For those of you who wish you could pluck Marlins team President David Samson from Marlins Park and place him somewhere on a desolate island far, far away — your dreams have come true. Apparently he’ll be a contestant on the next season of Survivor. It show how seriously he…
Club Madonna, South Beach’s infamous and only fully nude strip club, is in damage control after three people were arrested for allegedly forcing a 13-year-old runaway to dance there. The club’s lawyers say they have no record of the girl having danced at the club, but owner Leroy Griffith told…
Maybe we’ve been watching too much House of Cards, but with all we’ve heard in the last few days about Dawn Aponte, the Miami Dolphins’ executive vice president of football administration, it’s hard not to imagine her as some sort of female Frank Underwood, ruthlessly navigating the halls of power…
With all the messes surrounding the Miami Dolphins right now, the Richie Incognito seems like ages ago, but NFL investigators haven’t forgotten about it. TMZ Sports claims that they got word from a source close to the investigation that the league has collected text messaged between Jonathon Martin and Incognito…
For years, we deluded ourselves that Lincoln Road could become a quirky subversion of the suburban shopping-mall experience, that the uniquely Miami culture the strip once exemplified could coexist alongside giant corporations’ fast-fashion megastores. Sure, for a while you could get khakis at the Gap and a cheap shirt from…
The Miami Heat are playing the Fillmore Miami Beach. No, not basketball, but actually singing. Shane Battier’s annual charity fundraiser Battioke is going down January 27 at the concert hall, and of course there’s a promo video featuring Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Battier himself taking on their favorite karaoke…
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Nothing gets a certain segment of baseball enthusiasts more heated than the voting process for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Not being baseball enthusiasts ourselves (we grew up with the Marlins, after all), we don’t fully understand it, but it seems like a pretty touchy subject. Anyway, to protest the…
Vilbert Jean, 36, Marlene San Vincente, 22, and DeWayne Ward, 18, were arrested on human-trafficking charges Monday after they allegedly forced a 13-year-old girl into prostitution and stripping at South Beach’s only fully nude strip joint, Club Madonna. The State Attorney’s Office says the girl, identified only as D.J., ran…
We came here today to bury GM Jeff Ireland’s time with the Dolphins, not to praise him. Well, actually we came here to relentlessly mock him on Twitter. After years of the #Fireland hashtag breaking out on the social networking site just about anytime the Dolphins did anything wrong (which…
Ever since Genting Corporation’s aggressive plans to bring a full-service casino and mega-resort to the old Miami Herald site went boom the Malaysian conglomerate has been pretty quiet about its next step. We should have figured they were up to something. Today comes news that they’ve struck a deal with…
Former Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias is serving his four-year prison sentence for dirty deeds done under the badge, but now he’s been charged with more crimes after he posted phone calls on YouTube and a police-centric message board in an attempt to intimidate and harass witnesses in his case…
Sure, it’s a blatant merchandising grab, but we’ve been pretty excited about the idea of Miami Heat players wearing special-edition nickname jerseys. We’ve already received news that Ray Allen would wear “J. Shuttlesworth” and that LeBron would sport “King James,” but today the team unveiled the full list of nicknames…
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Ron Oneal Morris, the transgender woman convicted of illegally pumping back-alley patients with all sorts of substances to enhance their derrières, turned herself in this morning to begin her sentence. Morris pleaded guilty last October to practicing health care without a license and was sentenced to 336 days in prison…
Despite widespread local approval in the legal community and a surprising show of support from religious leaders, Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will not receive a promotion to the federal level with a spot in U.S. District Court for the Southern District. Thomas would have been the first openly gay, black…
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It’s been over nine months since former Lt. Gov Jennifer Carroll resigned in disgrace, and Rick Scott has still not picked a replacement. Sure, it’s not like the lieutenant governor, and as long as Scott doesn’t bite the dust, Florida can run pretty smoothly without one. But new lawsuit claims…
Did you hear the one about how a LeBron James walks into a bar? The punchline is he got carded. Despite being one of the most famous athletes in the world, despite his beard, and despite (sorry, sorry) that hairline, James was still asked for ID to prove he was…
Perhaps the most surprising part of the City of Miami being named the fourth worst-run city in America is that it was higher in the rankings than Hialeah. However, both cities made the top ten. 24/7 Wall Street decided to start off the new year by ranking America’s 100 biggest…
Update: Over the weekend, Al Golden said he will stay at the University of Miami. Buckle in for a tense night, ‘Canes fans. To give you an idea of what the hell is going on in the wider sports internet rumorville, here’s what we got when we typed “Al Golden”…
Sounds the alarm, Hurricanes fans. ESPN’s Joe Schad reports that Al Golden has agreed to meet with Penn State representatives and that it could come as early as today. In the past, when his name has come up in other coaching searches, Golden has loudly denied interest. He’s kept tellingly…
