Entries by Ethan Skolnick

The Marlins offense is worse than we thought

No one expected the Miami Marlins to be an offensive juggernaut. Not after dealing their five best offensive players in the past 18 months. Not with only a trio of major league qualified hitters in the lineup. Not when Starlin Castro is probably the best of them. But this? This is ridiculous. Miami was shut […]

Dwyane Wade Triple-Doubles in Last Game

(Photo taken after the 2013 championship, and one of the few I have that isn’t blurry.)   This was supposed to be anticlimactic. Dwyane Wade, however, isn’t capable of creating boredom. So in his last game, in front of his Banana Boat mates and mostly Miami Heat fans in Brooklyn, and playing 36 minutes the […]

What did Dwyane Wade mean to you? Everything

The day started with a simple question. What has Dwyane Wade meant to you? Starting this early…. This is the thread where you can answer this question: "What has @DwyaneWade meant to me?" What follows here is mine….. — Ethan — THREE Reasons Sports Network (@5ReasonsSports) April 9, 2019 Here were some of the best […]

The Heat sacrifice the Scavenger

Quite a bloody Sunday it’s been. First the Miami Heat blew another second half lead, faltering down the stretch, botching a last-possession with a chance to win (thanks in part to the officials) and then petering out in overtime to lose to Toronto. Now, with the season just about over, someone who actually played 23 […]

Panthers fire coach, folks scramble for name

Is this news? We’re not sure if this is news. The Florida Panthers just finished another disappointing season, one that began with some of us — um, me — thinking they were the best-positioned of all the pro teams in our sadsack sports town to make a real run. They had young stars, a veteran […]