http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Miami Dolphins | Football 60 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:03:05 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/615/story/516565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/615/story/516565.html Thu, 01 May 2008 03:01 EDT Former FIU defensive back Nick Turnbull and former FIU and Dolphins receiver Chandler Williams signed free agent contracts with the Atlanta Falcons late Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533030.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533030.html Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11 EDT Former NFL center Curtis Whitley, who played for three teams in the 1990s and had a history of substance use, was found dead in his trailer home in West Texas. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/532163.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/532163.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:01 EDT Agents for the Dolphins' top two unsigned draft picks say no talks have begun on contracts for their clients, but agents for picks at the other end of the Dolphins' draft say they expect things to happen quickly. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/532164.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/532164.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:01 EDT With little public fanfare, the Pro Football Hall of Fame modified its bylaws several months back, quietly changing the time that coaches must wait to be considered for election from one year to five years. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/531625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/531625.html Tue, 13 May 2008 16:56 EDT Last season's Dancing with the Stars winner Helio Castroneves is sticking with his prediction: Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor will compete for the Mirrorball championship trophy. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/529475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/529475.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01 EDT When he was coaching the New York Jets a decade ago, Bill Parcells saw one of his players throwing up during a workout session and yelled, ``Throw up on your own time.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/525218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/525218.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT Josh McCown has been a nomad the past six years, searching for a home in three NFL towns but never finding that perfect place to settle down, never finding that starting quarterback job that would end his travels. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/523651.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/523651.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT The clichéd phrase fitting some undrafted free agents would be ''under the radar.'' Then there is Dolphins wide receiver hopeful Justin Wynn. Wynn is not just under the radar. He was under the radar's underground electrical lines. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/522540.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/522540.html Tue, 06 May 2008 03:01 EDT Look at the physique of Dolphins' sixth-round draft pick Donald Thomas -- short, massive neck; chest deeper than John Donne's poetry; Exxon-profit-sized upper arms -- and you would be excused for thinking Thomas (6-3, 303 pounds) must be a football player. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521267.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521267.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT Jason Taylor literally doesn't have time for the fascinating tension gurgling atop the Dolphins organization between Miami's star boss and Miami's star employee. Taylor's schedules and interests don't allow him to focus on the feelings of a single Tuna when he is now swimming with so many bigger fish. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521116.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Dolphins have a serious and chronic problem at the wide-receiver spot. The team that once featured Paul Warfield and ''The Marks Brothers,'' Nat Moore and O.J. McDuffie is trying to emerge from a talent blackout at wideout. So far, neither Derrius Thompson, Marty Booker nor any of the other answers the team reached for in the past decade have provided anything other than more questions. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521115.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521115.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT Watching from the sideline as his protégé coach orchestrated a minicamp workout this weekend, Dolphins vice president of football operations Bill Parcells hollered in the direction of Tony Sparano with a quick evaluation. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521306.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/521306.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT The chemistry always existed. It always was natural and ordinary, the way most any friendship cultivates itself from those unknown beginnings into a more familiar future. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520281.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT Tony Sparano might never quote Socrates or recite proverbs from the Bible, but already the Dolphins' new coach is showing a talent his last couple of predecessors apparently lacked or simply declined to display in public. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520270.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520270.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT His freedom was gone. And so was his scholarship. It had all vanished, melting away into 15-month sentence at the Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility, where Dolphins rookie wide receiver Davone Bess spent his days regretting the decisions that put him there. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520327.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/520327.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT Nose tackle Anthony Toribio began this weekend's rookie minicamp listed under ''minicamp workout players,'' a group so far down in the caste system that only their names, positions and numbers are listed on the minicamp rosters -- no heights, weights, birth dates, colleges or hometowns. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519290.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519290.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT The moving on and getting past began Friday in a way both tangible and symbolic. Dolphins were on a football field again for the first time since the mess that was last season ended. However far the road back to respectability proves to be for this beaten franchise, mark this day as the first step. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519241.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519241.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT He played through the pain. No question about that. When a knee injury cost quarterback Chad Henne to miss two games last year, and when a dislocated shoulder sidelined him for another, the Dolphins' rookie wouldn't let the setbacks stifle his senior season at Michigan in its entirety. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519126.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519126.html Sat, 03 May 2008 04:29 EDT Lionel Dotson is a very large man, with his 295 pounds filling out a 6-4 frame to overflow, and yet that large mass of muscle and bulk disappeared at times Friday afternoon. Every time Dotson, a Dolphins rookie defensive end, plowed helmet-first into Jake Long it was as if a pagan sacrifice was disappearing into the mouth of a large volcano. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/519567.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT Aside from some famous/infamous owners such as Oakland's Al Davis and Dallas' Jerry Jones, few NFL rookies could be expected to identify their team's owner on sight. And there's no newer entrant to the NFL owners' club than Dolphins half-owner Stephen Ross, who attended Friday's practice. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518015.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518015.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT The eyes that matter will occasionally be on the obvious. Some will marvel at offensive tackle Jake Long's massive frame. Others will evaluate every pass thrown by quarterback Chad Henne, no matter the qualifications of his targets. Phillip Merling's ability to pass rush also will get considerable attention. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518020.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518020.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT You can be as happy as you want about Jake Long's arrival in Miami. But who wants to watch an offensive tackle go through practice drills all weekend? Let's not kid ourselves. This minicamp would be less entertaining than Jason Taylor's next appearance on Dancing With The Stars if it weren't for the presence a quarterback. It is time to find out what second-round pick Chad Henne can do. http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518021.html http://www.miamiherald.com/616/story/518021.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT WHAT IS IT? The Dolphins will hold their first minicamp of the offseason this weekend, but none of the team's veterans is expected to attend. Instead, the camp will consist of rookies who were just drafted, signed as undrafted free agents or invited to South Florida for a special tryout session. On occasion, a few veterans might pop up. http://www.miamiherald.com/615/story/405325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/615/story/405325.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:01 EST Call it brilliant self-mockery, call it cheesy exploitation, call it the ultimate McLuhanesque moment. Whatever you call it, the GoDaddy.com ad during Sunday's Super Bowl should mark the beginning of the end of the national obsession with the telecast's commercials. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531417.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531417.html Wed, 14 May 2008 11:01 EDT Former New England Patriots employee Matt Walsh met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday to discuss what he knows about the team's videotaping practices. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533014.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533014.html Wed, 14 May 2008 14:51 EDT New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft complimented the Boston Herald on Wednesday for apologizing for a story that said his team videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533258.html Wed, 14 May 2008 16:52 EDT The Cleveland Browns terminated the contract of defensive back Kenny Wright. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532836.html Wed, 14 May 2008 12:16 EDT The National Football League will enter the 2008 season just as it entered the 2007 season, and the 2006 season - as the most financially successful sports league in the world. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533026.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533026.html Wed, 14 May 2008 15:07 EDT Sen. Arlen Specter wants an independent investigation of the Patriots' taping of opposing coaches' signals similar to the Mitchell Report on performance enhancing drugs in baseball. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533345.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/533345.html Wed, 14 May 2008 17:44 EDT The phone call no one wants to receive came around 3:30 p.m. EDT on Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532889.html Wed, 14 May 2008 13:10 EDT NFL commissioner Roger Goodell may consider "Spygate" over but Senator Arlen Specter continues to push for further investigation. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/532741.html Wed, 14 May 2008 14:32 EDT Prosecutors in Miami say a fifth person has been charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531839.html Wed, 14 May 2008 17:05 EDT Hold on, NFL. Spygate isn't over. Not if the "incensed" Pittsburgh Steelers fan in Congress has anything to do with it. Sen. Arlen Specter on Wednesday called for an independent investigation of the New England Patriots' taping of opposing coaches' signals, possibly similar to the high-profile Mitchell Report on performance enhancing drugs in baseball. http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/531816.html Tue, 13 May 2008 17:52 EDT The Buffalo Bills released Kevin Everett on Tuesday, clearing the way for the former tight end to receive disability benefits for the spinal cord injury that ended his career.