National Collegiate Athletic Association

University of Miami Trying to Schedule Football Games Against Penn State

The Scandal Bowl? The Lack of Institutional Control Bowl? The Mark Emmert's Credibility Memorial Bowl? Apparently, the University of Miami wants us to put on our brainstorming hats and come up with dumb puns by pushing forward with a future football game against Penn State. 

NCAA Says UM Is "Grasping at Straws" By Requesting Dismissal of Shapiro Complaint

While the University of Miami and president Donna Shalala have campaigned to have the NCAA throw out its controversial investigation, the NCAA has now lashed back and claims that UM is "grasping at straws."

Miami Hurricanes Sign Five-Star Recruit Kc McDermott to 2014 Class

Could Al Golden's recruiting problems at the University of Miami be over? Today the Hurricanes landed a commitment from five-star offensive tackle Kc McDermott out of Palm Beach Central High. The commitment is an early win for Golden's 2014 class, and one of the 'Canes first big catch since the NCAA ... More >>

Hurricanes' Jim Larranaga Named National Coach of the Year

What happens when you take the University of Miami basketball team from ACC filler to conference regular season and conference champs, all while under the looming threat of an NCAA investigation? You get named the NCAA coach of the year.

NCAA Claims Nevin Shapiro Gave Out $170,000 to University of Miami Athletes

So how much did convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro dole out in impermissible benefits to University of Miami athletes, recruits and coaches? About $170,000, says the NCAA.It sure is easy spending money when it's not really your own, but it's notable that the approximate amount listed by the NCAA ... More >>

Canes' Al Golden Hates Florida

25 Reasons The Miami Hurricanes Routing No. 1 Ranked Duke Was Epically Awesome

What a surreal but awesome day to be a Miami Hurricane fan. Just hours after the NCAA made the bizarre admission it had epically bungled its own investigation into the school, the Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team reminded the world that this is the campus that invented swagger by delivering a ... More >>

Rick Ross, John McAfee, and Jeffrey Loria in 2013

Uncle Luke: Nevin Shapiro's Assistant Sean Allen Needs to Stop Spinning His Story

Nevin Shapiro's Former Assistant Needs To Stop Talking About Canes

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke vents about one of the central players in the Nevin Shapiro University of Miami football scandal.With quarterback Stephen Morris s ... More >>

Are We Excited About Miami Hurricanes Football Season? Can We Pretend to Get Excited?

It's not so great to be a Miami Hurricane.The cloud of an NCAA investigation looms over the program all because a pathetic, Ponzi scheming manchild decided it would be a real cool idea to buy the friendship of college kids. Much of the ballyhooed-but-ultimately-disappointing 2008 recruiting class is ... More >>

Reader mail: Jeremy Lin could get laid anytime

Nevin Shapiro assistant Sean Allen clears Canes football

Nevin Shapiro Going a Bit Mad in Prison: "I'm Taking That Program Down to Chinatown"

​Apparently all that time behind bars is getting to convicted Ponzi schemer and allegation-throwing former booster Nevin Shapiro, because the Miami Herald got a hold of several bonkers emails the would-be-destroyer of Hurricanes football is typing up in prison. They do little to detract from Shapi ... More >>

Hurricanes Player DeQuan Jones Can Return to Hardcourt Immediately

On the day that sanctions were officially handed out to Ohio State, the University of Miami got the tiniest sliver of good news after talking to the NCAA. Basketball player DeQuan Jones can return to action immediately. He was suspended by the school for the entire season after his name su ... More >>

Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

Jeffrey Godfrey Gets His Release From the University of Central Florida

​The former star quarterback from Miami Central Senior High who broke Jacory Harris' passing record, is leaving the University of Central Florida after following his breakout freshman season with a sophomore slump. Jeffrey Godfrey, who had requested a release from his scholarship, can transfer to ... More >>

Al Golden May Renegotiate Contract, Making it Easier for Him to Leave

​Is Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden hoping to get out of his contract with the University of Miami if the NCAA hands down crippling sanctions related to the Nevin Shapiro scandal? His agent Brett Senior seems to hint so in an interview with CBSSports.com, and suggests that Golden may be look ... More >>

Kirby Hocutt: UM's real villain

Dirty Bowl

Kirby Hocutt: The UM Scandal's Real Villain

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke wonders when the NCAA will drop the hammer on former University of Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt. Now that the NCA ... More >>

Which College Football Teams Make the Most Money in Florida?

​Despite the fact the NCAA likes to uphold all illusions that's its merely sanctioning amateur athletics, there's not doubt that college football is a big, big business. In 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, all Division I-A teams combined brought in an asto ... More >>

Buzz Bissinger: Kill Miami Football Forever, Hold Congressional Hearings, Indict Shalala on Perjury

​Buzz Bissinger is a grumpy man who likes to yell about sports and who was once, and still occasionally moonlights as, a pretty damn respected journalist. Of course, in his post as a sports columnist for the Daily Beast, he mainly sticks to his angry, self-righteous sports-guy shtick and last nigh ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Can Kiss My Ass

Nevin Shapiro wishes he could wear my shorts for one day. The New Jersey-born Napoleon dubbed himself "Little Luke" in a so-called investigative report by Yahoo! Sports claiming all sorts of corrupt shit Shapiro committed while he was a booster of the University of Miami athletics program.The claim ... More >>

NCAA to Investigate Claims That Miami Hurricanes Players Took Cash From Convicted Ponzi Schemer

A signed helmet that was once on display at Shapiro's $6 million Miami Beach mansion. ​Last year, New Times chronicled the rise and fall of flashy Miami Beach Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.  The man who had donated more than $150,000 to the University of Miami football program now sits in jail ... More >>

A notorious Miami football recruiter has a new "diploma mill"

Obama Was Right: Hurricanes Ousted by Sooners in NCAA Women's Tournament

​Regardless of who holds the office, we generally prefer that the president of the United States generally be correct in his decision-making. Unfortunately for us, Barack Obama saw the Miami Hurricanes making a second-round exit in the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament at the hands of the Oklahom ... More >>

Kentucky Wildcats in Hurricane Country? South Miami Grey Ghosts Leave 'The U' Feeling Blue

Michael E. MillerWeseley Neal, 8, shows off his new Kentucky jersey courtesy of the NCAA Youth Initiative​So much for #1 in Florida. First the Seminoles stomped the U on Saturday. Now it seems even out-of-state teams are taking over the Hurricanes' home turf.Barely a mile from the University of Mi ... More >>

Sports On The Brain at Sports Exchange Happy Hour

The Shrine will melt your brain.​Place: The Sports Exchange45 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables.305-774-1222www.sportsexchangemiami.com Hours: Monday through Friday, 5-8 p.m. Late-night 11 p.m. to closing Deals: 2 for 1 specials, $5 well, $3 domestic, and $3 house wine drink specials, as well as h ... More >>

March Madness Deals and 33 Big TV's at The Sports Exchange

The Sports Exchange's Shrine.​What's the best place to get caught up in March Madness? The Shrine. That's what The Sports Exchange in Coral Gables calls its' 50-foot-long bar backed by a 25-by-8-foot, high-definition projection screen, which is surrounded by eight 58-inch, high-definition plasma t ... More >>

Miami Narrowly Loses to Duke in ACC Semifinals

Welp, we might as well update you on the ACC tournament, and sadly the Miami Hurricane's surprising run has come to an end. They lost to top seeded Duke 77-74, despite a lead at half time and catching up from some large deficits. Alas, you really can't expect, as much as we so despera ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Fall Below .500

A Man was shot at MIA lounge last night multiple times, while the shooter sped off in a black Mercedes. [JustNews]The ACLU claims two Miami Beach cops harassed and falsely arrested a gay tourist after he saw the men beating another suspect in handcuffs. [Herald]A man in Stuart died after being attac ... More >>

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 bou ... More >>

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 tha ... More >>

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 Divi ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 Medica ... More >>

Trick or Heat

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

Hurricanes Make Their Dolphin Stadium Debut Tonight

Breakaway

Against long odds and even longer distances, a group of Miami-Dade teens competes for a shot at hockey glory

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

Full Court Pressure

College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight

Basketball Jones

BEST HEAT HOMEBOY

Udonis Haslem

Lord of the Onion Rings

Sandbar Grill

Best Career Move

Leonard Hamilton

A Shakey Machine

FIU hoops coach Shakey Rodriguez has surrounded himself with coaches and players with bad raps and worse reps -- and it's a losing combination

Gridiron Fever

FIU administrators think spending millions on a football program will do wonders for their school, and they'll sideline anyone who disagrees

Program Notes 52

Black Men Can't Swim

And other words to the whites about b-ball, side musicians, and racism