Best Sports-Talk Host


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Readers' picks

Best Bartender
 Cat, The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Club DJ
 DJ Kid Fresh

Best Radio Personalities
 Paul Castronovo and Young Ron Brewer, Big 105.9

Best Athlete
 Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat

Best TV Personality
 Jade Alexander, WFOR-TV (Channel 4)
 
Jim Mandich
WQAM (560-AM), www.wqam.com

 Jim Mandich no longer provides color commentary for Miami Dolphins radio broadcasts, which is not all right with us. But that doesn't mean we don't turn to him first when it comes to Dolphins talk. Rather than move to the Dolphins' new AM carrier, Sports Talk 790 The Ticket, the Mad Dog relinquished the post he'd held for 13 years to keep his drive-time talk show on WQAM. Gone is his trademark war cry, "Awwwright Miami!" which had become less frequent the past couple of seasons anyway because the team has been so lousy. Ever the upbeat presence on a radio band overrun with political loudmouths, Mandich will forever be the standard by which Dolphins broadcasters are measured because few people know the team as well and none has expressed himself with as much personality and passion.