a touchdown. Dolphins fans everywhere stood to their feet in expectation of a huge…
For the past week, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has faced relentless criticism for refusing to stand during the singing of the National Anthem before games. He’s protesting police brutality and oppression of African-Americans in this country. Kaepernick haters include college football analyst Paul Feinbaum, NFL commentator Rodney Harrison,…
This Sunday, a brand-spanking new Miami Dolphins season kicks off at 4 p.m. in Seattle. When the game starts the Dolphins will be tied for the lead in the AFC East. This is news because it does not happen often. Only once (in 2008, when Miami won) has a season…
African-American pundits such as Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson and columnist Charles M. Blow have taken some hard whacks at Donald Trump’s recent attempts to court black voters. But talking heads like these are completely out of touch with everyday African-Americans. Trump is 100 percent correct when he says…
Back in April, President Obama invited Nicki Minaj, Chance the Rapper, Ludacris, J. Cole, and Common — oh, and Miami resident DJ Khaled — to the White House to discuss criminal-justice reform. A White House official told Time magazine the president had selected these artists because of the work they…
If you’re a Dolphins fan under 40, you remember when your hatred for the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills was strong enough to need professional therapy. Your Monday moods were greatly impacted by what happened at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Finding out that your sister was dating a Jets…
When it comes to reporting on crime and other bad things happening in Miami, local TV stations do not provide fair and balanced coverage. In fact, mainstream news organizations are out to destroy African-American communities. Consider this: Last week, 26-year-old Lazaro Manuel Arencibia was shot in the abdomen at a…
Charles Kinsey, the latest unarmed African American man to be shot by a police officer, sued North Miami police this week after a cop’s bullet tore a hole through his leg on July 18. Video footage of Kinsey lying on the ground with his hands up in the air, pleading…
You’ve seen the cranes, towering over Dolphins Stadium as you cruise past on the Turnpike. You’ve wondered what exactly the home of Fins and Canes fans will look like when it’s finished, and you’ve heard the ominous rumblings that $425 million face lift won’t even be ready in time for…
Last week, Miami Dolphins former No. 3 overall pick Dion Jordan was conditionally reinstated by the NFL from a drug suspension. Jordan’s return means the Dolphins could potentially see him on the field Week 1, which would be his first regular season game December 2014. That’s good news, right? Well,…
During next year’s Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach will return to segregation days, when black people weren’t allowed to stay in the city’s hotels and had to leave by sundown. As Miami New Times staff writer Jessica Weiss first reported in May, the city plans for 2017 an air and…
