BRAVES 9, MARLINS 4
The Ricky Nolasco who put the Marlins on his pitching shoulders and carried them through May and June and the early part of July -- piling up as many wins as the rest of the team's starters did as a group -- didn't look like the same guy on Wednesday.
TIM TEBOW
It was a bizarre beginning to the Southeastern Conference Media Days on Wednesday. There was a football player at the dais -- perhaps the best in the country -- and there were football writers in the audience, but the topic of football seemed like a footnote.
MARLINS 4, BRAVES 0
Reliever Joe Nelson thought briefly of asking manager Fredi Gonzalez for the lineup card after the Marlins one-hit the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night, believing it would be good for a laugh or two.
South Floridians going for the gold in China Four years after he tripped over the last hurdle and failed to qualify for the Athens Summer Games by a fraction of a second, Bershawn Jackson is going to the Olympics.
FLORIDA SPORTS BUZZ
With training camp opening Saturday, the Dolphins' top four cornerbacks to end 2007 not only have survived the offseason overhaul -- to the surprise of some -- but also have a good chance to remain the Fins' top four corners this season, unless Nate Jones, Joey Thomas or an August/September addition breaks through.
What is good for Dwyane Wade is good for Marlins left-hander Andrew Miller. At least that is what Miller is hoping after undergoing shock wave therapy on his ailing right knee to speed the healing process.
SUN BELT CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK
There are no playoffs in Division I college football, but Florida Atlantic coach Howard Schnellenberger has an idea to determine the best college football team in Florida.
RESTAURANTS
Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade is feeling the heat from business partners after a failed restaurant venture. On Friday, the company D Wade's Place filed suit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court against Wade, accusing him of breach of contract.
PRO FOOTBALL | JASON TAYLOR
The cameras stopped clicking. The glitzy introduction had ended. And now, in a much quieter moment, Redskins defensive end Jason Taylor was standing outside the doors of his new team's training facility Monday, about to hop into a gold Tahoe that would whisk him to a place where he would attend his first team meeting.
UM ACC KICKOFF
Last year at about this time, new University of Miami football coach Randy Shannon stood in front of a packed crowd of 3,000 and promised to deliver a winning program.
BRAVES 4, MARLINS 0
It took Ken Volstad a less than a minute to sum up his son's performance. ''I give him a B-plus,'' he said. ``But even if he had given up just one run, he wouldn't have won tonight.''
The Marlins had a chance Monday night to ascend into a tie for first place in the National League East division. The preceding qualifies as an astounding, nearly unbelievable sequence of words. That sentence is almost as mind-bending as if I had written that the Marlins had filled Dolphin Stadium and sold standing-room-only tickets.
DOLPHINS | BILL PARCELLS
In an HBO profile that will be broadcast Tuesday, Bill Parcells makes clear that he will not offer input to Dolphins coach Tony Sparano during games and reiterated he won't coach again.
IN MY OPINION
The two images of Jason Taylor that fill the mind most readily are unfortunate ones in the overall. They are not what we should be seeing as we reckon his place in the history of the franchise.
FIU | SUN BELT MEDIA DAYS
The name Antwan Barnes popped up in conversation at the Sun Belt Conference Football Media Days on Monday afternoon, and with it Scott Bryant recalled his first college football game with a big grin.
ACC NOTEBOOK
After 16 consecutive years of being picked by the Atlantic Coast Conference writers to win either the ACC outright or its Atlantic Division, Florida State has been dethroned by Clemson.
The Marlins will call up pitcher Rick VandenHurk to start Tuesday night against the Braves and will send reliever Jesus Delgado back to Double A Carolina, the team announced late Monday.
University of Florida coach Urban Meyer said last week that he expects his offensive line to be one of the nation's best units. Southeastern Conference coaches aren't too sure about that predication.
Kyle Roig of Pembroke Pines drained an 8-foot birdie on the 18th hole to grab a one-stroke advantage over three pursuers after Monday's opening round of the U.S. Girls' Junior in West Hartford, Conn.
OLYMPICS
Four years after he tripped over the last hurdle and failed to qualify for the Athens Summer Games by a fraction of a second, Bershawn Jackson is going to the Olympics.
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