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SPORTS COLUMNIST
Greg Cote has been a Herald sports columnist known for his wit and sharp insight since 1995, after previously covering the Dolphins, University of Miami football and major events including Super Bowls, the World Cup and Barcelona Olympics. Greg and his infamous 'Upset Bird' present the ever-popular NFL predictions page every Friday during football season.
E-mail Greg at gcote@miamiherald.com.
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Greg Cote: With suspensions looming, MLB faces a midsummer nightmare
What once was America’s Pastime by acclimation prepares for its showcase midsummer break on the nation’s biggest stage, in prime time, in New York.
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Greg Cote: Dwight Howard made right move despite loyalty questions
It occurs to me I happen to be living my life as if change was bad, though of course I know it usually is not. This wasn’t planned; it just worked out that way. Grew up in the same house in Hollywood. Worked for the same company since back when carrier pigeons delivered the news. Married to the same wonderful woman all this time.
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Greg Cote: Andy Murray, Marlins’ Jose Fernandez strike a blow for the good guys
Sports became a game of good vs. evil, somewhere along the line. Maybe it was around the time player arrests began to feel like an official statistical category, or when “PEDs” entered the lexicon as an acronym for cheating. Whatever it meant to be an athlete got tarnished and tangled in morality. What used to be our escape from real life — sports — became just a reflection of it, and one that too often made us want to look away.
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Random evidence of a cluttered mind
Howard represents NBA desperation outside Miami
Give Dwight Howard credit for lessons learned. He has grown to be dislikable enough on his own over the years to not need help from LeBron James. So Howard barely made “a decision” Friday night, let alone a sequel to “The Decision.”
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Greg Cote: Young pro talent signals dawning of golden age in South Florida
Happy birthday, America. You look pretty good for 237. But I’m here today to talk about some folks who are a bit younger.
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Greg Cote: Time for Miami Marlins to make commitment to players
Marlins fans — the most admirably resilient of them who still allow themselves to believe and to dream, despite it all — had a particularly hopeful night here Monday, after a hopeful month.
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RANDOM EVIDENCE OF A CLUTTERED MIND
Greg Cote: Naked truth is Giancarlo Stanton gimmick might help Miami Marlins
ESPN The Magazine’s annual “The Body” issue dated July 12 will be out next week, and word has leaked that this year’s parade of nudies will include Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton, among an eclectic array of athletes also including 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, tennis star Agnieszka Radwanska and a man I’d pay big money to not see naked, 77-year-old golfer Gary Player.
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Greg Cote: Aaron Hernandez is sports’ latest fallen ‘hero’
Sunday, June 16, 2013. Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, care free and on top of the world so much as anyone knew, father to an 8-month-old daughter, goes on Twitter, writes: “happy father’s day to all the great dads out there.”
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Greg Cote: Dwyane Wade’s unselfish attitude allowed the Big 3 era to happen for Miami Heat
All of this started with Micky Arison, the franchise owner, and his checkbook, his willingness to put his money where his dream was.
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Greg Cote: Miami Heat championship parade brings South Florida together
The city that invented the Perfect Season felt perfect again Monday. Sometimes in life (not often enough), everything works out just like you’d hoped. Maybe even a little bit better! The sun sweeps away the rain and strangers suddenly look like neighbors. This is the power of sports.
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Random evidence of a cluttered mind
Miami parties, has parade — can we ban complaining?
A Monday in June will be blessed with a Heat championship parade for a second consecutive year, an occasion of utter joyful celebration and great civic pride and — because this is Miami — plenty of griping and whining as well.
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Greg Cote: It’s time for Miami Heat fans to finally exhale
As Heat fans prepare to celebrate during Monday’s championship parade, they should relish these good, ol’ days now as the success from Miami’s other sports teams have come and gone.
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Greg Cote: Repeat after me – second straight Heat title means everything
Exhausted Heat players and drained Heat fans found the energy to celebrate Miami here Thursday as midnight neared, a team and a city locked in an emotional group hug as confetti fell in the downtown bayside arena and merrily honking car horns played a symphony outside.
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Greg Cote: Game 7 is all or nothing for Miami Heat
The Shot That Changed Everything found the perfect hands. Nobody who ever played basketball has made more three-point baskets than Ray Allen, after all. You know how shooters say they are sure the moment the ball leaves their hands if the shot is good? That they know it by instinct and feel?
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Greg Cote: With Game 7 of NBA Finals, now comes all that matters
Can your pounding heart and racing mind stand one more of these, South Florida? Will your boss tolerate another couple days of frazzled distraction and low productivity?
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Greg Cote: After Game 5 loss, Miami Heat must now take hard road to title against Spurs
This night was about how Tuesday is going to feel.
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Greg Cote: LeBron, 'Enough is enough; it's time to win consecutive games'
How thoroughly bizarre. We are speaking of a Heat team that won a club-record 66 games, that won 27 in a row at one point, that features the best player in the world, and that is close now to winning a second consecutive championship and being vaulted and exalted among the greatest teams of all time.
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Random Evidence of a Cluttered Mind
Disappearing act: Spurs’ Ginobili missing in action
There are certain advantages to actually being here while covering the Heat in the NBA Finals. For example, if I were not here, I would not have seen all of those “MISSING PERSON” posters plastered across town bearing the likeness of Spurs guard Manu Ginobili.
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Greg Cote: Faced with doubt, Big 3 remind us why they teamed up
Heat architect Pat Riley and club owner Micky Arison were sitting one row and a few seats from each other in the Spurs’ arena here, close enough to converse, if they chose, but far enough apart to be alone in their thoughts.
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Greg Cote: Miami Heat’s Big 3 redeems itself at perfect time
The new Superman movie happens to open in theaters nationwide on Friday. I think we might have seen a sneak preview playing exclusively in this mid-Texas city Thursday night.
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