It’s one thing to get obliterated by the Miami Heat’s Big Three and their skull crushing offense. But when they rock an opponent’s face off with some suffocating defense, well then you really got something.The Heat used their smothering D, combined with their usual badass O and took down the…
After a sluggish start that undoubtedly had everyone jumping through plate glass windows and setting their pants on fire, the Miami Heat managed to get their shit together to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 97-89 and take Game One of their first-round series.The 76ers proved to be a scrappy bunch, mounting…
The day is almost here. After one of the most scrutinized regular seasons afforded to any team in just about all of NBA history the Miami Heat are set to play their first play-off game with LeBron James and Chris Bosh joining Dwyane Wade in red and black tomorrow. They’ll…
We’ve theorized that the main reason University of Miami hasn’t called basketball coach Frank Martin yet is because of his scandalous past at a Miami High School. Well, today an off-the-record source tells The Miami Herald that those skeletons in the closet may very well in fact be the main…
The U, Rakontur’s documentary about the Miami Hurricanes football team in the ’80s, was the highest-rated documentary ever to air on ESPN, so it makes sense the channel is eager for some more Miami documentary magic. While plans for a sequel to The U have been put on hold, ESPNU…
A student athlete at Westminster Christian School is accused of a very un-Christian like act. Olivia Harrington, who has been refereeing high school sports for more than a decade, claims a player deliberately spiked a ball in her face during a game late last month. Her nose was broken and face swollen…
Just in case you thought corporate douchebaggery couldn’t get any worse than the carousel of inane names for the ex-Joe Robbie Stadium — Landshark Stadium anyone? — the Florida Panthers are here to remind us that the limits of corporate whoredom are ever-expanding. The team has just sold its rink…
For all of that talk about how LeBron James was forever ruining his public image and marketability by spurning Cleveland to take his talents to South Beach, the man sure seems to have his business side on lock. In fact, he has the best-selling jersey of the season. James’s new…
We’re not sure what is going on in Coral Gables. The Hurricanes have a potential superstar college basketball coach in Frank Martin who seems like he’s just waiting for a call, but they’re spending all of their time trying to lure so-so candidates for the men’s basketball coaching job who…
Six months ago, Bill Parcells packed up his office — the one with “Vice President of Football Operations” painted on the door — at Miami Dolphins headquarters and hasn’t really looked back. The jury on Parcells’s legacy in Miami is still out. At best, he turned a horrible team into a mediocre…
The University of Miami’s search to replace athletic director Kirby Hocutt has come to an end. The Miami Herald reports that Shawn Eichorst, a deputy AD at the University of Wisconsin, has been hired for the job, and what a job it is. Not only will Eichorst be charged with…
The University of Miami is pursuing multiple options to fill their men’s basketball coach vacancy, including, the latest, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker. The only person they haven’t seemed to call is the must-buzzed about and perhaps best option: Kansas State coach Frank Martin. In his latest remarks to the media…
Update: Did Bobby Kent steal the song from a USC student who copyrighted it in 1955? In 1978, Bobby Kent was the musical director for the San Diego Chargers football team when he composed a song he called “Stadium Doo Dads” or “Kent’s Composition”. According to our new front-runner for…
We have no idea why former Miami Heat legend Glen Rice’s post-NBA life involves hiring people to film and organize a handball tournament (hell, we have no idea why handball tournaments need to be filmed in the first place), and perhaps after finding himself in legal trouble Rice is thinking…
In his Sisyphean quest to continually one-up his latest absurd headlines, local hero-clown Jose Canseco faced a steep challenge this week: How to best his shenanigans in Hollywood, where he sent his brother Ozzie to fight in his place at a D-list celebrity boxing match?Well, here’s a start: Jose and…
Entering this season, the expectation for the Miami Heat was that they’d give the Boston Celtics a run for their money, and topple them as the best team in the Eastern Conference. But then the Celtics beat Miami three times, taking Suck to a whole other level. Expectations became so…
It’s been a busy few days for LeBron James: he became a minority owner of one of the biggest soccer team in the world, his mom got arrested, he lost to the Bucks last night, and now the premiere episode of his animated YouTube series, The LeBrons, has hit the…
During former Miami Hurricanes basketball coach Frank Haith’s introduction at his new gig Missouri he had cutting words for University of Miami saying, “I know I’m in a different place. I know I’m in a place where they care.” We’d be more outraged though if we thought people actually really…
The Miami Heat must really want to not have the second seed in the Eastern Conference, because they came out and completely crapped themselves last night in a 90-85 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.With Dwyane Wade and his hobbled thigh on the bench, the Heat turned the ball over 16…
LeBron James is set to go global by buying a piece of one of the most storied soccer teams in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, James is set to enter a deal with Fenway Sports Group that would give him a minority stake in the Liverpool F.C.,…
Regardless of what’s actually on the mind of University of Miami interim athletics director Tony Hernandez, the media has already anointed Kansas State coach Frank Martin the frontrunner for the Canes’ open basketball coaching job because of his considerable connections to the Miami area (connections that involve a past high…
For the past two years, Dwyane Wade has been just about the only NBA superstar not to have his own signature sneaker. He traded his own line of Converse kicks and apparel to take the historic honor of being the first basketball-player spokesman for Nike’s Air Jordan brand since Michael Jordan himself. But the…
