In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. In his native Basque Country, Iñaki Goikoetxea frequently gets stopped on the street by fans wanting to…
All hopes of the Miami Hurricanes football team crashing into the top 25 seem to be dashed this season, but the basketball team should help dry some of those tears. After beating then 7th-ranked Florida last week and breezing through a minor tournament this weekend, the 5-0 team debuted at…
Just when you think the Miami Dolphins have embarrassed themselves in every possible fashion, they invent new and peculiar ways to make you face-palm. Following a late touchdown and subsequent two-point conversion to cut the Broncos’ lead to 39-36, Dolphins kicker Caleb Sturgis lined up for an onside kick. Just…
We’ve been so busy feeling the schadenfreude of A-Rod, that we’ve almost forgotten to be embarrassed lately about the original hulking Miami-born baseball slugger: Jose Canseco. In October Canseco accidentally blasted his own finger off while cleaning a gun in his kitchen. That appears to be true, but a few…
The Miami Marlins and their deep pockets are the story of the sports world this week, just as we all predicted. On Monday, the Marlins formally announced they’d given All-Star slugger Giancarlo Stanton a 13-year, $325 million deal. It’s the single most lucrative deal ever given to an an American…
S—, we’re going to go out and beat that ass. Point blank. Period,” – Bills cornerback Leodis McKelvin on what would happen when the Bills played the Dolphins. Final score at Sun Life last night: Dolphins 22, Bills 9. More like LOLdis McKelvin, right? RIGHT?!…
Welcome to Hurricanes-Seminoles Week 2014, the latest installment in one of college football’s most recognizable rivalries. When it’s UM-FSU, shit goes down — it’s science. Canes-Noles is a game that garners attention around the nation regardless of the stakes, and rightfully so — the matchup has produced multiple memorable moments…
Earlier this season, Facebook data already confirmed the obvious: The Miami Hurricanes are the most popular college football team in South Florida. Duh. But that was just amongst people who liked any college football on Facebook, and it didn’t provide context on how big of a percentage of the local…
Brent Grimes is the most un-Dolphinsy Dolphins player to ever Dolphins. In the second quarter of the Dolphins’ super-Dolphinsy 20-16 loss to the Detroit Lions, Brent Grimes made headlines on all the sports shows with his jaw-dropping, high-flying, acrobatic interception of a pass by Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford…
The University of Miami and Florida State University face off for 59th edition of college football’s greatest rivalry next weekend. Oh yeah, I went there. The greatest. There are longer-running rivalries than Miami-FSU, rivalries that include schools geographically closer than Coral Cables and Tallahasse, and rivalries that involve schools that…
The Miami Dolphins enduring popularity in England remains one of life’s great mysteries. Maybe Dan Marino is one of the few NFL players they can name. Maybe they really like our colors. Maybe Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a huge cult favorite over there. Whatever the case, the Dolphins win…
On a beautiful Tuesday evening in North Miami-Dade at the Ives Estates Tennis Center, just off Ives Dairy Road, four men bat a ball around a wire and glass box about the size of a large backyard swimming pool. Using 18-inch paddles that look from afar like mini-tennis rackets, they…
Could the Miami Hurricanes three-game win streak be in part due to some futuristic help? Al Golden and his team have joined a small but growing trend of college football teams who are relying on drones during practice in order to perfect plays…
There are those who believe Wynwood is in decline, that as artisanal juice shops have pushed out art galleries, the neighborhood has lost its edge, that gentrification has made geriatrics of us all. To that, we answer with the angry hiss of a thousand energy drinks opened all at once…
The Miami Dolphins are now awesome at football. The Gatorade celebration thing? Still needs a little work. It makes sense — they don’t practice it much, after all. After a nasty, defense-dominated, 37-0 win over the Chargers, the Dolphins wanted to cap off the big day with a celebratory shower…
LeBron James is gone, but criticism of the Miami Heat’s fans has stuck around like a cranky, drunk party guest. Heat fans didn’t see it, but during the local D.C. broadcast of Wednesday’s opener against the Wizards, Washington’s play-by-play man Steve Buckhantz accused the Heat of pumping in fake crowd…
The Miami Heat is back in your living room tomorrow night for the season opener, looking a tad different from past years but just as cocky. Slogans, campaigns, videos — you name it; the team wants you to know it isn’t going anywhere. This is still the Miami Heat, and…
The Miami Dolphins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-13 on Sunday, but it was a pigeon that trended worldwide on Twitter. Wait, what? Yup a pigeon. A pigeon that by the end of the game had it’s own Twitter account. What a world. During the second half of the game a…
This is not a joke about Juwan Howard. Promise. Illuminada Magtoto was facing her 90th birthday earlier this month and she realized she had one item left on her bucket list: playing one-on-one against Dwyane Wade. So she uploaded a plea on YouTube…
Behold above. This is Dolphins Nation. It is not very big. In the map, the shaded counties are places where the Dolphins are amongst the top three teams — but in most of those spots out of South Florida, that share is very small. That’s according to Twitter anyway. The…
Amazingly enough, it’s already almost time to turn your attention to what’s happening down on Biscayne Boulevard, as your new-look, less-hyped Miami Heat returns a week from today, looking to prove to the world that its world does not revolve around one man. The Heat still has the same goal…
It’s always nice when the good Dolphins show up. Most important, good Ryan Tannehill. Good Ryan Tannehill showed up Sunday. Tannehill was laser-accurate, completing 25 of 32 passes for 277 yards and two touchdowns in a better-than-the-score-indicates-yet-still-booty-clenching-at-times 27-14 Miami Dolphins victory. Tannehill didn’t do anything overly explosive in the game…
