Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Happy 27th Birthday Jessica Simpson!


Jessica Simpson on December 31, 2003 wearing her FedEx Orange Bowl patch -"Get the patch!"- which is one of the best marketing ideas to ever come out of South Florida, because for a one-time fee, you get access to a number of interesting events for either free or at a discounted fee. http://www.orangebowl.org/
I've purchased one each year since returning to South Florida from the DC area and have never regretted it, and consider it money well spent, something which can't be said about 95% of the things that happen in local government.
That's why we'll soon have a vote to make in January regarding property tax rates, and the local municipalities which have grown more profligate in their spending, even while giving the public less bang for the buck.

The photo above was at the 2004 Orange Bowl Beach Bash at Hollywood Beach, four miles away from SouthBeachHoosier HQ in Hallandale Beach, the night before the U-M Hurricanes hard fought 16-14 victory over FSU.
Jess sung the national anthem before the OB Game, as she did the next day at the Sugar Bowl Game as well.
As it happens, Pizza Hut's one-woman promotion machine Jess wasn't the only entertainment that night at the beach, as the beautiful and beguiling Roselyn Sanchez of CBS' Without A Trace, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761052/ also performed -though I think that was before she had joined that show which has been a favorite of mine since it first aired. I was impressed albeit embarrassed that I didn't know of Roselyn's singing prowess.

Towards the end of the evening, Jess appeared onstage alone and sang a few songs, after which then-hubby Nick Lachey sang a couple of somgs, followed by the predictable duo efforts. The thousands that packed the beach that night -along with millions of cameras!- young singles as well as large families, seemed very pleased at seeing them in the flesh.
For photos of that particular night's events, please see the great photo gallery that WireImage.com has on their fantastic website, a website I check every other day to keep up on what's what: http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====46054



Photo: Peggy Sirota
Article is at http://men.style.com/gq/features/slideshow/v/070105SIMPSON

As it happens, that year's event was the year before the never-to-be-forgotten scene recorded for posterity in MTV's Newlyweds show, http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/newlyweds-nick_and_jessica/series.jhtml , a guilty pleasure of mine that I never missed, where the sold-out crowd at the USC-Oklahoma ballgame booed little sister Ashlee during the halftime show like it was going out of style.
No doubt you're already familiar with it from the video being played like only a thousand times a day for the first week after it happened.
Naturally, Ashlee had been singing at The Bash the night before.

This past January was quite a disappointment since the Orange Bowl Beach Bash in Hollywood was cancelled for the lack of $75,000 and some common sense at Hollywood's ethically-challenged city hall.
Or as a peaved reader put it December 31st in the Miami Herald's Outburst section of the paper:
"In the corrupt city of Hollywood the commissioners are considering giving $6 million worth of land for free to their developer crony ex-commissioner Ken Gottlieb and his . . . partner, former city employee, Cynthia Berman-Miller another downtown insider. . . . but they can't find $75,000 to help vendors and businesses on Hollywood beach to have the Hollywood beach bash?''

Sadly for everyone in this part of South Florida, since this is one of the best events of the year, Hollywood's powers-that-be decided that Hollywood wouldn't host the annual Bash, usually one of the highlights of the year for me, and instead, the OBC had it down on Biscayne Blvd., north of Venetian Causeway, making it a 'Fan Fest' instead of a 'Beach Bash."
It was absurd: Who wants to drive to downtown Miami on a holiday?
Especially if you're a college student staying in a hotel near a Broward beach?

I only wish that this event had existed when I was growing up here in the '70's, so my friends and I could've gone to the beach and seen the pomp and celebratory moods of the great Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama and Notre Dame teams of that era, along with some top-flight musical acts, since rock bands that were stadium acts seldom came south of Tampa or Orlando because the City of Miami would not allow bands to play at the Orange Bowl.
http://www.orangebowl.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11800&ATCLID=761045

Usually, the excuse of the Beach Bash affords me the opportunity to see a few visiting media friends of mine, in town to cover either the OB game, and/or whomever the Dolphins might be playing that particular week.
Mostly, but not always, to talk and relax and sample some music & sun while we ruminate endlessly about the latest personal news, and share our latest take on sports, politics and the passing scene.
Or how my Hoosiers will fare once the Big Ten basketball season starts that same month.
So among the victims of this event being cut this year was the endless discussion/autopsy of the Nick Saban situation among these friends of mine.
As many if not most of you would know by now from my past posts, for me, Nick Saban leaving the Dolphins for the University of Alabama is "addition by subtraction," the proof of one the greatest sports maxims in existence.
Good riddance!
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Miami Herald
Letter to the Editor: Issues and Ideas
Party crippled park
January 7, 2007

Margaret Pace Park is a welcome sliver of green oasis in a neighborhood overwhelmed by construction mayhem. On any given day you can find families clustered around the picnic tables, pickup games of soccer, basketball, volleyball and tennis all going on at the same time. Small children swarm over the jungle gym. But not this past holiday weekend.

Washington Mutual and the city of Miami teamed up to erect 10-foot chain-link fences, in place on Saturday morning when the neighborhood woke up and went to the park. The entire park was taken over from Saturday morning until Tuesday for Monday's eight-hour Orange Bowl Fan Party. Is this the best use of a city park for an entire holiday weekend?

Suggestions for the future:
* Leave half the park open to the purpose for which it was constructed -- public use. Turn only a portion of it over to a pricey event.
* Leave the park open for most of the weekend and do the setup on the day of the event.
* Any event held in a public park should be free to the public.
* Don't hold a big event like this in a small park, which prevents the neighborhood from enjoying its only open green space.

Note to Washington Mutual: You won yourself no friends in the Edgewater District.

AMY ROLNICK, Miami

Copyright (c) 2007 The Miami Herald
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Miami Herald
"BASH" ENDS HOLLYWOOD RUN
December 19, 2006
By Todd Wright

The raucous atmosphere inside Nat's Beach Cafe last year rivaled that of the frenzied scene in the FedEx Orange Bowl game, owner Nat Dorman recalled.
His Hollywood beach restaurant, which specializes in Philly cheese steak subs, was packed wall to wall with tourists and college football enthusiasts who traveled from across the country to attend the bowl game and the annual Orange Bowl Beach Bash.
Visitors spent money, chanted fight songs and flashed team colors.
The same scene played out for many of the businesses and vendors along the beach and the Broadwalk.
But now all owners can do is reminisce.
Hollywood city leaders decided they couldn't afford the $75,000 Beach Bash price-tag in a tight budget year. So, the Orange Bowl Committee picked up its signature event and moved it to Miami.
When Hollywood sat down to hammer out the details, "they weren't able to make the commitment that we needed,'' said Jeff Purinton, spokesman for the Orange Bowl.
"It was a combination of that and Miami really being interested in doing it.
''The move south could spell bad news for some Hollywood beach vendors and businesses who look forward to bowl time as one of their most profitable periods of the year.
"It was one of the biggest nights of our business,'' Dorman said. "We were packed every night. The connection was great. It really meant a lot to us and it's going to hurt not having it this year.
''The event, renamed Fan Fest, will be held Jan. 1 in Miami's Margaret Pace Park. The game is Jan. 2.
Hollywood had hosted the event five out of the past six years.
Last year, more than 15,000 people showed up to meet the teams playing in the Orange Bowl, participate in a family-friendly carnival, and attend the concert, which often is headlined by a popular musical act.
This year, platinum rap recording artist Lil Wayne is scheduled to perform.
Hollywood commissioners were faced with the dilemma of raising taxes or cutting services to balance its 2007 budget.

TRIMMING THE FAT
At public hearings, residents demanded a lower tax rate, so commissioners decided to "trim the fat.'' That included funding for special events such as the Orange Bowl Beach Bash.
The city normally budgeted between $60,000 and $85,000 and the beach Community Redevelopment Agency chipped in about the same amount.
The Orange Bowl Committee wanted the city to spend a little more on the event, for staging, promotions and other expenses. Commissioners were hoping to scale back.
"The Orange Bowl was asking for bit more than we had expected,'' Mayor Mara Giulianti said. "They were pushing for a decision at a point in time where we didn't feel like we could make a commitment.''
The Orange Bowl has not cut all ties with the city, but losing the heavily attended Fan Fest has put a damper on many of the beach business owners' holiday cheer.

DIPLOMAT STILL IN GAME
The Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa still will host one of the teams participating in the Orange Bowl this year and will do so for the next five years.
Still, vendors and the city will miss the exposure from having such a large national event that attracts so many tourists, business leaders said.
The Beach Bash was "an investment'' that helped many of the beach T-shirt shops, ice cream parlors and restaurants that line the Broadwalk, said Audrey Joynt, a prominent beach business leader.
Along with the thousands of tourists who wouldn't otherwise come to Hollywood, national media outlets following the teams and music stars had an opportunity to see what the city had to offer, she said.
"I know the city doesn't have money but I don't understand why they didn't have the CRA put in more or something to keep this,'' Joynt said. "I think it is a real benefit to the whole city."
To lose the event to save a few dollars was a little short-sighted.''

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In the Heart of a Great Country, Beats the Soul of Hoosier Nation

In the Heart of a Great Country, Beats the Soul of Hoosier Nation
"In the Heart of a Great Country, Beats the Soul of Hoosier Nation." -South Beach Hoosier, 2007

#IUBB, #bannersix

#IUBB, #bannersix
Assembly Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Click photo to see video of Straight No Chaser's version of Back Home Again In Indiana, 2:37
The South Florida I Grew Up In

Excerpts from Joan Didion's Miami, 1987, Simon & Schuster:

In the continuing opera still called, even by Cubans who have now lived the largest part of their lives in this country, el exilo, the exile, meetings at private homes in Miami Beach are seen to have consequences. The actions of individuals are seen to affect events directly. Revolutions and counter-revolutions are framed in the private sector, and the state security apparatus exists exclusively to be enlisted by one or another private player. That this particular political style, indigenous to the Caribbean and to Central America, has now been naturalized in the United States is one reason why, on the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved since the early New Year's morning in 1959 when Fulgencio Batista flew for the last time out of Havana a settlement of considerable interest, not exactly an American city as American cities have until recently been understood but a tropical capital: long on rumor, short on memory, overbuilt on the chimera of runaway money and referring not to New York or Boston or Los Angeles or Atlanta but to Caracas and Mexico, to Havana and to Bogota and to Paris and Madrid. Of American cities Miami has since 1959 connected only to Washington, which is the peculiarity of both places, and increasingly the warp...

"The general wildness, the eternal labyrinths of waters and marshes, interlocked and apparently neverending; the whole surrounded by interminable swamps... Here I am then in the Floridas, thought I," John James Audobon wrote to the editor of The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science during the course of an 1831 foray in the territory then still called the Floridas. The place came first, and to touch down there is to begin to understand why at least six administations now have found South Florida so fecund a colony. I never passed through security for a flight to Miami without experiencing a certain weightlessness, the heightened wariness of having left the developed world for a more fluid atmosphere, one in which the native distrust of extreme possibilities that tended to ground the temperate United States in an obeisance to democratic institutions seemed rooted, if at all, only shallowly.

At the gate for such flights the preferred language was already Spanish. Delays were explained by weather in Panama. The very names of the scheduled destinations suggested a world in which many evangelical inclinations had historically been accomodated, many yearnings toward empire indulged...

In this mood Miami seemed not a city at all but a tale, a romance of the tropics, a kind of waking dream in which any possibility could and would be accomodated...
Hallandale Beach Blog
http://www.hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/

Hallandale Beach Blog is where I try to inject or otherwise superimpose a degree of accountability, transparency and much-needed insight onto local Broward County government and public policy issues, which I feel is sorely lacking in local media now, despite all the technological advances that have taken place since I grew-up in South Florida in the 1970's. On this blog, I concentrate my energy, enthusiasm, anger, disdain and laser-like attention primarily on the coastal cities of Aventura, Hollywood and Hallandale Beach.

IF you lived in this part of South Florida, you'd ALREADY be in stultifying traffic, be paying higher-than-necessary taxes, and be continually musing about the chronic lack of any real accountability or transparency among not only elected govt. officials, but also of City, County and State employees as well. Collectively, with a few rare exceptions, they couldn't be farther from the sort of strong results-oriented, work-ethic mentality that citizens here deserve and are paying for.

This is particularly true in the town I live in, the City of Hallandale Beach, just north of Aventura and south of Hollywood. There, the Perfect Storm of years of apathy, incompetency and cronyism are all too readily apparent.
Sadly for its residents, Hallandale Beach is where even the easily-solved or entirely predictable quality-of-life problems are left to fester for YEARS on end, because of myopia, lack of common sense and the unsatisfactory management and coordination of resources and personnel.

It's a city with tremendous potential because of its terrific location and weather, yet its citizens have become numb to its outrages and screw-ups after years of the worst kind of chronic mismanagement and lack of foresight. On a daily basis, they wake up and see the same old problems again that have never being adequately resolved by the city in a logical and responsible fashion. Instead the city government either closes their eyes and hopes you'll forget the problem, or kicks them -once again- further down the road.

I used to ask myself, and not at all rhetorically, "Where are all the enterprising young reporters who want to show through their own hard work and enterprise, what REAL investigative reporting can produce?"

Hearing no response, I decided to start a blog that could do some of these things, taking the p.o.v. of a reasonable-but-skeptical person seeing the situation for the first time.
Someone who wanted questions answered in a honest and forthright fashion that citizens have the right to expect.

Hallandale Beach Blog intends to be a catalyst for positive change. http://www.hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/

Hallandale Beach's iconic beachball-colored Water Tower, between beach and A1A/South Ocean Drive

Hallandale Beach's iconic beachball-colored Water Tower, between beach and A1A/South Ocean Drive
Hallandale Beach, FL; February 16, 2008 photo by South Beach Hoosier

Hollywood in Cartoons, The New Yorker

Hollywood in Cartoons, The New Yorker
"Gentlemen, I am happy to announce that as of today we are closing down our Washington news bureau and moving the entire operation to L.A."

Hollywood in Cartoons, The New Yorker

Hollywood in Cartoons, The New Yorker
"O.K., so I dig a hole and put the bone in the hole. But what's my motivation for burying it?"

Hollywood in cartoons, 10-21-06 Non-Sequitur by Wiley, www-NON-SEQUITUR.COM

Hollywood in cartoons, 10-21-06 Non-Sequitur by Wiley, www-NON-SEQUITUR.COM
The Magic of Hollywood: A motion has been put forth that we should seek to create rather than imitate. All in favor of killing this silly notion, nod in mindless agreement...

Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins
South Beach Hoosier's first Dolphin game at the Orange Bowl came in Dec. 1970, aged 9, a 45-3 win over Buffalo that propelled them into their first ever playoff appearance.

Sebastian the Ibis, the Spirited Mascot of the University of Miami Hurricanes

Sebastian the Ibis, the Spirited Mascot of the University of Miami Hurricanes
Before going to my first U-M game at the Orange Bowl in 1972, a friend's father often would bring me home an extra 'Canes game program. That's how I came to have the Alabama at U-M game program from Nov. 16, 1968, which was the first nationally-televised college football night game in color. (A 14-6 loss to the Crimson Tide.) After that first ballgame against Tulane, as l often did for Dolphin games if my father wasn't going, I'd get dropped off at the Levitz parking lot near the 836 & I-95 Cloverleaf in NMB, and catch a Dade County Park & Ride bus, going straight to the Orange Bowl. Onboard, I'd get next to the window and listen to WIOD's pre-game show on my Radio Shack transistor radio. A few times, I was just about the only person onboard besides the bus driver, which was alright by me. Once at the Orange Bowl, if I didn't already have a ticket, I'd buy a game program for myself and one or two for friends or teachers before heading to the ticket window, since you usually couldn't find a program vendor once inside. I probaly had a friend or my father with me for just under 40% of the U-M games I ever went to, but you have to remember that the team, though blessed with several talented players, like Chuck Foreman and Burgess Owens, was just so-so to average at best, and the games were usually played on Friday nights, so it wasn't exactly high on everyone's list of things to do. Depending upon the opponent, if I was alone, I'd often have entire areas of the Orange Bowl to myself. (Wish I had photos of that now!) For instance, I had a good portion of the East (open) End Zone to myself against Oklahoma in the mid-70's, when the Boomer Schooner and the Schooner Crew went out on the field after an Oklahoma TD, and the Schooner received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty from the refs, as would happen years later in an Orangle Bowl Classic game. (Against FSU?) I was there for the wins and losses under Pete Elliott, Carl Selmer & Lou Saban, and the huge on-field fight in '73 when under eventual national champion Notre Dame (under Ara Parseghian), they called a time-out with less than a minute to go, and already up 37-0. Their rationale? To score another TD and impress the AP football writers; final score 44-0. Well, they got their wish and beat Alabama 24-23 for the title at the Sugar Bowl. A year later, thanks to my Mom's boss, she and I saw Ara's last game as head coach of the Irish in the Orange Bowl Game from the East End Zone -in front of the Alabama cheerleaders!!!- in an exciting 13-11 Notre Dame win over Alabama and Bear Bryant, a rematch of the '73 national title game. I was also present for the U-M's huge 20-15 win under Pete Elliott against Darrel Royal's Texas Longhorns, the week Sports Illustrated's College Football preview issue came out with Texas on the cover, below. I was also present for lots of wins against schools called College of the Pacific, UNLV and Cal-Poly San Luis Obsispo, which I'd then never heard of before.

Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, April 28, 2007

Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, April 28, 2007
Photo by Mario J. Bermudez. April 28, 2007 at Dolphins NFL Draft Party at Dolphin HQ, Davie, FL

Of cheerleaders past and present

Given South Florida's unique version of the melting pot -con salsa- demographics and mindset, these women in the photo above are surely what most South Floridians would consider attractive women. But for this observer, who's spent hours & hours at IU cheerleader tryouts and who has known dozens of cheerleaders -and wannabes- in North Miami Beach, Bloomington, Evanston and Washington, D.C., the whole time I was watching these members of the Dolphins' squad perform, I couldn't help but compare them and their routines to those of some IU friends of mine who ALWAYS showed true Hoosier spirit & enthusiasm. Sitting at my table right near the stage and still later, while watching the long lines of Dolphin fans of all ages waiting to snap photos of themselves with the cheerleaders, I couldn't help but think about those friends who always left me and other Hoosier fans feeling positive & optimistic. Was there anyone I saw in Davie who possessed these valuable intangibles: the dancing precision of IU Red Stepper -and Captain- Gail Amster, my talented and spirited Phi Beta Kappa pal from Deerfield (IL), who always sat next to me in our Telecom. classes as we took turns entertaining the other; the ebullient spirit & energy of two Hoosier cheerleaders -and captains- from Bloomington, Wendy (Mulholland) Moyle & Sara Cox; the hypnotic, Midwestern, girl-next-door sexiness of Hoosier cheerleader Julie Bymaster, from Brownsburg; or, the adorable Southern girl-next-door appeal of former Hoosier Pom squader Jennifer Grimes, of Louisville, always such a clear distraction while sitting underneath the basket? Nope, not that I could see. But then they were VERY tough acts to follow!!! And that's not to mention my talented & spirited friends like Denise Andrews of Portage, Jody Kosanovich of Hammond & Linda Ahlbrand of Chesterton, all of whom were dynamic cheerleaders -and captains- at very large Hoosier high schools that were always in the championship mix, with Denise's team winning the Ind. football championship her senior year when she was captain -just like in a movie. That Denise, Jody & Linda all lived on the same dorm floor, just three stories above me at Briscoe Quad our freshman year, was one of the greatest coincidences -and strokes of luck for me!- that I could've ever hoped for. You could hardly ask for better ambassadors of IU than THESE very smart, sweet and talented women. In a future SBH post, I'll tell the story of one of the greatest Hoosiers I ever met, the aforementioned Wendy Mulholland, the Bloomington-born captain and emotional heart of the great early '80's IU cheerleading squads, and the daughter of Jack Mulholland, IU's former longtime Treasurer. The acorn doesn't fall far from a tree built on a foundation of integrity & community service! (After he retired, Mr. Mulholland was the first executive director of the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County. I used to joke with Wendy that her dad's name was the one that was permanently affixed to the bottom of my work-study checks for years, while I worked at the Dept. of Political Science's Library, first, at the Student Building in the old part of campus, and then later, after it was refurbished, in magnificent Woodburn Hall, my favorite building on campus.) In that future post, I'll share some reflections on Wendy's great strength of character and personality; my intentions of returning to Bloomington a few weeks before Fall '82 classes started, so I could help Wendy train and work-out to rehab her knee, so she'd feel confident in trying-out for the squad again, following a bad knee injury that'd left her physically-unable to try-out for the squad the previous spring, a big disappointment to those of us who cared about both Wendy and the team; my incredulity at, quite literally, running into Wendy while walking down a sidewalk one afternoon a few years later in Evanston, IL, when we were astonished to discover we were both living there, with me trying to hook on with a Windy City advertising agency, and Wendy then-attending Kellogg (KGSM) at Northwestern, right when the WSJ had named Kellogg the #1 Business School in the country. I'll also share a story about Wendy performing a true act of kindness towards me in 1982, when I was having a real emergency, and she went above-and-beyond what I had any logical reason to expect. Yet, Wendy, along with her very helpful dad, Jack, came through for me when I was in a very bad time crunch. I've never forgotten Wendy's kindness towards me, and her true Hoosier spirit. There's NOTHING I wouldn't do for Wendy Mulholland.

It's All About "The U"

It's All About "The U"
South Beach Hoosier's first U-M football game at the Orange Bowl was in 1972, age 11, against Tulane in the infamous "Fifth Down" game. In order to drum up support and attendance for the U-M at the Orange Bowl, that game had a promotion whereby South Florida kids who were school safety patrols could get in for free IF they wore their sash. I did. Clearly they knew that it was better to let kids in for free, knowing their parents would give them money to buy food and souvenirs, perhaps become a fan and want to return for future games. The ballgame made an interesting impression on The New York Times, resulting in this gem from the "View of Sport" column of Oct, 14, 1990, labeled 'Fifth Down or Not, It's Over When It's Over.' -"In 1972, aided by a fifth-down officiating gift in the last moments of the game, Miami of Florida defeated Tulane, 24-21. The country and the world was a much different place that fall because The New York Times took time and space to editorialize on the subject. ''Is it right for sportsmen, particularly young athletes, to be penalized or deprived of the goals for which they earnestly competed because responsible officials make mistakes? The ideal of true sportsmanship would be better served if Miami forfeited last week's game.' South Beach Hoosier hardly needs to tell you that this was YET another New York Times editoral that was completely ignored!

The issue I took with me the night of U-M's 20-15 upset of #1 Texas at the Orange Bowl

The issue I took with me the night of U-M's 20-15 upset of #1 Texas at the Orange Bowl
College Football, Texas No. 1, Hook 'em Horns, Sept. 10, 1973. Living in North Miami Beach in the '70's, my Sports Illustrated usually showed up in my mailbox on the Thursday or Friday before the Monday cover date. And was read cover-to-cover by Sunday morning.

The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm
U-M QB Ken Dorsey, Miami Hurricanes Undefeated National Champions 2001, Jan. 2002

Miami's Romp in the Rose

Miami's Romp in the Rose
Miami running back Clinton Portis, Jan. 7, 2002

Why the University of Miami should drop football

Why the University of Miami should drop football
June 12, 1995

REVENGE!

REVENGE!
Steve McGuire and Miami Overpower No.1 Notre Dame, Dec. 4, 1989

How Sweet It Is!

How Sweet It Is!
Miami Whips Oklahoma For The National Championship, Pictured: Dennis Kelleher, Jan. 11, 1988

My, Oh My, Miami!

My, Oh My, Miami!
Steve Walsh and the Canes Stun FSU, Oct. 12, 1987

Why Is Miami No. 1?

Why Is Miami No. 1?
QB Vinny Testaverde, Nov. 24, 1986

Miracle In Miami

Miracle In Miami
The Hurricanes Storm Past Nebraska, Halfback Keith Griffin, Jan. 9, 1984

Special Issue: College Football

Special Issue: College Football
The Best Passer, George Mira of Miami, Sept. 23, 1963

1984 College & Pro Spectatcular

1984 College & Pro Spectatcular
A Pair Of Aces: U-M QB Bernie Kosar & Miami Dolphin QB Dan Marino, Sept. 5, 1984

Pro Football Hall of Fame Special Issue

Pro Football Hall of Fame Special Issue
Dan Marino, Class of 2005, Aug. 2005

FACES OF THE NFL

FACES OF THE NFL
A Portfolio by Walter Iooss Jr., Ricky Williams, Miami Dolphins, Dec. 9, 2002

Coming Back

Coming Back
Jay Fiedler rallies Miami to a last-second win over Oakland, Oct. 1, 2001

Dan's Last Stand

Dan's Last Stand
At 38 and under siege, Dan Marino refuses to go down without a fight, Dec. 13, 1999

The War Zone

The War Zone
In the NFL's toughest division, the surprising Dolphins are on top, Lamar Smith, Dec. 11, 2000

Down and Dirty

Down and Dirty
Jimmy Johnson's Dolphins Bury The Patriots, Steve Emtman, Sept. 9, 1996

The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys
Now Playing in Miami: The Dan Marino and Jimmy Johnson Show, May 11, 1996

HOT & NOT

HOT & NOT
Miami loves Pat Riley but wants to give Don Shula the boot, Dec. 11, 1995

NFL PREVIEW 1995

NFL PREVIEW 1995
Which of today's stars are locks for the Hall of Fame? Dan Marino for sure. But who else? To find out, we polled the men who do the voting. Sept. 14, 1995

Sportsman Of The Year

Sportsman Of The Year
Don Shula, Dec. 20, 1993

Dan The Man

Dan The Man
Dan Marino Saves The Day For The Dolphins, Jan. 14, 1991

Dangerous Dan

Dangerous Dan
Dan Marino Passes Miami Into The Super Bowl, Jan. 14, 1985

Super Duper!

Super Duper!
Wide Receiver Mark Duper Of The Undefeated Dolphins, Nov. 19, 1984

Air Raid! Miami Bombs Washington

Air Raid! Miami Bombs Washington
Mark Clayton (burning Darryl Green) Sept. 10, 1984

Rookies On The Rise

Rookies On The Rise
Dan Marino: Miami's Hot Quarterback, Nov. 14, 1983

New Life In The WFL

New Life In The WFL
Warfield, Csonka and Kiick of Memphis, July 28, 1975

Zonk! Miami Massacres Minnesota

Zonk! Miami Massacres Minnesota
Larry Csonka, Jan. 21, 1974

Pro Football, Miami Is Rough And Ready

Pro Football, Miami Is Rough And Ready
Larry Csonka & Bob Griese, Sept. 17, 1973

Miami All The Way

Miami All The Way
Bob Griese, Jan. 22, 1973

It's Miami and Washington

It's Miami and Washington
Mercury Morris Speeds Past The Steelers, Jan. 8, 1973

Kiick and Csonka, Miami's Dynamic Duo

Kiick and Csonka, Miami's Dynamic Duo
Larry Csonka & Jim Kiick, Aug. 7, 1972

Sudden Death at Kansas City

Sudden Death at Kansas City
Miami's Garo Yepremian Ends the Longest Game; (kneeling) placekick holder Karl Noonan, Jan. 3, 1972

New Pro in a New Town

New Pro in a New Town
Miami's Frank Emanuel, Aug. 8, 1966

Old-style "Obie" the Orange Bowl Committee mascot

Old-style "Obie" the Orange Bowl Committee mascot
The iconic image I grew-up with in Miami, before FedEx got into the picture