There are few cities in America quite as in love with their primary area code as Miami. It’s pretty much in every Miami rap song. Pitbull calls himself “Mr. 305,” and has an upcoming Miami-set drama in the works called “305.” You can see it on tattoos, hats, shirts and…
In summer 2012, lawyer Laurence Leavy was late to a Miami Heat playoff game. Before the matchup began, the team had laid out white T-shirts on every seat so the crowd would match. “But somebody had stolen my shirt,” he remembers, so he remained in a gaudy bright-orange Marlins jersey…
The Miami Marlins are what happens when you remove any semblance of magic from professional sports and reveal it to be the cold hard public welfare-leaching business it is. In just the latest attempt to alienate every possible person in South Florida, the team has reportedly parted ways with long…
The Miami Hurricanes flew to Puerto Rico this weekend for ESPN’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament as an unranked team pegged as finishing somewhere in the middle of the pack of the ACC. They returned as not only tourney champs but as now the most buzzed about team in college basketball…
The clock is ticking on David Beckham’s quest to build a new soccer stadium in Miami-Dade County. The sports icon and his business partners have until just December 5th to have a plan ironed out and presented to Major League Soccer. That doesn’t mean a plan has to be totally…
Maybe it’s not even a question of whether anyone out there likes the Miami Marlins. Maybe it’s one of whether anyone doesn’t think the team is a pox upon the house of Major League Baseball. If it was’t bad enough that most Miamians don’t particularly have warm feelings for the…
In a race that was going to last hours, trouble came just a minute after the starting gun. Caryn Lubetsky, a local mother, law professor, and veteran distance racer, was competing in the Ironman triatholon in Panama City Beach last Thursday, a grueling endurance race that combines a 2.4-mile swim,…
Remember when as a kid you dreamed about your parents putting your little sibling up for adoption? Well, The Heat have pretty much actually done that. According to several reports, the trade of Mario Chalmers to the Memphis Grizzlies is all but official, bringing to end the point guard’s more…
As if the week couldn’t get worse for the University of Miami football team, now a player is sitting behind bars on charges of domestic battery and has been suspended indefinitely from the team. Defensive Lineman Michael Wyche, a former USC recruit with a tragic history, was booked at 4:50…
Diagnosing the state and the future of the University of Miami’s football program in the wake of the firing of Al Golden is currently the favorite parlor game of college football commentators. To some, the head coaching job is the single greatest open position in college football right now other…
The Golden era at the U turned out to be nothing more than Brass, and now the Hurricanes are on the hunt for a new head coach. Names like former FIU coach Mario Cristobal and former ‘Canes coach Butch Davis are the most frequently cited in actual media reports, but…
Saturday’s University of Miami loss to Clemson was costly. The 58-0 annihilation cost fans another season of false hope. It cost players their remaining shreds of dignity. And in the long run, it’s probably going to cost the University of Miami many millions of dollars. To loud cheers from pundits,…
Miamians love soccer. This city would love to see a big-time team here. But by now, an element of stadium anticipation fatigue is surely setting in — for more than two years, since the news first broke that soccer giant David Beckham was interested in starting an MLS team right here…
There’s few cities that have been has burned as badly by a stadium deal as Miami, and few voting blocs that have made politicians pay the price for that as Miami’s. That political atmosphere has made it difficult for David Beckham and his business partner to nail down a site to…
Gulliver Prep’s head baseball coach is out of a job and facing possible investigation by law enforcement officers after sending a sexually explicit video to his players. Javier Rodriguez, was a star at at Gulliver when attended as a child and went on to be a star for the University…
Lamar Odom only played with the Miami Heat for a season, but it was an important one in the history of the team. It was Dwyane Wade’s rookie year, and Odom was a key part of a roster that saw the team transition from an after thought in the league…
The future of David Beckham’s Major League Soccer team in Miami has been stuck on one question since it was announced in February 2014: Where are they going to play. While the most likely scenario at the moment seems to be a new stadium new Marlins Park, that question remain…
The Florida Gators turnaround from last year’s mediocrity to this year’s unbeaten streak of six games seemed almost too good to be true …and it might actually have been. Yesterday the school announced that its star freshman quarterback Will Grier had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and could face…
Perhaps the calls for the sacking of defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle were slightly louder than those for the job of head coach Joe Philbin. So when the Fins announced earlier this week that Philbin was shown the bin with now word on Coyle’s continued employment, some were left scratching their…
When toe-meets-ball at Doak Campbell Stadium this Saturday night, it will have been 2,024 days since the Miami Hurricanes last beat the Florida State Seminoles, the longest Hurricanes-victory drought in the rivalry since the Canes lost seven-straight from 1962 to 1973. The five-game losing streak to the Seminoles has featured…
The reign of Joe Philibin in South Florida is over. After a disastrous 1-3 start and an all-around embarrassing loss in London yesterday, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross decided to officially sack Philbin. This is the earliest in the season the Dolphins have ever let go of a coach, and in…
The Miami Dolphins continue to invent new-and-extremely-unexciting ways to ruin your Sundays. It’s actually impressive, at this point. This week they walked into your kitchen at 9:30 a.m.. opened the refrigerator, chugged all your orange juice, made an over-stuffed three-piece-of-toast sandwich full of all the eggs and bacon you had…
