The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The Miami Heat lost four games! To all the Heat fans currently drenched in anger and despair, chill out. The Heat is going to be an all-time great team. Wade will play better. James will play better. Bosh will play better. At the moment, the Heat looks …
In the parks, the gyms and the driveways, Miami has always been about hoops. Where Miami once had no basketball team to rally around and two football dynasties to gloat about, the city has now celebrated and debated the Heat for two decades. My generation has grown up with them. Dolphins and Hurricanes football owned the sporting crown in Miami once upon …
Have you ever been to Miami? It’s beautiful. Florida is the vacation head of America, and Miami is the city Americans hit to find release. Besides being sunny year round – we barely have a winter and you can tan on the beach in December – South Beach is the melting pot of the world. …
Before I get started, I wanted to acknowledge that yes, I read Bill Simmons. He is in fact my favorite sports writer. But let me be clear: I am not stealing his opinions, and I never will. The reason I like him so much is that he thinks much the same way I do. We …
I’ve been following sports my whole life. Both my parents were Gators, so I’ve been a Gator since I was five. When Billy Donovan left the Gators for the Orlando Magic, I was not surprised. A college coach cashing in on his success by jumping to the pros? I’ve seen that story a thousand times, …
Five years, ten years, twenty years from now, I will be able to look back at my time at UF and say, “I was there when we won 3 titles in 2 years.” Without Billy Donovan, you can subtract two-thirds of that equation. Billy Donovan didn’t just build Gator basketball; he Was Gator basketball. Our …