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The New York Jets, owners of one of the weaker offenses in the NFL this season, were 0-for-15 on third downs of 15-plus yards entering Sunday’s game.  So credit to them for trying something pretty novel to solve their third-and-long issue against the Miami Dolphins in Week 15. Leading 17-10, the Jets faced third-and-15 at their own 20-yard line. And that’s when they unleashed this puppy out of nowhere: Wow! Your natural inclination might have been to check the clock — final few seconds of… Source link

Miami has moved on from Manny Diaz, opening the door for Mario Cristobal to come back from Oregon. Diaz was informed of his dismissal during a Monday morning meeting with Miami’s president, sources told Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel. Diaz, the son of a former Miami mayor, was given three seasons with the Hurricanes before the school — which currently does not have an athletic director but is close to landing Dan Radakovich from Clemson — opted to go in another direction. That next direction… Source link

ATLANTA — On Saturday night, as the city of Atlanta sat transfixed by Alabama’s throttling of Georgia in the SEC title game, a titan of a previous generation of college football plotted a long game of catch-up to that caliber of stage. A few miles from the Mercedes Benz Dome, University of Miami officials met with Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich about becoming the school’s next AD. While plotting that move, they’d already begun feverishly and clumsily putting together an… Source link

Despite a seemingly lackluster slate of games, college football met its craziness quota with upsets and near-upsets involving many of the teams in the middle of the race for the national championship. One is previously unbeaten Michigan State, which suffered a second defensive meltdown in as many weeks and lost to Purdue. Also in the Big Ten, Ohio State was pushed to the limit by Nebraska, which slowed the nation’s most productive offense but was undone once again by failures on special teams… Source link

After being ranked 14th in the AP Media Preseason Top 25 and 16th in the USA Today Coaches Poll, the Miami football team was ranked 17th by Yahoo Sports. The consensus from seven of the major national media sites and metrics rank Miami 14th. The analysis from Yahoo is fair. The Miami football team is praised for the returns of quarterback D’Eriq King and offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee and the addition of wide receiver Charleston Rambo as a transfer from Oklahoma. Yahoo is concerned… Source link

The death toll in the collapse of a beachfront condo in Surfside, Fla., increased to 20 on Friday after two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight. One of them was the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava made the grim announcement at a press conference Friday morning. “Last night we discovered two additional victims,” Cava said. “Tragically, one of those victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of Miami… Source link

A section of Champlain Towers South, a Miami Beach condominium just one block from where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are leasing a home, crumbled in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Screengrab/Google Street View; Screengrab/Alex Hernandez via Twitter A person died with 8 more injured in a Florida building collapse early Thursday, local media said. A video posted on Twitter showed damage to Champlain Towers on 8777 Collins Avenue, Surfside. The building is one block from Ivanka Trump and… Source link

(Reuters) – Players at the Miami Open on Monday expressed little love for COVID-19 vaccines, with many saying they want more information before getting a shot. Seventh seeded Aryna Sabalenka expressed more concern over the vaccine than her quarterfinal opponent number one Ash Barty while fifth seed Elina Svitolina said she was inclined to take the advice of friends and wait. “So far I don’t really trust it,” Sabalenka told reporters following her fourth round 6-1 6-2 mugging of Marketa… Source link

Serena Williams and Roger Federer have both withdrawn from the Miami Open. Image: Getty Disturbing scenes in Miami have highlighted why a number of top tennis stars may have been unwilling to travel to the Miami Open for the first Masters 1000 tournament of the year. Serena Williams joined Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in withdrawing from the prestigious event on Sunday. ‘HEARTBREAKING’: Tennis rocked by Juan Martin del Potro news WOW: Model claims she was offered $90,000 to… Source link

This week’s Update features several stories on the big online travel newsmakers of last week – Google and Kayak. Enjoy. Google Once Again Embraces Organic Search and Eliminates Hotel Listing Fees(“Tripadvisor’s New Subscription Service Edges the Company Toward Online Travel Agency Status,” March 7, 2021 via Skift Travel News) (subscription may be required)(“Google eliminates fees for hotel booking links”, March 8, 2021 via Phocus Wire)(“Google Drops Costs for Hotels and… Source link