Pre-season buzz seems higher than it has in years for the Miami Hurricanes, but apparently that buzz wasn’t loud enough to convince the voters in USA Today’s coaches poll to slip them into the top 25. The Canes just missed the cutoff, but did receive enough votes to put them…
When you’re already King why not be President too? Yes, LeBron James is reportedly mulling over a big for higher officer… in the NBA Players Union at least. According to Fox Sports, he’s considering running for the union’s presidency…
Last night was a bit of a turd in the punchbowl for Major League Soccer, as the MLS All Stars lost to Roma 3-1 in Kansas City. But the silver lining to that turd (let’s leave the metaphor there) is that MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced at halftime that the…
The fallout from our investigation of a little Coral Gables-based “anti-aging clinic” called Biogenesis continues. USA Today reports that Major League Baseball will announce the suspension of “about eight” linked to the PED-pushing clinic either tomorrow or Friday. However, more shocking is that the league is “prepared” to ban Alex…
When baseball historians look back at the Miami Marlins 2013 season, they should start with pitcher Chad Qualls’ botched celebration after an inning-ending strike-out last night. Truly, it is the play that will define the team’s season. Because even when they don’t completely suck, the Fish still manage to find…
In another little embarrassment to the Miami Marlins, hitting coach Tino Martinez resigned over the weekend after allegations of using heavy-handed tactics on players. So what exactly did Martinez do? Well, he spoke last night to Fox Sports and said he just got a little too outraged when players refused…
Tino Martinez got a little too personal with his players, and now he is out of a job. The Miami Marlins hitting coach quit the team yesterday following a Miami Herald report that he verbally abused players in a ball club that ranks last in the majors in runs, home…
Forget little George Alexander Louis. Dude’s swag level will never match up to little Jackson Bosh’s. After a promotional excursion to India, Chris Bosh took his family for a trip to Rome, where the world’s chillest baby picture was snapped…
In what has to be one of the most absurd match-ups in Mixed Martial Arts history, former Miami backyard street fighter Rene “Level” Martinez is facing off against ex-professional boxing champ Ricardo Mayorga in Managua, Nicaragua this Saturday. Mayorga’s boxing career washed out in 2011 after losing to Miguel Cotto…
With the 2013 Miami Dolphins football season nearing, fans of all shapes, sizes, and attitudes are readying themselves for the return of the NFL. Some of us are 75 years old and lived through a time when this franchise was second to none. Others are in our mid-30s and for…
The Miami Dolphins have assembled for training camp with expectations set higher for the promising revamped roster than they have been in years, but that doesn’t mean the mood is too heavy. Team veterans put Dolphins rookies through some playful hazing by playing hairstylist with a bit of bleach and…
Last week, Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, made a bizarre public protest outside a Chicago courthouse during which she claimed to be living on the streets. Today, Wade released a statement pointing out he pays her $25,000 a month…
Is this the year the Miami Hurricanes finally make it to their first ACC championship game? The media seems to think so. During the Atlantic Coast Conference’s media kickoff day, the assembled sports reporters picked the Hurricanes to win the Coastal division in a poll…
Cornerback Brent Grimes will make his debut with the Dolphins this season, but if you didn’t know who he was before, you’ll probably forever know him now as the guy who got a picture of a blowjob frosted on his 30th-birthday cake…
Yesterday the Orlando Sentinel wrote an explosive story about how a soccer team from Miami had allegedly instigated a vicious on-field brawl during a tournament at Disney World. “Parents who witnessed the Saturday afternoon altercation painted a particularly vivid picture of parents and players from a Miami team storming the…
Earlier this morning, FIU football players went to Crandon Park Beach, perhaps Miami’s most family friendly stretch of sand, for a workout and team barbecue. Apparently while showering under the public open-air shower heads, a few of the players decided to get butt naked. FIU head coach Ron Turner has…
In their latest doomed effort to goose ticket sales the Miami Marlins will be hosting a “Legend of Wrestling Night” on August 24. Sixteen former professional wrestlers will be on hand for you to, I don’t know, look at I guess according to Biz of Baseball. There will be three…
Two months after David Beckham jetted to Miami to meet with a Bolivian billionaire and tour stadiums around Dade County, reports are trickling out of Britain this week suggesting that South Florida soccer fans’ hopes might just be true. Becks is close to announcing that’s he’s going to start an…
Mike Dee is changing teams, changing coasts and changing leagues. The Miami Dolphins CEO has resigned and will take over as president and CEO of the San Diego Padres…
Be honest with yourselves, Dolphins fans: After watching two straight ticker-tape parades down Biscayne Boulevard by that other pro team in town, it’s gotten harder and harder to get jazzed up for preseason Fins games that basically amount to flag football contests. But this is 2013, and for the first…
Despite reports that the Miami Heat would not use the NBA’s amnesty clause this offseason, several Heat beat reporters are tweeting that Mike Miller’s agent has been informed that the veteran would be waived under the rule…
LeBron James is going to get a second ring this summer. This one will be of the wedding variety. TMZ reports that invitations to the September wedding between James and fiancée Savannah Brinson have gone out to guests, but the invites are low on details. In fact, guests are instructed…
