Just like actual Hurricane season, the Miami Hurricanes football season has been pretty uneventful for the past few years. The team hasn’t been in the National Championship discussion for more than a decade, and hasn’t even won a conference championship since they were part of the Big East. Three coaches…
Don’t the Jacksonville Jaguars have it rough enough? They’re Florida’s least popular and least successful NFL team. They’re plagued by attendance and performance issues, and just about everyone expects them to one day maybe by shipped over to London on a permanent basis. To make matters worse, the team’s official…
The allegations tying Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart’s to sports gambling all began last night with a Twitter post by @GhostFadeKillah, a guy in New Jersey with 1,110 followers. A screencap he posted appears to show Cosart asking someone for advice about bets. But where did that screencap come from? New…
Starting pitcher Jarred Cosart came to the Miami Marlins last summer hoping for a fresh start after a sometimes rocky tenure with the Houston Astros. Instead, he finds himself this morning amidst a Twitter-storm of allegations tying him to gambling. MLB is now looking into the claims, a spokesman tells…
The Miami Heat’s seemingly cursed 2014-15 regular season is mercifully clanging toward the finish line, and there’s surprisingly more gas left in the tank than most Heat fans would have expected. Despite a crushing one-point loss to the Bucks last night, the Heat are still clinging on to the seventh…
Last July, Alexander Figueroa was one of two players who was promptly kicked off the Miami Hurricanes football team after an arrest on charges that he and teammate JaWand Blue drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl on campus. Figueroa ended up avoiding jail time and will have his felony charges dropped…
With a raucous crowd and a national broadcast crew, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber sat yesterday in sunny, southern weather in his league’s newest stadium and raved about the future of his sport. But more than a year after David Beckham’s gala press conference promising a downtown Miami soccer…
For the past five years, Weston-based tennis pro Wayne Odesnik has been as well known for his ties to illegal drugs as for his backhand. In 2010, Odesnik was banned for two years after getting caught with human growth hormone in Australia. Then, New Times’ 2013 investigation into the Biogenesis scandal…
MLB Network recently asked Major League Baseball fans to answer a deceptively simple question: Who is the face of MLB? The fan vote resulted in a victory for … San Francisco catcher Buster Posey? That’s unfortunate, because no matter the official results, any sane baseball fan knows that Giancarlo…
In that now seemingly brief time during which LeBron James called Miami home, local fans were scrutinized endlessly. People said we didn’t deserve the Heat’s big three. Charles Barkley was constantly dogging us. People apparently noticed anytime a seat in the arena wasn’t full for the entire duration of the…
Thanks to the monster contract the Dolphins threw at Ndamukong Suh this week, Miami is now home to three of the biggest deals in each of America’s three biggest sports, with Giancarlo Stanton’s record-breaking Marlins contract and Chris Bosh’s elite Heat salary rounding out the Magic City pay scales. That…
Today, Ndamukong Suh is expected to make it official: He’s coming to Miami, and so is his reputation. The Dolphins will give Suh an NFL record $60 million, guaranteed to anchor their defensive line for the next six years. That’s a lot of money for any player, but the figure…
After the Detroit Lions failed to place a franchise tag on defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, the best defensive player in the league, according to most, will officially be a free agent tomorrow. According to reports, the Miami Dolphins have emerged, along with the Lions and Oakland Raiders, as the best…
Will Shane Battier’s annual Miami Heat-centric celebrity karaoke event ever reach the heights of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James singing a duet of a Michael Jackson song again? Maybe not, but this year’s edition, which went down last night at the Fillmore Miami Beach, did feature a King of Pop…
Electricity surges through a spinning blue Earth. A wind turbine whirs majestically under a perfect puffy cloud. A girl runs her hand through a wheat field bathed in golden light. And a sleek racecar is unveiled as engines rev and fans scream. “The race to the future,” a faraway voice…
Sun Life Stadium is undergoing a major face-lift, with the goal of remaining one of the nation’s go-to spots for hosting major sporting events. Before the Dolphins organization gets to bid for another Super Bowl, the stadium’s first major test will be bidding for the 2018 and 2020 College Football…
Normally, being told that Chris Bosh would miss the rest of a season would be tough enough for Heat fans to stomach but when we all heard earlier this week exactly why he would be done playing, it completely broke our hearts. What at first seemed like a precautionary trip…
Formula E, the new, all-electric spinoff of the Formula 1 car-racing series, is coming to Miami in a couple of weeks, when the Miami ePrix will take over Biscayne Boulevard. But the series could be here to stay. At today’s city commission meeting, Mayor Tomás Regalado will introduce a resolution…
The Miami Dolphins have released the most detailed look yet at what exactly all these upgrades to Sun Life Stadium will entail. In addition to things like a roof and new HD lighting, there will also be revamped concourses, new bar and restaurant areas, and in-stadium couches and arm chairs…
Good news never seems to last long for the Miami Heat these days. Just hours after celebrating the news that the team had landed its best point guard since the heyday of Tim Hardaway, fans learned that superstar Chris Bosh had been hospitalized for some very serious tests. Doctors in…
Apparently, Pat Riley thinks Goran Dragic is the man to turn this Heat season around. According to numerous reports, the Miami Heat has traded Shawne Williams, Justin Hamilton, Danny Granger, and two first-round picks to the Phoenix Suns for the Slovenian star. Norris Cole was shipped to New Orleans in…
Spring training is just around the corner, and in case you’ve tuned out this off-season, your hometown Miami Marlins might just be worth watching this year. Really! The Fish made a few small splashes in free agency, tinkered with the roster a bit via some trades, and signed their best…
