http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Greg Cote 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:35:38 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1325129.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1325129.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00 EST Give Chad Henne a break. Give him time. Better yet, give him a receiver. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1322272.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1322272.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00 EST People voted to elect a new city of Miami mayor Tuesday. Results were surprising, but you know what they say about politics being all about the timing. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1318987.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1318987.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Defiantly, or perhaps obliviously, Edgerrin James told reporters in Seattle last month, ``It's up to me how long I want to play and how far I move up that [all-time rushing] chart.'' If only. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1318950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1318950.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00 EST Well, let's see here. I missed on Dolphins-Jets game, missed on Vikings-Packers ``Favre Bowl,'' missed badly on my Upset of the Week pick (Houston-Buffalo), and totally misread Giants-Eagles, too. The only person in South Florida who had a worse week than me: Disgraced Fort Lauderdale attorney and accused scam-artist Scott Rothstein. Close call, though. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1314640.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1314640.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Major League Baseball likes to call its World Series the ``Fall Classic,'' one of those apple-pie appellations evocative of autumn leaves in a Norman Rockwell painting -- except that the phrase has mostly become a misnomer. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1312953.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1312953.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:00 EST The Dolphins hold deed and title to the AFC East as defending division champions. The Jets <I>act </I>like they own the division, albeit with thoroughly unearned bravado. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1309878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1309878.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT The Dolphins, 2-4 and trying to stay relevant in the playoff picture, now begin the toughest stretch of schedule in the NFL, with four of the next five games, and six of the next eight, on the road. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1310391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1310391.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00 EDT JACKSONVILLE -- You want to doubt the Florida Gators and Tim Tebow? Not smart.<p/> You thought they were a soft No. 1 lucky to be unbeaten and a risky pick to win another national championship? http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1307336.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1307336.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Here's all you need to know in a nutshell, and I choose that word carefully: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1307337.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1307337.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:02 EDT Had Dolphins over Saints as my Upset of the Week last week, and with Miami up 24-3 late in first half the Upset Bird was preening insufferably up in the press boxAnyhow, the Dolphins choked, of course, but it was all good. I emerged a solid 7-4-2 against the spread anyway, and my sports writing colleagues delighted to violate the no-cheering-in-the-press box edict by showering the unpopular Upset Bird with invective and derision in lockstep with the Dolphins' collapse. ``Aaawwwk!'' mocked a grinning Edwin Pope. ``Awww.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1305745.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1305745.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00 EDT You hardly would call this a season of great expectations for the Heat. More like a season of suspended expectations -- as if this entire NBA schedule for Miami is little more than a bridge to next year, a necessary delay being merely abided. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1301566.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1301566.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00 EDT If only it were that simple, right? If only the Dolphins' collapse that lost Sunday's game and set the season sour could be neatly blamed on that one timeout call late in the first half -- as so many fans and media apparently would like to believe. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1300053.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1300053.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00 EDT Jason Taylor slumped before his locker stall with head bowed, stripped down to his grass-stained uniform pants, the last Dolphin not in street clothes in the wake of the Sunday humiliation still raw. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1298490.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1298490.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:00 EDT The Dolphins are honoring their 1982 and '84 AFC championship teams during Sunday's game. Hmm. Unless I'm mistaken, isn't that a nice way of saying they are honoring the teams that failed -- God love 'em -- to bring home Super Bowl rings and ultimately blanketed abject disappointment across South Florida? http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1296202.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1296202.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Old England samples New England on Sunday as the NFL's ever-increasing foray into international markets continues with the latest game in London. Brits get Patriots-Tampa Bay, meaning they'll see the best that American football has to offer, other than the Buccaneers. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1295829.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1295829.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:12 EDT Hit another Upset of the Week against the spread with Ravens covering vs. Minnesota, and also had underdog Texans and Chiefs with points. But let's not put a bow on a pig, or, for that matter, a fedora on an Upset Bird. I got beat up last week, both ways. Had complete, embarrassing misreads on Giants-Saints and Cards-Seahawks. Can't beat myself up much on Eagles-Raiders -- who saw that coming? -- but some of those other picks were roughly as successful as the Titans' pass defense against Tom Brady. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1292234.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1292234.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:07 EDT The Miami Hurricanes have a better chance than you might think to play for college football's national championship Jan. 7 in the Rose Bowl. The Miami Dolphins have a great, immediate opportunity to prove they might have a chance to reach the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 in their own stadium. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1285257.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1285257.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT You thought talk-radio agitator Rush Limbaugh bombed in his brief stint as an NFL studio analyst for ESPN? That was Emmy-winning caliber compared with his more recent work as a prospective team owner. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1285022.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1285022.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:00 EDT I care for my overall record, sure, but how I fare against the spread is where the bread is buttered, where the rubber hits the road and [note to self: look up a third cliché]. Against the spread is what separates the men from the men whose wives won't let them gamble. This is why last week pleased me. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1281617.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/greg-cote/story/1281617.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT This might be seen as blasphemy by some, be decried as flagrantly premature by others or be plainly misinterpreted by most, so I will tread carefully.