The Marlins’ three game sweep of the Padres couldn’t have come at a better time. The Fish had lost three devastating games to the Phillies at home and trailed last year’s champions by seven games in the standings. Any more losing streaks, and the Marlins’ season could have been over. But terrific pitching, timely hitting,…
You’re forgiven if you didn’t catch the news that Marlins utility man Alfredo Amezaga will miss the rest of the baseball season to undergo knee surgery. Amezaga is scrappy and versatile, the type of player that can be the glue that holds a team together through the grind of 162 games. But…
Another week has passed from this Earth, and another mysterious email announcing a Dolphins news conference featuring a popular musician has landed in Riptide’s inbox.First came Jimmy Buffett. We all know how that turned out.Then came Gloria Estefan. Tragically, the team was not renamed the Miami Sound Machine Dolphins.Today comes…
We’re far from the biggest sneaker heads out there, but we always thought the Dwyane Wade shoes for Converse were fugly. Maybe Wade agreed, because he hasn’t been spotted much wearing the latest Wade 4 model, and is now set to switch his allegiance to Nike’s Jumpman label, AKA Jordans. Converse hasn’t been known for…
Sitting next to a beautiful woman for 12 hours in first class on an airplane is the perfect situation. You want to avoid boredom, so small-talk is perfectly acceptable. And she can’t walk away because she has to remain seated and buckled per airline regulations. Drinks are free, and the…
Dan Uggla has yet to recover from last year’s disastrous All-Star game. He committed three errors and struck out three times in that Midsummer Classic. Since that game, he is hitting .227 with 25 homers while striking out 153 times in 152 games. To put it into perspective, Uggla came into last…
Reports this morning say L.A. Lakers owner Jerry Buss has withdrawn his offer to NBA forward Lamar Odom after Odom’s agent didn’t contact Buss with an answer. The offer was for four years/$36 million or three years/$30 million. Apparently, Odom is holding out for a five-year/$50 million deal.Teams in the…
Tennis player Richard Gasquet tested positive for cocaine during the Miami Masters in March. This also happened to be the same time WMC was in town, and Gasquest blamed the results on hanging out with French pop-house DJ Bob Sinclar’s entourage at Set. The coke must have accidently wound up in his drink somehow,…
We might have overplayed the Dolphins’ “major announcement” that CEO Mike Dee made today in Southwest Florida. The team — with the help of current and former players — will run youth football and cheerleading camps in the area. Former Fins Twan Russell and Nat Moore will run the camps. Super-exciting stuff. [News Press: Dolphins…
NBA forward Antoine Walker has bounced around to six teams and won the equivalent of the trade lottery when he played for the Miami Heat in 2005, winning an NBA Championship with the team less than a year later. His luck in Vegas casinos hasn’t been as good. The Las Vegas District Attorney’s…
Good thing Stephen Ross wasn’t stuck on “I Kissed A Girl.” Or humming “My Humps” all day long. The South Florida Business Journal confirmed this morning what we’ve suspected all along here at Riptide: The Dolphins owner gave away the naming rights to Dolphin Stadium for absolutely nothing because he had an annoying Jimmy…
Whenever the Dolphins say they’re making a “major announcement,” we get a little nervous and have chills thinking back to the LandShark Stadium debacle. This one probably won’t affect Miami fans that much, though. Tomorrow, Dolphins CEO Mike Dee — along with former Fins players Nat Moore and Twan Russell — is headed to…
Big win for the Marlins last night–14 answered runs–team record 10 run 8th inning…blah, blah, blah. The real story is what we learned about Marlins team chemistry.You know how it works, SportsFans. Every team needs a least couple “grinders” who provide the “glue” to stick the team together. You can…
Allen Iverson has been reported by the Miami Herald to have listed the Miami Heat as his preferred option for next season. But that’s because the Heat are probably his only option. While the Answer has shown throughout his career he can put the ball through the hoop at an incredible rate,…
This week, New Times publishes “Dwyane’s Disaster,” a cover story about Dwyane Wade’s catastrophic partnership with Richard von Houtman, a British baron with a sordid past. Von Houtman has been making wild allegations about the Heat superstar’s personal life since their business relationship dissolved. Two weeks after Wade responded by…
For those keeping score at home, there are now three lawsuits involving Heat superstar Dwyane Wade and his former partners in an aborted South Florida restaurant chain bearing his name. In June, Riptide first reported Wade had filed a libel suit in Miami-Dade court against Richard von Houtman, the vociferous British…
Since 2007, the Marlins have held their free Super Saturday concerts after Saturday-night home matchups in a ploy to get people to attend games even if not for the baseball. The concerts sometimes snare an extra 10,000 fans, and KC and the Sunshine Band were last season’s biggest draw, so the corporate-disco outfit…
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points, Adrian Peterson’s 296 rushing yards, and Roger Clemens’ 20 strikeouts all prove that a single player can win a game in a team sport. While her name doesn’t carry nearly as much weight as the aforementioned fellows, Puerto Rico’s Aurea Cruz can be added to the list…
Brazilians have a natural happy-go-lucky attitude and have a saying for when life gets difficult: “Tudo bem” basically is a combination of “it’s all good” and “no worries.” That carefree outlook was on display when a well-rested, undefeated US team playing on its homecourt punched the Brazilians squarely in the mouth by taking…
As a reward for a perfect 5-0 run through the first round of the Pan-American Cup, the US women’s volleyball team had today off. But they could still be seen in the BankUnited Center scouting Thursday’s 8 p.m. marquee match-up between Puerto Rico and Argentina. IPuerto Rico defeated Argentina in four sets; 25-18,…
Aroldis Chapman is considering one of the best left-handed pitching prospects in the world. If he was born anywhere else in the world a lucrative contract with the MLB would be a given, but Chapman was born in Cuba. So this week, while the national team was playing in the…
Men’s Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. That’s kind of sad considering…
