Sports

Ken Jones, a member of the State University System Board of Governors and chair of the newly-created Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics, said a student-owned trust fund for college athletes could be a driver for change in the multi-layered athletics environment.

Jai-Alai has a history in Miami spanning 100 years, but the sport never regained its old popularity after a 1980s hiatus. A Miami-based league wants to bring back the heyday.

The exhibition aims to reconcile the athlete’s arena and the artist’s studio and serves as a reminder that whether someone wears a jersey or a museum wristband, the quest for excellence remains the same.

The Miami Dolphins are moving on from Tua Tagovailoa and starting over at quarterback. Tagovailoa has been the team’s primary starter for the last 5 1/2 seasons but the Dolphins said Monday he will be released.

Erik Spoelstra is now the longest-serving coach among the four major U.S. sports leagues. Spoelstra, who has led the Miami Heat since 2008, expressed disappointment about the news.

Succeeding on her fifth attempt at age 64, Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to the Keys without a shark cage — despite battling stinging jellyfish, nausea and other physical and mental challenges. She completed the historic feat in 2013.

More than a dozen years after an aborted attempt to add Dick’s Sporting Goods to The Gardens Mall, the mall’s owners have proposed bringing an even larger version of the national sports chain to the two-level space formerly occupied by Sears.

At least once a week, María Mercedes Ortega, a 32-year-old real estate agent and spa owner, puts on a stylish ensemble and meets up with her girlfriends. Not to go bar hopping or clubbing, diversions she says she left behind in her 20s, but to play padel, Miami’s trendiest sport.

Trump shook hands with some supporters as he walked to his cageside seat Saturday night at Miami’s Kaseya Center while others waved his trademark red campaign cap. The Republican president, who stayed for several hours before flying back to his home in Palm Beach, said it was a “great honor” to receive that recognition from the crowd.

A $2.3 million renovation project for Walt Frazier Park’s football field has begun, led by the Orange Bowl Committee and Miami Gardens officials.

The on-again, off-again quest to build a new baseball stadium as part of the massive Historic Gas Plant redevelopment is now in the hands of Pinellas County commissioners.

Becky Smith was the first woman to become a professional in the Basque game of Jai Alai that drew in high rollers to Miami for decades. However, the roads there were bizarre and unexpected.