Subject: Florida Gators

• I Want To Gradulate Corrine Brown On Her Possible Senate Bid

  Rep. Corrine Brown strikes me as a relatively fearless politician. Which is why it's not out of character that she's thrown her hat in as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Florida's open senate seat, even if it means challenging front runner, family friend, and colleague Rep. Kendrick Meek. A poll she commissioned says she would have about equal name recognition, and support across the state as Meek. She expects to decide in the next six months.The p

  June 3, 2009

• Pahokee's Latest Football Superstar Tased, Arrested in Gainesville

  Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats from Pahokee and its Muck Bowl rival, Belle Glade, when he started all season for the Florida Gators as a true freshman at cornerback. As of this weekend, it looks like Jenkins has joined another, le

  June 2, 2009

• Michigan Leaves the Gators Maize and Blue

  January 2, 2008

• Hurricanes Make Their Dolphin Stadium Debut Tonight

  August 28, 2008

• Canes vs. Gators, Wowza!

  September 5, 2008

• UM Baseball: Down and Out

  The Miami Hurricane baseball team traditionally wears white baseball cleats at the College World Series in Omaha. But in this year, the Canes will save the money needed to purchase 31 pairs. On Sunday, the Florida Gators ended the team's season with a 16-5 win in Gainesville. Starting pitcher Iden Nazario surrendered five runs on four hits and two walks before even recording an out. The sophomore is usually effectively wild, but all he did Sunday was effectively warm up the Gator bats. UM C

  June 1, 2009

• Warren Sapp is Classy

  September 11, 2008

• UM Students Blame FSU For Crocodile Death

  October 7, 2008

• UM Football Players: Not as Brainy as Gators or Noles

  This season, the Miami Hurricanes came out way behind their in-state rivals, UF and FSU, by most on-the-field standards, losing to both teams. Now here's a little salt for those wounds: Both the Noles and the Gators made Higher Ed Watch's Top 25 for academic achievement, while the Canes went unranked. The list uses "all of the available public data on the academic performance of football players to compile its own ranking of the nation's college teams." Though that information is admittedly not

  December 10, 2008

• The Emerald Bowl Ain't That Exciting

  Your weekly football fix won't come until this weekend, but since Riptide will be quite quiet the rest of the week we'll be doing our trademarked very informative Football previews today!The Emerald Bowl: Miami Hurricanes vs California Golden Bears, Saturday Dec 27th 8pm on ESPNThe last time anyone really got excited about a UM bowl game was the team's string of appearances in the Peach Bowl back in '04 and '05. The second of which resulted in an embarrassing loss to LSU, the first of which

  December 24, 2008

• Gators Assistant Says Racism Has Stalled His Career

  Let's count the ways that Charles Barkley, as usual, is the wisest guy in the room. No, Riptide isn't applauding his DUI arrest a couple of days ago in Arizona. That was no good. We're talking about his outraged and much-argued assertion last month that his alma matter, Auburn, hired Iowa State coach Gene Chizik -- and his craptastic 5-19 record -- over Buffalo's Turner Gill, who has gone 8-5 at one of the nation's historically worst programs, because Chizik is white and Gill is black.Today, Flo

  January 6, 2009

• Rocketman Nelson Bets His Pipes on BCS Bowl

  Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal. Which made little sense, considering UM is in Coral Gables and UC Berkeley is in, duh, Berkeley. But why let that stand in the way of cheap publicity? The bet between senators Bill Nelson of Florid

  January 7, 2009

• Your So-Called National Champions Will Be Crowned Tonight

  The story for tonight's BCS National Championship game at Dolphin Stadium is twofold: that tickets aren't as hard to come by as in previous years (if you consider $600 tickets to a championship football game a bargain) and that something like 83 percent of gamblers are putting their money on Florida, who are five point favorites at this point.

  January 8, 2009

• News Roundup

  The federal government decided that the county can be treated like a big boy again, and gave back control of the housing agency. HUD had seized control in 2007. [Herald]Sorry, no split title. The Florida Gators finish #1 on the AP poll after last night's BCS win. By the way, I'm all for Miami hiring away Utah's coach. It worked so well for the Gators. [AP]Here's one way to deal with the budget crises: "Senate considers halting Florida Forever." Yeah, we've had enough of this whole being a state

  January 9, 2009

• UM Baseball Locke(d) Down

    The image of Miami Hurricane reliever Rene Guerra's glove getting knocked off of his hand by a crushed line-drive à la Charlie Brown perfectly summarized the Florida Gators' crushing victory Saturday. Briefly, and it was very brief, the Canes held a 2-0 lead, but the Gators rallied and never looked back en route to an 8-2 victory in Gainesville.   UM Coach Jim Morris, on a hunch, saved ace Chris Hernandez to face the top-seeded Gators, but the pitcher frustrated hims

  May 31, 2009

• Hurricanes Baseball: Shut down and shut out by URI

  Maybe it was a natural let-down after thoroughly dominating the 12th ranked Florida Gators over the weekend. Perhaps it was the fact that Qdoba provided the pre-game meal, which can't possibly be good per-game chow. Or maybe URI pitcher Eric Smith is just that great. Whatever the reason, the Rhode Island Rams blanked the Hurricanes 3-0 Tuesday, buoyed by Smith's heroic performance, which earned him a standing ovation both knowledgeable Canes' fans and visitors. Smith lasted eight innings, s

  March 4, 2009

• Penny for Your Backcourt?

  October 4, 2007

• Make Nice with the Noles

  August 31, 2006

• Work Stinks: Happy Labor Day!

  September 3, 2009

• Canes Debut on AP Poll at 20, FSU Knocked Off

  The AP poll is out, and the Miami Hurricanes are a ranked team once again, while the Florida State Seminoles have been totally knocked off from their former 18th spot. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes' next three opponents line up one after another in the poll, with Oklahoma at 13, Virginia Tech at 14, and Georgia Tech at 15. Of course, the Florida Gators remain on top after an easy 62-3 toppling of Charleston Southern. [ESPN: AP Poll]

  September 8, 2009