In Sunday’s Sun Sentinel: Fall 2025 All-County section

On Sunday, the Sun Sentinel will publish the Fall 2025 All-County special section, honoring the best in high school athletics. Top athletes are honored from Broward and Palm Beach counties in football, swimming, girls volleyball, cross country, golf and bowling. Online, the section will be available on Thursday night on sunsentinel.com/allcounty. ... Read More

New Gators coach Jon Sumrall fills out his staff at Florida

GAINESVILLE — After Jon Sumrall went outside to hire his coordinators, Florida’s new head coach turned familiar faces to fill out his growing Gators’ staff. Sumrall will bring several assistant coaches, including former UF linebacker Bam Hardmon, from Tulane. A day after the Green Wave fell 41-10 at Ole Miss during the opening round of the CFP, Sumrall’s staff began to quickly crystallize during a busy first day as Florida’s full-time coach. A source confirmed Joe... Read More

Chris Perkins: A weird week and season for Dolphins got even weirder Sunday

MIAMI GARDENS — It’s been a weird week in Dolphinsland. We saw some things we haven’t typically seen. And Sunday’s 45-21 butt-kicking at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals, a game in which the Miami Dolphins were outscored, 28-7, in the second half, goes right along with everything else we’ve seen the past six days or so, and the past six months or so. You wonder how long this vibe is going to last. I think it’s here for the next two weeks. It’s all been a bit strange. Start... Read More

Powerball jackpot climbs to $1.6 billion, among largest lottery prizes ever in U.S.

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday. No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-largest U.S. jackpot ever for Monday’s drawing, according to a news release from Powerball. The biggest U.S. jackpot was $2.04 billion in 2022. The winner bought the ticket in California and opted for a... Read More

Halfway through Florida’s bear hunt, state officials won’t say how many bears are dead

Florida’s first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no information on its progress, not even a death count. “Are we overkilling like in 2015?” asked Joe Humphrey, a Seminole County resident who described himself as a hunter at odds with the Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission’s position that a bear harvest would not harm the once threatened species. “They don’t want us to know.” Whatever its motivation,... Read More

Blues rout Panthers after tie-breaking goal with less than a second left in second period

SUNRISE — The St. Louis Blues got a pair of goals from Jake Neighbours and Robert Thomas in a 6-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night. Jonatan Berggren and Justin Faulk also scored for the Blues, and Joel Hofer made 27 saves. Pavel Buchnevich and Berggren added two assists. A.J. Greer and Sam Reinhart scored for the Panthers, who had won four straight. Daniil Tarasov stopped 25 shots. The Blues led 2-0 early in the second period before Greer and Reinhart scored for the tie. The... Read More

Should UM’s Malachi Toney have avoided scoring, drained the clock vs. Texas A&M?

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Hurricanes star freshman Malachi Toney had a clear path in front of him. Miami’s offense had been stuck in the mud all day, but in the final two minutes of Saturday’s playoff game against Texas A&M, Toney finally got a lane to the end zone. He took it. Toney’s score put UM ahead of Texas A&M 10-3, which proved to be the final margin of victory in Miami’s College Football Playoff debut.  “They were depending on me to go out there and make a... Read More

Dave Hyde: Miami wins tough game in tough manner — and validates CFP berth

Are we straight on Miami in the College Football Playoff now? Could it state the case any more clearly with Saturday on the line? Sometimes you get an ending that says everything better than months of debate. The only debate after Miami’s 10-3 win is which play was bigger: Miami running back’s Mark Fletcher’s 56-yard run up with four minutes left to loosen a Texas A&M defense that hadn’t loosened all day, or Miami freshman Bryce Fitzgerald’s second interception, in the end zone... Read More

Bianchi: College Football Playoff has arrived but sport’s soul is gone

Amid the spectacle of the College Football Playoff’s opening weekend — and the nagging sense that we’re watching a sport we no longer love — here’s the uncomfortable question no one in power seems eager to answer: Is college football slowly turning off the very fans who built it? The other day on our radio show, we asked a simple poll question: “What’s your excitement level for this year’s College Football Playoff?” The result wasn’t close. The runaway winner was:... Read More