Spoelstra chats on Internet
Pat Riley never did an online chat. Don Shula didn't know from laptops. Could anyone picture Jack McKeon putting down his cigar long enough to text-message?
Pat Riley never did an online chat. Don Shula didn't know from laptops. Could anyone picture Jack McKeon putting down his cigar long enough to text-message?
Sidled up to Fredi Gonzalez outside the Marlins' batting cage a couple of hours before Tuesday night's ballgame and asked the manager to help me figure something out. I wanted to know what you want to know.
BASKETBALL
Pat Riley, the man who made the Miami Heat matter and then made it a champion, broke the news to his players -- maybe to himself, too -- with a story about Forrest Gump.
RANDOM EVIDENCE OF A CLUTTERED MIND
Saturday's first round of the NFL Draft had jaws dropping all across America and was so thoroughly stunning that disbelieving fans and dumbstruck analysts were scrambling to determine whether modern history -- perhaps never to be repeated -- had been made.
Phillip Merling -- the Dolphins' top pick in the NFL Draft on Saturday, not counting the guy you knew about four days earlier -- seemed a bit fuzzy on what he was getting himself into. Joining a team coming off a 1-15 season, that might not be entirely bad. Some people go through years of expensive therapy to disassociate from such trauma.
