Notes and Quotes From Dolphin Camp (Wednesday)
Comments from Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano 2 days before the Dolphins first pre-season game with Atlanta. (On if he sees Reggie Bush returning punts this season) “I think that he may do it at some...
View ArticleHeat Release 2011 Preseason Schedule
MIAMI (CBS4) – Despite the fact that all indications are pointing to there be no season at all; the Miami Heat released its 2011-2012 preseason schedule Thursday afternoon. The Heat starts the...
View ArticleNBA Begins Cancelling Games
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – For the first time in several years, the National Basketball Association has postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games as the owners’ lockout of...
View ArticleNBA Set For New CBA Negotiations
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – The National Basketball Players Association was supposed to gather in Miami on Tuesday for a union meeting to discuss the ongoing NBA lockout. Instead, the NBPA will be...
View ArticleNBA Cancels Remaining Preseason Games
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has canceled the remainder of the preseason and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday. Commissioner David Stern and...
View ArticleLocal Workers Fear NBA Lockout Will Cost Them Big
MIAMI (CBS4) — Many people who work in businesses close to the AmericanAirlinesArena fear the continuing NBA lockout will cost them cash they cannot afford to lose. Across from the Arena at Bayside and...
View ArticleNBA Lockout Reaches Critical Mass
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – Negotiators from the NBA and the National Basketball Player’s Association restarted talks in New York with a Monday deadline to avoid cancelling the first two weeks of the...
View ArticleStern Threatens No NBA This Year
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Nobody wants to earn the moniker of the Grinch who stole Christmas, but NBA commissioner may have done just that on Thursday. Speaking to WFAN, Stern threatened the entire 2011...
View ArticleWade Worries Fans Will Leave NBA
BRADENTON, Fla. (CBSMiami.com) – Instead of sitting down at the table and negotiating, the NBA and NBPA have resorted to demagouging each other. For Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade, he’s saying enough. In...
View ArticleNBA Lockout Talks Collapse
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Any Miami Heat fans hoping to watch basketball this season had better be ready to cheer on their favorite college team as talks collapsed Thursday night between NBA owners and...
View ArticleNBA Negotiators Meeting Wednesday
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – While the prospects of seeing LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh take the floor for the Miami Heat remain slim; the NBA and the National Basketball Players association...
View ArticleOwners Lobbied For Fine On Micky Arison
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Miami Heat owner Micky Arison was fined $500,000 for his Twitter comments on the never-ending NBA lockout. But if some NBA owners had their way, Arison would have been hit in the...
View ArticleSpoelstra & Heat Head Back to School
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has spent most of the off-season studying his basketball team in hopes of finding more answers that will help the team reach the NBA Finals...
View ArticleMiami Heat Fans, Players & Businesses Losing In Lockout
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Thursday night was supposed to be when South Florida sports fans could finally welcome back a team that is committed to winning, the Miami Heat. Instead, the ugly lockout imposed...
View ArticleNBA Players Threaten Decertification
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – If you were one of the thousands of Miami Heat fans who have been waiting patiently for the Big Three to once again rule the court; you had better hope Saturday’s scheduled...
View ArticleNBA Lockout Deadline Passes
NEW YORK (CBSMiami.com) – The 5 p.m. deadline for the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association to strike a deal has come and gone. But, the onset of a NBA nuclear winter has not come just...
View ArticleNBA Players Reject Latest Offer, Season Likely Cancelled
NEW YORK (CBSMiami/AP) — The remainder of the already shortened NBA season is likely in jeopardy after NBA players rejected the league’s latest offer Monday and began disbanding the union. Stern had...
View ArticleReport: NBA Cancels Games Through Dec. 15
MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – The NBA has informed its teams that all games through December 15th have been cancelled, according to Yahoo! Sports. The move is no surprise after the National Basketball Players...
View ArticleNBA Lockout Distractions To Pass The Time
The NBA lockout has officially outlasted the NFL lockout, and the average sports fan’s patience has officially been tested. November 16th marks the first time NBA players will miss a pay day, with the...
View ArticleLocal Businesses, NBA Owners, Players Ready To Play Ball
MIAMI (CBS4/ AP) — After nearly two years of bickering, NBA players and owners are back on the same side, and local businesses in Miami are reveling in the decision. “We want to play basketball,”...
View ArticleTop Five All-Star Dunk Contest Dunks Of All Time
By: Martin Sumners The ABA didn’t invent the dunk but it did introduce the high-flying dunk contest at the 1976 ABA All-Star Game at the fitting site of Denver known as the Mile High City. This...
View ArticleFive Changes To Make The NBA All-Star Game Better
By: Martin Sumners The NBA All-Star Game was introduced in 1951. Initially, the game was an almost quaint two-hour exhibition and although held in non-cosmopolitan cities such as Ft. Wayne, Indiana, it...
View ArticleNHL Lockout Set For Saturday
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Florida Panthers are coming off a division winning season and have real momentum for the future of a franchise that has been an also-ran in recent years. But, that enthusiasm may...
View ArticleNHL Put On Ice Thanks To Lockout
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Florida Panthers fans hoping to see some great hockey may have to break out the DVD collection now that the NHL lockout has been in effect for more than a day. Both the NHL Players...
View ArticlePanthers Institute Layoffs Due To Lockout
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The NHL lockout is a little more than 48 hours old, but has already started claiming victims with the Florida Panthers organization. The team announced Tuesday that it was...
View ArticleReport: Officials And NFL Nearing Deal
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Our long national sports nightmare of NFL replacement officials may be coming to an end as early as this weekend, according to ESPN.com. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, citing sources on...
View ArticleNHL Cancels All Games Through Oct. 24
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The Florida Panthers are coming off one of the most successful seasons in franchise history, but it’s going to be awhile before any Panthers fans can see red on the ice at the...
View ArticleReport: NHL Likely To Cancel More Games This Week
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – Fans of the Florida Panthers hoping to see the team take the ice are likely out of luck until possibly through Thanksgiving, according to the Sporting News, thanks to the ongoing...
View ArticleNHL Cancels All Games Through Nov. 1
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The NHL continues to cut off its nose to spite its face with fans after it announced Friday that all regular season games through November 1 have been cancelled. The cancellations...
View ArticleNHL Still On Ice Thanks to Lockout
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – Florida Panthers fans holding out hope for a full regular season of games may have run out of hope. The NHL rejected an effort by the NHL Players Association to restart labor talks...
View ArticleReport: NHL Likely To Withdraw Latest Offer Thursday
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – Florida Panthers fans may need to become Miami Dolphins or Miami Heat fans soon. The NHL is set to withdraw its latest collective bargaining agreement to the players if the NHL...
View ArticleNHL Cancels All Games Through Nov. 30
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – It’s looking more and more like the Florida Panthers may not get to raise any banners this year. The NHL announced Friday that all regular season games through the month of...
View ArticleNHL No Closer To CBA Deal
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The news coming out of the stalemate between the NHL and the NHL Players Association continues to be grim and it looks like the next major cancellation for the league will be the...
View ArticleReport: NHL Set To Cancel Winter Classic
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The NHL is set to cancel its annual signature game, the Winter Classic, as early as Friday, due to the ongoing owners’ lockout of the players. The Winter Classic, an outdoor hockey...
View ArticleBoth Sides Negotiating In NHL Lockout Dispute
NEW YORK (CBSMiami) – Hockey fans continue to sit and wait while ongoing NHL lockout of its players continues. There is some hope Friday because the NHL and National Hockey League Players Association...
View ArticleNHL & NHLPA Still At A Standstill
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association continued talking Tuesday to try and close the gap that remains between the two sides on a potential collective...
View ArticleLegendary Former MLB Union Chief Dies At 95
NEW YORK (CBSMiami) – Marvin Miller, the man who helped lead baseball’s union into free agency while revolutionizing the relationship between player and team, died Tuesday at the age of 95 in...
View ArticleNHL Cancels Games Through Jan. 14, Season In Doubt
NEW YORK (CBSMiami) – Any hopes from hockey fans for an NHL season look like they’re about to be put on ice for at least another year. The NHL canceled all games through January 14th as a result of the...
View ArticleNHL Gives Fans A Lump Of Coal This Christmas
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Florida Panthers fans received a lump of coal in their stocking from the National Hockey League this year thanks to the seemingly never-ending lockout. Monday marked the 100th day of...
View ArticleNHL & NHLPA Working On Ending Lockout
SUNRISE (CBSMiami) – It says something about your organization when Congress is able to come to an agreement quicker than you. But, such is the state of the National Hockey League and its owner-imposed...
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