What makes an NFL team successful? For the coach, players and fans it means winning games. For the owner and front office it also means making lots of money. According to a new analysis from Portfolio.com, your Miami Dolphins ranked near the bottom in both categories in 2009. Of the league’s 32 teams,…
Maybe we’re biased, but we think the University of Miami athletics logo is one of the most original and aesthetically pleasing in all of sports. It’s minimalist yet says so much. However, in its ACC preview, Rivals’ group of experts seems to think the team’s helmet, which features the logo,…
It was only a matter of time until someone wrote a book about the Miami Heat’s amazing off-season in which it secured three of the biggest prizes of a historic free-agency class. Of course, we doubt Ric Bucher’s tome, tentatively titled Overheated (har-har), will be sitting on the bookshelves of…
So as it turns out, all of that criticism and scorn the media and the rest of the world have been spewing at LeBron James since he came to the Heat — yeah, LeBron James noticed. And he is not amused. From his Twitter account last night:Don’t think for one…
We here at Riptide like the sordid side of things. And while we’re hoping that, come the end of the 2010-11 NBA season, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh are lobbing a championship trophy to each other as they ride dolphins through Biscayne Bay, we’re also hoping for a…
According to TMZ, LeBron James paid controversial Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto six figures to sit in on a merchandising meeting on a yacht somewhere off the coast of New York. Pinto is styled as something of a business guru-slash-spiritual leader to the rich and famous. He only speaks Hebrew, and…
The Miami Heat released their 2010-11 season schedule today. Why other teams will even bother to show up to these games is beyond us. They should just forfeit now. Or maybe arrive to the arena late and blame it on the crazy McNugget lady ahead of them in the McDonald’s…
If this past Saturday’s seven-on-seven scrimmage is any indication, the Miami Dolphins will go 0-16 and then explode. In a nutshell, the new-look offense starring wide receiver Brandon Marshall was atrocious. Even though Marshall has been dominant during practices, he finished the scrimmage with two catches for 11 yards. EVERYBODY…
At least one person in LeBron James’s inner circle wasn’t thrilled with his decision to “take his talents to South Beach”: Savannah Brinson, his longtime lady love and mother of his two sons. She’s not worried about James ruining his legacy, the Heat unfairly reshaping the NBA, or hometown loyalty (if she…
Earlier today, Dan LeBatard sent fears down the spine of Hurricane fans by announcing on his radio show that the Miami Herald would be breaking a negative story about the sports program this afternoon. Well it’s here, and it a minor little thing that involves, uh, text messages…
In the past few weeks we’ve been hearing two rumors: 1) Isiah Thomas was definitely going to return to the Knicks 2) Isiah Thomas was definitely going to stay as the head coach of FIU basketball. Turns out that both were right…
The Three Kings will begin their quest to utterly destroy all other NBA teams with their awesomeness in Boston. The NBA leaked parts of its 2010-11 schedule last night, and it has the Miami Heat opening its season against the defending Eastern Conference Champion Boston Celtics. And in a game…
Yesterday, the Miami Herald published a story online including a sort of pompous but not really controversial quote from Heat star Dwyane Wade in which he said he accepts that people may hate the team, but other teams will be thanking them when they come to town and sell out the…
Things had been running pretty smoothly for the Miami Dolphins since training camp began last Friday. Chad Henne is looking sharp, Will Allen is looking fluid, and newly acquired Pro Bowl wide receiver Brandon Marshall is downright blowing shit up. But all the good times and double rainbows came to…
LeBron James’s move to the Heat isn’t just enticing people back to downtown Miami. It’s causing them to drop crazy money like it’s 2006 all over again, just to be near him. Case in point: millionaire Russell Wright, a Tony Stark-esque defense contractor and country music impresario who is also…
Matthew Bellamy provided some, apparently, much needed catharsis for angry Cleveland sports fans Wednesday. He showed up at a Cleveland Indians game in LeBron James Miami Heat jersey and got booed out of the stadium. Now he’s telling his side of the story, and apparently fans weren’t the only ones…
Jorge Cantu and his productive bat and his Spaghetti Western movie villain facial hair were all shipped to Texas yesterday in exchange for pitching prospects Evan Reed and Omar Paveta. The Marlins will be paying $600,000 of the $2.2 million remaining on Cantu’s contract, because, well, these are the Marlins…
Today in obscure sports disputes: Fomer NBAer and current Guy Sometimes on the TV John Salley says former Miami Heat center Rony Seikaly cared naught for the postseason because it didn’t pay well. Seikaly doesn’t exactly deny that — but he does tell Riptide Salley is composed predominantly of fecal…
People in Cleveland are still pissed about that whole “LeBron James betrayed our town on a self-congratulatory, national live TV special for the Heat” thing. Jeez, come on folks, it’s been a full three weeks now. Last night a man wearing an official LeBron James Miami Heat jersey at Cleveland…
ESPN’s Arash Markazi went along for the ride at a party that Miami Heat forward LeBron James threw for himself at a Las Vegas nightclub last weekend that featured — among other things — scantily clad women, a crown-shaped cake, and a flying waiter. The account was posted on ESPN.com…
The Miami Heat are the new evil empire, yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, before they’ve even hit the court, the 2010-2011 Heat have been ranked the 25th most hated sports team of all time by Sports Illustrated. You can hate all you want, because this city is used to it…
All the recent Marlins walk-off wins and ensuing shaving-cream-pie-to-the-face celebrations has claimed its first victim. It was only a matter of time. An MRI has determined that outfielder Chris Coghlan suffered a left knee injury after he planted a shaving-cream pie into the face of Wes Helms after the Marlins’…
