Bowl Championship Series

Five Players the Dolphins Should Take in Tonight's NFL Draft (and How They'll Screw It Up)

With the NFL's annual tradition of wealthy, white-haired men selecting young, able-bodied (mostly) black men to perform physical endeavors for comparatively negligible pay aimed at aggrandizing the wealthy men's financial station, we're taking a look at who the Dolphins SHOULD pick -- and how they'l ... More >>

NFL Would Contribute $150 Million to Sun Life Stadium Face-Lift

As the county commission meets today to consider a proposed deal to renovate Sun Life Stadium, news comes that the NFL has decided to chip in $150 million of the estimated $480 million it would cost to Flip This House, leaving the county and the Dolphins with $350 million to cover. The deal als ... More >>

Sun Life Stadium Upgrade: Miami-Dade Taxpayers Should Fund It

The Miami Dolphins Deserve Our Help

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 comes to the defense of the Miami Dolphins.I'm with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross on this one. The county and state should gi ... More >>

Stephen Ross' Four Biggest Lies About Sun Life Stadium Renovations

On Monday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross shucked his $400 million plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium, the venue the city's NFL franchise has called home for the past 26 years. During a press conference showing off a bunch of nice rendering of how the stadium will look with 3,600 new seats closer ... More >>

Hurricanes Have 25-1 Odds to Win Next Year's Championship, According Vegas

Last night's BCS game is in the history books, but Las Vegas never sleeps. Two odds makers are already out with betting lines for next year's championship, and they've both given the Miami Hurricanes 25-1 odds. Those are by no means spectacular odds, but better than one might expect for a team that ... More >>

Nick Saban Says Coaching The Dolphins Was Hard Because All Those NFL Rules Are Just Too Fair

Nick Saban won his third BCS championship with Alabama in four years last night by steamrolling through Notre Dame is a mind numbingly boring game, but, because the game was held in Miami, the local press corp gon the chance to grill him once again on his controversial stint as the Dolphins head coa ... More >>

The Real Reason Nick Saban Took That Dolphins Job? Huizenga Gave His Wife a Big Check

The reason your hairs are standing up on your neck? Former Dolphins coach Nick Saban is back in town. He returns tonight to the same stadium where he coached the Miami Dolphins through two unremarkable season to coach Alabama, the team he left for, in the BCS championship. It wasn't quite a LeB ... More >>

BCS Championship in Miami: Official Party Guide

The BCS Championships pits the Alabama Crimson Tide against Notre Dame's Fighting Irish this Monday, January 7, at Sun Life Stadium. That means that tens of thousands of fans will fly in to Miami in the hopes of scoring a ticket (which are going for around $800 on some reseller's sites), only to hun ... More >>

North vs. South

The BCS Championship Game Is a Miami Fan's Worst Nightmare

Come January 7, either the Alabama Crimson Tide or the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will be hoisting the championships trophy in the middle of Sun Life Stadium. For local sports fans, either way it will be a stomach churning affair. Could there have been a more nightmarish mashup for fans of the two te ... More >>

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 >>

Reader mail: "MAM board members should be indicted for stupidity"

Nick Saban Stepped Over a Convulsing, Collapsed Dolphins Star While in Miami

​With the Miami Dolphins having another odd season and former head coach Nick Saban once again headed to a BCS championship game with Alabama, you'd be forgiven for wondering what could have been if Saban didn't sneak out of town with pants firmly on fire in 2007. Though, maybe we're better off, c ... 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 >>

Reader mail: Nevin Shapiro is a "little Napoleon"

Miami-Dade County Will Be the Only Place Where All Four Big Sports Trophies Have Been Handed Out

We've only won three, but all four have been handed out in Miami-Dade. ​Miami is home to a couple of neat sports stats, but The Sun-Sentinel points out we're about to become home to another: the first and only county in America where the championship trophies of all four major sports leagues have ... More >>

LeBron James Defends Jim Tressel

​LeBron James may be on the brink of winning Miami an NBA Championship. Man that'll feel almost as good as that time the Miami Hurricanes beat Ohio State in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl to take home the BCS Championship. Oh wait...James is seriously testing our Miami sports fan heart strings by choosing t ... 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 >>

Barf: Nick Saban Statue to be Erected

via RammaJammaYellaHamma/Wiki Commons by CC2.0​Is that all Nick Saban wanted? A statue? Because, the former Dolphins coach is actually going to get one in Alabama after leading the Crimson Tide to a BCS Championship. We could have erected a statue of you Saban! You didn't have to sneak out of town ... More >>

Top Ten of the Decade: Miami Sports Moments

Riptide 2.0's regular sports commentator and FinsNation blogger Chris Joseph looks back at the top ten Miami sports moments of the decade. Low points like the Miami Dolphins crappy performance and the after-thought known as the Florida Panthers didn't make the cut. Sorry. ​10. Canes BaseballCoach ... 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 >>

News Roundup: Flood Warning Issues

The SEC is auditing the City of MIami and may be questioning some of its budget practices. [Herald]Here's another reason to avoid Hialeah: they're installing their first red light cameras starting by December 1st. [CBS4]Police in Miami Gardens, which still has one of the highest crime rates n the co ... More >>

Gators Refuse to Schedule Canes

Florida Gators dominance is getting pretty boring for college football fans (apparently even for Gators fans), but UF athletic director Jeremy Foley is still set on making sure UF's non-conference schedule remains a cake walk for years to come, even if it means never playing one of the team's o ... 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 >>

2010 Super Bowl Might Be the First One Online

A few months ago, Miami hosted the first BCS Championship game to be shot in 3-D. Next year, the city might host the first Super Bowl streamed online. CBS, which will broadcast next year's game, is hoping to persuade the NFL to bring the big game into the Internet age. The network made $30 million ... More >>

Glenn Straub's Latest Last-Minute Pitch for an Overtown Marlins Stadium Makes Far Too Much Sense

With the Miami Dade Commission set to vote this afternoon on whether to blow hundreds of millions of your tax dollars during the worst recession in a generation on a new Marlins Stadium (not that we've got a stance on this thing or anything), downtown developer Glenn Straub sent a new memo to commi ... More >>

Two Senators Declare They're "Gonna Be High as a Kite by Then"

Keeping up the grand tradition of politicians making friendly wagers on sports games, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson made a bet with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn over the BCS Championship. Instead of a traditional bet, the two decided the loser would have to sing for the winner. Nelson of course won, and Cob ... More >>

Smash Mouth

Pro Bowl: Reminder That UM Used to Have a Good Football Team

It's hard to remember now, but what seems like eons ago, the University of Miami had the best (no questions asked) football program in the nation. In fact they had more alum selected to play in the NFL Pro Bowl this season than any other school. Seven former Miami players, including Andre Johnson, R ... More >>

South Florida's Stadium Madness

Billions of taxpayer dollars feed the frenzy.

Top Ten Sports Moments of the Year

Super Battle of the Bands

On a Rolle

The time is now for Miamian Ahsha Rolle, who’s not at NASDAQ

It'll End in Tears

Off-Road Riding

Basketball Jones

Toxic Jock Syndrome

Hank Goldberg offers Miami sports fans more than tired talk-radio shtick; the journalist backs up his on-air diatribes with hard facts and common sense

BEST SPORTS VENUE

Orange Bowl

Fruit for Thought

For 21 years, the King Mango Strut has been a countercultural rebuke to Miami political chicanery

On the Eve of 2003 ...

Letters from the Issue of March 28, 2002

More debate over athletics versus academics

Punt

That's what UM administrators did rather than answer questions about athletes and academics

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin

King Mango Madness

Letters

The Days of Whine and Poses

Warning! Danger! The Eagles have landed...again.

Money Well Spent

Airport parties are first-class affairs, as long as you're a political player

Brother, Can You Spare A Marlboro?

The Sugar Bowl could bring a sweet reward -- national championship number 5 -- to UM players. But mascot Sebastian the Ibis will be fighting a private war.