Sunday, February 19, 2017

Duke gets defensive, outscores Miami by 23 after halftime: 3 things ... and other top stories.

  • Duke gets defensive, outscores Miami by 23 after halftime: 3 things ...

    Duke gets defensive, outscores Miami by 23 after halftime: 3 things ...
    If Duke goes on to achieve any sort of greatness in March, remember what happened between the first half and second half of the Blue Devils' win against Miami on Saturday night in Durham, North Carolina. Trailing 36-25 at halftime, Duke looked lost. Jeff Capel spent all week with this team working on growing and getting better, and then their first time back on the court featured some slow-to-respond defense and ice cold jump shooting. Capel benched Luke Kennard, Grayson Allen and Harry Gil..
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  • Backcourt helps Miami Heat beat Milwaukee Bucks for first three ...

    Backcourt helps Miami Heat beat Milwaukee Bucks for first three ...
    How does an NBA team go from winning twice in 31 days to winning three times in five?In the Heat’s case, it begins with exemplary work from its backcourt, a trend that continued with Saturday’s 109-97 dispatching of visiting Milwaukee.With Dion Waiters scoring 33 and Goran Dragic adding 25, the Heat produced its first three-game winning streak of the season after failing in three previous attempts.“That takes us to a whole other level when they play like that,” center Hassan Whiteside said of t..
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  • Thousands protest at Miami Women's Rally — overflowing Bayfront ...

    Thousands protest at Miami Women's Rally — overflowing Bayfront ...
    They came by the thousands to downtown Miami — as they did in Boston and Chicago and Los Angeles and hundreds of cities around the world — to protest in support of women’s and civil rights in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. They carried homemade signs and placards directly addressing the just-inaugurated President Donald Trump: “Make America THINK Again.” “Bridges Over Walls.” “Rise & Unify.”And the more than 10,000 people of all ages and races who showed up at the Bayfront Par..
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  • After police chase, officers arrest 5 in Miami Gardens

    After police chase, officers arrest 5 in Miami Gardens
    MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - After a massive police chase, the Miami Gardens Police Department officers arrested five suspects trying to get away in a stolen sports utility vehicle. Police officers chased the Honda CR-V into a parking lot at Seventh Avenue and Northwest 187 Drive, where they arrested three females and one male.After the driver took off running, the chase continued through the residential neighborhood. Witnesses said they saw dozens of police cars, police officers jumping fences, a pol..
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  • Local teams excel at Dolphins cheer competition

    Local teams excel at Dolphins cheer competition
    The Miami Dolphins Youth Programs hosted more than 1,000 kids, age 4-15, from Mid Florida, Gold Coast Pop Warner, American Youth Football League, Florida Youth Football League, Miami Xtreme and National Youth Football League for the Dolphins Championship Series Cheer Competition at the Don Taft University Center Arena at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.“We’re very excited to be here,” said Cheer Director of Miami Xtreme Football and Cheer Ayana Harris, whose league brought 20 teams from i..
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  • An early look at Dolphins' free agent front-seven options on defense

    An early look at Dolphins' free agent front-seven options on defense
    The Dolphins know they need to add at least four more rotation players in their front seven on defense, and they’re expected to look to both the draft and free agency to find them.Miami hasn’t begun a serious discussion of potential targets, but here’s an early look at free-agent front seven defensive options:• Linebacker: The Dolphins would like to add two, to replace Jelani Jenkins and Koa Misi, but as we reported here in December, they also believe they could move Kiko Alonso to weakside lin..
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  • Home run! Miamian Juan Pablo Montoya wins Race Of Champions ...

    Home run! Miamian Juan Pablo Montoya wins Race Of Champions ...
    Miami has seen a lot of history made in a lot of different sports over the years. But nothing quite like this. Nothing like the odd, nearly bizarre spectacle that unfurled Saturday at Marlins Park.A diamond covered with asphalt. Race cars moving like fastballs. A hairpin turn in front of the home team’s dugout. A finish line where the shortstop would be settling under under a pop fly.A major auto race, inside a baseball stadium, loud enough for the neighbors in Little Havana to hear, against a ..
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  • Women's March overwhelms Washington in protest of Trump

    Women's March overwhelms Washington in protest of Trump
    In what they proclaimed to be an act of rekindled political resistance, hundreds of thousands of women — and men, and children, but mostly women — took over the pulsating streets of the nation’s capital Saturday to protest Donald Trump less than 24 hours after he assumed the presidency.The demonstrators overwhelmed downtown Washington from just after dawn into the evening, in a show of force against a chief executive they see as threatening to the liberal views espoused by a popular majority t..
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  • Miami City Ballet falls short

    Miami City Ballet falls short
    Miami City Ballet artists never fail to commit themselves to the work they present, both technically and artistically, regardless of their familiarity with a particular style or vocabulary.Although many of the dancers have trained primarily in the Balanchine style, the troupe will throw itself fully into traditional story ballets and works by modern dance choreographers. The dancers are willing to take risks, like a few seasons ago when the company tackled West Side Story, a joyous work of mus..
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  • EXCLUSIVE: Whatever Trump does, Dreamers likely to be deported ...

    EXCLUSIVE: Whatever Trump does, Dreamers likely to be deported ...
    Young immigrants currently protected from deportation will be quickly removed from the country by President Donald Trump’s plan to boost deportations, even if the new president doesn’t target them directly, according to a former senior immigration official in the Obama administration.Democratic leaders and advocates within the immigration community are bracing for Trump on Monday to eliminate several of Obama’s executive actions on immigration, including the deferred action program, known as D..
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