Remember how the Miami Marlins spent hundreds of million of dollars to build themselves a new stadium with a fancy retractable roof? Remember how one of the main selling points was the fact that it tends to rain a lot in South Florida, and playing in the roof-less Sun Life…
Every once in a while — even in Miami — a story will emerge to restore your faith in humanity. This is one of those stories, and it all started in a place that’s hardly been a well of good feelings lately: American Airlines Arena, home of the floundering, injury-wracked…
When a Twitter-storm erupted two weeks ago around Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart and a series of messages seemingly between him and a pair of gambling experts, two central questions quickly emerged: Were the messages legit? And did they point to anything darker than Costart putting a few bucks on college…
Dwyane Wade seems have taken the news that the Heat and Cavs split their regular season series much too literally. Wade entered last night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers already battling a stomach bug, so the last thing he needed was for a wet Quicken Loans Arena floor to surprise…
We’ll just cut to the chase. We know local fans are “go big or go home” types. The Miami Hurricanes Men’s Basketball teams trip to the National Invitational Tournament (the Independent Spirit Awards to the NCAA Tourney’s Oscars; the middle school spring luau to the NCAA’s Senior Prom) hasn’t exactly…
It’s time to meet your 2015 Miami Marlins, Miami. Take a walk around, get a good look at everything, because there have been some home improvements. Early reviews of the remodeling have been overwhelmingly positive, but being a Marlins fan is like being one of Derrick Rose’s knees; one minute you might…
On the same night as Wrestlemania 31, a familiar Miami tag team helped the Heat to a much needed 109-102 win. The The Heat already need every win they can get at this point in the season, but with the Spurs and Cavs appearing on their schedule next, Sunday’s game against…
Just like actual Hurricane season, the Miami Hurricanes football season has been pretty uneventful for the past few years. The team hasn’t been in the National Championship discussion for more than a decade, and hasn’t even won a conference championship since they were part of the Big East. Three coaches…
Don’t the Jacksonville Jaguars have it rough enough? They’re Florida’s least popular and least successful NFL team. They’re plagued by attendance and performance issues, and just about everyone expects them to one day maybe by shipped over to London on a permanent basis. To make matters worse, the team’s official…
The allegations tying Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart’s to sports gambling all began last night with a Twitter post by @GhostFadeKillah, a guy in New Jersey with 1,110 followers. A screencap he posted appears to show Cosart asking someone for advice about bets. But where did that screencap come from? New…
Starting pitcher Jarred Cosart came to the Miami Marlins last summer hoping for a fresh start after a sometimes rocky tenure with the Houston Astros. Instead, he finds himself this morning amidst a Twitter-storm of allegations tying him to gambling. MLB is now looking into the claims, a spokesman tells…
The Miami Heat’s seemingly cursed 2014-15 regular season is mercifully clanging toward the finish line, and there’s surprisingly more gas left in the tank than most Heat fans would have expected. Despite a crushing one-point loss to the Bucks last night, the Heat are still clinging on to the seventh…
Last July, Alexander Figueroa was one of two players who was promptly kicked off the Miami Hurricanes football team after an arrest on charges that he and teammate JaWand Blue drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl on campus. Figueroa ended up avoiding jail time and will have his felony charges dropped…
With a raucous crowd and a national broadcast crew, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber sat yesterday in sunny, southern weather in his league’s newest stadium and raved about the future of his sport. But more than a year after David Beckham’s gala press conference promising a downtown Miami soccer…
For the past five years, Weston-based tennis pro Wayne Odesnik has been as well known for his ties to illegal drugs as for his backhand. In 2010, Odesnik was banned for two years after getting caught with human growth hormone in Australia. Then, New Times’ 2013 investigation into the Biogenesis scandal…
MLB Network recently asked Major League Baseball fans to answer a deceptively simple question: Who is the face of MLB? The fan vote resulted in a victory for … San Francisco catcher Buster Posey? That’s unfortunate, because no matter the official results, any sane baseball fan knows that Giancarlo…
In that now seemingly brief time during which LeBron James called Miami home, local fans were scrutinized endlessly. People said we didn’t deserve the Heat’s big three. Charles Barkley was constantly dogging us. People apparently noticed anytime a seat in the arena wasn’t full for the entire duration of the…
Thanks to the monster contract the Dolphins threw at Ndamukong Suh this week, Miami is now home to three of the biggest deals in each of America’s three biggest sports, with Giancarlo Stanton’s record-breaking Marlins contract and Chris Bosh’s elite Heat salary rounding out the Magic City pay scales. That…
Today, Ndamukong Suh is expected to make it official: He’s coming to Miami, and so is his reputation. The Dolphins will give Suh an NFL record $60 million, guaranteed to anchor their defensive line for the next six years. That’s a lot of money for any player, but the figure…
After the Detroit Lions failed to place a franchise tag on defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, the best defensive player in the league, according to most, will officially be a free agent tomorrow. According to reports, the Miami Dolphins have emerged, along with the Lions and Oakland Raiders, as the best…
Will Shane Battier’s annual Miami Heat-centric celebrity karaoke event ever reach the heights of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James singing a duet of a Michael Jackson song again? Maybe not, but this year’s edition, which went down last night at the Fillmore Miami Beach, did feature a King of Pop…
Electricity surges through a spinning blue Earth. A wind turbine whirs majestically under a perfect puffy cloud. A girl runs her hand through a wheat field bathed in golden light. And a sleek racecar is unveiled as engines rev and fans scream. “The race to the future,” a faraway voice…
