There is special providence in a last-second field goal.After losing its first game of the season in a heartbreaker in Georgia, Miami Central came full circle last night, defeating Orlando Dr. Phillips 42-27 for the first state football trophy in school history.It was the Rocket’s 14th straight win. Strangely enough,…
Tonight, the Miami Heat travel to Madison Square Garden to face off against the New York Knicks, who are suddenly relevant again for the first time in years. Of course, New Yorkers are a hell of a lot more excited for the match than Miamians. They’re still fuming over the…
Watching high school sports is a lesson in physics. On fields, courts, and diamonds, the potential energy of shy teenagers explodes into the kinetic prowess of emerging stars.Tomorrow night in Orlando, the Miami Central Rockets will attempt to convert their Liberty City dreams into the school’s first ever state football…
Members of the Associated Press have voted for the “Sports Story of the Year,” and it seems the winner actually was a bit more of a tabloid story than really a sports story …and that’s only if you consider golf a sport. The continued fallout from Tiger Woods’ massive cheating…
Cleveland’s hate for LeBron James has reached new levels. The city’s 96.5 Kiss FM has decided to censor the player’s name from Jay-Z’s hit “Empire State of Mind.” One of the station’s DJs decided that the word “LeBron” was just as offensive as any other word banned from radio airplay,…
Al Golden isn’t the only coach from Temple making the move to Miami. According to several reports out of the Philadelphia media, it seems that his defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio is likely to join him. Going solely by this year’s ranking, D’Onofrio is a pretty good choice. The Miami Hurricanes…
Following the biggest scandal involving a trip since that Linda woman was involved in the Lewinsky affair, the Jets announced that they had fined and suspended strength training coach Sal Alosi. Though, they said their was no formal instruction to create a “human wall” of sorts against the sideline. Well,…
Back in the ’90s, Jeff Farmer was a regular in the pro-wrestling world portraying the evil-minded impostor of popular superstar Sting. Yes, wrestling really is like soap operas for men, and this was basically an evil-twin storyline. His gimmick was basically that he tricked fans and fellow wrestlers into thinking…
Jets strength training coach Sal Alosi has already been fined and suspended for the trip seen ’round the world. Though, it’s likely he’ll never be able to totally live it down completely. While sports blogs, ESPN talking heads, and, of course, Channing Crowder have already ripped into the guy, last…
One of the hyperbolic threads in the Dolphins-Jets rivalry is that Miami fans think that the Jets organizations is basically trash, or as they apparently say in the team’s home state of Jersey, “muff cabbage.” Jets strength coach Sal Alosi offered shocking and appalling evidence of that on Sunday when…
Unless the Heat somehow manage to only drop two games the rest of the regular season, the hopes that the team can match the ’96 Chicago Bulls 72-win season may have to wait until at least next season. Though, the streaking squad is already knocking on the door at meeting…
Sports writers across the country were saying “Auuuu!” this morning over the prospect of making a Fort Knox worth of puns based on the name of University of Miami’s new head football coach Al Golden. It’s a “golden era” as the “golden Canes” take a “golden opportunity” on a new…
If you like low scoring games with shitloads of punting, dropped touchdown passes, coaches tripping players running down the sideline, corner backs with hands of stone, and really repulsive quarterback play, then Sunday’s showdown between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets was right up your alley!The Dolphins pulled off…
The last time Al Golden coached a college football game he lost to Miami of Ohio. The next time he coaches a team it may very well be Miami of Florida. ESPN reports that Golden, the current head coach at Temple, has been offered the vacant position as the Hurricanes’…
Well, University of Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley works a heck of a lot faster than his counterpart at Miami. Will Muschamp, the defensive coordinator of the Texas Longhorns, has been named the new head honcho in Gainesville. Previously, he had been guaranteed to be Mack Brown’s successor at Texas,…
With the Miami Heat on a winning streak desperate Heat haters are starting to find weird peripheral things to hate on. First it was some eight-year-old fan. Now it’s the Heat’s intro video. It’s old news. It’s played before every home game this season. Then again, because Miami fans apparently…
Bo Pelini has put the rumors that he’ll be interviewing for the Miami Hurricanes’ open head coaching job to rest. The Cornhuskers head coach had issued a sort of not-quite-denial before, but the latest statement, issued in conjunction with Nebraska AD Tom Osbourne seems pretty definite…
The Miami Dolphins raised some eyebrows when they announced they’d be landing New York today instead of the usual Saturday arrival for their game this weekend against the Jets. Well, it turns out that owner Stephen Ross arranged the early visit so his team could take in a showing of…
I’m half convinced that the only reason we’re hearing Jon Gruden’s name come up in the coaching search at the University of Florida is just to spark the ire of Miami fans. After the ‘Canes came up cold in their pursuit of Gruden, it really would sting if he ended…
Last week was all about the cheese plates, champagne, and pretending you knew who Marina Abramovic was: “But of course! I love her… stuff.”So now that Art Basel is over, why not shed the haute couture and come out to see some hard knocks instead. Sixty-yard spirals? Breathtaking! A quarterback…
Jeff Stoutland certainly knows how to open a press conference on a light note. Yesterday, the University of Miami interim football head coach was late to his Q&A session alongside Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly to talk about their teams meeting for the first time in 20 years at the…
If there’s one thing Ricky Williams does well its running form things, and not just on the football field. A Dallas man claiming to be Williams’ real father says Ricky has run from him his entire life. Now, he’s filed a lawsuit against Williams and his mother Sandra for $2.5…
