Some MLB team’s fan bases cover entire states if not large regions of the country. Most are at least the most popular team in every county in their home metro-area. Of course, the Marlins are not like most MLB teams. The Fish have one of the smallest geographical fan footprints…
What began with a Twitter campaign ended with LeBron James realizing the dreams of 16-year-old cancer patient Ebony Nettles-Bey. She’s a star high school basketball player from Milwaukee who was blindsided last October with a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Her teammates decided to cheer her up by starting a Twitter…
If you’re anything like us you probably appreciate the message of Critical Mass but have some really dark fantasies when you’re in your car and get stuck in the traffic caused by the monthly bike event. The best way to avoid that is checking the route first and staying as…
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Like many families in Miami, Nelson Valeriano Rodriguez and Nelson Angel Rodriguez were running a father and son business together. Thier’s just happened to be a drug ring. Miami-Dade police busted the pair yesterday after receiving an anonymous tip…
Months after the death of local teenage artist Israel “Reefa” Hernandez, friends and supporters are demanding justice. On Tuesday morning a group of protestors targeted Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez and demanded that officer Jorge Mercado, the man who used the Taser that killed Hernandez, be fired. See also:…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
No word on whether he just wanted to do hoodrat stuff with his friend, but a 12-year-old boy was arrested on charges of grand theft auto today after stealing and crashing a Trans Am in Miami. Spring Break cannot end soon enough…
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Isis, a four year-old baboon at Jungle Island, is experiencing her first joys of motherhood after giving birth to a newborn baby yesterday. Which means obviously that she already wants to share the baby photos with you. See also: Tiny Florida Panther Kitten Rescued from Abandonment Is Adorable…
Kobe Bryant is the subject of a sobering New Yorker profile that follows the basketball icon as he enters the waning days of his playing career. Bryant takes aim at the Miami Heat during an interview. Not for anything basketball related, but rather, oddly, for the team’s public tribute to…
Are you 305 till you die? Because that might mean you’ll be 305 for a long, long time. According to a new study, Miami-Dade is one of the healthiest counties not only in Florida but also in all of America. It’s in the top 10 percent of healthiest counties overall…
To be blunt: If you’re not going to Ultra this weekend, avoid downtown. However, if for some reason you find yourself there and need to navigate the traffic mess, here’s the 411…
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Thanks to a five-month undercover investigation by animal rights activists, a man named Raul “Freaky” Fernandez is facing seven counts of animal cruelty. The group Animal Recover Mission went undercover and filmed Fernandez doing horrifying things to animals at his unlicensed slaughterhouse in Miami-Dade’s C-9 Basin. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s…
Deciding which mall to go to in Miami is never an easy proposition. Are you going to go to the good mall or the good good mall? Then there are the too-good-for-you malls and the so-bad-they’re-good malls. Because we’re always helpful, we’ve decided to rank the major malls in Miami-Dade…
Guns are no longer just boy fun in Florida anymore. Woman now make up a higher rate of those who have concealed carry licenses than at any point before. Approximately one out of every four concealed carry permits are issued to women, and that translates to a whole lot of…
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Trina has basically become the Suze Orman of the rap game. “Da Baddest Bitch” broke onto the scene on a Trick Daddy track, detailing what she would do to “five or six best friends,” but the Miami rapper has since traded in her porno-grade lyrics for a new obsession: money…
Gay marriage isn’t legal in Florida, but apparently gay divorce is. Sort of. There have been a handful of Florida judges granting same-sex divorces in Florida that attracted little publicity. However, a new divorce case in Tampa seeks to dissolve not only the couple’s marriage but also Florida’s gay marriage…
There’s a colossal Russian-owned boat parked in Biscayne Bay, but don’t worry. It has nothing to do with the escalating national tension with Vladimir Putin. The 436-foot yacht belongs to Yuri Scheffler, a man who himself is no friend of Putin’s and who controls the Stolichnaya vodka brand…
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