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    Reality smacked the Dolphins square in the face on Sunday in Houston as the Texans ended any Miami Dolphins playoff hopes,  suffering a 20-12 loss to the playoff bound Texans. The cold facts indicate that the Fins are still very much a work in progress, highlighted by a weak running game, an average offensive line, and a gifted but limited quarterback in today’s game of phenomenal,  duel-threat athletes playing the position such as Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, Kyler Murray, Bo Nix, Jordan Love,  et al.

       Florida International University (FIU) has hired former FAMU head coach Willie Simmons as its new head coach.  ESPN reports that Simmons was offered a four-year deal, making him just the fourth HBCU coach to take over an FBS program.

       For the first four years of Madden Football, starting in 1988, all the players were the same color.  At the time over 75-percent of the players in the NFL were Black. However in oversight all the players were represented as Caucasian.  No one at EA Sports took a moment to consider that this was a false representation of the NFL.

There is a VERY deep lesson in Travis Hunter’s three year climb from being the top high school football player in America (according to Rivals, ESPN, 24/7 Sports and other media outlets that provide such rankings), to winning the Heisman Trophy—an award given annually to the top player in the collegiate game. Simply stated, that lesson is that we all must have unwavering faith in the vision that has been placed in our hearts for our own lives—be it professional, personal, or a combination of the two!