Tuesday, March 20, 2007

IU trustees hire Michael McRobbie to be new IU President

South Beach Hoosier is embarrassed to admit that he only recently became aware of this important news regarding IU's future, two weeks after the fact.

http://www.ibj.com/
Indianapolis Business Journal
Editorial
March 5, 2007
IU recognizes the talent within: McRobbie will provide a fresh start.

Michael McRobbie is from Australia, but he'll be the most Hoosier president of Indiana University since John Ryan stepped down 30 years ago.
And that's something to celebrate.
When the IU trustees on March 1 introduced McRobbie, now interim provost of the Bloomington campus, as the university's next president, they kicked a bad habit that started in 1987: turning over leadership of a state treasure to transient administrators with no previous connection to the university.
McRobbie, who joined IU in 1997 as vice president of information technology, will be the first IU president since Ryan to come from within the university. His welcome hiring rekindles what had been a long tradition of tapping leaders with a genuine passion for IU.
In McRobbie, IU gets a president it's familiar with who is well-versed in its culture. He seems eminently qualified to continue IU's recent successes, many of which he had a hand in, and to shore up weaknesses.
Much of the concern about the university in recent years focused on the perception that its academic reputation was slipping and that outgoing president Adam Herbert, a University of Florida administrator hired in 2003, had failed to communicate a broad vision for IU's future.
Herbert never won the confidence of IU's faculty, which came together early last year to express dissatisfaction with his leadership. Ultimately, McRobbie will have to earn trust with his on-the-job performance, but he's got a big head start on his predecessors in that regard. The faculty already knows him.
McRobbie must also shore up the university's academic reputation and silence critics by being a visible and articulate ambassador for IU. After a decade of learning the institution, it shouldn't take him long to craft a message he can deliver with passion.
He's already well-versed in the role IU plays--along with the state's other major research institutions--in modernizing Indiana's economy. He's been instrumental in securing millions of dollars of grants for scientific research at IU and revamped the university's technology infrastructure, which led to the purchase of the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the country.
More recently, he's been working on a strategy to expand and nurture IU's global presence to create more international work/study opportunities for IU students and faculty.
McRobbie's appointment is already getting high marks from state economic development experts, who believe from working with McRobbie that he'll be an aggressive and effective advocate for programs and policies that attract talent and jobs to IU and the state at large.
It's refreshing--and a bit of a relief--that IU's trustees have finally thrown their support behind an internal candidate for president. Had they ignored the growing call for an inside hire, it would've been a sign that they were badly out of touch with the state they serve.
As it is, the state's oldest and largest public university is once again in familiar--and capable--hands.
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Indianapolis Business Journal
March 12, 2007
OPINIONS EYE ON THE PIE Unsolicited advice for IU's next president
Morton Marcus

Congratulations, Dr. McRobbie, on being selected as Indiana University's next president. I've read that you are committed to helping IU become more active in the state's economic development. I've heard that from every IU president since I arrived in 1970. To be successful, it will take major changes.
It is not sufficient to appoint a committee of administrators who then request each part of the university to submit a list of its "economic development activities" for ultimate inclusion in a three-ring binder. Economic development is not advanced by appointing an unqualified faculty member or administrator to reign as czar over an empty realm. Nor will it aid the cause to require some economic development clause in each department's mission statement.
If IU is to become an integral part of and a leader in Indiana's economic development, the commitment must be deeper. Foremost, the faculty must be involved. This is not a case of trying to get faculty in the life sciences to develop patentable products in emulation of Purdue University. IU is an institution where intellect is still valued and, in some areas, still active.
Thus, IU should be the world's foremost academic institution on economic development. Our anthropologists and sociologists must be renowned for their studies of the process of change and the resistance to change.
Some history, literature and philosophy courses could focus on economic and social change as a theme. Undoubtedly, political science professors think they have something to contribute to the subject. In particular, the economics department and business program on each campus have major roles to play in this effort.
The School of Education, a fallow field, should be a major factor in improving the performance of the state's education programs. But, without useful input from our sociologists and anthropologists, I do not see how this can happen. The Kelley School of Business should be the primary source of assistance to existing and newly formed Hoosier firms. The School of Public and Environmental Affairs has a critical role to play in developing public-sector leadership and monitoring environmental issues.
None of this works unless those recruited to the faculty have a proclivity and a preference for such involvement. Faculty must be recognized and rewarded for their economic development efforts, even if these do not result in high-octane journal articles. Thus, existing promotion and tenure policies must be revamped.
IU in the past few years has jumped on the life sciences/biotech bandwagon. It fits with IU's strengths. It fits with the strengths of certain business interests in the state. But is this bandwagon consistent with Indiana's reality today and tomorrow's potential? Here the university must be ready to offer alternatives, based on innovative research, careful analysis and diverse thought that might prove unpopular.
Therein lies the greatest weakness of IU over the past few decades. We have had no stomach to tell truth to the powerful. Our vision has been compromised by the university's fawning obeisance to the governor-of-the-moment and the powerful in the General Assembly. When the president's office does not command the respect of the faculty, and service to the state is unrewarded, faculty members turn to more personal goals.
Finally, the state's economic wellbeing requires earnest and full support from the IU president for each campus. The vision of IU statewide must be robust and funding of regional programs needs to be aggressive. It is time to make the regional campuses full partners in the university or cut them loose from the mother campus's apron strings.
IU presidents have wandered Indiana long enough bemoaning the relative decline of state support. Perhaps if we did more for the state, our efforts would be rewarded.
My best wishes, Dr. McRobbie, for your sanity, the progress of Indiana and the glory of old IU.

Marcus taught economics for more than 30 years at Indiana University and is the former director of IU's Business Research Center. His column appears weekly.
To comment on this column, send e-mail to mortonjmarcus@yahoo.com.
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February 26, 2007
Indianapolis Business Journal
IU ready to pick insiderMcRobbie, Pescovitz among finalists for president's job, university trustees confide
By Tracy Donhardt tdonhardt@ibj.com

Indiana University appears poised to choose an internal candidate as president for the first time since it elevated John Ryan to the post 35 years ago. The decision could be announced within days. Two IU trustees confirmed that finalists include Michael McRobbie and Ora Pescovitz, IU administrators well-known to the Indianapolis business community. McRobbie, 56, is interim provost of IU Bloomington and vice president for academic affairs. Pescovitz, 50, is executive associate dean for research affairs at the IU School of Medicine as well as CEO of Riley Hospital for Children.
"I think both of them are eminently qualified," said trustee Philip Eskew, an Indianapolis
doctor. "They're highly respected. We're blessed here. We have two great leaders, either of which we'd be happy with."
Trustee William Cast said that, in addition to McRobbie and Pescovitz, there are two other internal candidates, whom he declined to name. Three of the four, including McRobbie and Pescovitz, "would be high on any recruiter's list," he said.
IU has gone outside the university for its last three presidents-Thomas Ehrlich, Myles Brand and Adam Herbert, who last year announced he would not serve beyond June 2008, when his contract expires. Herbert, a Florida university administrator before assuming IU's presidency in 2004, was widely criticized as having too low a profile and taking too long to make decisions.
Cast said there are clear pluses to pulling a president from the school's ranks.
"One advantage to an inside person is knowledge," said Cast, a Fort Wayne doctor. "It saves a year or more in terms of getting the boat moving forward again."
The nine-person board of trustees will discuss candidates at its next regularly scheduled meeting, which is March 1 and March 2 at IUPUI.
"The plan is, we'd like to announce something" at that time, Eskew said, cautioning that "things do change, however."
Eskew, director of physician and patient relations at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, said the next president needs a background in research, something both McRobbie and Pescovitz have.
Neither McRobbie nor Pescovitz could be reached for comment.
McRobbie joined IU a decade ago as vice president of information technology. In 2003, he also became vice president of research. In that role, he was instrumental in securing multimillion-dollar grants for science initiatives. A year ago, he became interim provost and vice president of academic affairs. His annual salary is $285,600.
Pescovitz, who would be IU's first female president, joined IU 19 years ago. Before becoming CEO of Riley in 2004, she was the top dean of research at the medical school.
In her current post, Pescovitz oversees $210 million in annual grants to the medical school. She also administers the Indiana Genomics Initiative, a research project funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. Her annual salary is $258,500.
Herbert, the outgoing president, earns $359,600.
Eskew hinted the field of candidates from outside IU was disappointing, perhaps because an abundance of other major universities also are trying to fill vacancies.
Two other Big Ten schools are searching for presidents-Purdue and Ohio State-and Harvard University recently chose a new leader, its first female president.
"Competition has caused our search committee to not only look at what candidates are available outside, but also those within our system," Eskew said.
Outside candidates might not have been jumping at the chance to lead IU, he said.
"There are people that feel that we have not had a good run of presidents since John Ryan, so some candidates might be thinking that's not a job they want to apply for," he said. "We need to determine what we need to do. We must improve our image and roll out our life science initiative."
The Purdue post might be drawing more outside interest, he said, because of the perception that outgoing President Martin Jischke has done an outstanding job.
"Many would like to follow him," Eskew speculated.
Sue Talbot, chairwoman of the trustees' search committee, declined to discuss names of candidates. She did confirm that trustees still expect the new leader will be on board by July.

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