Subject: National Collegiate Athletic Association

• Ball to the Future

  March 26, 2009

• Get in on the Madness

  March 19, 2009

• Top Ten Sports Moments of the Year

  December 18, 2007

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

  June 27, 2008

• Hurricanes Make Their Dolphin Stadium Debut Tonight

  August 28, 2008

• What's That Cop Doing in Our Huddle?

  August 11, 2005

• New Times's top DVD picks for the week of May 2, 2006

  May 4, 2006

• Leveling the Field

  July 27, 2006

• 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

• Why Do UM Fans Care Less About Basketball Than George Bush Cares About Black People?

  For years the University of Miami has been a football and (to a lesser degree) baseball school. That's just how it is. The programs have nine national titles between them, and all of the school's other sports struggle for attention. Baseball remains strong (they were ranked #1 before heading into a disappointing off season), but football is ...I don't even want to go there. Meanwhile the basketball program is taking off, but the fans just don't seem to notice. Shandel Richardson of the Sun-Senti

  January 15, 2009

• Black Men Can't Swim

  April 8, 1992

• Whipple Will Whip Up Canes Offense

  According to the News-Press, University of Miami will at 1 p.m. officially announce Mark Whipple as their new offensive coordinator. Whipple was previously with the Philadelphia Eagles. I'd be a lot more excited about this if the Eagles didn't just get beatwn by the friggin' Cardinals, of all teams, but I'm sure that's not Whipple's fault. He was with the Eagles for only a season, and before that, he had stints with the Steelers and UMass (as head coach of the Division I-AA team). He'll be

  January 27, 2009

• 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

• Coker Eyeing Coaching Comeback

  Larry Coker got fired from his gig as University of Miami's football coach after a six-loss season, and left the school with a respectable winning percentage of .800 and a national championship. Shortly thereafter, he lost out on a coaching job at Rice and has held some analyst gig at ESPNU ever since.It seems he misses the on-field action and announced he applied to coach the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners football program.The what? The team doesn't exist yet but is scheduled to

  February 5, 2009

• Program Notes 52

  April 14, 1993

• Canes Need a Winning Streak, Starting with FSU

  After a series of heartbreaking overtime losses, the Canes have fallen to 4-7 in ACC play and desperately need to rack up a few more conference wins to keep those NCAA tourney hopes alive. The good news for UM is that the remaining ACC teams left to play are more than beatable. Tonight at 7, the Canes will play rival FSU in Tallahassee, after beating the team earlier in the season. The Seminoles are coming off of their worst loss of the season against Wake Forest, and a loss by either might dama

  February 18, 2009

• A Shaq is Born

  February 23, 1994

• News Roundup

  News5 people were shot outside a Miami Gardens night club, but it seems all will recover. [UPI]Is there anything left to cut? McClatchy, The Herald's parent company, plans to eliminate another 1600 jobs company wide. That's 15% of its remaining work force. [Bloomberg]All these recent cases of Medicare fraud are kind of Medicare's fault because they reinstated 18 medical equipment suppliers that were known to be shams. [Herald]PoliticsPresident Obama is reversing Bush's stemcell ban. [CBS4]Obama'

  March 9, 2009

• Well, The Hurricanes' Tournament Hopes Have Been Crushed

  Virginia Tech savaged your Miami Hurricanes Basketballing squad 65-47 in the first round of the ACC tournament. Which means their NCAA tourny hopes are dead. The 'Canes started the season regularly ranked in the top 25, but slipped off the rankings with in the first month and never really recovered. They proved they could hold their own against some of the ACC's top teams, but repeatedly failed to seal the deal. There's always next year I suppose, but Jack McClinton will be gone. So let's see Hu

  March 12, 2009

• Arizona, The Worst NCAA Tourney Bid Ever, Headed To Miami

  They didn't win 20 games. They finished .500 in a mediocre conference. Their best player is a goofy looking white guy. They lost five of their last six games of the season. Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsYet somehow the geniuses running the NCAA selection committee added up these facts and decided that the Arizona Wildcats deserved a bid to their hallowed 64-team tournament, which apparently no longer accepts mid-major schools. Naturally, they assigned the Wildcats to Miami, where we all&

  March 16, 2009

• Cats Maul Mormons, Incite Furry Fandom

  79% of male cheerleaders resemble cast members of "Saved by the Bell"

  March 23, 2009

• Last Time Unemployment Was This High It Was A Pretty Good Year For Miami

  Unemployment in America has reached 8.5%, the highest it's been since 1983! Egads! Remember those horrible times of 1983 -- I don't, because I was not born -- but it actually seems that 1983 was a banner year for Miami. Maybe history will repeat itself. The Miami Hurricanes won their first NCAA Division 1-A football championship, kicking off their run as "team of the 80's." The Miami Dolphins meanwhile drafted a quarterback known as Dan Marino, and finished first in the AFC East, four games ahea

  April 3, 2009

• Not-so-deep House

  July 27, 1995

• Trick or Heat

  A new-look Miami Heat kicks off its season on All Hallows Eve.

  October 30, 2008

• Against the Tide

  July 3, 2008

• Canes Got Sugar

  June 19, 2008

• 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

• 2010 Super Bowl Might Be the First One Online

  A few months ago, Miami hosted the first BCS Championship game to be shot in 3-D. Next year, the city might host the first Super Bowl streamed online. CBS, which will broadcast next year's game, is hoping to persuade the NFL to bring the big game into the Internet age. The network made $30 million off streaming the recent NCAA basketball championship and is eager to apply the model to the Super Bowl. The NFL hasn't agreed, but according to Business Week, organization execs were quite happy with

  April 16, 2009

• Get It While You Can

  October 11, 2007

• Cleats of Fury

  June 14, 2007

• Breakaway

  November 30, 2006

• Full Court Pressure

  January 5, 2006

• Basketball Jones

  November 25, 2004

• BEST HEAT HOMEBOY

  May 13, 2004

• Punt

  March 21, 2002

• Lord of the Onion Rings

  April 12, 2001

• Best Career Move

  May 11, 2000

• Riptide

  March 16, 2000

• The Incredible Shrinking Roster

  March 2, 2000

• A Shakey Machine

  March 2, 2000

• Thus Spake the Super

  January 27, 2000

• Gridiron Fever

  August 19, 1999

• News Roundup

  LocalMiami-Dade now has 10 confirmed cases of swine flu. Yeah, Swine Flu updates have gone from their own posts to the 'News Roundup.' [Herald]There was a hijacking at MIA! Actually, it was just a false alarm. [Herald]Mayor Carlos Alvarez has still not filled the top job at the County department that deals with hurricane preparedness and response, and hurricane season starts in less that a month. June's Unisex Salon was hit with a Molotov cocktail, and has experienced two ars

  May 12, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalThe Westboro Baptist Crazytown Travel Club for Bigots and Assorted Loonies is coming to town to protest the hell out of whatever really. [Herald]Four South Florida Chrysler dealerships got the axe. [CBS4]There's 63 cases of Swine Flu in Florida now, and yet no one really cares anymore. [CBS4]SportsMarlins pick up another loss, which means they are now under .500, which means I am slowly going to stop caring about this team. [NBCMiami]UM mens tennis got ousted from the NCAA tourney by UCLA.

  May 15, 2009

• News Roundup

  Local Father Cutié's special lady pal issued a statement to the press letting everyone know she did not set him up. [CBS4] Miami-Dade teachers have agreed to two unpaid days off in order to help balance the district's budget. [Herald] Ironically, teachers have to pay more to be certified. [CBS4] Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson is entering the race for Kendrick Meek's house seat. [SFLCN] An accused murderess on trial for taking part in killing her boss, a psychiatrist, and his son exe

  May 20, 2009

• Canes Falter in ACC Tournament

  Being a Hurricanes fan is a bit tough at the moment, but there's always baseball. Oh, there will always be the baseball team. One of the greatest programs in college baseball are perennial contenders, but things haven't worked out that well this year. A 36-20 record is nothing to sneeze at, but it's a far cry from last years showing when the Canes won their first ever conference championship and went into the NCAA tournament ranked number one. But for a team that graduated a

  May 22, 2009

• Chicago Basketball Star Coaches J.V. in Broward

  May 28, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalA racial slur was spray panted on a poster for North Miami mayoral candidate Andre Pierre. [Herald]More details on the MDC cuts. [Herald]A Bal Harbor police officer has allegedly confessed to sex crimes involving a seven year-old girl. [CBS4]The state is calling in Boba Fett, Dog, and other bounty hunters to control the python population in the Everglades. [Herald]SportsThe AAA will now have a giant, electronic, Times Square-style billboard covering it. [SFBJ]NCAA baseball action kicks off

  May 29, 2009