Former Hurricanes Coach Larry Coker was criticized for his over-reliance on internet site rankings and media buzz when it came to recruiting. Of course, Coker is the former coach for a reason, and we’re never truly sure what to make of National Signing day bruahaha. But current Coach Randy Shannon…
President Obama and many in his administration have been accused of “Chicago style-politics” by the likes of Glenn Beck and others. Now Marco Rubio is facing similar criticism for being “a slick package from Miami.” Maybe the two can get together and man hug it out.”Rubio is a slick package…
Depending on how you look at it, one of the beauties of the Super Bowl is that all of America gets to put aside their non-NFL differences, turn the brains off, and indulge in massive amounts of chicken wings and beer for the night. But a Conservative Christian group, The…
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More than 100 Miami Beach Police officers and members of the local Fraternal Order of Police chapter packed into the city commission chambers this afternoon with a simple — if fiery — message. The Beach is on its own for security at private Super Bowl events this week. As a…
Tim Tebow isn’t the only football star stepping into the gridiron of abortion rights. New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita told the New York Times he doesn’t exactly agree with Tim Tebow’s pro-life message, his support of Focus on the Family, or with CBS’s decision to ban a gay dating ad during…
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Last year when Barack Obama was in Florida, he engaged in the “man hug” heard around the right wing. Now his body language has caused another needless brouhaha, after an AP photographer caught the POTUS apparently bowing to Pam Iorio, the mayor of…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek’s last campaign report had some surprising names in it. Yeah, he snagged some usual suspects as donors: Swampthing James Carville, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Terry McAuliffe, and, um, Don King.But he also scored a constituency that would presumptively belong to Republican Marco…
Dolphins fans owe two debts of gratitude to the Indianapolis Colts this year: (1) for dropping a regular-season game to ensure that the ’72 Fins remain the only team in modern NFL history to complete a perfect season, and (2) for stopping the NY Jets, with classless coach Rex Ryan, from playing in a…
Gus Moore, founder and owner of Miami Beach 411, a decade-old website with one of the city’s oldest and most active online community forums, has a hefty bone to pick with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau.It all began last week when Moore was surfing GMCVB’s website and logged…
To the unitiated, Super Bowl Media Day must sound like some outrageous backstage fantasy. Media and players partying together! Celebrities around every corner! Free buffet lunch! Well not to worry, ignorant and uninvited masses. Riptide is here to shatter those dreams. Imagine, instead, an airless room packed way beyond fire…
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has some very vocal enemies among business-owners in the Coconut Grove parcel of his district, thanks in large part to his unwavering support of a 3 a.m. bar curfew there. Public officials — especially those with controversial stances — usually expect to take a smattering of public ridicule as part…
Not long ago, New Times ran a story titled “Escape From South Beach,” which makes the case that the epicenter of the gay community is no longer in South Beach. Miami Beach’s gay paper, Wire Magazine, apparently took it personally. This week, editor Thomas Barker dedicated an entire issue to “a rebuttal.”His…
Remember Joe Kapp? The famous Latino quarterback long before the NFL was courting Latino viewers? With the Jets and Mark Sanchez out of the picture, Latinos won’t have much to root for come Super Bowl Sunday. Colts wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez is sidelined with a season-long injury, and Jonathan Casillas,…
An audit criticized the waste of tens of thousands of tax-payer dollars by city of Miami workers on Government credit cards. Some how we got stiffed with the bill for a pink metallic dog collar. [Herald]A stage being built at Sun Life stadium collapsed, injuring four. [CBS4]Jackson Memorial Health Systems lost four…
The picture of Jets coach Rex Ryan’s now-infamous flip-off of a few heckling Miami Dolphins fans quickly made their way around the media and not surprisingly into the front office in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Ryan has been fined $50,000. That’s more than the average American makes in a year,…
Armando Gutierrez Jr., son of local power player Armando Gutierrez Sr., has dropped his bid to challenge lovably insane Orlanda-area Congressman Alan Grayson. Gutierrez, who was born and raised in Miami, took up residence in Grayson’s congressional district this year with the intent of running as a Republican against the…
Chad Ochocinco hasn’t yet accecpted New Times’ informal offer to write a 10,000-word odyssey/cover story about wearing Snuggies at McDonald’s and living a double life as Esteban the Most Interesting Footballer in the World. But we’ll consider his effort this afternoon at Sun Life Stadium a trial run. With a massive uniformed…
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”Who Dat Nation” has begun its descent on our fair city in advance of the Super Bowl, where the New Orleans Saints will take on the Indianapolis Colts. Fittingly, while the Colts will stay in Fort Lauderdale, the Saints will hang out at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami, and…
Traditional newspaper columnists get to enjoy things such as “taking time to write” and “thinking out ideas before they’re published,” which are practically unheard of here in the media ghetto known as blog world. Yet so many newspaper columns are just horrible, horrible things to read. We don’t know why…
Nearly a month after the body of aspiring model Paula Sladewski was found in flames in a dumpster, North Miami Police have finally released a sketch of a man they say witnesses last saw her with.Sladewski was visiting Miami with her boyfriend, Kevin Klym, to catch Lady Gaga’s New Year’s…
