About Miami Herald High School Sports Blog
The Miami Herald High School Sports blog offers you the latest news, along with perspective and analysis and occasional jokes of high school sports. Share your reactions by clicking on "Comments" after each post. Please keep it civil; this is a family website. We reserve the right to check the comments and remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable.
Andre C. Fernandez - Miami Herald sportswriter
Andre C. Fernandez has covered Miami-Dade high school sports in some capacity for the Miami Herald for the past six years. He was born and raised in Miami and is a graduate of the University of Miami. This blog will provide readers with some rants and raves about things going on in the Miami-Dade sports community and allow readers to comment on some of those comments and/or updates on things that may not always make the paper.
Patrick Dorsey - Miami Herald sportswriter
Patrick Dorsey (no relation to former UM quarterback Ken Dorsey – sorry, Canes fans) is the Herald’s newest Broward high school sports reporter, after a six-month stint as a Herald intern. A Phoenix native, Patrick is well-traveled; he went to high school in rural Kansas, spent a year at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., graduated (in 2007) from Northwestern University, and interned at five papers nationwide before joining The Herald. Patrick also is a former NCAA athlete, competing in one golf tournament for Division-III Chapman. He shot a 105.
Bob Emanuel Jr. - Miami Herald sportswriter
Bob Emanuel Jr. started covering high school sports for the Miami Herald as a freelancer during the 1996 football season. Bob soon became a full-time fixture in the high school sports scene in South Florida. Bob has assisted with coverage of the Miami Dolphins since the 1999 season and covered Florida Atlantic University from 2002-2006. Bob is now the full-time reporter assigned to cover Broward's 50-plus high schools.
Larry Blustein - Recruiting Analyst
Larry Blustein began following sports at the age of 16 as an on-air talk host at WKAT Radio in Miami, learning from legendary sportscaster Sonny Hirsch. He began following high school football in 1971, writing for state, regional and national recruiting magazines. Along the way, he developed two recruiting websites and worked for numerous publications as a contributor. He has also created top 100 plus lists for the past 26 years that have been recognized nation-wide. In addition to the Herald, he co-hosts a weekly radio show as part of the Miami Dolphins programming on WQAM (560AM). During the spring and summer, he travels throughout the nation as well as attending practices and games from Key West to Pensacola. In the summer, his trips across the state to camps, 7-on-7 tournaments and workouts has long given him an edge. In 2007, he saw parts of 100 regular season games around Florida.
