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Telly Lockette Makes University of South Florida a Contender

Al Golden Isn't Going to Wisconsin

Fair not, 'Canes fans. Despite another round of rumors that a school was interested in poaching head coach Al Golden, the man in the orange tie has once again reconfirmed his commitment to the Coral Gables school. Rumors were floating as early as last week that Golden was being considered in th ... More >>

Butch Davis Doesn't Want that FIU Job Anyway

Sorry Golden Panthers fans, your team won't be getting former Hurricanes coach Butch Davis. After the shocking firing of head coach Mario Cristobal, rumors emerged that Davis was the school's top choice. Which made a certain amount of sense, considering Davis has a long history with FIU's Athle ... More >>

Butch Davis Top Candidate For FIU Job?

Perhaps FIU's surprise firing of Mario Cristobal this morning makes a little bit more sense now. Butch Davis, the man who helped rebuild the Miami Hurricanes in the late '90s, is rumored to be the top candidate for the job.

Donna Shalala Must Ease Up on UM Football

Ray-Ray Armstrong Sues to Get Back on Miami Hurricanes

Ray-Ray just won't go away-way.>Last month Hurricanes senior safety Ray-Ray Armstrong was kicked off the team. The school still hasn't officially explained why, but he may have had something to do with either tweeting about improper meetings with a booster or a dinner he took with a friend who worke ... More >>

Ray-Ray Armstrong Kicked Off Hurricanes Football Team

Senior safety Ray-Ray Armstrong has been kicked off the University of Miami football team for good. The school has not released an official reason why, but the move follows reports that he openly discussed interactions with a booster on Twitter. Apparently he didn't get the memo that the team is cur ... More >>

Report: Grant Hill Interested in Signing With Heat

Well, South Florida is a retirement hot spot, so maybe it makes sense that all of these NBA veterans are showing interest in joining the Heat. Plus, the pre-retirement package comes with a pretty good shot at a ring or two.Following 36-year-old Ray Allen's decision to jump ship and take his talents ... More >>

Kevin Olsen, 7th Best QB Prospect In Nation, Commits to Miami Hurricanes

Its a sad, sad day in the Miami sports world. The Marlins got stomped last night. Longtime Dolphin Yeremiah Bell is now a Jet. And, well, the less said about the Heat the better. So, lets try and focus on a tiny bit of good news for the only team that truly matters: the Miami Hurricanes.The team jus ... More >>

Frank Martin Hired at South Carolina, Admits Paying Ex-High School Players in Miami

Finally, Frank Martin has become the head basketball coach of... South Carolina? According to news reports, Martin is leaving Kansas State after five years to take over the struggling Gamecocks. The move brings Martin closer to his native Miami, where he coached high school ball for 15 years, but it ... More >>

Coconut Grove Over South Beach? 50 Reasons That's Just Dumb

​As you may or may not know, Short Order is having a little Snackdown! Over the next few weeks, we will be pairing eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods and pitting one against the other in an NCAA-bracket sort of tournament. The first entry, last Thursday, was Coconut Grove versus South Beach.Admittedly ... More >>

National Signing Day: Hurricanes Nab No. 1 CB, Could Finish with Top Ten Class

​National signing day started out with a bang for Al Golden and his Miami Hurricanes. Tracy Howard, the number one cover cornerback in the nation and a Miramar High star, surprisingly picked the U over both FSU and UF after only making his first official visit to the school last weekend. The coup ... More >>

Al Golden Gets Four Year Contract Extension After Losing to BC

Last year the Miami Hurricanes finished a pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and fired their head coach. This year they finished yet another pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and ga ... More >>

Shenise Johnson: Icy Hot

Al Golden's Agent Says He's Still Working on Bringing a National Championship to UM

​Despite being quoted by CBSSports.com yesterday saying that the University of Miami wants to renegotiate Al Golden's contract, and implying that the coach wouldn't be above abandoning ship if the team was hit by crippling NCAA sanctions, Golden's agent Adam Senior now says that Golden will honor ... More >>

Adam Meyer: Florida's gambling king shouldn't have bet on Nevin Shapiro

Luther Campbell Sues Nevin Shapiro

Don't call him "Lil Luke."​Uncle Luke is going after the convicted Ponzi schemer who proclaimed himself "Lil Luke." Today, Luther Campbell followed through on his promise to sue Nevin Shapiro for defamation.In Yahoo! Sports' investigative report on rampant booster violations he committed at the Un ... More >>

Reader mail: "Global warming no longer exists!"

Jacory Harris is Sorry He Was Such a Pain in Donna Shalala's Ass

​So, the University of Miami has decided its time to let Jacory Harris say words in public again, and trotted their starting quarterback in front of the media today after he was suspended for the Maryland game after admitting he took about $140 in impermissible benefits from Nevin Shapiro. Har ... More >>

Shanna Marie McLaughlin, Playboy Model Behind UCF Controversy, Busted for Carrying Gun on Plane

Shanna Marie McLaughlin in better days.​Have you heard the one about the well-endowed Playboy model who got a big-name football coach in hot water after posing racily in his locker room -- and then topped it off by getting arrested for carrying a loaded gun into an airport? No? You'll be shocked t ... More >>

LeBron James Defends Jim Tressel

​LeBron James may be on the brink of winning Miami an NBA Championship. Man that'll feel almost as good as that time the Miami Hurricanes beat Ohio State in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl to take home the BCS Championship. Oh wait...James is seriously testing our Miami sports fan heart strings by choosing t ... More >>

How Did Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson Know About Bin Laden's Death Before Everyone Else?

​Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is a powerful man. The part-time Miami resident has an NCAA football championship ring with the '91 Hurricanes, the best opening for a movie in April with his latest flick, Fast Five, and apparently access to top-secret information long before the general publi ... More >>

Report: Old New Times Investigation Keeping Miami From Calling Frank Martin

​We've theorized that the main reason University of Miami hasn't called basketball coach Frank Martin yet is because of his scandalous past at a Miami High School. Well, today an off-the-record source tells The Miami Herald that those skeletons in the closet may very well in fact be the main reaso ... More >>

Bobby Kent Claims He Invented "Da Da Da Da Da Da Charge!" And Wants to Cash In

​In 1978, Bobby Kent was the musical director for the San Diego Chargers football team when he composed a song he called "Stadium Doo Dads" or "Kent's Composition". According to our new front-runner for best lawsuit of the year: "The operative and most commonly known part of Kent's Compositi ... More >>

FIU's Garrett Wittels Takes Swing at Extending Hit Streak Tonight, Despite Controversy

Photo by C. StilesGarrett Wittels, FIU shortstop shouldering criminal charges and a 56-game hit streak​The last time Garrett Wittels swung his bat in an NCAA game, he went 3 for 5 with two RBI. It was his 56th straight game with at least one hit, two shy of Robin Ventura's all-time college record. ... More >>

USC's Blake Ayles Transferring to Miami in Order to Win National Championship

​After a string of initial set backs, new Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden and his team have turned around recruiting. Now the team has snagged Blake Ayles, who was rated the second-best tight end recruit in the nation in 2008 by Rivals.com, away from the University of Southern California. He ... More >>

Auburn Shoots Down Oregon Ducks, Wins National Championship Thanks to Wes Byrum and 12 other Florida Recruits

auburntigers.cstv.comSoFla's own Wes Byrum won a national championship last night... with Auburn.​To the chagrin of just about everybody in Florida, the Auburn Tigers defeated the Oregon Ducks last night 22-19 to capture the NCAA national championship.The "experts" might say that Auburn outlasted ... More >>

Rumeal Robinson, Prison-Bound NBA Baller, Screwed Over a Miami Mom Too

​Rumeal Robinson, the onetime University of Michigan hero who spent six seasons in the NBA, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for masterminding a bank fraud. Even in the days leading up to his sentencing, the consummate huckster was trying to raise cash from old friend ... More >>

Letters from the issue of December 30, 2010

If Tony Sparano Gets Axed, Should the Dolphins Go After a Superstar Coach? History Says No

​It's not official yet, but another Florida football team may soon be on the hunt for a new head coach. Following the Fin's friggin' seventh home loss of the season, speculation is brimming that Tony Sparano may soon be sleeping with the fishes, professionally anyway. Which means rampant replaceme ... More >>

FIU Football: Our Polish Correspondent Invades the Pizza Bowl

FacebookRiptide's Polish football correspondent, Jacek Urbanczyk​Who says an alt-weekly's blog can't have a foreign correspondent? Meet Jacek Urbanczyk, self-described "football journalist from Poland" and Riptide's stringer for the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro: Miami's Caligula

Report: Mark D'Onofrio to be Named Hurricanes' Defensive Coordinator

​Al Golden isn't the only coach from Temple making the move to Miami. According to several reports out of the Philadelphia media, it seems that his defensive coordinator Mark D'Onofrio is likely to join him. Going solely by this year's ranking, D'Onofrio is a pretty good choice. The Miami Hurrican ... More >>

Mississippi State's Dan Mullen Is The One Smearing Cam Newton

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Today, Luke comes to Cam Newton's defense.There is a campaign to destroy the reputation of Auburn Tigers quarterback Cam Newton, ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Take on Clemson Tigers in First ACC Test

Even before these season started we would have been happy for the Hurricane's first ACC championship and a win in the Orange Bowl to ice the cake. Maybe then we could start clearing room, in our minds at least, for that elusive sixth national championship. With their loss to Ohio State, ba ... More >>

Seantrel Henderson Coming to the Miami Hurricanes

Let's put aside our excitement over a prized athlete deciding to come to Miami -- to get excited about a prized athlete deciding to come to Miami! Seantrel Henderson, perhaps the top recruit in the class of 2010, has decided to attend the University of Miami, according to the New York Times. And tha ... More >>

Seantrel Henderson Reportedly Leaning Toward Ditching Trojans for Hurricanes

​The recruiting saga of offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson, one of the highest-rated players of the class of 2010, is still staggering along five months after national signing day. That means only bad news for the sanction-hit USC Trojans, where Henderson had signed a letter of intent, and could ... More >>

Return of the Nordic Wonder

Billy Corben Promises Sequel to The U; Trashes University of Miami

​Rakontur films has announced a sequel to their documentary The U, which chronicled the Miami Hurricanes football team of the '80s. It became the highest rated documentary in ESPN history. They plan to have the sequel ready for release by December, about one year after the original's premier. Sinc ... More >>

Bucs vs. Fins: Meaningless Battle for Florida Preseason Supremacy

​You might recall our "Weekend Football" blog column from last year. It was probably the most proudly ignorant thing ever penned about South Florida football anywhere. Well, with the NFL and NCAA regular seasons around the corner, it is time once again to force ourselves to catch football fever.&n ... More >>

Against the Tide

A veteran Olympic swimmer Aims to beat the skeptics.

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

Cane Collapse

How UM's March Madness came to an end.

Top Ten Sports Moments of the Year

What's That Cop Doing in Our Huddle?

When campus police tangle with football players at FIU, you can expect a punt

Punt

That's what UM administrators did rather than answer questions about athletes and academics

Riptide

Shakey's out, Penelian peccadillo, and shafted lumber labor

Thus Spake the Super

Miami-Dade school chief Roger Cuevas is cracking down on sports abuses. Again.

Mr. Basketball

Dozens of pro hoops pioneers retired to South Florida, destined to grow old and die in obscurity. Not if Jack Shaber has anything to say about it.

A Shaq is Born