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We’ve previously explains the difference between needs and wants when it comes to restocking an NFL team’s talent base. We’ve outlined what the Miami Dolphins’ NEED – quarterback, pass rusher and offensive line help – to field a competitive team in 2012. Here’s a breakdown of some of the wants moving forward. These are the positions the [...]

Life teaches us there is a HUGE difference between needs and wants. We need food, shelter, transportation, good health, clothing, and a job that provides us enough money to pay the bills. We want a nice home, a sweet ride, name brand items, money that will allow us to eat out, travel and eventually retire. NFL teams battle [...]

Stanford Routt´s surprising release from Oakland, and quick signing with the Kansas City Chiefs serves as a perfect example of the ripple effects each team´s financial situation will create this offseason. Some NFL teams have plenty of money to spend before they reach the projected salary cap of $122 million. And some franchises have belt tightening [...]

Brandon Marshall is far from a finished product, but it appears he’s taken the right steps towards getting his life and career together, and is heading in the right direction. The Miami Dolphins’ leading receiver rebounded from his most turbulent offseason, one which involved him being diagnosis and treated for Borderline Personality Disorder, and finished the [...]

The Chad Henne era in Miami is likely over. The Miami Dolphins’ 2008 second-round pick will become an unrestricted free agent on March 13, and league sources say the Dolphins won’t be making the former University of Michigan standout an offer. Dolphins management has made it very clear that they need to upgrade the level of play [...]

The most interesting team in baseball, the Marlins, begin spring training Wednesday and then the best team in basketball, the Heat, hosts the Knicks and phenom Jeremy Lin on Thursday. So before I get sidetracked by all of this week’s excitement and excellence, let me quickly mention something on the troubling side.

Hoping to sweeten the pot and unload a pricey home he no longer needs, former Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano has slashed the price on his former Davie digs.

The bespectacled former English teacher speaks in a monotone voice and admits he learned long ago to be himself, which means, in part, not to get too high on good days or too low when everything is collapsing around him. My initial impression of Mike Sherman is he’d fit just as well on an Ivy League campus setting up office hours as on an NFL team scheming plans for an offense.

Mike Sherman and Kevin Coyle, the Dolphins’ new offensive and defensive coordinators, respectively, had positive things to say about the units they have inherited.

The mind combs back across the decades, across the map of our big teams, looking for an intersection such as the one we are approaching. Looking for a precedent. For a time like this.

Joe Philbin was watching TV with his wife Diane back in January 2006 when the news ticker reported that Mike McCarthy had been named head coach of the Green Bay Packers.

General Manager Jeff Ireland has the salary-cap room this off-season to pursue the kind of quarterback – perhaps Peyton Manning or Matt Flynn – coveted by owner Stephen Ross and Dolphins fans.

Freddie Solomon was a just a curious kid who was happy to be in the NFL. That’s how former Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese remembers Solomon, the Dolphins’ second-round pick in 1975.

The Dolphins, who found a star in Canada three years ago in outisde linebacker Cameron Wake, are looking to the CFL again.

With Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame quarterback and proud horse owner Bob Griese looking on, Margie Engle of Wellington and Indigo won the $125,000 FEI World Cup Qualifier Grand Prix Saturday night at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.