Is one of baseball’s biggest Twitter addicts calling it quits? Ozzie Guillen just posted a cryptic Tweet suggesting it was his last one ever. If true, it suggests that it really is a new era for Ozzie. One in which he’ll be keeping his mouth closed more often and most…
Are you a Miami sports fan who sometimes like to get high and look at weird things online (because if you come to Riptide for sports news, then you very well might be)? Well, it’s been a good few weeks for you. Just after some weird “Dolphinception” video hit the…
Last night’s playoff game between the Heat and Pacers was more tense than a Basketball Wives reunion episode, and Dwyane Wade exhibited some very un-Wade like sportsmanship when he got called on a flagrant foul for colliding with the Pacers’ Darren Collison. Some are calling for a suspension, but an…
Most of us would expect to get fired for sucking at our jobs, and Isiah Thomas’s 26-65 record as head coach of Florida International University’s men’s basketball program makes a strong case that he sort of sucked at his job. Thomas, however, had a contract, and the contract didn’t mention…
Here’s a stat that you can print out, crumble into a ball, and shove up your ass: No team has ever won an NBA playoff game when their third-leading scorer dropped five or fewer points. Last night, Mario Chalmers scored five points on 2-of-10 shooting, Shane Battier scored five points…
Making it to the Olympics is a lofty dream for most athletes, but for Miami triathlete Manny Huerta, it’s now a reality. Last Saturday, Huerta competed against 70 other athletes, including six Americans, from across the globe in the ITU World Triathlon held in San Diego, finishing in ninth to…
Thanks to the Heat, Amar’e Stoudemire won’t be playing much basketball for the next few months. So what will he do with his free time? Apparently, he’ll continue his college education. The Knicks center and Florida native was taking classes at Florida International University during the lockout, but announced on…
The Miami Heat take on the Indiana Pacers tonight in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. It promises to be a fine basketball contest. The Heat are without the advantage of Chris Bosh. LeBron James is gonna go cobradick, and Rony Turiaf has promised to do more dancing. Nobody…
Could all three of Florida’s traditional football powerhouses end up in separate conferences? News broke this weekend that Florida State University could be entertaining a move to the Big 12. That lead to some rumbling in the sports rumor-sphere that the Big 12 could also end up targeting some other…
Heat forward Chris Bosh went down with an abdominal injury during yesterday’s Eastern Conference Semi-finals Game 1 against the Indiana Pacers.And today, the Heat have announced that an MRI reveals Bosh has a strained abdominal muscle and is “out indefinitely.”…
A lot happened before the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers even got their Eastern Conference semifinals going. For one thing, Pacers head coach Frank Vogel put on a fancy hat and proclaimed himself captain of the SS Douchetanic, and started inexplicably bitching about how the Heat are a bunch of…
Ah, baseball. The nostalgic green of the outfield grass. The evocative crack of bat hitting ball. The zeal of litigation and the slow slog of civil justice. George Will say whaa?! Three prominent local figures in youth baseball are embroiled in an intriguing lawsuit filed earlier this month. Miami attorney…
Detractors could point to the saga of Jacory Harris as a prime example of why prospective players shouldn’t sign with the Miami Hurricanes. At one point he was a buzzed about potential superstar in the making. No one blinked an eye when terms like “Heisman dark horse” and “Future NFL QB”…
Yesterday’s bizarre and tragic shooting on the Florida Turnpike left two officers wounded, and Miami Marlins catcher Brett Hayes happened to be on the road just as the incident unfolded.”Sitting in traffic on the turnpike and a man with a gun just walked by our car … Not good,” he…
It’s been one month since Marlins skipper Ozzie Guillen infamously muttered his undying love for Fidel Castro. And even though Guillen apologized and the Marlins say the matter is done and dusted, the incident apparently remains pretty raw for the Marlins manager. Earlier this week, Guillen cussed out a journalist just…
You might have missed it if you were watching the game on television last night, but the arena announcer at the AAA got in a pretty A+ zinger when Amar’e Stoudemire fouled out of last night’s game.”He has been extinguished from the game,” shouted announcer Michael Baiamonte…
After losing Game 4 in New York, and after the Knicks celebrated with streamers and threw a parade down the Canyon of Heroes after winning their first playoff game in 4,024 days, the Miami Heat reminded everyone that it, in fact, is the better team and finally extinguished the Knicks…
In Game Four between the Heat and the Knicks, LeBron and D-Wade seemed to decide their buddy ‘Melo needed at least one win to save face in New York, so they downed some Quaaludes and let the Knicks have their way with them. How else to explain Wade missing seven…
Miami Marlins coach Ozzie Guillen has been uncharacteristically quiet ever since he made those dumb comments about Fidel Castro. Even his Twitter has remained inactive for more than a month. However, you can’t keep Guillen’s mouth shut for long, even as he’s trying to put the incident behind him. In…
The Miami Heat showed up to Madison Square Garden for Game 4 yesterday and, while they have plenty of fucks to give, they must have left them in their other jeans, because for three quarters the Heat played like they had none to give away. None fucks. And so the…
Have you ever noticed how the Miami Dolphin’s logo-baring helmet includes a picture of a dolphin wearing a helmet that actually looks nothing like a helmet the Dolphins actually wear? Why don’t the Dolphins wear helmets with just simple oranges Ms like their logo? Or why doesn’t the logo wear…
Earlier today, Luther Campbell dropped a bomb on Drew Rosenhaus, alleging the North Miami-based NFL super agent paid Tommy Streeter — one of five Miami Hurricanes football players who left school early to enter the draft — $50,000 to sign with him. The Miami New Times columnist was a guest…
