Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
Big Z demands that you pay him two months in advance if you want to come into his house. That’s not some strangled And 1 axiom. Zydrunas Ilgauskas– the 7-foot-3 totem pole at the end of the Miami Heat bench– has a beautiful townhouse he wants to rent you, Carmelo…
Krop High School’s athletic director spikes the truth
There’s a reason cash-strapped states don’t turn down federally funded projects on ideological grounds: because some other state — where the residents have tiny lobsters embroidered on their yacht pants, say, and all claim to be the third Affleck brother — will snatch that money right up for itself…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
“I’ll wear a flower in my hair or something,” Karen Raley says chirpily, “because you’ll never recognize me from my mug shot!” She sits in a back booth at Roasters’ n Toasters in Aventura. It’s her favorite diner, a low-key joint where the bagels are cheap. She doesn’t seem to…
Yesterday, Riptide debunked embattled Krop High athletic director Michael Kypriss’ claim that he had never before encountered an immigration paperwork conflict of the type that recently got his boys’ basketball disqualified. Turns out, he had dealt with the same issue just last year, when the Florida High School Athletic Association…
Lately, catching Michael Krop High’s athletic administrators in deceit has been sort of like trying to spot a bad tattoo on South Beach. In both cases, it’s still worth pointing out a doozy…
Dave Duerson, the former star Chicago Bears safety who killed himself on Thursday at his home in Sunny Isles Beach, was hemorrhaging millions in his final years, according to bankruptcy documents he filed last September. And in December, his ex-wife claimed in a lawsuit that he had concealed assets. Among…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the previous week. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
As the dust settles after the disqualification — for real this time — of Krop High’s boys basketball squad, it will be reckoning time for Coach Shakey Rodriguez and the school’s administrators. In the last week, rampant rule-bending and outright cheating concerning the school’s basketball squad has been exposed, most…
It seems all millionaire athletes, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, like to bring longtime pals into their financial fold. What better way to show you haven’t forgotten your roots? But when your buds tend to end up in court facing credit card fraud, battery, and heroin dealing charges, you…
Bean sprout teenaged basketball players from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, all wearing purple tracksuits, filled two rows of wooden pews in a downtown courtroom last Wednesday afternoon. Their parents and girlfriends — along with a few local politicians angling for publicity — filled the rest of the hall…
Krop High’s boys basketball squad– already a district champion and a favorite to win state– has been booted from the playoffs. This time, it appears, for good. An appeals court today reversed a judge’s earlier decision to allow the team to play. Dr. Michael Krop High was barreling through the…
As if ever-mounting eligibility conflicts weren’t enough turmoil for the state’s number-one-ranked basketball squad: Miami-Dade Police have issued a warrant for Krop High star guard Angel Rodriguez’s arrest after he skipped a court date yesterday. 19-year-old Rodriguez, whose play has propelled Krop to a district championship this year, was due…
Miami FC, South Florida’s chronically anonymous professional soccer team, has tried everything in its quest to get fans interested. It signed the greatest player ever– ten years and a thousand mistresses past Romário’s prime. It picked up two Cuban defectors in a clear bit of pandering to the Cafe Versailles…
It seems all millionaire athletes, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, like to bring longtime pals into their financial fold. What better way to show you haven’t forgotten your roots?…
We never did believe that the number-one-ranked Krop High basketball squad’s eligibility shenanigans stopped with Brian Delancy’s phantom residences. So over the weekend, we headed to addresses listed in the Miami-Dade School District database for 19-year-old Angel Rodriguez — Krop’s star guard and Puerto Rico transplant, already committed to Frank…
This news story will appear in Wednesday’s issue of New Times. It includes reporting that was published last week on our news blog, and which was referenced without attribution in this weekend’s Miami Herald. Beansprout teenage basketball players from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, all wearing purple tracksuits, filled…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
So we finally reached Bernard Wright, the sketchy high school recruiter and legal guardian of disqualified-and-then-reinstated Dr. Michael Krop High guard Brian Delancy. This is what he had to say: “Don’t you ever fucking call this number again. You’re a fucking scum bag and if I ever fucking catch you…
Judge Spencer Eig this afternoon granted an emergency injunction to Dr. Michael Krop High’s basketball team, allowing the number-one-ranked squad to join three other teams in the playoffs despite eligibility issues surrounding 19-year-old guard Brian Delancy. Eig ruled that it would be “fundamentally unfair not to allow these students to…
