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The University of Miami NCAA Investigation Is a Witch Hunt

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gives his take on the latest developments in the NCAA probe of the Miami Hurricanes.The NCAA is finally wrapping up its investiga ... More >>

Florida State vs. Northern Illinois: The 2013 Orange Bowl Haters Guide

Tonight, the Orange Bowl, once one of the premier college bowl games in the land, continues its sad slope into mediocrity by featuring the champion of the worst big conference that will actually exist in a few years (sorry Big East) and a BCS buster no one cared about or gave much credit to until pr ... More >>

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The Miami Hurricanes Are the New TMZ According to Al Golden

Much like a gossip blog, the Miami Hurricanes have been chugging along with scandals, crime and epic fails for the past few years, so head coach Al Golden pretty much hit it on the head when he said, "It's been TMZ since I've been here."

Poll: Should The Miami Hurricanes Sit Out A Bowl Game This Year?

The Miami Hurricanes aren't quite bowl eligible just yet, but last night they shook off a three-game losing streak and delivered an epic 30-12 smackdown to the Virginia Tech Hokies. The worst of their schedule is behind them (including loses to three teams in currently in the BCS top 10), and the Ca ... More >>

Bring the Stuffing

Uncle Luke: Nevin Shapiro's Assistant Sean Allen Needs to Stop Spinning His Story

Nevin Shapiro's Former Assistant Needs To Stop Talking About Canes

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke vents about one of the central players in the Nevin Shapiro University of Miami football scandal.With quarterback Stephen Morris s ... More >>

Hurricanes Defeat Georgia Tech 42-36 in a Slow Burn Thriller

If this game was a fancy four course meal it would have started out with the greatest soup ever. Seinfeld Soup Nazi level soup. You'd be content with eating nothing but this soup for the rest of your life. Then the second course comes around and the waiter serves you a salad topped with a giant heap ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Get Routed by Kansas State 52-13 in Worst Loss in Years

"Oh, down 14-0 on the road in the first quarter," some of us might have thought. "Whatever, we did it last week." If that gleeful optimism wasn't wiped away once you realized the 'Canes were playing a ranked opponent and not an ACC bottom dweller, Kansas State certainly reminded you of that fac ... More >>

Are We Excited About Miami Hurricanes Football Season? Can We Pretend to Get Excited?

It's not so great to be a Miami Hurricane.The cloud of an NCAA investigation looms over the program all because a pathetic, Ponzi scheming manchild decided it would be a real cool idea to buy the friendship of college kids. Much of the ballyhooed-but-ultimately-disappointing 2008 recruiting class is ... More >>

Hurricanes Coach Al Golden Will Not Let These New Yahoo! Sports Allegations Sully His Good Name

Another summer, another report from Yahoo! Sports making allegations about the University of Miami football program. The latest, which hit the web late Friday, are decidedly less dramatic than last summer's stories of hooker yacht parties and such. However, the newest allegations do implicate curren ... More >>

The Orange Bowl Could Become a Playoff Game Every Other Year

So here's the bad news: Miami will likely no longer be hosting the BCS Championship game every four years. Here's the good news: The Orange Bowl is no longer in danger of total irrelevance and will likely become part of a long-awaited college football playoff system. BCS commissioners have reached a ... More >>

Is the Annual Orange Bowl in Danger of Becoming Even More Irrelevant?

Let's not put the cart before the horse, but there are other Miami matters to think about besides whether or not the Hurricanes leap to the Big 12 or stay relegated to the ACC. And that's mostly the fate of the Orange Bowl. The game has already lost a lot of its luster in the BCS era, but could news ... More >>

2012 Miami Hurricanes Football Scheduled Release, and It's Painful

The Miami Hurricanes have a painful habit of front-loading the early weeks of their schedule with difficult games, and the just-released 2012 agenda is no different. The Canes start their season off with three of their first four on the road including tough trips to Kansas State and Georgia Tech.The ... More >>

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Al Golden May Renegotiate Contract, Making it Easier for Him to Leave

​Is Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden hoping to get out of his contract with the University of Miami if the NCAA hands down crippling sanctions related to the Nevin Shapiro scandal? His agent Brett Senior seems to hint so in an interview with CBSSports.com, and suggests that Golden may be look ... More >>

Which Florida College Team Will Make It Back Into the AP Top 25 First?

​The great college football blight in Florida continues as not a single team from the state is in the AP poll. Before the release of the week seven poll, that hadn't happened since 1982. Though, while the Big 3 -- University of Florida, Florida State, and University Miami -- now sit at three losse ... More >>

The Worst Weekend in Florida College Football History

​December 6, 1982 was the last time that neither the University of Miami, Florida State or University of Florida football teams were in the AP poll. Since then the college football teams of the state of Florida had gone on to dominated modern college football, winning 10 national championship betw ... More >>

FIU vs. UCF Actually Matters

​Unless you're an Owl or an Ibis, you're probably pretty happy with your Division I FBS Florida football team right now. UF, FSU, USF, FIU and UCF all enter week three with a 2-0 record, and all but one has big game this weekend.Sure, you might be revved up as the Gators take on their first SEC ch ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Fall to Renaissance Fair Jesters

​Never mind the embarrassment caused by the Nevin Shapiro scandal. Forget the suspensions. Put aside the looming thoughts of further NCAA sanctions. Let us be glad as Miami Hurricane fans that our team will never, ever face the humility of taking to the field dressed in something either looking li ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes vs. Maryland Terrapins: Well, It Could Be Worse

​As we all know college football is purely an amateur sport. The kind of mere amateur sport, of course, where a broadcast powerhouse can look at its TV schedule, realize it has a Labor Day hole, and coerce a team that historically guarantees good ratings to change its schedule so everyone can make ... More >>

Buzz Bissinger: Kill Miami Football Forever, Hold Congressional Hearings, Indict Shalala on Perjury

​Buzz Bissinger is a grumpy man who likes to yell about sports and who was once, and still occasionally moonlights as, a pretty damn respected journalist. Of course, in his post as a sports columnist for the Daily Beast, he mainly sticks to his angry, self-righteous sports-guy shtick and last nigh ... More >>

Randy Shannon's Name Keeps Popping Up as Possible Butch Davis Replacement

​In a shocking bit of fate, Butch Davis, the man widely credited for getting the Miami Hurricanes house back in order after NCAA sanctions, has been fired for dragging the UNC Tar Heels into their own NCAA investigation quagmire. The news cycle being what it is, sports writers are already offering ... More >>

Hurricanes Picked to Finish Second in ACC Coastal Division

Another year, another season of uncertainty for Miami Hurricanes football. Could this finally be the year the once-storied team makes it to its first ACC championship game? Reporters who cover the Atlantic Coast Conference don't think so and have picked Miami to finish second in its division.

Mark Whipple to be Named UConn Head Coach

​So, you're an offensive coordinator who (indirectly at least) gets fired from his job for making his fair share of screw ups that lead the team to never getting into a BCS bowl, yet somehow you end up as a head coach at a school that just got into a BCS bowl this season. Yes, former Miami offensi ... More >>

Stephen Morris Will Start for Hurricanes on Saturday

​Miami has become the land of great quarterback uncertainty, but unlike a certain professional team we'll have some deserved faith in who will be starting for our college team in their next game. True freshman Stephen Morris will make his third straight start for the 'Canes against Virginia Tech t ... More >>

'Canes Once Again Top Ranked Team in Florida; Stephen Morris May Start Again

Considering the uncharacteristic mediocrity of Sunshine State college football this year it's sort of a hollow achievement, but following the Hurricanes 35-10 dismantling of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets they're once again the highest ranked college football team in Florida. Fans can thank the sur ... More >>

Can FIU Beat Pitt, Too?

Who's ready for some Panther on Panther action?Florida International University's Golden Panthers may just be one of the best 0-3 teams in the nation. The Sun Belt dwellers have faced a swath of teams from the automatic qualifying conferences in their opening run, and in all three at one point held ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Take on Clemson Tigers in First ACC Test

Even before these season started we would have been happy for the Hurricane's first ACC championship and a win in the Orange Bowl to ice the cake. Maybe then we could start clearing room, in our minds at least, for that elusive sixth national championship. With their loss to Ohio State, ba ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Take on Pitt Tonight In Our Last Chance to Defend The Honor of the ACC

When it comes to football, the Atlantic Coast Conference has become a sad, depressing little thing this season. Given the sentiment in the sports universe lately it seems some would be happy to see the ACC downgraded to a flag football club. Granted, Virginia Tech's woes are most to blame for that s ... More >>

Miami vs. Ohio State: Why a Win Would Feel So Good (And a Loss Isn't the End of the World)

​It might take a crack squad of psychoanalysis to properly dissect all the emotions Canes Nation has been going through leading up to Tomorrow's game against Ohio State. To put it simply though, a win in this game would feel better and be more monumental than almost any other win the Hurricanes ha ... More >>

FedEx Will No Longer Sponsor the Orange Bowl

​A lot has changed for the Orange Bowl since 1989. Back then, Jimmy Johnson was coaching the Canes, and they blew out Nebraska 23-3 in the game that year. That was when it was played in the actual stadium known as the Orange Bowl and before all of this BCS business. Lately, the Canes have bee ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Edge Nets, but Dwyane Wade Injured

7th Graders from St. Thomas Catholic Middle School joined President Obama at the White House as he made a call to astronauts on the International Space Station yesterday. [NBCMiami]The State has decided to challenge a local judge's decision to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a child. [Herald]Just wh ... More >>

Orange Bowl: Yellow Jackets Are the Favorites, But Hawkeyes Will Bring More Fans

​Land Shark Stadium will host the 76th annual Orange Bowl tonight, with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets taking on the Iowa Hawk Eyes. Locally, the most exciting facet could be that this game might mark the last time Land Shark will be officially known by that terrible moniker (it'll revert back to ... More >>

Champs Sports Bowl: Miami vs. Wisconsin

​Champs Sports Bowl: Miami Hurricanes vs Wisconsin Badgers, 8 p.m. ESPNSince college football doesn't have anything resembling a meaningful post-season, the most you can ask for besides ending up in a BCS bowl is an entertaining season. And boy did Canes fans get it this year. There was the joy of ... More >>

Hurricanes Dominated in the NFL in the '00s

No college football team hit such heights and then sunk to such lows this decade than the Miami Hurricanes. From the 2001 team that won a national championship -- and is considered by most sane sports commenters as the best college team of the past ten years if not of all time -- to the 20 ... More >>

Canes Headed to Champs Sports Bowl; Iowa and Georgia Tech Set for Orange Bowl

​You might as well call this year's Champs Sports Bowl "The Shalala Bowl," because Miami's current President and University of Wisconsin's former Chancellor Donna Shalala might be the person most excited by the match-up. Maybe the only person? Yes, that means The Gator Bowl's nefarious scheme ... More >>

Canes Barely Beat Wake Forest: Slightly Embarrassing but Entertaining

Could you imagine if Wake Forest kicker Jimmy Newman actually made that 60-yard field goal at the end of the game? Yeah, it was nearly possible, but it could have happened. Or imagine if the Demon Deacons had gotten a little farther down field in their last drive and set Newman up for a more li ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Lost Two Things This Weekend: a Game to Clemson and All Hope

via Ragetoons​Never underestimate those Miami Hurricanes. Tell them their opening stretch against four ranked opponents is the gridiron equivalent of a minefield in which they might get blown away, and they'll rack up three wins. Tell them the rest of their season should be a breeze, and they'll s ... More >>

Football: Clemson Would Love to Upset Miami's Cake Walk

via 26 PigsClemson Tigers @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday 3:30 pm on ABC​While UCF was an easy win, watching their defense sack Jacory Harris six times wasn't a pretty picture. Especially considering that the on-going saga of Sam Bradford's shoulder was still fresh in the mind. It's not exactly great ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes: A Top Ten Team That Might Not Even Make It to Its Conference Championship Game

​For the first time this season, the Miami Hurricanes are ranked in the top ten of all of the major polls: eighth in the AP, ninth in the coaches', and tenth in the Harris Interactive and BCS standings. But, with the exception of LSU, we're the only team in the top ten that doesn't control its own ... More >>

The Cheap Seats

FedEx Orange Bowl boasts CompUSA Bowl-like matchup.

U Can Do It

Bleed orange and green today at the Orange Bowl