With the Miami Dolphins having another odd season and former head coach Nick Saban once again headed to a BCS championship game with Alabama, you’d be forgiven for wondering what could have been if Saban didn’t sneak out of town with pants firmly on fire in 2007. Though, maybe we’re…
Thanks to the lockout, there are 16 games fewer than usual, but the NBA has finally released the schedule for its shortened, 66-game season. As everyone already knows, the Heat will open with a Christmas Day rematch against the Dallas Mavericks. The Heat’s home opener will go down two days…
LeBron James has finally admitted the obvious: announcing his decision to play for the Miami Heat on an over-hyped ESPN special was a public relations nightmare. Obviously, for Heat fans the show was a monumental feel-good moment, but it only served to fuel the hatred and intense scrutiny on the…
SEC probes and baffling aesthetic choices aside, the Miami Marlins really do deserve credit for keeping good on their promise of upping their payroll and making the team a serious contender. A day after adding prized shortstop Jose Reyes, ESPN is reporting that the Fish have made a 10-year contract…
I was in the stands at Shea Stadium in 2006 when Endy Chavez, God bless his tiny heart, made this heroic catch in the NLCS’ Game 7 to seemingly seal the Mets’ glorious destiny. That was the last time I’ve ever experienced joy. Three innings later, Carlos Beltran was frozen…
Al Golden’s surprising contract extension apparently wasn’t enough to let the rest of the college football world know that the coach isn’t planning on abandoning the University of Miami ship anytime soon.After firing head coach Rick Neuheisel, the UCLA athletic department reportedly decided to give Golden a call, but the…
Amazingly and infuriatingly, the Miami Dolphins have come tromping out of the depths of a shitty season like a reanimated zombie and have suddenly started kicking opponents asses and eating their brains.The Dolphins defense stabbed the Raiders in the face with their ferociousness, while the offense — led by the…
Former Miami Dolphins defensive end Igor Olshansky was having a bad week. A calf injury forced him to miss the Thanksgiving Day game against the Cowboys, and the team rewarded him by releasing him on Wednesday. All the dude wanted to do was get a little high after a tough work…
You probably know by now that Back to the Future II predicted that there would be a baseball team using the name “Miami” as their home signifier, but did another movie predict the Miami Marlin’s new uniforms?The 1998 box office bomb BASEketball, staring South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey…
The Nevin Shapiro scandal may have left all those folks talking up the Hurricanes football program as an upstanding group of brainy, good two-shoed scholars eating crow, but you better believe Donna Shalala is still dead-set on keeping up the school’s academic reputation.Maybe that’s why its likely the team is…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall has found himself on the wrong side of the law yet again. This time, it’s for allegedly not paying a hefty cab fair. Marshall was not arrested in the incident, but was handcuffed and put in the back of a Broward County Sheriff’s deputy…
A few weeks ago, we told you that Miami Marlins mascot Billy the Marlin would return with a new color scheme, and lamented, “Hopefully we don’t have to worry about an 8-foot tall orange sports fish walking around the stadium.”Well, the new Billy is finally here, and its not quite…
New Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen hasn’t been in town for that long, but is it possible he’s been looking through past Miami New Times covers for photo shoots? He’s pictured on the cover of the newest edition of ESPN The Magazine in a full on kiss with his pet…
The members of the ’72 Miami Dolphins haven’t gotten a chance yet to pop champagne, as the Green Bay Packers have remained undefeated with little signs of slowing down. Could Perfectville soon have a population of two?These are dark days in Dolphinland, as they have been for much of the…
With the exact makeup of NBA’s post-lock out rosters unknown, making any super informed predictions about the upcoming abbreviated season is sort of a shot in the dark. Though, with Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh on the Heat, picking them to win the NBA championship is likely your…
Cleveland-raised Esquire scribe Scott Raab’s LeBron James-bashing book, The Whore of Akron– which at one point wishes a career-ending injury upon the basketball superstar– got the author’s media credentials revoked from Miami Heat home games. It also earned him an inbox full of threats from South Floridians. Now, Raab believes,…
Say good bye to Mike Miller Heat fans. He’ll likely be the team’s biggest casualty following the new deal reached between players and owners. Miller made headlines earlier this month by putting his South Florida home on the market, and it’s looking like that wasn’t such hasty move. …
It’s a holiday miracle! NBA players and owners have reached a tentative deal to save the NBA season. Training camp and the free agency period will begin on December 9, with the first games to start on Christmas day. That means that the previously scheduled December 25 match up of…
Last year the Miami Hurricanes finished a pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and fired their head coach. This year they finished yet another pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and gave their head coach a four year…
Want to know what a man with a multi-million dollar Miami Heat contract serves his family on Thanksgiving? It probably wasn’t all that different from what you ate yesterday. LeBron James, an occasional over-sharer, decided to tweet a video of his family’s Turkey Day spread yesterday…
Your Miami Dolphins played in yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys and lost, ending their three-game winning streak and putting their playoff hopes on life support with someone standing by ready to smother it with a pillow. The Dolphins defense did what it could, intercepting Tony Romo twice…
Getting scantily clad women to play basketball while wearing stripper heels is either a shrewd business move in the face of the NBA lockout or a recipe for some very disastrous ankle injuries.Regardless, the girls of Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami Gardens are going to give it a shot as part…
