It looked like the Fish were going to lose this one. Down 2-0 against the Chicago Cubs going into the ninth at Wrigley Field, there didn’t seem to be much hope. Then Cubs closer Carlos Marmol came in.His first three batters saw a combined 12 balls and one strike. With…
After a pedophilia world tour that got him arrested in Thailand in 2006, former Miami gym teacher Charles Todd Stokes has been sentenced in U.S. federal court to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of molesting 70 boys, according to media reports.The Thai town he was arrested in, of…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez yesterday proposed cutting the county’s operating budget by $350 million. That includes whacking the library system’s $50 million budget to $24.5 million.It seems 13 libraries will be shut down.Riptide contributor Theo Karantsalis obtained the list of threatened libraries Thursday morning…
Don’t worry. If the upcoming NBA season actually happens, the Heat want to protect you from homicidal arepa dealers.City commissioners are scheduled to vote tonight on an ordinance that would prohibit hot dog vendors from selling food in the area surrounding American Airlines Arena, because the arena and whiny area restaurants…
The Riptide national politics desk has been working around the clock to bring you this shocking revelation: Some Democrats suspect the Republican Party is crazy.”I think Mitch McConnell, frankly, has lost his mind,” said Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, talking about the ongoing debate surrounding raising the national debt…
The largest U.S. public college has been put on notice: If you want to have 150,000 students, you need to hire some people to teach them.The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools issued the warning to Miami Dade College late last month, according to the Sun-Sentinel, and will revisit the school’s…
Newly elected Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Wednesday proposed cutting last year’s budget by 19 percent and reversing the tax hike ushered in by recalled mayor Carlos Alvarez, The Miami Herald reports.He wants to do it, and close the projected $400-million budget shortfall, by cutting 1,286 positions from the county;…
Jose Canseco isn’t sorry he published his ex-girlfriend’s telephone number on Twitter Friday night. He told us he’d do it again.We spoke with his ex, Leila Shennib, a fitness model. She said she’s been getting so many calls and texts offering to trade drugs for sex that Verizon has called to…
Well, you’ve finally done it Florida. You’ve beaten the Marlins into submission. The team with the worst attendance in the major leagues has given up: They have closed the upper deck of its stadium for the rest of the season, an inconvenience to the three people that ever sat up…
It was trying to buy some Gucci shades that did him in.Thirty-year-old Ricardo Fleurant was arrested at the Coastland Center Mall in Naples late last week after running out of a Sunglass Hut with what a clerk suspected was a stolen debit card, according to the Naples News. Police say…
Former Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal will be joining the studio team on “NBA on TNT,” the popular basketball show also featuring noted Heat hater Charles Barkley, according to unnamed reports in the Orlando Sentinel.The reports cast an eerie glow around former Heat owner Micky Arison’s reaction last month to Shaq’s…
In another astonishing chapter of staggering ineptitude surrounding the Miami Beach Police Department, the officer fired last week for running over a couple on the beach during an on-duty ATV joyride was one of the officers involved in the Memorial Day shooting death of Raymond Herisse…
After years of flirting with the line, it has become official: It’s more expensive to drink one beer at Sun Life Stadium than it is to watch nine innings of professional baseball.There really isn’t much else to say — parking is $10, a beer is $8, and the Marlins sent…
To those of you who thought that picture on the front of the St. Pete Times in May was a once-in-a-lifetime shot, well, we have another couple of them. We don’t use the word awesome very often. This, though, inspires awe…
Lawyer Jose Baez didn’t start his professional career defending capital murder cases. Before he successfully got Casey Anthony off the hook for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, he was just another guy who couldn’t get admitted to the Florida Bar because he was a deadbeat dad — the Orlando Sentinal reported Baez had a…
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…
Ah, the dollar menu — the primary source of sustenance for many a student and hobo. Each has its own strong points, but all that we visited had one thing in common: a cheeseburger. (For argument’s sake, we are defining “burger” as any roll-based sandwich featuring an ingredient restaurants self-identify…
A new chapter of the Jack McKeon Is Really Old Chronicles was written last night: The 80-year-old Marlins manager skippered a game against the son of a player he managed in the early 1970s.John Mayberry was the Kansas City Royals’ hard-hitting first baseman when McKeon took the reins for the…
Page One: Inside the New York Times, which opens Thursday at O Cinema, will mean different things to different people.The people whom it would most benefit will not see it. The people who are offended by the notion that a newspaper should charge online readers, the people who think The…
Trying to bet on Jack McKeon’s mortality
Welp, turns out she didn’t do it.Or, at least she won’t be going to jail for it — Orlando’s Casey Anthony was acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter yesterday, and, depending on how the legal wranglings go, will probably get to go home before the weekend, which should…
With the player lockout putting the 2011-2012 NBA season into question, it’s only a matter of time before the league’s poor, mistreated multi-millionaires are forced to pick up second jobs for rent money, car payments and general “make it rain all over the poor people” supplies.But, without marketable skills that…
