Subject: College Basketball

• Is there a hex on UM athletics?

  December 13, 2006

• Get in on the Madness

  March 19, 2009

• Miami Heat Draft Recap: The Ghost of Harold Miner Has Been Exorcized

  June 27, 2008

• The Heat Is On (For Another Rocky Season?)

  September 15, 2008

• Maybe the Hurricanes Don't Completely Suck at Basketball

  Up until last night, the '09 edition of the University of Miami basketball team had been acting more like a UM football squad circa the 1990s, in all its cocaine-fueled, felonious glory. Except without all the victories. Best of both worlds, really. The school tossed point guard Eddie Rios off the team last month after he admitted to hiding more than $3,400 in stolen electronics -- including a Sony laptop, an Xbox 360, and 12 DVDs -- in a white pillowcase under his dorm-room desk. The C

  February 5, 2009

• A Fan's Notes

  December 15, 1993

• A Shaq is Born

  February 23, 1994

• News Roundup

  Local Carlos Alvarez recommends that the county add 13 hybrid buses to its fleet. [SFBJ] The final words of the music teacher who killed his wife and two daughters: "I love you," spoken to the 16-year-old son he shot at but missed. [AP] Some British guy was having a marvelous time over here in Florida opening one fraudulent business after another until the feds indicted him today. [SFBJ] After a shutdown at Turkey Point, FPL demanded nuclear reactors be brought back online in 12 hours. The top

  March 12, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalsThis was a depressing weekend full of sad news and pure evil. Like this guy who killed his estranged wife and three others at a party, and then himself. [Herald]Donte Stallworth, an NFL player, hit and killed a construction worker on 195. [AP] Got an exotic pet laying around you don't need anymore. Call for our free kit, then mail the animal back to us in our special envelope. We'll send you a check for cash in days. Er....wait, just give it to the Metrozoo. They'll take it no questions as

  March 16, 2009

• Bet on Black

  January 12, 2006

• Cane Collapse

  How UM's March Madness came to an end.

  March 27, 2008

• Who Needs a Coach Anyway?

  March 20, 2008

• Strap on Your Shin Guards

  September 13, 2007

• Isiah Who?

  April 23, 2009

• Penny for Your Backcourt?

  October 4, 2007

• Make Nice with the Noles

  August 31, 2006

• Shiver and Shoot

  November 23, 2006

• Full Court Pressure

  January 5, 2006

• Basket Babes

  December 9, 2004

• Effloresce and Deliquesce

  December 9, 2004

• BEST HEAT HOMEBOY

  May 13, 2004

• Smooth Operators

  May 30, 2002

• Best Career Move

  May 11, 2000

• Riptide

  March 16, 2000

• The Incredible Shrinking Roster

  March 2, 2000

• A Shakey Machine

  March 2, 2000

• King Leer

  June 3, 1999

• The Truly Amazing Game

  January 7, 1999

• Disqualifying the Dream Team

  June 18, 1998

• Dream Team

  March 5, 1998

• Ten Questions for Micky

  October 31, 1996

• Ivy League Hucksters!

  October 10, 1996

• Isiah Thomas Already Acting Like a Bit of a Dick

  Just a couple of weeks into his new gig as Florida International University basketball coach, Isiah Thomas is already beginning to exhibit his world-famous people-person charm.High school forward and Jacksonville native Chris Rozier had been offered a b-ball scholarship to FIU before Thomas got there. But apparently the new coach didn't like the cut of the kid's jib. As reported by the Jacksonville Times-Union this weekend, Thomas withdrew the offer just a few months before Rozier would've repor

  April 27, 2009

• The Ogg Man

  March 20, 1991

• Chicago Basketball Star Coaches J.V. in Broward

  May 28, 2009

• Isiah Starts His FIU Career with Some Good Ol'-Fashioned Whining

  Well, that didn't take long. via Wikimedia Commons​Ever since FIU shocked the basketball world earlier this year by landing Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas to coach its less than notable program, Riptide has been waiting for that first sweet whiff of the controversy that seems to follow Thomas wherever he walks. Looks like he's obliging us well before he steps on the court for his first game with the Golden Panthers. According to an ESPN report this morning, Isiah is thr

  August 26, 2009

• How Hoops Hero Rumeal Robinson Lost His Guns, Cars, Stripper Girlfriend... and Even his Mama's House

  Robinson blew $20,000 a night on strippers, his brother claims.With three seconds left in the game and his University of Michigan squad trailing Seton Hall by one point, 22-year old guard Rumeal Robinson lined up for two all-important free throws. The NCAA Division 1 basketball title hung in the balance. The zen-like junior fluttered one and then another shot through the net, sealing the 1989 championship for the Wolverines and forever etching Robinson's name into college basketball lore.

  October 9, 2009

• The Week That Was: Sex and Skates

  The good news: The roller-skating thief who tormented the Jacuzzi Boys was quickly captured. The bad news: This was not allowed to mature into a thoroughly hilarious, full-scale crime spree. If it appears your child might have a future in the NBA, you might just want to take a bit of time out of his hoops practice to teach him some fiscal advice, especially when it comes to your strip club budgeter, or he might end up like Rumeal Robinson. Julia Yarbough retired from TV and said "

  October 9, 2009

• Hoops hero Rumeal Robinson lost his Maserati, machine gun, and mom

  October 15, 2009

• Isiah Thomas 'Hurt' that Magic Johnson Would Get Upset About Having his Sexuality Questioned

  via We Are The Postman​Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas used to be such good friends they exchanged kisses on the cheek when the Lakers met the Pistons in the 1988 NBA Final, but in a new book due to be released November 4th Johnson admits that there's been bad blood between the two since the early 1990's. In "When The Game Was Ours", a book chronicling the Lakers-Celtics-Pistons rivalry that dominated the NBA in the pre-Jordan era co-written by Johnson, Larry Bird and sportswriter Jac

  October 22, 2009

• Isiah Thomas Promises A Scrappy Team For FIU Fans

  via Wikimedia Commons​Shortly before 7:30 p.m. last night, a sparse crowd gathered outside the entrance to the freshly renovated $5 million U.S. Century Bank Arena at Florida International University's south campus.A bald man with a goatee wearing a navy blue FIU t-shirt talking to three other Golden Panthers fans relayed the latest controversy involving the school's new celebrity head basketball coach Isiah Thomas. "Yeah Magic Johnson trashed him in his new book," the FIU alum explained. "But

  October 23, 2009