With absolutely nothing left to play for in the regular season, the Miami Heat threw out a hodgepodge starting lineup against Cleveland Monday night and won anyway. Behind Norris Cole and his 16 points, 11 rebounds, and nine assists, the Heat B C team pulled out a gutsy win, the…
Last night, Parks and Recs’ resident sardonic sweetheart Aubrey Plaza pulled a bizarre “Kanye” at the MTV Movie Award by walking up barefoot to interrupt Will Ferrell’s acceptance speech. She later noted the incident on Twitter, and for some reason tagged it #ChrisBosh.It seems Plaza’s apparent obsession with Bosh on…
Your social media feeds have probably been soaked full of complaints about the monsoons that decided to hit Miami today and on Saturday. LeBron James was no different. He Instagrammed pictures of flooding around his neighborhood, and the National Weather Service took note. They issued an official alert mentioning James…
While the University of Miami and president Donna Shalala have campaigned to have the NCAA throw out its controversial investigation, the NCAA has now lashed back and claims that UM is “grasping at straws.”…
LeBron James scored 24 points and Dwyane Wade had 22, leading the Heat to a 105-93 victory over the Chicago Bulls Sunday. The win moved Miami to 36-4, breaking the prior record of 35-6 set by the 2004-05 Heat.Chalmers and Birdman Andersen both scored 15 in the win, while Carlos…
Marlins fans can be forgiven for waking up every morning and thinking, “It can’t possibly get any worse than this.” The team has the worst record in baseball, the franchise is a rather un-hilarious joke and Loria is less popular than Castro. But oh, it can get worse. The consensus…
It’s almost time. The NBA playoffs are finally right around the corner, and the NBA has released their latest TV spot featuring none other than your hometown dick-puncher extraordinaire, LeBron James. The NBA has done a nice job recently with their ads, letting the game and its excitement speak for…
Get used to that headline up there, Miami. If Riptide were a lazier sort of operation, we’d copy it onto our desktop and recycle it over and over during homestands. One day after setting a new low attendance mark at Marlins Park, the Fish shattered that record last night by…
The 2013 Miami Heat is the winningest team in franchise history. Behind a solid performance from a lineup full of backups, the team beat the Wizards 103-98, winning for the 62nd time this season to surpass the 1996-97 Heat’s record. More important for this season, Miami also secured home-court advantage…
At the Marlins’ home opener on Monday, commentators threw around words like “respectable” and “surprising” to describe the announced crowd of 34,439 (minus a few troublemaking protesters, of course). By the season’s second game last night, though, the more appropriate adjectives were “embarrassing” and “unsurprising.”The Fish drew just 14,222 to…
In a game that featured two teams seemingly just going through the motions, the Miami Heat pulled out its franchise-record-tying 61st win of the season, equaling the 1996-97 squad that finished 61-21. LeBron James was the sole member of the Big Three to suit up, and he led the Heat with 28…
Like most lifelong Marlins fans, Dan Barton feels like team owner Jeffrey Loria spent the offseason repeatedly kicking him in the junk. So the 25-year-old and three of his friends showed up at last night’s home opener with some homemade signs and T-shirts — “Free the Marlins” and “F Jeff”…
Miami voters are one step closer this morning to getting the chance to weigh in on whether their tax dollars should go toward another big-ticket stadium project. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giminez announced that the city and the Miami Dolphins have agreed on a basic “framework” for a deal that would…
Hope you’re psyched for Opening Day, Miami! Your hometown Marlins are off to a roaring start. If by “roaring,” you mean they’re tied for the worst record in baseball, have scored just 14 runs in six games, and are so desperate for a first-baseman they held open auditions yesterday, that…
Sure, the ‘Canes might not have made it as far in the tournament as your Miami pride and/or bracket would have hoped, but luckily head coach Jim Larranaga still managed to storm through the competition in the race for the AP Coach of the Year award.See also:- Miami Hurricanes Basketball…
Well, we were being a bit facetious by trying to get excited about the Marlins going on the longest losing streak in MLB history, but it turns out the team is already on the brink of setting another dubious record. They could become the first team on record since at…
Sure, Chris Bosh had a live-tweeting camel at his birthday party last night, but the real highlight was the cake.We’ve seen crazy cakes at parties for LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, but leave it to Bosh to commission a tiny pastry version of himself riding a cake elephant…
Fallon Fox, a transgender mixed martial artist, has been cleared to fight in Coral Gables next month. The 36-year-old Fox was born male, married his high school girlfriend after getting her pregnant, and served in the Navy. Fox underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 2006 before launching her recent MMA career.That career,…
It’s one and done at FIU for head basketball coach Richard Pitino. According to ESPN, Pitino has been hired to fill the vacancy at the University of Minnesota after just one season as the Golden Panthers’ top dog.See also:- FIU Might Redesign Their Basketball Court to Look Like a Cheesy…
Ameen Najjar, the former NCAA investigator who botched the investigation into the University of Miami in the first place, kept in contact with Nevin Shapiro even after he was fired. In e-mails sent to Shapiro win prison, Najjar theorized that NCAA higher ups were trying to save Miami and apologized…
Former Rutgers coach Mike Rice is a sad little rage ball of a man who makes Bobby Knight look like a Zen Buddhist. The coach was fired yesterday after ESPN aired video of Rice hurling balls at players’ heads, repeatedly shoving his players during practice, and calling them slurs such…
Miami City Ballet is about to have its own experience with dancing with the stars. Former All-Star catcher Mike Piazza (who, you might recall, was a Florida Marlins once for approximately a week) will join the production Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on May 3. …
