The Florida Marlins. Man. What a June. A streak of 19 losses in 20 games, an entire starting lineup batting below .280 for the month, a drop to dead last in the majors for runs scored. Oh, and the manager was replaced by a guy who was getting senior citizen discounts…
A 50-year-old Colombian drug kingpin was fined $1 million and sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in Miami. And that was the plea deal.Edgar Vellejo-Guarin was indicted in 2001 after Coast Guard officers discovered 4,000 kilograms of cocaine on a freighter in the Caribbean and…
They’re listening. Really hard.Wiretaps in Florida authorized by district courts and the state attorney general rose from 78 in 2009 to 143 in 2010, according to a report released Thursday by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Florida’s 83.3-percent jump is the second-largest in the country…
Good news, Miami! LeBron James has not fled the country, nor does he appear to be too depressed for a few photos with some fellow squagillionaires. Apparently inspired by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s release of pictures to prove he’s not too dead, LeBron’s business manager Maverick Carter tweeted several pictures…
He’s a jerk. Filmmakers don’t want him in their LeBron-themed movies. He somehow pissed off Taiwan. The Decision, The Decision, The Decision. LeBron James, as Riptide has reported countless times, is the most hated man in sports.But damn, can the guy sell a shoe…
Update, 2:17 p.m.: Random Pixels blogger Bill Cooke has put up the Hansen spread, complete with a photo of Hansen leaving a Palm Beach liquor store, his wedding ring gleaming in the sunlight.You know who he is: The expensive haircut, the cheap ties. The fake tan, the small-town wrestling announcer…
It took a week to make it onto the web, but you can finally read Bruce Springsteen’s eulogy for saxophonist Clarence Clemons in which he called Clemons “the man with a Ph.D. in saxual healing … the next black president of the United States even though he’s dead.” Clemons died…
It’s been almost three weeks since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had an operation in Cuba and essentially disappeared from public view, and his citizens are, in short, losing their shit over it. He reappeared in images and a video released late Tuesday wearing what appears to be the same shirt…
Surprisingly, Marlins interim manager Jack McKeon and 23-year-old outfielder Logan Morrison don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to Twitter.On Saturday, the same day McKeon benched Morrison after a 4-for-33 batting slump, the Miami Herald quoted the 80-year-old McKeon telling him that he needs “to start spending more time on baseball…
UPDATE, 4:36 p.m.: NBC Miami is reporting that the argument between the neighbors was over a $5 loan, and that 100 people were displaced by the fire. In a massive step backwards for Grand Avenue neighbor relations, a Coconut Grove man is accusing his neighbor of breaking his bedroom window…
The baby gorilla born last Sunday at Zoo Miami has died. The gorilla, which was featured on Wednesday as our 305 Photo of the Day, died some time last night, the Miami Herald reports. What a way to start the weekend. An unconditional bummer.The mother “seemed to be taking good…
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…
The Wilkinson Sword company was founded in 1772. It made bayonets.Now it’s making disposable men’s razors with scented handles and selling them by saying the aroma will help guys wake up in the morning.Schick and Wilkinson Sword merged in 1993 and have since been pushing seven-blade safety razors that never…
Coral Gables: Hide your filthy, low-class pickup
People started freaking out on Twitter Wednesday night over an “article” indicating that BET host Rocsi Diaz was arrested in Miami for “attempting to steal over two hundred dollars in undergarments and high heels.” Except the article exists only as a screen cap and was written by someone who seems to have…
You’ve probably heard by now — Doug Hutchison, the 51-year-old who played Percy “Worst Human Around” Wetmore in The Green Mile, has married a girl too young to get a full driver’s license in every state but the Dakotas. Her name is Courtney Stodden, she’s reportedly 16 years old, and…
It’s been almost two weeks since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has made a public appearance. The 56-year-old leader, a television regular since he took power in 1999, hasn’t been heard from publicly since he was hospitalized in Cuba June 10 for a “pelvic abscess,” which is raising serious questions about…
Police went looking for a burglary suspect on SW 69th Avenue yesterday afternoon and thought they saw him run into a home. They believed him to be armed and barricaded inside, according to WSVN. The “standoff” began around 2 p.m., and at 6, the SWAT team stormed the house.Nobody home…
The Miss USA contestants need to either read a textbook or shut the hell up.Aside from the asinine, sexist 1950s mentality that the “competition” is based on, the annual beauty contest is intellectually damaging to the young women who are looking to them as role models. We’re steering them wrong…
Trader Jack is back. They’ve taken him out of the mothballs and planted him back in the Marlins dugout, and he made a great stride forward by taking Hanley Ramirez out of the starting lineup as soon as he marched into town.Who is this guy? Where did he come from?…
Nobody’s saying Miami-Dade is particularly well-behaved, but GOOD LORD, Palm Beach, you kicked our ass on this one. What a mug shot. Such emotion, such conflict. And a faint suggestion of artful composition too.Oh — and this isn’t his first arrest…
Update 5:20 p.m.: McKeon is officially the team’s interim manager — he answered questions about his age at a press conference Monday and said he thought the Marlins had a shot to play in October even though he’s “not hip with the Twitter or Facebook or something like that,” according…
