For a few hours Friday, Luther Campbell’s rocky relationship with the University of Miami athletic department appeared to be headed off a cliff. Craig Anderson, associate athletic director for compliance, ordered Uncle Luke — who despite recent criticism of the U, still bleeds orange-and-green — to leave the building minutes…
As you might have guessed, Miami Heat players are a cast of characters. So when the Heat’s Shane Battier asked his teammates to perform for a good cause, he didn’t have to do much persuading. “It’s hard to sell someone on getting onstage and putting themselves out there,” Battier said…
Soccer fans in Miami shouldn’t have to wait much longer. Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced today that he expects an official announcement to be made on David Beckham’s plans to bring the league back to Miami sometime in the next 30 days…
No one likes a bandwagon fan. Of this just about any sane person can agree, but the Washington Wizards’ decision to add insult to injury by employing a “bandwagon cam” during last night’s bashing of the Miami Heat just kind of comes off as classless…
The guys who run the the Heat superstore secretly replaced the regular Miami Heat with the generic brand. They wanted to see if we noticed. Yeah, we noticed. The Washington Wizards came out of the gate wizarding harder than they have ever wizarded before, scoring 43 points in the first…
In the 12 months since New Times broke the Biogenesis story, details of Alex Rodriguez’s doping habits have slowly emerged. This week, however, the sordid picture suddenly snapped into sharp and absurd relief. On Monday, Rodriguez filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the 162-game ban handed down two days earlier…
Considering the speed at which the internet moves, it’s sort of curious that this is becoming a meme. LeBron James (along with some of his teammates) has long been criticized for “flopping” to drawl fouls, likely because there isn’t much else to criticize. So now all the kids on Vine…
Mother’s Day isn’t for months, but it came early for Gloria James. Contributing to Maria’s Shriver’s Shriver Report (to which Beyonce also dropped an essay this weekend), LeBron James wrote a loving tribute to his mother Gloria, a single working mom who through hard work and, as LeBron notes, some…
Dolphins fans finally got their wish with the recent departure of general manager Jeff Ireland, and then half of them went into a dramatic frenzy over how the process to replace him was playing out (maybe, at least in some corners, because someone with a vagina was involved). Go figure…
The Heat kicked off their annual circus road trip with a craptastic effort against the New York Knicks, losing 102-92. The Heat really wasted your time Thursday night, They laughed off terrible miscues all night, played awful defense, and overall just looked like the game was unimportant to them. You…
After Dan Le Batard revealed that he had given his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot to Deadspin for fans to vote on, neither of his employers, ESPN or the Miami Herald, took action, but now the Baseball Writers Association of America has come down hard. They’ve suspended Le Batard and…
For those of you who wish you could pluck Marlins team President David Samson from Marlins Park and place him somewhere on a desolate island far, far away — your dreams have come true. Apparently he’ll be a contestant on the next season of Survivor. It show how seriously he…
Maybe we’ve been watching too much House of Cards, but with all we’ve heard in the last few days about Dawn Aponte, the Miami Dolphins’ executive vice president of football administration, it’s hard not to imagine her as some sort of female Frank Underwood, ruthlessly navigating the halls of power…
With all the messes surrounding the Miami Dolphins right now, the Richie Incognito seems like ages ago, but NFL investigators haven’t forgotten about it. TMZ Sports claims that they got word from a source close to the investigation that the league has collected text messaged between Jonathon Martin and Incognito…
The Miami Heat are playing the Fillmore Miami Beach. No, not basketball, but actually singing. Shane Battier’s annual charity fundraiser Battioke is going down January 27 at the concert hall, and of course there’s a promo video featuring Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Battier himself taking on their favorite karaoke…
Nothing gets a certain segment of baseball enthusiasts more heated than the voting process for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Not being baseball enthusiasts ourselves (we grew up with the Marlins, after all), we don’t fully understand it, but it seems like a pretty touchy subject. Anyway, to protest the…
We came here today to bury GM Jeff Ireland’s time with the Dolphins, not to praise him. Well, actually we came here to relentlessly mock him on Twitter. After years of the #Fireland hashtag breaking out on the social networking site just about anytime the Dolphins did anything wrong (which…
Last night, the Heat toyed with the Pelicans for a half, pulled away in the third quarter, and ultimately cruised Usain Bolt-style to the finish line for a 107-88 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. LeBron James had a game-high 32 points, 16 coming in the decisive third period. Dwyane…
Sure, it’s a blatant merchandising grab, but we’ve been pretty excited about the idea of Miami Heat players wearing special-edition nickname jerseys. We’ve already received news that Ray Allen would wear “J. Shuttlesworth” and that LeBron would sport “King James,” but today the team unveiled the full list of nicknames…
Jameis Winston passes to Kelvin Benjamin, and the FSU Seminoles win the national title. What a game Winston had, and what a comeback! FSU trailed virtually the whole game but came back with a 100-yard kick return and then the pass to the six-foot, 234-pound Benjamin to put the team…
Did you hear the one about how a LeBron James walks into a bar? The punchline is he got carded. Despite being one of the most famous athletes in the world, despite his beard, and despite (sorry, sorry) that hairline, James was still asked for ID to prove he was…
While you were watching the NFL playoffs all weekend, the Miami Heat players were busy getting the taste of that Warriors ass-kicking out of their mouths by gargling with the Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors on back-to-back nights. Following a 110-94 win in Orlando Saturday night, the Heat held off…
