Mike Dipasquale

2 months ago | wsvn.com | Mike Dipasquale |Kevin Boulandier

MIAMI (WSVN) - Get ready to play ball, South Florida. It’s opening day for the Miami Marlins and the rest of Major League Baseball. The Fish lost 100 games in the 2024 season, so the franchise re-vamped the entire front office. The Marlins will open the 33rd season of franchise history under the leadership of their new manager, Clayton McCullough. There will also be plenty of new faces come opening day and to them McCullough gave this piece of advice.

2 months ago | wsvn.com | Patrick Chalvire |Mike Dipasquale

KEY LARGO, FLA. (WSVN) - For the first time in decades, Hall of Fame coach and longtime broadcaster Jimmy Johnson isn’t rushing to be anywhere. “I’ve always been obsessed with being on time and being early,” Johnson said. “My wife, you know, really gives me hell for saying, ‘Hey, you said we were going to leave at 2:00. Why are you ready at 1:30?’ You know. I had a ball doing the show.

2 months ago | wsvn.com | Mike Dipasquale |Kevin Boulandier

HOMESTEAD, FLA. (WSVN) - Despite the week-long brush fire battle in South Miami-Dade, the flames are not stopping a triple-header of NASCAR racing. This weekend’s event at the Homestead-Miami Speedway is still set to go on despite the flames having burned over 26,000 acres, about 30% of which has been contained. “The show absolutely goes on. We’re set. We’re ready. The fire department, the forestry service, everybody has done a magnificent job fighting these fires. So at no point were we worried.

Mar 5, 2025 | wsvn.com | Patrick Chalvire |Mike Dipasquale

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Lucia Hedke and Nadir Merchant are both fighters–inside and outside the ring. In 2011, Nadir was diagnosed with cancer. “When I first found out it was from a piece of paper, and I read the diagnosis and it said Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, I felt like I got punched in the face. I was a little bit dizzy. This is shocking,” said Merchant. “It turns out I was stage four, which only has a 64% chance of survival.

Mar 3, 2025 | wsvn.com | Mike Dipasquale

COCONUT CREEK, FLA. (WSVN) - We all know South Florida is the Mecca for high school football and baseball. But did you know high school wrestling is also very big in our area? At Cardinal Gibbons, the chief’s success is due, in part, to a family affair. Meet Steve Mocco; he’s the man in charge of the American Top Team gym at Coconut Creek. He runs one of the country’s top wrestling programs. Mocco is also a two-time Division One NCAA National Champion and a 2008 US Olympian.