November 2
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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For Joey Porter, it was all very simple. As the clock wound down in Sunday's 30-25 victory and the beleaguered Dolphins defense kept getting pushed toward the shadow of its own goal post, failure was not an option. Not if this defense wanted to make the most of those two dazzling kickoff returns for touchdowns (100 and 101 yards) from the equally maligned Ted Ginn Jr. Not if it wanted to sweep the season series from the cocky New York Jets with a second victory in 20 days over their loquacious archrivals. Not if it wanted to make Jason Taylor's ninth career defensive touchdown -- a 48-yard fumble return in a wild third quarter -- a proud memory instead of a hollow trinket. "Everybody in ..."
November 2
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
columnist Dave Hyde
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This was a sports fable. It was a football story that only happens in the movies. Ted Ginn Jr. even was laughing after his week from hell, saying of his second kickoff returned for a touchdown, the one on which he seemed to be trapped twice, "It's like a mouse trapped in the corner." He smiled. "You ever wonder how the mouse got out of the corner?" he said. "It got creative. I got creative." He was told right then, in this small interview room just off the Dolphins locker room, it was the best quote he'd ever delivered in his career. And it was. It was that kind of day for Ginn. Everything worked. He didn't just get creative in Sunday's 30-25 win against the Jets. He got electric, elusive, ..."
November 1
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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To hear Nat Moore tell it, one thing made him hold onto that pass from Dan Marino 25 years ago on the Dolphins' first trip to the Meadowlands. Without it, Moore's famed Helicopter Catch on Nov. 4, 1984, never would have been possible. That thing was fear. Not of losing or failure or any of those things. Fear of Don Shula. "The series before, I caught a similar ball and on the way down I hit an elbow on the ground," Moore recalls. "Ball pops out and Coach Shula was like, 'You know what, we would have been better off if you didn't catch the ball! At least we could have punted it away!'" So when Marino came back to his trusty slot receiver with another bullet at the Jets' 5-yard-line, Moore ..."
November 1
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Sorry, don't expect Jason Taylor to turn nostalgic over the Dolphins' final regular-season trip to the Meadowlands. Don't expect him to kneel in the end zone and say goodbye to Jimmy Hoffa. Don't expect him to load Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen's musical tribute to his favorite concert venue, onto his iPod before today's game against the New York Jets. Suggest to the great linebacker that he won't exactly be sorry to see the 33-year-old facility imploded after this season, and Taylor just stares right back at you. "Go ahead," the Dolphins' sack artist says flatly. "They can turn it into a parking lot for all I care." Since the Jets moved into the 80,000-seat bowl in the swamps of North ..."
November 1
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The long, strange journey of Miami Dolphins linebacker Matt Roth is about to take its next logical step. Roth, who missed more than 2 1/2 months of practice with a mysterious groin injury, has been activated off the reserve list, the Dolphins announced Saturday. To make room for Roth on their 53-man roster, the Dolphins have released 2009 fifth-round pick John Nalbone. That leaves the Dolphins with just two tight ends -- starter Anthony Fasano and Joey Haynos -- on their active roster. Nalbone will likely be added to the team's practice squad if he isn't claimed by another NFL team by Monday."