So how would you feel about losing LeBron James if it meant getting rising star Blake Griffin in return? ESPN wants you to think about it. Because they’re going to run the LeBron free agency story into the ground almost as severely as everything Tim Tebow, ESPN’s website is running…
David Beckham didn’t say much we didn’t already know, but damn did he look good. Becks took the PAMM podium in a slate-gray suit this morning to officially announce Major League Soccer’s newest team would be in Miami. “Miami… is a vibrant city. It’s a city with a lot of…
Miami-Dade Police were busy last night. Officers conducted three raids of three separate grow houses in the Redland last night and hauled off about $1 million worth of marijuana in the process…
David Beckham finally formally announced what we all knew: he’s bringing an MLS team to the city, with the condition that he find a location to build a stadium. Besides noting that the team would start play in either 2016 or 2017, we didn’t get any more details…
It happened again. Rekindling a classic South Florida tale, another rampaging naked man with superhuman strength and a taste for flesh emerged last night. The man, who hasn’t been identified yet, attacked and seriously injured a retired police officer, severely bit into an 18-year-old man’s face, and then was shot…
David Beckham, to the delight of soccer fans in South Florida, is expected to confirm Wednesday that Major League Soccer will return to Miami, possibly as soon as 2016. Since the Fort Lauderdale Miami Fusion closed up shop in 2001 due to a wide assortment of issues, including a lack…
Love may be “an ever-fixed mark/That looks on tempests and is never shaken,” as the Bard once wrote. But beauty is a fickle bitch. That’s a lesson Kerri Aultman now knows all too well. The model normally keeps her hair dyed dark, with short sides and a long, stylish swoop…
It’s official. Walmart now owns a big chunk of midtown Miami, and its plans to build a supercenter in the bustling neighborhood trudge on. According to exMiami, Walmart closed the deal in January for $8.2 million, though there are some conditions attached. See also: Walmart Is Coming to Midtown, Like…
You ever get into weird internet k-holes? One second we’re browsing a Deadspin story about this former NFL quarterback who is now 320 pounds and still playing quarterback in an indoor league, when next we’re on Wikipedia reading about various internet indoor football leagues. Which is when we learned that…
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Almost 12 years ago, Major League Soccer announced it was shuttering the financially faltering Miami Fusion. Fast-forward to today, and sometime in the next 24 hours the league is expected to announce it’s officially re-entering the market with a David Beckham-owned team. Back on that fateful January 2002 day, Commissioner…
Alfonso Fanjul is one of South Florida’s most powerful businessmen, a Cuban exile and longtime critic of the Castro regime, but apparently he’s changing his tune. He’s now laying plans to quietly invest in the Communist nation. Cuban-American politicians were quite blunt in their response…
The Miami Heat beat the Detroit Pistons 102-96 Monday night, starting what they can only hope is a post Super Bowl run that rivals the 27-game winning streak they enjoyed last season. The Big 3 combined for 71 points in the win, dominating from the start behind Wade and Bosh’s…
Don Whittington charged up to a desk inside a gargantuan Fort Lauderdale warehouse built from blue corrugated metal. He was seething. “You’re a bitch,” he hissed at the receptionist. Then, the five-foot-11 Whittington, who was once a championship racecar driver before earning an 18-month federal prison sentence for involvement with…
The Glenn Curtiss House is Miami Springs’ crown jewel. The pueblo-style building was once home to a South Florida hero who earned the first U.S. pilot’s license, made the first officially witnessed flight in the United States, and piloted the first long-distance trip. He built Miami Springs, as well as…
Jean Price was so insistent that a television reporter leave her alone that she jumped in his car and took off, all while the reporter’s camera was rolling. Josh Taylor, a reporter with Sarasota’s ABC affiliate, was working a pretty standard consumer rip-off story. An older woman had agreed to…
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Like a college freshman named Jamie who’s decided to reinvent herself under the name “Jaymi,” Coconut Grove will likely rebrand itself “the Nearby Republic of Coconut Grove.” No word on how Key West, the “Conch Republic,” feels about the Grove piling on its branding shtick. But seriously, the Grove’s current…
Despite everyone knowing that David Beckham is actively trying to bring an MLS franchise to Miami, he hasn’t said anything official about it. That will change Wednesday, when he’s scheduled to make an announcement alongside Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and MLS president Don Garber at Pérez Art Museum Miami…
Iesha Crespo has most recently appeared in Drake’s music videos and the HBO series with Mark Wahlberg Ballers, but the 23-year-old got her start with Taz’s Angels, a mysterious girl gang modeled after Charlie’s Angels. Its leader, Michael “Taz” Williams, puts a group of five women up in a $4.5…
You know you’re in trouble when your only defender is a company named “Bigglesworth.” Welcome to the sordid existence of South Florida’s most hated species: the Burmese python. This creature is so hated that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission last year assembled a ragtag crew of untrained python…
Over at HuffPost Miami, writer J.J. Colagrande, a man who just a few months ago declared that Miami is the best city in America, authored a Holden Caulfield-level diatribe claiming that “Miami is so fake it’s frustrating.” You’ve probably seen it pop up on your Facebook news feed these past…
