If there were a Mexican-American Comedy Hall of Fame, Paul Rodriguez would be in the first class of inductees (along with other icons such as Cheech Marin, George Lopez, and half of Louis C.K.). Rodriguez has done it all. He’s appeared in more than 45 films with actors including Anthony…

Jeffrey Loria and the Miami Marlins just keep giving fans more ways to hate the team. Right now they’re fighting the Houston Astros for the worst record in Major League Baseball. The Fish also have the worst offense in the league, and it’s not even like there’s some up-and-coming barrage…

Strange things always happen on the way to success. Every well-known actor or comedian has stories to tell about his or her rise to the top, including some incredible peaks and horrible lows. Tone Bell, who began his stand-up career in Texas before moving to Los Angeles, certainly has a…

Year in and year out, Major League Baseball tries to bill interleague play between our hometown Miami Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays as an intrastate rivalry. Unfortunately for the Marlins, the only rivalry that exists is in how the Tampa Bay Rays, who operate under a similar financial situation…

Explaining your continued Miami Marlins fandom this season is like explaining why you keep dating that girl who’s clearly wrong for you. “But she’s got the best personality.” “She’s great in a bind.” “She’s always willing to give me a back massage.” Deep down, everyone knows she’s a mess, but…

Later this month, the NFL will announce the site of Super Bowl L, marking the 50th anniversary of the mega-sporting event. In the running to host are Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Arlington, Texas — and, yes, Miami. While Miami has always been an NFL favorite location for…

Once upon a time, George Lopez became America’s favorite Latino voice. Like other Hispanic comedians such as Paul Rodriguez and Carlos Mencia, Lopez based his comedy on all the odd, quirky things that Latinos do. He poked fun at his own people with enough care that they weren’t offended but…

Legend has it that Mel Blanc, the “man of a thousand voices” and basically the voice of every Looney Tunes character, wound up in a deep coma after a car crash in the ’60s. Blanc was unresponsive to any stimulus until his son asked him: “Bugs, Bugs Bunny? Are you…

One essential qualification for calling yourself a real Miami Heat fan is pure, unequivocal hatred of the Boston Celtics. Between Kevin Garnett’s need for touching other players’ private parts and Paul Pierce’s weird chipmunk face, the Celtics are the Heat’s most disliked rivals. Heading into the final matchup of the…

It seems like just yesterday that the Miami Heat were on track to break the winning record set by the 1972-73 Los Angeles Lakers with an epic streak that had NBA fans across the nation captivated (and haters unable to snark quite as hard as usual). Heat fans had dreams…

In the world of alt-weekly journalism, it’s hard to write about a 20-plus-game winning streak in basketball. By the time this item is printed, the Miami Heat’s mind-blowing string of win after win after damn amazing win could be broken. But let’s imagine it lasts. If the Heat continues its…

Mascots are one of the most ridiculous aspects of sports. Kids love them, and you know the guy in the suit did it mainly the get close to the cheerleaders. Sure, it’s all fun and games — until his fuzzy face right in yours trying to get you to stand…

The Charlotte Bobcats are a really bad basketball team. They own the worst record in the NBA by five games, after setting the record for lowest win percentage in the history of the NBA last season. Owner Michael Jordan’s world-famous competitiveness translated to NBA ownership as badly as Magic Johnson’s…

Magic City Casino has paired up with local comedy purveyors the Have-Nots to find the Ultimate Miami Comedian. Miami’s comedy scene is still a fledgling, compared to those of other major cities to which Miamians are always comparing themselves (New York, Los Angeles). But South Florida has some seriously funny…

Riding high on their latest soul crushing of the Boston Celtics, Miami’s favorite team, the Heat, are now second on the all-time list of longest NBA win streaks at 23 games. They’re second only to the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers, whose streak lasted 33 games and ended in a blowout…

Tuesday night will mark game 62 of the 2012-13 season, and one thing is clear: LeBron James is in God mode. Basketball fans, particularly the fortunate ones in Miami, are witnessing what could go down as the most impressive statistical year in modern basketball history. On a superstar team, LeBron…

Age is the enemy of the athlete. In sports — even college sports — youth often equals prowess. That’s what makes the University of Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team, veritable old men in college basketball terms, so impressive. Of the team’s seven starters this year, all are in their 20s,…

The last time the Miami Heat faced Western Conference title hopefuls the Memphis Grizzlies, six games into the regular season, it wasn’t pretty. The boys in red lost 86-104. Unfortunately, the Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol and Zach “Z-Bo” Randolph are the kind of players the Heat just can’t handle — skilled,…

It’s finally time for the hometown favorite Miami Heat to play at home after the NBA All-Star break and four away games. Twelve days between home games can mean one of two things: The players are ready to tear through the second half of the season, or they’ll prove that…