Entries by Ethan Skolnick

A South Florida team wins! Panthers take home opener

Some team needs to save us. The Miami Heat may do it. They feel better about this particular roster than any since the Big 3 era. Erik Spoelstra couldn’t stop smiling all week at training camp at Keiser University in West Palm Beach. But the Florida Panthers may have more talent, as ranked in its particular […]

Jimmy Butler: “Who says I’m the best player?”

It’s odd to think of Jimmy Butler as especially modest. He’ll openly tell you that he will beat you at just about anything, whether it’s dominoes or paddleball. Basketball? Well, he’s willing to concede a bit. Pat Riley called him a top-10 player. Erik Spoelstra declared him “one of the 15 best players on the […]

Identifying the Miami Heat’s best longshots

The 2019 NBA offseason will forever be remembered for its wealth of player movement, much of which involved basketball’s marquee names. The lasting legacy of the Miami Heat’s summer will be no different. Landing four-time All-Star Jimmy Butler—with zero cap space discernible to anyone other than expert number-cruncher Andy Elisburg—could be a fortune-changer for the […]

The best of an energized Erik Spoelstra press conference

Somebody’s happy again. Welcome back, Spoelstra. If you’ve followed my feed, you’ve known that Erik Spoelstra just hasn’t seemed quite the same the past couple of years. A mismatched roster. A max player who didn’t always go with the program. Too many low-upside players who played the same position. Well, that’s changed. Here’s the best […]

Miami Dolphins now 0-4, outscored 81-0 in second half

There’s only so long the dam can hold. Right, Miami? We’ve now seen that two straight weeks with the Miami Dolphins, as they were competitive in Sunday’s first half against the depleted Los Angeles Chargers — just as they were frisky in last Sunday’s first half in Dallas against the Cowboys — only to collapse […]

Can the Dolphins finally come within two touchdowns?

The Dolphins are making progress, at least in one way: they are losing by less touchdowns. Yes, they’re an enormous underdog again Sunday, after losing their first three games by a historically lopsided combined score by a 133-16, scoring 10 fewer points in three contests than Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has scored in any one […]

Simon Clancy’s exclusive with Tua Tagovailoa

Everyone wants a piece of Alabama elite quarterback Tua Tagovailoa right now. Simon Clancy, who is a host of our Three Yards Per Carry while also working in England for Gridiron magazine and other outlets, did something that Alabama opponents haven’t done at all this season: He corralled the slippery, skilled signalcaller. Clancy conducted an […]