Since 1980, the Pro Bowl has been played in Hawaii, and because our 50th state doesn’t have a team of its own, it’s been a nice opportunity for locals to catch some NFL action, even if the players don’t typically bring their best game. But this year’s Pro Bowl will take…
Is that all Nick Saban wanted? A statue? Because, the former Dolphins coach is actually going to get one in Alabama after leading the Crimson Tide to a BCS Championship. We could have erected a statue of you Saban! You didn’t have to sneak out of town with your lying…
Fergie is really taking her investment in the Miami Dolphins seriously, and out of all the team’s celebrity co-owners, she seems intent on pumping up the fans the most. Here she is bouncing around in white, aqua, and orange to the Black Eyed Peas’ not-at-all-annoying “Boom Boom Pow.”I guess this…
Miami has never been a huge college basketball town. There was a bit of buzz when FIU reeled in Isiah Thomas, but they’re off to a 5-13 start. Sorry Zeke, maybe things will turn around when you can make an impact on recruiting.Then you’ve got the Miami Hurricanes. Overshadowed at…
Take a look at this rendering of what the Dolphins have in mind for stadium upgrades? Pretty nice isn’t it. Miami has been put on notice that unless they make serious upgrades to Dolphin Stadium, we might lose out on opportunities to host future Super Bowls that pump hundreds of…
Fans of Miami FC can breath a sigh of relief: the team will indeed play this year. The future of Miami FC and second tier soccer in America was called into question when a group of USL teams led by Miami FC’s owner, Traffic Sports, split off to form a…
News flash: Your Marlins baseball club is building a new stadium that will cost taxpayers $4.7 bagillion and, far more tragically, will probably not be sponsored by Jimmy Buffett’s crappy beer. In happier news, they will also drop the “Florida” from their name — as if they were ever really…
Land Shark Stadium will host the 76th annual Orange Bowl tonight, with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets taking on the Iowa Hawk Eyes. Locally, the most exciting facet could be that this game might mark the last time Land Shark will be officially known by that terrible moniker (it’ll revert…
Well, there’s one Miami football team that’s still in the playoff hunt: the Lingerie Football League’s Miami Caliente. With a 2-1 record and an upcoming game against the Tampa Bay Breeze, the Caliente could find themselves in Lingerie Bowl VII. Unlike last year’s debacle in Tampa Bay, South Florida has…
It was a microcosm of an entire season. As with every game, the Miami Dolphins were kicked in the teeth while they fought tooth and nail to make a game of it but falling short in the end. Even after losing both their first- and second-string quarterbacks, the Fins were…
Not that anyone really pays attention, but Miami FC has been playing in the United Soccer League since the team’s founding in 2006. USL was the second tier in America’s soccer pyramid, but since, unlike other countries, there’s no promotion or relegation, they’re basically the minor league to America’s most…
The Hurricanes dominated this game for the first minute and then for a good portion of the last three minutes. Those other 56? Pure agony. Sam Shields returned the kickoff for an 84-yard touchdown, only to have it called back to the 16 on an illegal block penalty. It didn’t…
Champs Sports Bowl: Miami Hurricanes vs Wisconsin Badgers, 8 p.m. ESPNSince college football doesn’t have anything resembling a meaningful post-season, the most you can ask for besides ending up in a BCS bowl is an entertaining season. And boy did Canes fans get it this year. There was the joy…
Riptide 2.0’s regular sports commentator and FinsNation blogger Chris Joseph looks back at the top ten Miami sports moments of the decade. Low points like the Miami Dolphins crappy performance and the after-thought known as the Florida Panthers didn’t make the cut. Sorry. 10. Canes BaseballCoach Jim Morris and his…
Despite NBCMiami’s sort of brilliant “Fin” headline this morning, the Dolphins playoffs hopes are still alive. Well, not really alive. Their playoff hopes are more zombie-like. It’s as if the Dolphins are in a cheesy horror movie where the undead have taken over and bitten the Fins, and the team…
That Dolphins halftime speech must have been some kind of fire and brimstone sermon. Something along the lines of Henry V’s Saint Crispen’s Day address. The pre-game speech, meh, not so much. It was probably more along the lines of, “Okay men, we’re gonna go out there and we’re gonna…
It’s hard to imagine anything that would be all around better for the Marlins than signing pitcher Aroldis Chapman. They need another possible superstar, and an athlete who defected from Cuba would do wonders for whipping up the local fanbase.The Herald reports that the Fish offered Chapman a 5-year contract…
No college football team hit such heights and then sunk to such lows this decade than the Miami Hurricanes. From the 2001 team that won a national championship — and is considered by most sane sports commenters as the best college team of the past ten years if not of all time…
Just days before Christmas, the Miami Dolphins were supposed to come up with another big win to inch closer to a post-season berth. Instead, they delivered a stocking full of turds in the form of a 27-24 loss in overtime to the Tennessee Titans. There’s plenty of blame to go…
The legend goes that every year the ’72 Dolphins pop a bottle of champagne when the last remaining undefeated team looses. Typically, at this point in the season that mythical toast would have come and gone by now. Somewhere, Mercury Morris is getting nervous.As anyone even vaguely paying attention to…
Any Canes fan will tell you the media, especially ESPN, hates Miami, but ESPN aired its two-hour apology in the form of Rakontur’s fantastic documentary, The U, this past weekend. One segment, of course, focused on that perceived media bias, and right on cue, the media is stirring up some controversy…
If we had told you before this game started that the Dolphins would only manage to score 14 points in the first half, zero points in the second half, turn the ball over three times in enemy territory, but will still win the game, you would have stabbed us in…
