Florida Panthers

Mohawk Gaz Sells Ads on His Giant Hairdo

Gasmy Joseph AKA Mohawk Gaz Advertises On His Hairdo

Thirty-three-year-old Pompano Beach resident Gasmy Joseph wears a supertall Mohawk. About a year ago, an epiphany struck when he wanted to spread the word about a buddy's birthday party: Why not advertise it on the hairdo? In terms of innovation, Thomas Edison's light bulb now looks like a piece of ... More >>

Miami Mascot Madness Tournament: Vote in the Final Four

​The first round of voting in our Miami Mascot Madness Tournament is now in the history books. On one side of the bracket we had two big blow outs. On the other side we had two face-offs that went down to the wire, with each mascot pulling ahead at one point or another. Now its time to find out th ... More >>

Miami Mascot Madness Tournament: Vote For Your Favorite Sports Mascot

​It's an exciting time in South Florida sports. Both the Heat and Panthers appear to be making strong runs at the playoffs. The UM Women's Basketball team is sure to be a threat in the official March Madness (and the men might make it too). The Dolphins are in the midst of a critical off season. A ... More >>

Florida Panthers Player Krys Barch Suspended for Bananas "Racial Slur"

​When reports surfaced Saturday that Florida Panthers enforcer Krys Barch was ejected from the game for using a racial slur against Montreal Canadiens player P.K. Subban, a Canadian-native with Jamaican parents, everyone just sort of assumed Barch had dropped a N-bomb or something equally vile. Ba ... More >>

Heat to Take on Mavericks on Christmas Day as NBA Deal Tentatively Reached

​It's a holiday miracle! NBA players and owners have reached a tentative deal to save the NBA season. Training camp and the free agency period will begin on December 9, with the first games to start on Christmas day. That means that the previously scheduled December 25 match up of the Heat vs. the ... More >>

Could FIU Football Go Undefeated This Season?

​Florida's two best Division I FBS teams outside the big six conferences (or what's left of them -- sorry, USF) entered FIU Stadium undefeated this past Saturday. Only one left with a perfect record. The Golden Panthers engineered a mild 17-10 upset over UCF and remained hot after last w ... More >>

People & Places Readers' Poll Winners

​Florida's two best Division I FBS teams outside the big six conferences (or what's left of them -- sorry, USF) entered FIU Stadium undefeated this past Saturday. Only one left with a perfect record. The Golden Panthers engineered a mild 17-10 upset over UCF and remained hot after last w ... More >>

Vancouver Riots: At Least Miami Heat Fans Didn't Burn The City Down After Dallas Won

via You Tube​Professor Charles Barkley, a noted sociologist and all around portly fellow, recently proposed a hypothesis that the Miami Heat "have the worst fans."Chuck, you might want to watch some video of what went down in Vancouver last night. Because we're pretty sure that burning your city's ... More >>

ESPN Mag Rankings: Heat Treat Their Fans Better Than Rest of SoFla Teams

​Every year ESPN the magazine offers up their "Ultimate Standings" of all 122 teams in the four major sporting leagues. Unlike most standings you'd find coming out of ESPN though, this doesn't deal strictly with on-the-field success. Instead is focuses on  "how much MLB, NBA, NFL and NH ... 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 >>

Miami Sports Teams that Pay Players the Most Suck the Least

​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

Florida Panthers Are Just Whoring Themselves Out Any Way They Can

Next season's Panther's uniforms?​Just in case you thought corporate douchebaggery couldn't get any worse than the carousel of inane names for the ex-Joe Robbie Stadium -- Landshark Stadium anyone? -- the Florida Panthers are here to remind us that the limits of corporate whoredom are ever-expandi ... More >>

Miami Blue Butterfly On Verge of Extinction But Feds Haven't Done Anything About It

​The Miami blue butterfly is one of the very few species that is only found in Southern Florida, but finding them have become increasingly rare. Once thought to have been completely killed off by Hurricane Andrew, a small population of about 50 was found in 1999. Efforts have been made to grow the ... More >>

Miami Dolphins Promotion Includes Free Yarmulke

via SunSent​Jews love a deal (not to imply any sort of hurtful stereotype, because let's be honest people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds love a deal. There is something wrong with you if you don't). Jews also love the Miami Dolphins (again regardless of identity, there is something wrong ... More >>

Panthers Exploit Dolphins History to Sell Tickets

​The Florida Panthers, a professional team that plays a sport known as hockey, could make history this season! If they miss the playoffs, they'll have the record for most consecutive seasons in the NHL to miss the playoffs. Ten in a row, baby!Yeah, the Panthers don't have much proud history, so in ... More >>

Florida Sports Arenas Flunk Health Inspections

Grilled chicken sandwich at Sun Life...is it safe?​ESPN's Outside the Lines has collected health department inspection reports for food and beverage vendors at 107 MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL sports arenas in the United States and Canada. Each arena's percentages of "critical violations" were tallied - ... More >>

Diversions Readers' Poll Winners

Grilled chicken sandwich at Sun Life...is it safe?​ESPN's Outside the Lines has collected health department inspection reports for food and beverage vendors at 107 MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL sports arenas in the United States and Canada. Each arena's percentages of "critical violations" were tallied - ... More >>

Ponzi playboy Sean Healy didn't invest money he swindled; he blew it in a hurry

Grilled chicken sandwich at Sun Life...is it safe?​ESPN's Outside the Lines has collected health department inspection reports for food and beverage vendors at 107 MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL sports arenas in the United States and Canada. Each arena's percentages of "critical violations" were tallied - ... 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 >>

Watch the Injury of the Year: Panthers Goalie Bashed in the Face by His Enraged Teammate

The Panthers aren't exactly having the finest season on ice. They choked away their third game in a row last night, dropping to 10-12-4, good for the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference.But it wasn't the 4-3, last-second loss to the Thrashers last night that stung like a Paula Deen ham to t ... More >>

Miami Doesn't Care About Sports, Maybe Because Our Teams Suck

Men's Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. ... More >>

New Year, New Coach, New Attitude

Men's Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. ... More >>

Hulk Hogan Don't Know Best

Men's Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. ... More >>

Let’s Not Cut Our Own Guys

Men's Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. ... More >>

The Whiney One

We want the Panthers to give the Penguins a smackdown.

The Party Crasher - Grand Opening Party of The Park Sports Club

We want the Panthers to give the Penguins a smackdown.

What Is in a Name?

’Tis the preseason to witness the Panthers’ newest pick

Hone on the Rangers

’Tis the preseason to witness the Panthers’ newest pick

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Selected events for the week of December 8, 2005

Fire and Mimes

Selected events for the week of December 8, 2005

Go, Marlins!

Selected events for the week of December 8, 2005

Time Keeps on Slipping ...

Selected events for the week of December 8, 2005

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Selected events for the week of December 8, 2005

Beach Heads

Architects vie for granular greatness

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Architects vie for granular greatness

In the Land of the Fickle Fan

With four professional teams in South Florida, sports radio should be big business

Best Trade

Radek Dvorak for Mike Vernon

Riptide

So that's why it's called copy!

The Puck Factory

Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe

The Van Buren File

From deep within the Miami Police Department comes a convoluted tale of sketchy videotape, allegations of official misconduct, and two tickets to the Stanley Cup finals

Best Hockey Shop

Hockey World

The Company He Keeps

Hockey World

A Bull Market

Interested in Miami's new minor-league hockey team? Prepare to shell out big bucks.

Calendar for the week

Interested in Miami's new minor-league hockey team? Prepare to shell out big bucks.

Calendar for the week

Interested in Miami's new minor-league hockey team? Prepare to shell out big bucks.

The Uneven Bars

When put to the test, many local sports-theme establishments don't live up to the hype

Micky Arison Is a Greedy Corporate Pig . . . and Other Observations About Backroom Politics and Big-Time Sports

When put to the test, many local sports-theme establishments don't live up to the hype

Prose and Cons

When put to the test, many local sports-theme establishments don't live up to the hype

A Wayne-Win Situation

Gaining control of the Miami Arena was the easy part. Now Mr. Blockbuster just has to persuade the Heat to stick around.