Orange Bowl

Miami's Best Youth Football Team Beats Violence, Gambling, Turmoil, and Opponents

Luke Bryan, as Part of the Bud Light Championship Game Day Fan Zone, at Sun Life Stadium January 7

Florida State vs. Northern Illinois: The 2013 Orange Bowl Haters Guide

Tonight, the Orange Bowl, once one of the premier college bowl games in the land, continues its sad slope into mediocrity by featuring the champion of the worst big conference that will actually exist in a few years (sorry Big East) and a BCS buster no one cared about or gave much credit to until pr ... More >>

Flo Rida, Dierks Bentley, DJ Irie, Notre Dame, Alabama at BCS Concert: A Four-Part Guide

Wanna get the adrenaline pumping for this week's BCS National Championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide? Well, all you've gotta do is follow these three simple steps to achieve superfan status: (1) Shotgun six ice-cold beers and an equal number of sugar-loade ... More >>

Poll: Should The Miami Hurricanes Sit Out A Bowl Game This Year?

The Miami Hurricanes aren't quite bowl eligible just yet, but last night they shook off a three-game losing streak and delivered an epic 30-12 smackdown to the Virginia Tech Hokies. The worst of their schedule is behind them (including loses to three teams in currently in the BCS top 10), and the Ca ... More >>

Mayor Tomas Regalado Zings the Marlins On Rumors of Castro's Death

Remember how the City of Miami made some controversial plans to allow protesters to gather in the Orange Bowl when Fidel Castro dies? Yeah, well, the city has never updated those plans even though the Orange Bowl was demolished and replaced with the Marlins Stadium.Don't expect the city to make new ... More >>

Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium

Miami Hurricanes Get Routed by Kansas State 52-13 in Worst Loss in Years

"Oh, down 14-0 on the road in the first quarter," some of us might have thought. "Whatever, we did it last week." If that gleeful optimism wasn't wiped away once you realized the 'Canes were playing a ranked opponent and not an ACC bottom dweller, Kansas State certainly reminded you of that fac ... More >>

The Orange Bowl Could Become a Playoff Game Every Other Year

So here's the bad news: Miami will likely no longer be hosting the BCS Championship game every four years. Here's the good news: The Orange Bowl is no longer in danger of total irrelevance and will likely become part of a long-awaited college football playoff system. BCS commissioners have reached a ... More >>

Is the Annual Orange Bowl in Danger of Becoming Even More Irrelevant?

Let's not put the cart before the horse, but there are other Miami matters to think about besides whether or not the Hurricanes leap to the Big 12 or stay relegated to the ACC. And that's mostly the fate of the Orange Bowl. The game has already lost a lot of its luster in the BCS era, but could news ... More >>

Orange Bowl Slammed By Anti-Smoking Groups For Camacho Cigars Sponsorship

​Cigars are as Miami as white guayabaras, cafecitos and questionable uses of teal and pink, but a national group is slamming the Orange Bowl this week for including the Calle Ocho favorites in the bowl week festivities.The American Cancer Society has sent a letter to NCAA and Orange Bowl offi ... More >>

Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

Miami Marlins Day-Glo Orange Uniforms Have Leaked

​The Marlins don't officially reveal the full details of their branding makeover until Friday, but on the heels of the leak of the new logo and hats, it appears that details of the new uniform have also found their way online early. And if they're accurate, you can say goodbye to teal, and hello t ... More >>

Cee Lo Green Announced as Headliner for Orange Drive New Year's Concert in Miami

​These days, former Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Green is the Liberace of hip-pop. He wears sequined jumpsuits with effortless flair. He can't be without his baby grand for more than 24 hours. And he totally loves South Beach. But while the King of Bling (as Wladziu Valentino Liberace was nicknamed) ... More >>

Saguesera Smackdown

The Goo Goo Dolls at the Orange Bowl Halftime Show, January 3

The Goo Goo Dolls Photo by Liana LozadaLook! It's John Rzeznik on the Jumbrotron! ​The Orange Bowl at Sun Life StadiumMonday, January 3Better than: Watching Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath host an episode of Don't Forget the Lyrics.It's been a long time since Dizzy Up the Girl. And the fact that the ... More >>

Calling All Shriners

Orange You Glad There's Football

Youth Served and Swung

Newly Released Footage of John F. Kennedy Chilling at the Orange Bowl

​President John F. Kennedy's most famous appearance at the Orange Bowl was during a ceremony to welcome back the freed prisoners of Brigade 2506 following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. While obviously JFK's most significant trip to the now-destroyed historic stadium, it wasn't his only. ... 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 >>

Norman Braman Launches Petition to Recall Mayor Alvarez

​When most citizens have a problem with the county government they maybe write their commissioner, show up at a meeting or leave an angry comment with The Miami Herald. Not Norman Braman. The billionaire is once again throwing his over-sized wealth and influence around and is launching a recall ef ... More >>

Miami vs. Ohio State: Why a Win Would Feel So Good (And a Loss Isn't the End of the World)

​It might take a crack squad of psychoanalysis to properly dissect all the emotions Canes Nation has been going through leading up to Tomorrow's game against Ohio State. To put it simply though, a win in this game would feel better and be more monumental than almost any other win the Hurricanes ha ... More >>

New Marlins Stadium to Feature Real Fish

Marlins Real aquatic life at the new Florida Marlins stadium​In 1994's surprise Hollywood hit, Ace Ventura Pet Detective (featuring a still relatively unknown Jim Carrey) the fantastical storyline revolves around a dolphin kidnapped from an aquarium at the Orange Bowl. Sixteen years later, ... More >>

FedEx Will No Longer Sponsor the Orange Bowl

​A lot has changed for the Orange Bowl since 1989. Back then, Jimmy Johnson was coaching the Canes, and they blew out Nebraska 23-3 in the game that year. That was when it was played in the actual stadium known as the Orange Bowl and before all of this BCS business. Lately, the Canes have bee ... More >>

Is Indian Creek Island too expensive for Don Shula?

News Roundup:

Man it is cold out. ("How cold is it?") It's so cold that Gov. Crist has declared a state of emergency, so this isn't a joke. [CBS4]Scott Rothstein may be planning to enter a plea bargain, and pleading guilty. [JustNews]Five workers with Miami-Dade waster management were arrested after taking bribes ... More >>

Orange Bowl: Yellow Jackets Are the Favorites, But Hawkeyes Will Bring More Fans

​Land Shark Stadium will host the 76th annual Orange Bowl tonight, with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets taking on the Iowa Hawk Eyes. Locally, the most exciting facet could be that this game might mark the last time Land Shark will be officially known by that terrible moniker (it'll revert back to ... More >>

Float On

Court Time

Tennis’s Crystal Ball

Video: Jim Morrison Interview in Miami, 1970, Talking About The Doors' Miami Incident

Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There's a famous incident that took place at Dinne ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes: A Top Ten Team That Might Not Even Make It to Its Conference Championship Game

​For the first time this season, the Miami Hurricanes are ranked in the top ten of all of the major polls: eighth in the AP, ninth in the coaches', and tenth in the Harris Interactive and BCS standings. But, with the exception of LSU, we're the only team in the top ten that doesn't control its own ... More >>

Prunk TV: Charlie Murphy Gets Stung, Rick Ross Does Film

Ladies and gentlemen, Prunk TV has a helluva guest today. After the credits, watch some bonus footage of Charlie Murphy in Miami. He held out his hand and said, "I'm Charlie Murphy." I replied, "I'm Jason Handelsman." Directors, producers, actors, and publicists questioned my presence on ... More >>

The Cheap Seats

FedEx Orange Bowl boasts CompUSA Bowl-like matchup.

Blaze One for Old Times

King Mango Strut stays rockin’.

This Orange Bowl has Lime Green Balls

But they’re for the International Tennis Championship

New-Era Canes

The post-Orange Bowl age kicks off.

How Things Should Be

The FedEx Orange Bowl shows us how football is done.

Everyone Loves a Parade

The Junior Orange Bowl is takin’ it to the streets.

Mangolicious Miami Parade

There’s nothing “inconvenient” about this year’s strut.

We’re Number One!

Keep believin’ at the Orange Bowl Fan Fest.

How About Fighting Hooters?

Orange Bowl Adios

The crazy weirdness of the OB is what we’ll really miss

Get It While You Can

Drink up that Orange Bowl ambiance before it’s gone

U Can Do It

Bleed orange and green today at the Orange Bowl

International Kicks

Play Time’s Also for Adults

Because age is nothing but a number

Dance Between the Dashes

You are the halftime show