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LeBron's New Sneakers Refer to Him as "Two-Time Champion"

Despite the fact the Miami Heat are a hope, a prayer and two games away from their second championship of the LeBron James era, new pics of LeBron's next Nike sneaks supposedly leaked on the Internet today. The shoes refer to him as a "two-time champion."

The Miami Herald's History Is For Sale on eBay: Here's the Best, Worst and Weirdest

Last month, editors held the final afternoon news meeting at One Herald Plaza. A few minutes later, some moving vans parked in front of the building, and employees and movers packed up what was left and said goodbye to the paper's home for exactly 50 years. A few staffers stopped long enough to grab ... More >>

Miami Dolphins and County Agree To "Framework" On Sun Life Deal

Miami voters are one step closer this morning to getting the chance to weigh in on whether their tax dollars should go toward another big-ticket stadium project. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giminez announced that the city and the Miami Dolphins have agreed on a basic "framework" for a deal that would us ... More >>

One Herald Plaza: Thanks for the Memories

Close to 1,000 former Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald staffers descended on One Herald Plaza Wednesday afternoon. Reporters. Advertising executives. Printing-press mechanics. Bookkeepers. Publishers. Janitors. They all came to pay their final respects to the place that has defined journalism in thi ... More >>

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MegaCutz Gunfight in Allapattah Leaves Motorcycle-Riding Shooter Dead UPDATE

via MegaCutz.com​Miami is often compared with the Wild West, thanks to our frontier spirit, our home at the very edge of the country and, of course, the fact that the our town is full of crazy people with guns. The 305's latest Butch Cassidy-esque gunfight went down last night at the MegaCutz barb ... More >>

The Miami Herald Announces Its New Home: Former U.S. Southcom HQ in Doral

​The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Bisca ... More >>

Dummies Guide To Trashing Taxpayers: Interstate 95 Flyover

​Next week, Miami New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Rip ... More >>

Herald The Dragon: Miami's Only Daily Bets On Asian Gambling Giant

Miami Herald bets on ass kissing.​A dragon from the Far East has devoured the Miami Herald business section's soul. Last week, the newspaper's Business Monday pullout featured a five-page cover story and two side bars about the Genting Group, the Malaysian gambling conglomerate that wants to build ... More >>

Instead of Making Fun of Endangered Resources, Groupon Lets You Save One: The Miami Herald

​The glorious Miami Herald, once one of the proudest newspapers in the world. This is is Jimmy 'Dy-No-Mite' Walker. The reporters of The Miami Herald are in trouble. Their very culture is in jeopardy. But they still churn out an amazing spider bopper every Sunday, and since 20 of us bought at Grou ... More >>

Disgraced Businessman Claims He's Won $2 Million From The Herald in French Court

Revenge is best served at room temperature. With a platter of stinky cheese.​The Miami Herald has a ton of financial problems. Now they have to contend with an incessant Frenchman who claims he's driving a stake through the paper's heart in his homecountry's court. And once he's done buryin ... More >>

Miami Herald Now Asking for Donations

via The Herald​Perhaps after a long, stressful day of crunching numbers and contemplating layoffs, some Miami Herald executive decided to go for a walk to clear his head. This being Miami and all, he came across a beggar asking for spare change. Wait, he could have thought, Maybe we have it a ... More >>

The Miami Herald: Only U.S. Paper to Publish Climate Change Editorial (and the Sentence You Didn't Read)

via the GuardianThe logos of all the participating papers​In advance of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, which kicked off today in Denmark, 56 papers across the globe yesterday published a front-page editorial led by the Guardian calling for international action on the global warm ... More >>

Burle Marx Sidewalks in Downtown Miami a Mess

​Like thousands of other readers of the Miami Herald, I was charmed Friday when I read of the 20-year, multimillion-dollar effort to spruce up downtown sidewalks. World-famous artist Burle Marx designed about a mile of walkways similar to those on Rio's Copacabana for Biscayne Boulevard betwee ... More >>

Miami Herald Tries -- and Fails -- to Intimidate Random Pixels Blogger

via Random PixelsThe offending image on Random Pixels.​Classic David and Goliath: Small local blogger criticizes big powerful daily newspaper. Daily newspaper doesn't like it and sends a cease-and-desist order even though when the local blogger gave the daily praise they found no problem with it. ... More >>

Woman Who Set Herself on Fire Isn't Exactly the Sanest Person

​Regarding the woman who set herself on fire yesterday at the Mall of the Americas, this isn't exactly surprising: The woman's husband said she had been to Jackson Memorial Hospital three times recently for psychiatric help and has a history of mental problems, according to Miami Herald news ... More >>

Ray Sansom Doesn't Give It Up That Easy

screenshot of MiamiHerald.com​Perhaps if today was a different day this post would include such phrases as "gentle teasing," "a pinky finger and some spit," "ky jelly," and "latex glove and a vat of crisco," but we simply aren't in the mood. However, in case you weren't aware Ray Samson, the ... More >>

Watch Crispin Porter Bogusky Interns Rap, Hump Things in Coconut Grove

I never had an internship. No one would have me. (OK, I got offered one at the Miami Herald once, but I was still in my "I don't think I really want to go into journalism -- it's a dying field" mode. Which turned out to be ironic on so many levels.) So, I have always been curious about th ... More >>

Spam Allstars Trombonist Plays the Conch Trumpet

So the Miami Herald finally got a YouTube channel. They've had a talented team putting out high-quality, award-winning videos for a while now (big up Chuck Fadely) but somebody oughtta tell corporate that with sites like keepvid.com all their content can now be downloaded with the click of a butt ... More >>

Dead Shark in the Dirty Street

via N3T10's flickrSometimes Miami deserves its reputation as slightly Third-World. Police last night found a six-foot nurse shark lying in the middle of a street in Overtown. It apparently had been there since 7 p.m., but no one bothered to call the cops for two hours.  ... More >>

Record Breaking Temperature: How Hot Is It?

via Peasap's flickrJealousBoy, it's hot out. How hot is it? It's so hot that we're actually thinking of drinking LandShark lager to cool down. It's so hot that Father Cutié is glad that he doesn't have to wear that heavy black robe anymore.It's so hot that cats are pissed their owners no longer ... More >>

Fret Not, Uber-Bombers

Hollywood officials ain't got a clue about this crew.

Nachos and Beer at Tobacco Road for Miami Herald Tweetup

Jacob Katel Loaded nachos: chili, guacamole, sour cream, jalapenos, sharp cheddar for $6.95. Last night, Miami New Times had a couple beers and ate some nachos at the Miami Herald tweetup at Tobacco Road. A tweetup is where virtual friends, acquaintances, enemies, and nemesi meet up in real l ... More >>

Cat Killer's Latest Spree

The cat killer struck again yesterday. Not once, not twice, but five times. According to the Miami Herald, two cats were found at 6 a.m. Wednesday in an 82-year-old woman's yard in Palmetto Bay. They didn't belong to her. Luckily the woman's cat, Kitty, was inside that night. Another cat w ... More >>

Herald Editor to Chair Pulitzer Board

The Miami Herald's executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal has been appointed head of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here is your obvious joke: How is a man whose reign as head of the paper has been marked with a noticeable decline in quality supposed to head a board that judges the q ... More >>

Get Healthy With New Wonder Diet Of Fake Butter, Beef Jerky, And Pork Rinds

The Miami Herald Death Page, also known as the Nutrition section, this past week paid homage to chemical-packed butter blends, pork rinds, and other foods that will just make you feel naturally good all over. The Supermarket Sleuth compared the relative deliciousness and nutrition of Smart Balance, ... More >>

Herald Circulation Tumbles

via I think we should coin a term here on Riptide for when we blog about the miseries facing The Miami Herald. "Herald in a Barrel"? You know, how like in the great depression days people got so poor they had to wear barrels to hide their nudity? Ok, no. Heraldpocalypse? Anni-Herald-ation? Yeah, the ... More >>

"The Classroom Is Filled with Bats Who Are Going to the Bathroom on Their Heads!"

When we wrote that thing about former CBS4 reporter, Colombia lover, and apparent Miami hater Brian Andrews, we had no idea he had a news partnership deal with the Miami Herald. But he does, and here he is reporting on a Colombian classroom that "is filled with bats who are going to the bathroom o ... More >>

The Seattle P-I Moves Online Only, Let's Hope The Herald Doesn't Follow Quite Yet

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online only format. A fate that more and more are whispering could soon meet The Miami Herald. The P-I's transformation will be a bellwether as to whether or not a daily newspaper could successfully go online only. The New York Times indicates that the ... More >>

Herald Cutting 175, Ceases International Edition

What can be said about the newspaper meltdown that hasn't already been said? The Miami Herald announced today it's letting 175 people go, reducing the salaries of anyone making more than $25k, slimming page size down, and ceasing publications of the international edition.&nb ... More >>

Luther Campbell Speaks on Going to Jail

Miami-Dade CorrectionsOn Wednesday, the Miami Herald reported that Luther Campbell had been taken to jail Tuesday night "for allegedly owing $10,223.36 in a child support case." However, in an official statement yesterday, he claimed the money in question had nothing to do with the child support its ... More >>

News Roundup

The Miami Herald quietly upped its price for the first time in 18 years to $0.50 for the weekday edition. So wait they had massive layoffs, entered various story sharing agreements, and only now thought about raising the price to a wee bit higher than 1990 levels? [CBS4]Rod "I can parachute me ther ... More >>

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