Bowl Championship Series

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

Orange Bowl Slammed By Anti-Smoking Groups For Camacho Cigars Sponsorship

​Cigars are as Miami as white guayabaras, cafecitos and questionable uses of teal and pink, but a national group is slamming the Orange Bowl this week for including the Calle Ocho favorites in the bowl week festivities.The American Cancer Society has sent a letter to NCAA and Orange Bowl offi ... More >>

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"

​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-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 >>

USC's Blake Ayles Transferring to Miami in Order to Win National Championship

​After a string of initial set backs, new Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden and his team have turned around recruiting. Now the team has snagged Blake Ayles, who was rated the second-best tight end recruit in the nation in 2008 by Rivals.com, away from the University of Southern California. He ... More >>

Dolphins to Keep Sparano as Coach: Well, This is an Awkward Mess

Tony Sparano​Tony Sparano will live to see another season as the Dolphins head coach as talks with Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh have apparently fallen through, according to ESPN. Which basically makes the Dolphins looks like the awkward laughing stock of the NFL. No one comes off looking good. Spar ... 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 >>

The Miami Caliente shows blood, sweat, and lace in the Lingerie Football League

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 >>

Scott Rothstein's drunken adventure

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

Billions of taxpayer dollars feed the frenzy.

Super Battle of the Bands

Billions of taxpayer dollars feed the frenzy.

It'll End in Tears

Billions of taxpayer dollars feed the frenzy.

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 ...

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

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

Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin

Letters

Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin

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.