First, the Miami Marlins duped their way to a deal that will eventually cost taxpayers $1 billion for a new ballpark. That’s panned out about as well as early stock investments in Hindenberg, Inc. Then the Dolphins tried their hand with a campaign to get more than $200 million for…
You make the Miami Heat angry, you deal with the repercussions. The Miami Heat came to Chicago looking to take back home court advantage, and now they’re leaving with a sweep of the two games and a chance to finish the series back in Miami on Wednesday. Miami easily handled…
The Miami Marlins can’t seem to win much of anything lately. Not even an omelet-eating contest. While the team was in San Diego last week, reliever A.J. Ramos walked into the Broken Yoke Café and decided to try the restaurant’s “Iron Man Challenge.” Contestants are tasked with eating a meal…
Forget the pressure on the actual athletes. The most stressed person at any baseball game must be the person picked to throw that ceremonial first pitch. It’s not an opportunity one gets all that often in a lifetime, and botching it is the kind of thing that could haunt you…
Just a day after Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee casually quipped that the team was “open” to moving to Palm Beach, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stressed that the league wants the team to stay put in the only home it’s ever known, Miami-Dade County. Goodell also stated that the league…
The last time Yathomas Riley stepped through a crowd and into a boxing ring was more than three years ago. The blows he received that day at a Connecticut casino seemed real; the bruises too painful to doubt. But they were child’s play compared to the hit he would take…
Dolphins CEO Mike Dee told reporters today that he’s “open” to the idea of moving the team to Palm Beach County. Which seems ridiculous on so many levels, but threatening to move the team when you’re looking for a public handout is the oldest trick in the book. So it’s…
Turns out Filomena Tobias, the woman captured in that now-iconic photo flipping off Joakim Noah during last night’s Heat-Bulls game, might be the most bizarrely interesting woman in the world. How bizarrely interesting? Well, this is the nut graph from a 2008 New York magazine story about the death of…
Middle-finger lady: Riptide salutes you, for you are truly the soul of Miami embodied. Your patterned silk shirt: Glorious. Your tan: Immaculate. Your leather purse, gold jewelry and white pants: Perhaps wrong for a basketball contest, but oh so right. And your look of pure glee as you shove your…
Back up in your ass with the resurrection, Chicago. The Miami Heat got some sweet revenge Wednesday night beating the Bulls 115-78 — their worst ever playoff defeat, and at the same time the Heat’s all-time biggest playoff win — so that went well. Miami shot 50 percent from three…
People were left scratching their heads wondering why a man worth more than $4.4 billion was asking tax payers for more than $200 million to renovate his football team’s stadium. But it appears that Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross isn’t a total tightwad. He’s now pledged to give away at…
Remember when the Marlins used to cover the whole upper deck at Sun Life Stadium with a big blue tarp so the game looked a little more full even though only a few thousand people showed up? That was one of the main reasons the team pushed for a much…
The Miami Marlins have recently shocked the sports world by going on a breathtaking run in which the team has not completely sucked. A team that started of the season with just five wins in their first 24 games suddenly can now be described with such high praise as “competent,”…
Welcome to the 2013 NBA Playoffs, Miami Heat. Oh by the way, you just lost home court advantage. The Chicago Bulls came into Miami last night and shocked the Heat 93-86, taking Game 1 and at the same time putting the Heat on notice that this series will be anything…
Sunday’s news should have been glorious for LeBron James. Not only did he win the MVP award, but also he became the youngest player to rack up a fourth most-valuable honor. Instead, everyone focused on what LeBron didn’t do: namely, nab the first unanimous MVP. The numbers released yesterday showed…
Was there really any doubt? ESPN reports that league sources confirm Miami Heat superstar LeBron James will officially be awarded his fourth MVP title this Sunday. It’s the King’s second MVP crown in a row, and his fourth in five years…
Last time we checked, neither Belen Jesuit nor St. Thomas Aquinas sponsored WWE-style staged wrestling as a high school sport, so we really weren’t expecting to see video go viral of their students getting into a Speedo-clad brawl.Then again, apparently we underestimated how vicious a sport water polo can be…
I love Twitter a lot — like 83,000-tweets-and-counting a lot. So I didn’t troll everyone yesterday with fake news about Tim Tebow joining the Dolphins because I was mad. I did it because it would be funny, and also because it’s fascinating how information goes viral — particularly in the…
The women came in high heels and skin-tight dresses. The men wore expensive suits with glittering cufflinks. And the lamb chops were encrusted with pistachio. It was, in other words, a sumptuous show befitting the La Liga — or “the greatest soccer league in the universe,” as a video confidently…
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the biggest soccer stars in the world, so we doubt he has informed opinions on local tax and political issues in Miami-Dade. That’s not going to stop him from appearing all over your TV screen for the next few weeks trying to get you to…
All it took was for super-agent Drew Rosenhaus to go on WQAM yesterday and say he “wouldn’t be shocked” if the Dolphins signed Tim Tebow because Stephen Ross is a “fan” to start the latest Tebowmania rumor. This despite the fact the Dolphins don’t particularly need another quarterback, let alone a bad…
How did your last birthday go? Pretty great? Had some drinks with your friends, got some gift cards from the parents, skipped out on work? Yeah, A.J. Francis has you beat times 10,000. Last Saturday was his birthday. It was also the day he signed a pro contract with the…
