IN MY OPINION

Miami Dolphins blew this one, but Saints simply better

Take your pick. The Dolphins choked. Or they played brilliantly and courageously before yielding to a superior force.

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Miami Hurricanes, Clemson endure wild game, simple ending

Crazyball!

Possibly we have had wilder games than Clemson beating Miami 40-37 in overtime. Just don't waste any energy trying to look one up online. There certainly hasn't been one since the Internet was born.

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Brutal twists, turns from start to end in Miami Dolphins' win

Just dial it up, folks, Put the Dolphins and Jets on Monday Night Football and stand back and watch them bruise each other. Just don't call it a night too early, or you miss Ronnie Brown's triumphant 2-yard touchdown burst for this 31-27 classic victory with six seconds left.

IN MY OPINION

FAMU not a true test for Miami Hurricanes

Florida A&M collected a fat $600,000 paycheck Saturday night, but I don't know that you can put a price on the humiliation the Rattlers paid.

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Miami Dolphins' dominance is a sight for sore eyes

By any standard, this was a laugher, except NFL teams never laugh at anyone for fear of the inevitable biteback. Anyway, Sunday was as easy as they come for the Dolphins, who bludgeoned the Buffalo Bills 38-10 with 250 yards rushing to the hated invaders' frail 46.

It's no illusion: Miami Hurricanes put a hurt on Ga. Tech

After an opening 30 minutes that was more of a public flogging than a major-college football game, the main question became: Was the first half only an illusion, or is that really a thunderbolt traveling in the disguise of the Miami Hurricanes?

Angel Cabrera pulls out thrilling Masters victory

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- And so they came to sudden death, an incongruous designation for a Masters Tournament as lively as any ever played. And then Chad Campbell putted his chance away. And Kenny Perry, who at 48 years 8 months would have been the oldest man ever to win a Masters, knocked a bad drive on the second playoff hole, and there was only Argentina's Angel Cabrera to step into the green coat that is sports' most-sought-after haberdashery.

Dream Masters finish might be left to dreamers

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Dreams are busting up all over the place. Tiger Woods probably isn't going to win his fifth Masters. Not Sunday, anyway. Phil Mickelson won't nail his third. Paddy Harrington can forget taking his third consecutive major.

Tiger Woods needs historic finish

AUGUSTA, GA. -- Tiger Woods' last hole Friday told his 2009 Masters Tournament story as well as anything. He hit into a bunker and then two-putted. That gave him an un-Tigerlike total of 61 putts for these first two Masters rounds.

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Larry Mize, Greg Norman turn back the clock at Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- What did it? Was it this onrush of heat after early week conditions that would have given polar bears chilblains? Was a suddenly lovely Thursday the nature's trick that rolled back the years for two Masters, 50-year-old Larry Mize and 54-year-old Greg Norman?

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Who is the real Tiger Woods? We might never know

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He is the greatest athlete the world has never known. And never will. Sure, a sizable chunk of Western civilization will take it in with cheers if Tiger wins his fifth Masters tournament starting Thursday. It would be his 15th major tournament championship, three short of Jack Nicklaus' record.

EDWIN POPE | IN MY OPINION

Temper, temper: Federer shows emphatic smash

Blam! It was tennis' smash of the year -- the century, for that matter. In coming years when countless great shots are mentally played and replayed by the freakiest of Key Biscayne tennis freaks, Roger Federer's smash was the one that will never be forgotten.

IN MY OPINION

Serena hasn't played enough to be all-time No. 1

Serena Williams has whacked out five singles championships in the Sony Ericsson Open, but for 25 minutes of a sauna-like Wednesday she couldn't win even one lousy game.

EDWIN POPE | IN MY OPINION

Edwin Pope: Sony Ericsson has grown into a classic

It's a little different inside Butch Buchholz's office in Key Biscayne than it was when he first stepped up as patron saint of tennis of South Florida and a good piece of the rest of the world 25 years ago.

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Tiger Woods reigns supreme in sports history

This little gang of golfheads had gathered at Doral while Tiger Woods was marching back into his personal paradise of stroke play after two-thirds of a year on the physical fritz.

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Harrison's masterpiece turns Super Bowl tide

TAMPA -- Talk Ben Roethlisberger. Talk Santonio Holmes. They teamed on a last-minute, mob-surrounded pass that enabled Pittsburgh to beat Arizona 27-23. But you will never talk enough, or hear enough, about the James Harrison masterpiece that turned into the greatest play in one of the greatest games in 43 Super Bowls.

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Bob Hayes finally gets elusive Hall of Fame honor

TAMPA -- Bobby Hayes, ''The World's Fastest Human'' who never could run into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, made it at a gallop Saturday.

Edwin Pope: Hunch tells me Steelers will win

TAMPA -- Just thinking out loud, and wondering why this Super Bowl Week seems to grow quieter by the day -- maybe because of the feeling that Pittsburgh is going to crush Arizona so cruelly that it won't be a Super Bowl at all.

Super Bowl brings out the wild-and-crazy side of life

TAMPA -- If I'm lying . . . A man was walking down the main drag here with a string tied to a pigeon that had been water-colored red. ''I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan,'' he said -- the man, not the pigeon. ``But I couldn't find a cardinal for a mascot.''