The Latest Breaking News from Don Shula

You know about the Super Bowl blooper 50 years ago. The man’s journey through football’s highest level, one of comedy and tragedy, was so much more.

It has been nearly 50 years since the Miami Dolphins defeated Washington in the Super Bowl to complete their perfect 17-0 season

OXFORD, Ohio — An empty pedestal sits among those bearing nine bronze statues in the Cradle of Coaches Plaza outside Yager Stadium at Miami (Ohio) University.

PITTSBURGH — Bill Belichick is one of the greatest coaches of all time in any sport, his six Super Bowl titles the proof. He has won a combined 321 NFL games in the regular season and postseason. He needs just 27 wins to pass Don Shula as the winningest coach…

The trouble with phrases like “unprecedented scope and severity” and “integrity of the game violations,” in the NFL’s report against Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross is they don’t get to the bottom-line issue more than a decade in making:

In the last couple years of his life, Hank Goldberg occasionally would call when hooked up to a dialysis machine. He didn’t want anything other than someone to pass some time and gloat with over his latest bet.

Hank Goldberg, a longtime South Florida radio host and TV personality, passed away Monday in his Las Vegas home. He died on his birthday at the age of 82 after a long battle with kidney disease.

All through the years, right to his death of pneumonia, Marlin Briscoe was called, “The Quarterback,” by quarterback legend Joe Namath. They’d see each other at some NFL reunion or social get-together and Namath would greet him with something like, “Hey, how’s The Quarterback doing?”

The matchup is a Sunday night showdown.