Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another season of Miami Hurricanes football. Tonight the Canes will kick off against the pride of Boca Raton, the Florida Atlantic University Owls. The Hurricanes are 32-point favorites over the mighty Owls, so the game is not exactly expected to come down to the wire…
College football season is finally upon us. Frat boys are scouring Party City for the perfect shade of body paint. Sorority girls are looking up ways on Pinterest to artfully cut up free pep rally T-shirts into midriff-baring tanks. Students everywhere are stocking up on Natty Lite. Excitement is rippling…
Don’t expect ESPN’s Scoop Jackson to write any more columns about LeBron James or the Miami Dolphins. He announced today that after careful consideration he’s boycotting Florida sports. He won’t even watch a single game involving a Florida sports team while in the end admitting “this gesture might only make…
The Marlins had a decent shot of derailing the red-hot Washington Nationals last night, taking a 3-1 lead in the top of the sixth thanks in part to a Giancarlo Stanton bomb. But then the Marlins realized they are the sad clowns of Major League Baseball and ended up stumbling…
Traitor! Judas! Backstabber! Apparently there is no “305 til’ I die (or get fired)” clause in Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s contract, because Spo gave a big pep talk to the Seattle Seahawks. Well, at least the Dolphins won’t be playing the Seahawks this season…
Hurricane season starts Friday as the boys in orange and green take on FAU in the season opener, and expectations are already riding high. The ACC media has already picked Miami as the likely winner of the ACC’s coastal division, but now “the worldwide leader in sports,” ESPN, has spoken…
Ever desperate to goose ticket sales, the Miami Marlins hosted a “Legends of Wrestling” night on Saturday which gathered some of the most forgotten talent in professional wrestling history. The event saw former WCW and WWE champion Bill Goldberg throw out the first pitch, as well as his first “spear”…
Last month, ex-University of Miami slugger Ryan Braun was the first player to accept a suspension for his ties to Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic exposed in a Miami New Times investigation as a source for performance enhancing drugs for pro athletes. But Braun didn’t specify what he’d done…
Ryan Braun was the first big star to go down thanks to links to Miami-based, PED-pushing clinic Biogenesis. Now a new lawsuit filed by a former friend suggests that the Milwaukee Brewers sluggers had used steroids ever since his college days at the University of Miami. The suit also claims…
Despite the fact that both the Miami Dolphins and the Fontainebleau hotel have tried to keep the incident out of the headlines, ESPN is reporting that after a night of clubbing at LIV, Dolphins guard Richie Incognito was allegedly involved in a fight with a hotel security guard that left…
This year’s horrific Boston Marathon bombing sent a clear message to NFL security chiefs: Big public sporting events are still prime targets for anyone looking to wreak havoc with a bomb. Their response? Leave your coolers, large purses, zipped-up seat cushions, and oversize bags at home. Getting into Sun Life…
The 1972 Miami Dolphins finally got to see the White House this week, forty years after their undefeated season. President Barack Obama welcomed the players and staff into his home yesterday, making up for the invite that never happened back in 1972, a time when sports teams didn’t automatically make…
Dyron Dye was dismissed from the University of Miami football team on Monday, ending the collegiate career of the last of 38 Miami players and recruits who had alleged received the improper benefit of partying at the home of Ponzi-scheming booster Nevin Shapiro. Dye, who suffered an Achilles injury that…
NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport has confirmed today that Miami Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller tore his ACL, PCL, and MCL and also dislocated his kneecap in Miami’s 24-17 loss to the Houston Texans Saturday night, ending his season and putting the 29-year-old’s career in jeopardy…
60 Minutes is reporting this morning that Alex Rodriguez may have done quiet possibly the most Alex Rodriguez thing ever to cover his own ass. The report indicates that in the weeks after Miami New Times broke the Biogenesis story, Alex Rodriguez’s inner circle obtained and leaked documents that implicated…
“We’re watching one of the greatest right-handed hitters who ever lived.” That’s what an AL scout told ESPN’s Jayson Stark this week for his new piece, titled “We are witnessing greatness,” incidentally, about slugger Miguel Cabrera. The article details just what a ridiculous thing Miguel Cabrera has become, ridiculous as…
While New Times detailed evidence that several MLB stars were clients of the PED-pushing Biogenesis clinic, our original source Porter Fischer has since claimed that other athletes, including mixed-martial arts fighters, were amongst the clinic’s clients. Though, UFC President Dana White says he doesn’t really care that much to investigate…
Ahhhh Alex Rodriguez, such an easy target these days. Love him or hate him, you gotta admit the hometown slugger just makes poking fun at him so effortless. With A-Rod still dominating every tabloid in the nation thanks to a certain newspaper (ahem ahem) blowing the lid on a certain…
Playing in the Orange Bowl used to send shivers down the spines of opposing teams. The 58-straight games the Miami Hurricanes won at home between 1985 and 1994 still stands unbroken as the longest home winning streak in modern NCAA football history. Of course, the ol’ Orange Bowl was demolished…
Apparently, when you’re already the King you decide you don’t want to be president after all. Despite assertions that LeBron James was mulling a bid to run for president of the NBA Players Association, he’s now reportedly decided against the move…
LeBron might be the MVP, but Chris Bosh continue to be the NBA’s reigning MemeVP. The Heat third wheel has always been teased for resembling something like a velociraptor ever since his Toronto Raptor days, but has anyone ever bothered to animate him playing basketball as an actual raptor-human hybrid?…
Well, we guess he’s kept his official residency in Ohio, because LeBron James is serving jury duty in Akron today. Yep, not even the NBA’s MVP can get out of jury duty…
