American Heritage star Amare Nugent to start focusing on recruitment; UM signee Dereon Coleman...

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 9:10A Adam Lichtenstein

MIAMI — Amare Nugent s first season at American Heritage ended in celebration. The four-star 2027 cornerback, who transferred from Somerset Academy before the season, helped the Patriots win their second straight championship with a 33-28 victory...

Dave Hyde: Quarterback U. loses one of its greats

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 7:56A Dave Hyde

Quarterback U. was the given name all those years ago, and it once was a good and marketable name to showcase University of Miami football. But to those on the inside it’s always been something more than just a neat name. “It’s a club, Gino...

Bianchi: Ten years after his death, Bishop Moore baseball star Joe Skinner is still with us

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 7:10A Mike Bianchi

It’s been a long time. Long enough for a decade to pass, for long lost summers to blur into fall and back again, for baseball fields to be mowed and re-mowed a thousand times, for kids to grow up and...

Heat ‘not getting caught up in all the panic and narratives’ amid four-game skid

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 6:37A Ira Winderman

MIAMI — Saturday could have had the Miami Heat on the most visible in-season stage of the NBA season, at the semifinals of the NBA Cup in Las Vegas. Instead, with Tuesday night s Cup loss in Orlando , the Heat found themselves with something less...

Top Dolphins-Steelers prop bets from Chris Perkins and David Furones

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 6:21A David Furones, Chris Perkins

MIAMI GARDENS — It’s Year 2 for  South Florida Sun Sentinel Dolphins  columnist  Chris Perkins  and Dolphins writer  David Furones  picking prop bets, which they’ll do for all 17 regular-season games. Prior to each game, Furones and Perkins will...

Dolphins’ De’Von Achane, Jack Jones set to play at Steelers; team travels to Pittsburgh early

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 5:00A David Furones

MIAMI GARDENS — After a week of mild concern over Miami Dolphins running back De’Von Achane’s rib injury, he is primed to play Monday night at the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Certainly, as long as he doesn’t have a setback in practice, but as it stands...

Ira Winderman: Do Heat risk Grizzlies reality by prioritizing pace?

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 2:36A Ira Winderman

MIAMI — Gimmicks come with expiration dates, as the Miami Dolphins learned with the evolution and then devolution of their Wildcat, quarterback-free approach in 2008 and 2009. Now the question becomes whether the Heat are on a similar timetable,...

UCF coach Scott Frost suing Nebraska over breach of contract

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/13 2:14A Matt Murschel

UCF football coach Scott Frost has filed a lawsuit against the University of Nebraska’s Board of Regents over payments and a tax liability he claims he never received. Frost, who served as the Cornhuskers coach for five seasons before being fired...

ASK IRA: Should the Heat have Alec Burks on speed dial?

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/12 11:05P Ira Winderman

Q: Re-sign Alec Burks. – Dim. A: Yes, that certainly is a name that could be considered when the Heat decide (if they decide) to use the extra space freed under the tax luxury starting Saturday, toward a pro-rated minimum-scale contract to fill...

Heat to be a party at next Rozier hearing, as waiver deadline with guard approaches

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/12 3:00A Ira Winderman

MIAMI — For the first time since Terry Rozier was arrested in Orlando on Oct. 23 as part of a federal gambling probe, the Miami Heat will have a seat at a hearing regarding what comes next for the banished guard. According to a source directly...

St. Thomas Aquinas shuts out Lakeland for 7th straight state title | PHOTOS

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/12 2:33A Michele Eve Sandberg

The St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders secured a state-record seventh consecutive state championship with a dominant 29-0 shutout victory over Lakeland on Thursday night at FIU s Pitbull Stadium. The photo gallery captures the historic win, which saw the...

ASK IRA: Readers sound off on Herro, Heat, hope, hype, hard realities

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/11 11:05P Ira Winderman

A bit of a different format today. Instead of the usual Q&A, we offer a selection of responses from a posted offered Thursday on X in regards to Tyler Herro s return and the analysis that has followed. That post: Understand the clicks and the...

St. Thomas Aquinas shuts down Lakeland, wins record 7th consecutive state title

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/11 9:35P Alex Kushel

MIAMI — St. Thomas Aquinas delivered another dominant performance to capture their state-record seventh consecutive state title as the Raiders cruised past Lakeland 29-0 in the 5A state championship...

Who has the edge? Dolphins at Steelers, with late-season meaning on Monday night

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/11 12:00A David Furones

Here’s a look at how the Miami Dolphins (6-7) and Pittsburgh Steelers (7-6) match up in six key areas ahead of Monday night s Week 15 game at Acrisure Stadium (8:15 p.m., ESPN): When the Dolphins run:  Miami’s speedy 1,000-yard rusher, De’Von...

ASK IRA: Should patience or expectation be the Heat’s way with Ware?

Latest Florida Sports Headlines Sun Sentinel 12/10 11:05P Ira Winderman

Q: Ira, Erik Spoelstra and many others say Kel el Ware is not playing good defense, and I guess the numbers on that don t lie. Numerous times when I watch the game on TV, I notice where Kel el is located on either offense or defense and I...