The horrible eight months in which we’ve had to refer to our football stadium as “Land Shark” in honor of a horrible Chevy Chase sketch Jimmy Buffet’s beer is just about over.As soon as the Dolphins play their January 3 game against the Steelers. the stadium will revert back to…
Just when you thought they were good and dead, the Miami Dolphins pull off one of the most satisfying, Scarlett-Johansson’s-knockers-in-your-face awesome victories of the 2009 season. It came thanks in large part to Chad Henne, Vontae Davis, and a Dolphins team that simply won’t die.On their first drive of the…
You might as well call this year’s Champs Sports Bowl “The Shalala Bowl,” because Miami’s current President and University of Wisconsin’s former Chancellor Donna Shalala might be the person most excited by the match-up. Maybe the only person? Yes, that means The Gator Bowl’s nefarious scheme to pick a 6-6 FSU…
Riptide’s dear Miami Hurricanes won’t be playing this week, and instead will watch as a team they beat take on a team they narrowly lost to in OT battle it out for the ACC championship. That should be interesting and all –we’ve got our money on GT, btw–, but it…
We were all sweet on Bobby Bowden and his retirement on Tuesday, but it appears FSU’s long time coach could screw the Miami Hurricanes one final time.As most sentient beings are painfully aware, the current college football post-season system makes no fucking sense what so ever. As of right now,…
After a weekend full of rumors, Bobby Bowden has officially announced that he’s retiring as the head coach of Florida State University’s football team after 34 years. Thirty-Four Years. In that same time Miami had 8 coaches, and Florida had 5. He’ll coach the Seminoles for the final time in their…
The Panthers aren’t exactly having the finest season on ice. They choked away their third game in a row last night, dropping to 10-12-4, good for the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference.But it wasn’t the 4-3, last-second loss to the Thrashers last night that stung like a Paula Deen…
For a sold-out 65,000-plus seat complex during a supposed rivalry game, Raymond James Stadium was eerily quiet throughout much of Saturday’s game between the Miami Hurricanes and the South Florida Bulls.Your intrepid blogger braved sitting in the USF student section and was warned by a Bulls fan to keep his…
Four things you must have in order to be a Miami Dolphins fan:A total lack of surprise when they lose to a 3-7 team.An understanding that when they’re presented with a golden opportunity scenario, they, more often than not, blow said opportunity.An expectation that things can and eventually will implode.Booze…
On this Thanksgiving weekend USF fans better be thankful for all the opportunities Miami, inadvertently or not, have given the insurgent Bulls in their short history. Our exit from the Big East gave them a chance to escape the college football ghetto known as C-USA, and now we’ve allowed them…
It’s just before the start of the Cotton Bowl Classic at the Fair Park Stadium in Dallas on the morning of January 1, 1991. There is not an empty seat in the place. And just about everybody is there to root against the University of Miami Hurricanes, who are taking…
Florida Gators dominance is getting pretty boring for college football fans (apparently even for Gators fans), but UF athletic director Jeremy Foley is still set on making sure UF’s non-conference schedule remains a cake walk for years to come, even if it means never playing one of the team’s oldest rivals…
The FSU Women’s Basketball Team’s website looks more like a prom scrapbook than a site for a high-ranked athletic program. Unsurprisingly, it’s raising some eyebrows.The new campaign, put together by Ron Sachs Communications (which does a lot of business in Tallahassee), features the team posing around a limo in different…
Duke Blue Devils @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday at Noon, on ESPNU and WVUM 90.5Let’s get real fucking excited about the Meineke Car Care Bowl! Because that’s where the season might be headed …against West Virginia or something! This is exactly where a team that starts it season with beating 3…
Inside a mixed martial arts training studio just a block east of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Charles Champion takes a seat on the blue mat where for the past month he has been training for his cage match versus Rene “Level” Martinez tonight. Like Martinez,…
First things first: Ricky Williams is now officially the Ambassador of Fucking Your Shit Up and Knocking Fools’ Dicks Into the Dirt after last night’s brilliant 119-yard, three-touchdown performance. Many had their doubts about the Dolphins’ ability to effectively run the ball without Ronnie Brown. But Ricky silenced all the…
And so we come to this. Sitting at 4-5, the Miami Dolphins face a must-win game tonight as take on the equally desperate (and some would say equally craptastic) 4-5 Carolina Panthers. The winner will experience the sweet taste of being a .500 team for the first time this season…
Chad Pennington has already worked his way back from throwing arm injuries twice in his career, and he’s not sure if he can do it for a third time.According to the Associated Press, Pennington has finished the first phase of rehabilitation, but may wait until as late as March to…
It took awhile, but the Marlins finally beat the Philadelphia Phillies this season.Fish rookie outfielder Chris Coghlan won the National League Rookie of the Year Award today, narrowly beating out Phillies pitcher J.A. Happ, according to ABC News.In 128 games this season, Cogs hit .321 with nine home runs and…
Well, we did say in our preview that this one felt like it was going to be closer than it should be? And, Christ, was it ever. Ugly win? This was lady-bitten-in-the-face-by-a-crazy-ass-chimp ugly as the Dolphins mangled, bungled, and stumbled their way to a 25-23 victory over the lowly Buccaneers…
So, the Dolphins clearly cannot hang with the likes of the Colts, Saints, Falcons or Patriots. We get that. But this Sunday, the Fins host what is most likely the worst team in the NFL this side of Detroit – the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And while Miami does have the…
When circling big games at the beginning of the season, I think we all ran out of ink after we got past the first four.When those were over with, then everyone decided to paint North Carolina as an easy win when we were all more eager to talk about the…
