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Tennis in a football stadium? As odd as it sounds on the surface, the Miami Open, along with Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Steve Ross, have made it work. Gone is the iconic scenic drive over the Rickenbacker Causeway to get to the Miami Open’s old Key Biscayne location, but the new venue offers a series of improvements in space accommodation and a number of food, drink, art and entertainment options that make it as much a Miami event as it is the top-tier tennis tournament it... Read More

Ryan Fitzpatrick isn’t just Fitz-magic, as he says. He’s Fitz-perfect! He’s Fitz-like-a-glove! He’s exactly the kind of quarterback the Miami Dolphins’ well-planned, well-documented and well-this-is-really-happening-now plans to tank this upcoming season demand. The design is so thought out the Dolphins waited until St. Fitz-Patrick’s Day to sign him. Talk about kissing the Blarney Stone. Or, more accurately, tying your roster to the Blarney Stone to better sink to the bottom... Read More

The Miami Dolphins didn’t look far to replace Ryan Tannehill as the team’s starting quarterback. In fact, the team didn’t even have to leave the state. According to a league source, Ryan Fitzpatrick, a 14-year veteran who spent the past two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, signed a contract on Sunday with Miami, making the Dolphins the third AFC East team the former Harvard standout will play for. Terms of the contract were not immediately available. Fitzpatrick replaces... Read More

A 6-year-old boy died Saturday morning after finding a loaded gun and shooting himself in the head inside a Miami Gardens home, police confirmed. Miami Gardens Public Information Officer Carolyn Frazier, who responded to the scene, said officers received a 911 call about 9 a.m. Saturday regarding a shooting in the 2100 block of NW 27th Court. Frazier said a boy sustained a serious gunshot injury while in the supervision of two caretakers. The boy, whose name has not been released and age... Read More

Anguished relatives were anxiously waiting Sunday for authorities to release the remains of those who were killed in massacres at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, while authorities announced the death toll from the racist attacks had risen to 50. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours. But two days after the worst terrorist attack in the country’s modern history, relatives remained unsure when... Read More

Gloomy skies did not dampen the sunny dispositions on thousands of smiling faces at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. There seemed to be more people wearing the green than there were blades of grass in the downtown area. Pompano Beach Irishman Garrett Mooney was dressed in a giant inflatable shamrock suit, and if his wife Veronica, daughter Tori, 16, and son Austin, 11, were embarrassed, their blushing was green too. “All the floats that have... Read More

On the last tennis court on the right, before the apartment building where they lived, the big dream started small for Naomi Osaka and her family. “That was their court,’’ says Bill Adams, the tennis pro at Lakeshore Tennis Park in Miramar, who was Osaka’s first coach in South Florida. “They’d be there five, six hours a day. Every day.” Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, first approached Adams in 2006 with his two, young daughters and the question he would ask coaches across... Read More

When the gunman advanced toward the mosque, killing those in his path, Abdul Aziz didn’t hide. Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find, a credit card machine, and ran outside screaming “Come here!” Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths during Friday prayers at the Linwood mosque in Christchurch after leading the gunman in a cat-and-mouse chase before scaring him into speeding away in his car. But Aziz, whose four sons and dozens of... Read More

Gloomy skies did not dampen the sunny dispositions on thousands of smiling faces at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Saturday. There seemed to be more people wearing the green than there were blades of grass in the downtown area. Pompano Beach Irishman Garrett Mooney was dressed in a giant inflatable shamrock suit, and if his wife Veronica, daughter Tori, 16, and son Austin, 11, were embarrassed, their blushing was green too. “All the floats that have... Read More

A violent wreck early Saturday along West Commercial Boulevard forced Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue firefighters to cut an injured woman from her wrecked car. The crash happened about 6:45 a.m. in the 1000 block of W. Commercial Blvd. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Firefighters work to free a trapped driver. Firefighters work to free a trapped driver. (Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue) Fort Lauderdale Fire Reescue To free the driver, crews had to slice away the car’s roof. To free... Read More