When it was revealed that legendary YouTube street-fighting sensation Kimbo Slice would battle former WWE star Ken Shamrock as the main event in this Saturday night’s EliteXC Saturday Night Fights at the BankAtlantic Center, many mixed martial arts fans were understandably upset. Although Slice has made a legend by turning…
Suddenly it feels good to be a Miami Dolphins fan again. It’s a sensation we haven’t felt for so long. We didn’t truly realize how shitty Mondays were until the morning after the Fins drubbed Bill Belichick and the mighty New England Patriots in Foxboro 38-13 two weeks ago. We…
The last true Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) football game hasn’t been held in Miami since way back in 1984, when the game was played in the late, great Orange Bowl. But on Friday night, the city hosts its first HBCU football game in 24 years when the Howard…
We were all hoping the final Super Saturday of the season would be about the Florida Marlins taking sole possession of first in the NL East. Instead, when the Fish face the Philadelphia Phillies at Dolphin Stadium, they will be reprising their role of spoiler. Last season, Florida played a…
There used to be a time when the Miami Dolphins were hailed as one of the proudest franchises in the NFL, with a long, rich history of greatness. Yet for the past decade or so, the Dolphins have played football like old people screw. The only way to watch any…
The NL East race has left little margin for error for the Florida Marlins. What was once a one-and-a-half-game deficit in the standings has now become an inauspicious uphill battle. Before the All-Star break, Dan Uggla was crushing baseballs over fences, Hanley Ramirez was on his way to an MVP…
It’s hard to believe the Orange Bowl met its demise only three months ago. In hindsight, maybe imploding the decrepit edifice was for the best. For all the glory years enjoyed by the Miami Hurricanes at the OB, its final few moments on Earth seemed to be a sign of…
Bill Parcells’s Pavlovian reflex whenever one of his former players suddenly becomes available kicked up a few notches two weeks ago when the Jets released quarterback Chad Pennington. Parcells picked Pennington 18th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft (181 spots before Tom Brady!), back when the Tuna was running things…
It’s been an up-and-down season for the Miami FC Blues. Our home team is floating between seventh and ninth place in the United Soccer League standings, and with just seven matches left to play, the Blues’ time is running out for a playoff spot. Striker Alex Afonso, who has 10…
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the Marlins won the World Series at the Cubs’ expense. Yet Cubs fans continue to blame that historical NLCS loss on a goat and some unfortunate soul named Steve Bartman (it wasn’t his fault!). Indeed it’s been five years, but the…
Thanks to the Florida Marlins’ refusal to lose and the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies’ refusal to take hold of the division, the top of the NL East is a veritable mishmash of teams vying for first place. A hodgepodge, if you will. A jumble. A clutter. A big…
Miami Dolphins fans have been waiting long to get the taste of an awful one-win 2007 season out of their mouths. And now that football guru Bill Parcells is in charge of things, the cock-punching has commenced. And that’s a good thing. Parcells comes into town with a rep for…
The Florida Marlins are among the major-league leaders in game-ending hits this season, with nine. They’re also among the best at celebrating these kinds of victories, seeing that they have plenty of experience. Two weeks ago, in a crucial series against NL East leader Philadelphia, that game-winning hit came off…
The Miami FC Blues continue to claw their way up the United Soccer League standings like an army of determined spider monkeys. Spider monkeys that play smothering defense but can’t score goals worth dick. The Blues sit in sixth place after extending their impressive unbeaten streak through the past two…
If there was ever a day for the Florida Marlins to take control of the NL East, it’s Super Saturday. Mainly because the title of the day is apropos to the play of Hanley Ramirez, whom we’re pretty sure is a native of the planet Krypton. The division-leading Philadelphia Phillies…
The Miami FC Blues have moved up to fifth place in the United Soccer League standings, thanks mostly to some stellar defensive play, which helped the team ride an impressive five-game shutout streak in June. And although they won only one game during that run, they collected some much-needed points…
Here’s another reason to make you feel bad about your incessant whining and ever-expanding gut: blind powerlifting. That’s right, fat-ass. The United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) is holding its sixth IBSA Blind Powerlifting World Championships in downtown Miami’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 130 visually impaired athletes from…
The Florida Marlins came into last month’s draft looking for their catcher of the future. They had their eye on two young studs who’d been wowing scouts for the past year. There was FSU’s Buster Pose and an 18-year-old phenom from Riverside California, Kyle Skipworth. When the Giants took Posey…
For some time, Major League Baseball has been trying to force-feed us an intrastate rivalry between the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays that just isn’t there. Perhaps we can help by concocting our own reasons to hate the Rays (and vice versa). For instance, team names. We have…
Miami FC Blues sit in eighth place in the United Soccer League standings. They’re 10 points behind first-place Vancouver, but only four points behind sixth-place Carolina. This means sixth place is within reach. And that sure as shit beats being in eighth place. Hey, glass half full and all that…
One of the main reasons for the Florida Marlins’ recent ass-kicking ways has been the out-of-his-gourd play of 28-year-old second baseman Dan Uggla. He finished May atop the NL homerun leader board alongside stalwarts such as Lance Berkman and Ryan Howard. Yet for all of his bad-assery, Uggla has remained…
Jai alai is not a game for wussies. It takes onions to play a game in which your competition launches a ball at you with deadly speed, on par with the bullet that killed Abe Lincoln. And all you have to defend yourself is a wicker basket. During a standard…
