Heat finding new landscape in NBA draft preparation, particularly with second round

MIAMI – As the Miami Heat work through the pre-draft process, the team’s front office and scouting staff find themselves working in a new environment on several levels, including one created by the NBA and one by the NCAA. A significant but minimally mentioned element of the new NBA collective-bargaining agreement is a change that could have an impact on the way business is conducted in the draft’s second round. Starting this year, a team that purchases a second-round pick, which has... Read More

Daily Horoscope for May 19, 2024

General Daily Insight for May 19, 2024 Progress is possible, but it might not happen in exactly the way we want. While the idealistic Libra Moon goads pushy Mars, we could be impatient that particular outcomes we’re attached to don’t seem to be unfolding. As the life-sustaining Sun sextiles visionary Neptune at 6:45 pm EDT, other paths are opening up. That said, Luna then agitates anxious Saturn, suggesting we’re not entirely comfortable with that idea. Our feelings need to be... Read More

Inter Miami, with Messi back, get Campana goal four minutes into stoppage time to dump DC United

FORT LAUDERDALE — Lionel Messi was kept off the scoresheet for the second consecutive match but Inter Miami extended its unbeaten string with a 1-0 win over DC United on Saturday night. Leo Campana scored four minutes into second half stoppage time as Miami, 6-0-3 since a 4-0 loss at the New York Red Bulls on March 23, avoided a second consecutive scoreless draw. Campana, who entered the match a minute earlier, received a pass from Sergio Busquets on the right wing and converted on a shot... Read More

UCF softball drops another game to FSU in NCAA Regional

UCF softball couldn’t dig out of an early hole, falling to 15th-seed Florida State, 5-1 on Day 2 of the NCAA Tallahassee Regional Saturday at JoAnne Graf Field. Saturday’s game was the second consecutive season in which these two programs have met in the NCAA Regional, with UCF also falling short in a 5-1 loss to FSU on May 20, 2023. The Knights (0-15) haven’t beaten the Seminoles since 2011. Florida State (45-14) scored five runs in the top of the second inning as Amaya Ross opened... Read More

One dead after car crashes into light pole in Cooper City

One person died after a vehicle struck a light pole in Cooper City late Saturday morning, officials say. The car struck a light pole in the 11800 block of Griffin Road a little after 11 a.m., according to Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane. One person died at the scene, and no one else was transported. Two cars appeared to be severely damaged at the scene Saturday afternoon while Broward Sheriff’s deputies investigated. It is unclear what caused the crash and what... Read More

George Strait sings ode to Miami on his new song. How it compares to Swift’s ‘Florida!!!’

In April, Taylor Swift dropped her new album and Florida’s tourism board almost certainly salivated over the eighth track, “Florida!!!” in which Swift portrays the Sunshine State as the ultimate … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Video shows owner of boat in fatal Biscayne Bay hit-and-run crash looking ‘calm,’ attorney says

Security camera footage shows the man who police say was operating the boat that hit and killed Ransom Everglades freshman Ella Riley Adler in Biscayne Bay last week calmly leaving … Click to Continue » ... Read More