Entries by Ethan Skolnick

Bam, Heat hold off Pistons in matchup of undermanned

At least through three quarters, the Miami Heat did what you should do to weary, groggy teams. And the Detroit Pistons, in the state they arrived Tuesday, were that. Without Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose, their star and resurgent sixth man. Groggy after a flight that arrived at 5:30am. While the 117-108 victory, which was […]

Tank That! Dolphins Beat Adam Gase’s Jets for 1st Win

MIAMI GARDENS — You could see this coming. Really, you could. You didn’t even Adam Gase’s fancy, darting eyes. The Dolphins will win tomorrow. — Five Reasons Sports Network (@5ReasonsSports) November 2, 2019 The reasoning was simple. On one side you had a team that was clearly improving under its first-year coach, Brian Flores, even […]

Surging Panthers ride Huberdeau, Barkov to easy win

Something’s happening here. After Saturday’s dominant, no-doubt 4-0 win against the Detroit Red Wings, the Florida Panthers have now won six of their past nine games. And this seems, well, real. They’ve survived the start of the season, which typically buries them, and they’ve done it with star Sasha Barkov struggling to score and hyped […]

Breaking it Down: Nekias Duncan on Heat-Hawks II

Heat run an accelerated version of HORNS Flare and … Goran dots the "I" here. Have been quite impressed with his passing since preseason. pic.twitter.com/scQN3e9OdX — Jasmine Thomas Fan Acct. (@NekiasNBA) November 1, 2019 How is this happening? How are the Miami Heat off to a 4-1 start with Jimmy Butler missing three games and […]

The Miami Dolphins are starting to lose the right way

This was closer to the perceived plan prior to the season. Lose, but with dignity. Fall, but with pride. Get closer to franchise changing quarterback Tua Tagliovailoa, but stay reasonably close on the scoreboard. After an abominable start to the 2019-20, Brian Flores and his increasingly well-organized Miami Dolphins have been doing that lately. They […]

Ryan Tannehill is turning the corner… for Tennessee

Maybe he just needed another seven years. Or another month? Either way, this is the most Miami Dolphins thing ever. They have spent 19 years looking for Dan Marino’s replacement, so much so that executives and coaches accepted seven seasons of slightly-above-mediocrity from Ryan Tannehill, making excuse after excuse for his inconsistency, simply because he […]

The Miami Heat ended the Five Reasons curse!

Pat Riley, Erik Spoelstra and the Miami Heat may win another championship together someday. But they will never accomplish anything quite like this. Since Five Reasons Sports Network was born in 2018, we had 12 watch parties prior to Saturday evening. One didn’t count for our record — it was FC Barcelona against Real Madrid, […]