Mater Academy Charter High School coach Eric Rodriguez is Miami Dade Basketball LLC’s 2021 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year. Rodriguez, 33, assumed leadership of the team after his father, Lions coach Marcos Antonio “Shakey” Rodriguez, died from a brain aneurysm on Nov. 4, 2020, at age 67. The younger Rodriguez coached Mater Academy to its first-ever state championship game in Lakeland on March 6. They tried to win...

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There are several movements within the Hip Lift exercise, but it will give you results where you want them: The buttocks, abdomen, thighs and shins. An added benefit: Performing it will help with your coordination and you’ll be more stable
on your ankles while standing, walking or doing lunges.
1. Lie on your back with both knees bent. Your heels should be 8-to-12 inches away from your buttocks. Place one...

Howard Schnellenberger, the famed college football and NFL coach who lived in Miami Lakes for 30 years, died in Boca Raton on March 27. He was 87. Schnellenberger was the star inductee for the Miami Lakes Sports Hall of Fame class of 2020; the June 2020 ceremony was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Schnellenberger was head coach at the University of Miami from 1979 through 1983 and led the team to the first of its five...

Shakey Rodriguez would have been proud. Mater Academy Charter High School’s boys basketball coach was a South Florida sports icon who led high school teams to five state championships. But he died from a brain aneurysm during the preseason, the biggest setback among challenges his Mater team faced. The school’s gym at its Hialeah Gardens campus was being rebuilt and the team often had to practice and play elsewhere, while...

It’s been a Fraser family tradition since 1970: On the last Thursday in February, they flee the winter weather in western Pennsylvania for Florida sunshine and a few days playing golf. And The Senator Course at Don Shula’s Golf Club has hosted the Pap Fraser Memorial Tournament, named for the family patriarch, for all 51 years. “It’s really like a second home for us,” said William “Bill” Fraser...