If you are a fan of a Florida Division I FBS football team, you had good reason to celebrate Saturday. It didn’t matter which team you were rooting for. For the first time since the FAU Owls became an FBS subdivision team in 2005, all seven Florida teams won games…
Remember during Rick Scott’s campaign he promised to bring Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida, open our coasts to offshore drilling, and ban embryonic stem cell research in the state? Yeah, well none of that has actually happened. In some cases Scott didn’t even bother to actually pursue those ideas. In…
Parks and Rec actress Aubrey Plaza has a well known obsession with the Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh. Seriously, a third of her Twitter is like weird tweets about Bosh. Well, Chris Bosh made a cameo on Parks and Recreation last week, and while he didn’t share a scene with Plaza’s…
A 65-year-old Florida man went to a McDonald’s drive-thru looking for a happy ending to go with his Happy Meal, police say. Clemons was arrested after rolling up to the window at his local Micky D’s without pants, grabbing a cashier’s hand, and trying to force her to touch his…
The Dolphins lost to the Ravens 26-23 yesterday after kicker Justin Tucker put the Ravens ahead for good on a 44-yard field goal with 1:42 left to go. The Dolphins had a final chance to at least tie the game thanks to some crazy heroics by quarterback Ryan Tannehill to…
More than 200 people marched along Lincoln Road in Miami Beach yesterday afternoon to mark a grim two-month anniversary: the death of teenager Israel Hernandez. Reefa, as Hernandez was widely known, died on August 6 after Miami Beach cops caught him spray painting an abandoned McDonald’s and Tasered him in…
Further proving that a still embarrassing number of my fellow gringos assume latin cuisine begin and ends with tacos, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade asked meteorologist Maria Molina to host a segment celebrating “Taco Day” because she “grew up on them.” Molina it turns out was born in Nicaragua…
Miami is less than four years removed from an epic real estate crash that wrecked the local economy, but it seems lately that new luxury condos are breaking ground every week. Most of the local economy is still in shambles. Unemployment remains high. The vast majority of local residents are…
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Chris Bosh has continued his impressive streak of making cameos during primetime TV. He’s already appeared Jessie, Go On, Law & Order: SVU, and Entourage. Last night, without any warning, Bosh popped up in the middle of Parks & Recreation. See also: Aubrey Plaza Has a Chris Bosh Obsession…
UPDATE: In February 2014, Alex Rodriguez and his legal team voluntarily dropped the lawsuit against Major League Baseball, the Players Association, and Commissioner Bud Selig. Rodriguez also accepted his season-long suspension. As Alex Rodriguez fights for his baseball-playing life in New York this week, he’s forbidden from discussing the details…
Just because Miley Cyrus did it at the VMAs doesn’t mean you should do it in front of a school bus full of young children. Valarie Dixon was arrested on Tuesday when she decided to put on a display of vulgar dancing in front of a school bus up in…
According to Public Policy Polling (yes, the same people who do political polls), Florida’s favorite NFL team is the Dolphins. The state’s favorite college football team are the Florida Gators. And the state’s favorite baseball team doesn’t even play in Florida. Turns out the Atlanta Braves are twice as popular…
Will people believe anything regarding money when the economy’s tanked? We’re starting to think so. In July 2008, Debra Saafield gave Zena the Clairvoyant $27,000 as a trust exercise. The Naples woman was told that her attachment to material objects was a holdover from her past as an Egyptian princess,…
After a humbling loss to the Saints, how will the Dolphins bounce back? What can they do? Who do they want to be? Are they better than what that performance delineated? Are they worse than what their record tells us? The season will answer these questions with unforgiving evidence. The…
Earlier today, a woman tried to ram the White House gates with her car and was subsequently shot and killed. Because these are the times we live in a meme-star has already emerged from this odd tragedy. His name is “bro witness.” He is a bro who witnessed the event…
For the first time since he’s taken office, Senator Marco Rubio’s approval ratings among Floridians are now dipping underwater. A new Public Policy Polling poll finds that more Floridians disapprove of Marco Rubio’s job performance than approve…
If you’re planning on stealing an Aston Martin you might want to Google “how to start an Aston Martin” before you barge into the owner’s home, tie them up and try to make off with the car. Zuhdi Musa, 47, and Rosa Maria Musa, 45, were arrested today in connection…
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Jeremy Justin Julien couldn’t keep his junk behind his zipper so now the 23-year-old is behind bars. He was arrested earlier this week for twice exposing himself to a young girl under the age of 16…
The Florida brickell bush and the Carter’s small-flowered flax are two flowering plants that grow nowhere else in the world except for Miami-Dade County. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the plants deserve special protection under the Endangered Species Act and that the 2,700 acres where they…
Dolphins’ defensive tackle Jared Odrick has one of the more distinctive sack dances in the game. Whenever he sacks a QB, he pulls some moves straight out of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Well, Pee-wee himself has noticed and has a message for Odrick…
