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The Real Reason the 'Canes are Blowing it

I Want To Gradulate Corrine Brown On Her Possible Senate Bid

Rep. Corrine Brown strikes me as a relatively fearless politician. Which is why it's not out of character that she's thrown her hat in as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Florida's open senate seat, even if it means challenging front runner, family friend, and colleag ... More >>

Pahokee's Latest Football Superstar Tased, Arrested in Gainesville

Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

Michigan Leaves the Gators Maize and Blue

Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

Hurricanes Make Their Dolphin Stadium Debut Tonight

Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

Canes vs. Gators, Wowza!

Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

UM Baseball: Down and Out

The Miami Hurricane baseball team traditionally wears white baseball cleats at the College World Series in Omaha. But in this year, the Canes will save the money needed to purchase 31 pairs. On Sunday, the Florida Gators ended the team's season with a 16-5 win in Gainesville. Starting pitcher Ide ... More >>

Warren Sapp is Classy

The Miami Hurricane baseball team traditionally wears white baseball cleats at the College World Series in Omaha. But in this year, the Canes will save the money needed to purchase 31 pairs. On Sunday, the Florida Gators ended the team's season with a 16-5 win in Gainesville. Starting pitcher Ide ... More >>

UM Students Blame FSU For Crocodile Death

The Miami Hurricane baseball team traditionally wears white baseball cleats at the College World Series in Omaha. But in this year, the Canes will save the money needed to purchase 31 pairs. On Sunday, the Florida Gators ended the team's season with a 16-5 win in Gainesville. Starting pitcher Ide ... More >>

News Roundup

USB will be the sponsor of both Basel fairs for years to come, 3 more of which, at least, will happen in Miami. [ArtINFO] Doctors in Miami can now assist surgeries Iraq using a robot. It is made by a company called InTouch, which hopefully has nothing to do with the tabloid of the same name. [Hera ... More >>

UM Football Players: Not as Brainy as Gators or Noles

This season, the Miami Hurricanes came out way behind their in-state rivals, UF and FSU, by most on-the-field standards, losing to both teams. Now here's a little salt for those wounds: Both the Noles and the Gators made Higher Ed Watch's Top 25 for academic achievement, while the Canes went unranke ... More >>

The Emerald Bowl Ain't That Exciting

Your weekly football fix won't come until this weekend, but since Riptide will be quite quiet the rest of the week we'll be doing our trademarked very informative Football previews today!The Emerald Bowl: Miami Hurricanes vs California Golden Bears, Saturday Dec 27th 8pm on ESPNThe last time anyon ... More >>

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 coac ... More >>

Rocketman Nelson Bets His Pipes on BCS Bowl

Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal ... More >>

Your So-Called National Champions Will Be Crowned Tonight

The story for tonight's BCS National Championship game at Dolphin Stadium is twofold: that tickets aren't as hard to come by as in previous years (if you consider $600 tickets to a championship football game a bargain) and that something like 83 percent of gamblers are putting their money on Florida ... More >>

News Roundup

The federal government decided that the county can be treated like a big boy again, and gave back control of the housing agency. HUD had seized control in 2007. [Herald]Sorry, no split title. The Florida Gators finish #1 on the AP poll after last night's BCS win. By the way, I'm all for Miami hiring ... More >>

Marve Can Now Transfer to Florida's Best Safety Schools

Former UM Hurricanes starting quarterback Robert Marve apparently thinks he is the next Tim Tebow, despite the fact he has never really shown that kind of talent on the field. Nonetheless, he would really like to at least have the option of transferring to the newly crowned champs in Gainsville. ... More >>

UM Baseball Locke(d) Down

  The image of Miami Hurricane reliever Rene Guerra's glove getting knocked off of his hand by a crushed line-drive à la Charlie Brown perfectly summarized the Florida Gators' crushing victory Saturday. Briefly, and it was very brief, the Canes held a 2-0 lead, but the Gators rallied and ... More >>

Hurricanes Baseball: Shut down and shut out by URI

Maybe it was a natural let-down after thoroughly dominating the 12th ranked Florida Gators over the weekend. Perhaps it was the fact that Qdoba provided the pre-game meal, which can't possibly be good per-game chow. Or maybe URI pitcher Eric Smith is just that great. Whatever the reason, the Rh ... More >>

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

Cane Collapse

How UM's March Madness came to an end.

Make Nice with the Noles

How UM's March Madness came to an end.

BEST HURRICANES FOOTBALL PLAYER

Kellen Winslow, Jr.

Packing Them In

Sugar Ray gets tourists, Prive gets everybody else

Dream Team

For years Miami Senior High School has fielded one of the best basketball teams in the nation. But getting into the record books has meant tossing out the rule books.

Calendar for the week

For years Miami Senior High School has fielded one of the best basketball teams in the nation. But getting into the record books has meant tossing out the rule books.

Chicago Basketball Star Coaches J.V. in Broward

For Deon Thomas, a new career starts in the suburbs.

Work Stinks: Happy Labor Day!

Clean up other people's bodily fluids and get stiffed. It's your freakin' job.

Canes Debut on AP Poll at 20, FSU Knocked Off

The AP poll is out, and the Miami Hurricanes are a ranked team once again, while the Florida State Seminoles have been totally knocked off from their former 18th spot. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes' next three opponents line up one after another in the poll, with Oklahoma at 13, Virginia Tech at 14 ... More >>

Hurricanes Football Coach Randy Shannon Deserves a New Contract

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Courtstand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke has a message for the University of Miami: Give Randy Shannon a new contract!The University of Miami is not playing fair with ... More >>

Canes coach Randy Shannon deserves a contract

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Courtstand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke has a message for the University of Miami: Give Randy Shannon a new contract!The University of Miami is not playing fair with ... More >>

Could the Hurricanes Be Headed to an Expanded SEC?

​College athletic conferences are always finding new and exciting ways to further screw with the already tortured fabric of college football. The Big Ten has been talking for so long about expanding to 12 in order to get a championship game that we're surprised it hasn't happened. N ... More >>

Hurricanes Not Hot on the Idea of Joining SEC Super Conference

It's the weird time of year where for college football fans when spring training is over and the NFL draft is in the history books, yet next season and even meaningful pre-season polls are months away. Which means they look for other things to talk and tweet and blog about, and lately that ... More >>

Corrupt Minerals Management Service Inspectors Are Not Hurricanes Fans

In retrospect, can we just claim this fight were the 'Canes heroic way of standing up to government corruption?​In the wake of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the interior department has been investigating that alarmingly tight ties between the oil industry and the Mineral Management Se ... More >>

Former Dolphins and Gators Player Jarvis Williams Dies of Heart Attack

​Jarvis Williams, a former player for both the Miami Dolphins and Florida Gators, has died at 45 of a heart attack, reports the Sun-Sentinel.A Palatka, Florida native, Williams led his high school football team to a state championship, and then became a stand-out cornerback with the Florida Gators ... More >>

Letters from the issue of July 29, 2010

​Jarvis Williams, a former player for both the Miami Dolphins and Florida Gators, has died at 45 of a heart attack, reports the Sun-Sentinel.A Palatka, Florida native, Williams led his high school football team to a state championship, and then became a stand-out cornerback with the Florida Gators ... More >>

North Miami Beach Senior High on Lockdown After Robbery Attempt

​In today's news roundup: A local high school is on lock down, not one but two separate incidents of Carbon Monoxide poisoning sent 13 people to hospitals, a deadly crash on I95 kills two, while a boat crash near Haulover Marina send a woman to the hospital. The only good news in today's news wrap ... 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 >>

South Miami football team wears Kentucky blue but roots for UM

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 >>

"Firstness": Insane Florida Woman Already Camping Out for Black Friday Sales

​Oh, you've got your comfiest sneakers ready. You're going to bed at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving afternoon and planning on waking up 6 hours later. You want to be the first Floridian in line for the annual jubilee of capitalism known as "Black Friday." Too late. Somewhere in a St. Petersburg parking lo ... More >>

Hurricanes Interested in Transfer QB Tom Savage, But Rutgers Bars Him From Coming to Miami

​The future of the Miami Hurricane's quarterback position seems to be with Stephen Morris, but Al Golden and his staff are apparently interested in landing former Rutgers quarterback Tom Savage. He was rated by one recruiting service at the 8th best QB in the 2009 class, and the 'Canes tried to wo ... More >>

Al Golden is a Lot Better at Smooth Talking Recruits' Moms Than Will Muschamp

​Last Friday, touted quarterback Jacoby Brissett made a somewhat head scratching decision to sign with the Florida Gators over the Miami Hurricanes, and his mother is not happy about it. Both schools have new coaches, but apparently Al Golden has his mother-wooing game on lock, while Will Muschamp ... More >>

Gators Coach Will Muschamp Disses Hurricanes

​Barring some sort of bowl matchup, the Florida Gators and the Miami Hurricanes won't meet again on the football field until 2013, but the two programs are always locked in an intense recruiting war for players and, occasionally, personnel. Wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill was one of the few staff ... More >>

Sports Poll: Only 22 Percent of Floridians Like LeBron, Gators Are Favorite Team

Finally a political polling firm has decided to poll on something other than politics. Public Policy Polling surveyed Floridians on another contentious topic: sports. The poll shows LeBron James isn't exactly that popular in his new state, while Florida's favorite pro team is the Tampa Bay Bucc ... More >>

FIU First, Ave Maria Law School Dead Last in Florida Bar Exam Passage Rate. University of Miami Stinks.

Ave Maria, Florida. Ave Maria's law school is now located in nearby Naples.​Debate rages over whether FIU has displaced UM as the best football team in Florida. But legally speaking, the Golden Panthers are pantsing the 'Canes left and right.FIU sits atop the table for this summer's bar exam, beat ... More >>

Carole Crist Privately Asked if Charlie Should Run for Governor As a Democrat

​Florida's own Lady Macbeth, Carole Crist, apparently isn't a big fan of being just a simple trial lawyer's wife. She married a superstar politician after all, so maybe it's no surprise she's privately asking about the possibility of hubby Charlie Crist making a return to politics -- this time, ho ... More >>

Florida Gators' Dominique Easley Allegedly Attacked Alabama Alum Reggie Myles After Game

​College football players getting into fights on the field? It happens. College football players getting into fights in their downtime? Yeah, it happens too. College football players attacking former players of the opposing team immediately after a game? That has allegedly happened too, now.  ... More >>