David Beckham Could Be Close To Bringing An MLS Team Back to Miami

Two months after David Beckham jetted to Miami to meet with a Bolivian billionaire and tour stadiums around Dade County, reports are trickling out of Britain this week suggesting that South Florida soccer fans’ hopes might just be true. Becks is close to announcing that’s he’s going to start an…

Five Questions for the Miami Dolphins as They Head to Training Camp

Be honest with yourselves, Dolphins fans: After watching two straight ticker-tape parades down Biscayne Boulevard by that other pro team in town, it’s gotten harder and harder to get jazzed up for preseason Fins games that basically amount to flag football contests. But this is 2013, and for the first…

LeBron James’ Super-Secret Wedding Invites Have Gone Out

LeBron James is going to get a second ring this summer. This one will be of the wedding variety. TMZ reports that invitations to the September wedding between James and fiancée Savannah Brinson have gone out to guests, but the invites are low on details. In fact, guests are instructed…

The Five Greatest Miami Heat Off-Season Moves

The NBA off-season is less “off” and more a whole different full season as teams frantically try to keep up with the Joneses during a down time that begins just days after the finals. This week, free agency opened and teams began signing the players they think could put them…

Birdman Is Back: Chris Andersen Re-Signs With the Miami Heat

When the Heat signed Chris “Birdman” Andersen in January, Riptide chuckled and called the move a “long shot to fix the Miami Heat’s rebounding woes but… a lead-pipe lock to fix the lack of hilarious people on the Heat.” We Dewey-defeats-Truman’d that one. Birdman re-energized the entire squad, ripped down…

Florida’s Ten Worst High-School Mascots

Ah, high school — easier times for most of us. Our daily concerns back then seem so insignificant now. Your biggest worry was making sure you weren’t bored and somehow stayed awake through terrible classes. Also, most things that were hilarious back then don’t seem so funny anymore. Our compilation…

Ray Allen Extends His Contract With the Heat

The three-pointer that sent Game 6 of the NBA Finals to overtime might be well be the shot of Ray Allen’s career, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last big-game trey he knocks down for the Heat. Allen just exercised a $3.2 million option to stay with the…

Miami Heat Off-Season: Who Should Stay for a Three-Peat?

People already want to know how the Miami Heat will go from “Re-Heat” to “Three-Heat,” something only three teams (L.A., Boston, and Chicago) have done. How will they keep the motivation at the same level it’s been during the past three seasons? How do they circumvent salary cap restrictions enough…