Sunday marks the end of an era, when AMC airs it’s mega-hit original drama series Breaking Bad for the final time. Creator Vince Gilligan has done a superb job of keeping viewers on their toes, so it’s anyone’s guess as to what the final 75 minutes have in store. One…
The NBA season is still a month away, but already Miami is bubbling with news about our back-to-back champion ballers. Michael Beasley has returned, hopefully minus the marijuana habit. Draft pick James Ennis is already king of the koalas. And you might soon be able to buy a jersey with…
Apparently when you win two championships in a row you can hold training camp in a place that usually caters to people looking to relax and party rather than, you know, train. Yep, the Miami Heat will be holding their training camp at the fancy, almost theme park-like Atlantis Paradise…
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Yesterday, an envelope full of a suspicious white powder showed up at the the Deltona Water office up in Volusia County. Fearing the worst, authorities ordered the place evacuated. Though, after testing it was discovered the white powder wasn’t anything like anthrax, but rather crack cocaine. So, how’d it get…
Last names are so over. The NBA is reportedly entertaining the possibility of allowing the Miami Heat to display nicknames on the back of their jersey for at least one game against the Brooklyn Nets next season — probably because finding an excuse to offer a new limited edition LeBron…
Embattled Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is on the real estate move again. After selling his Miami Beach mansion for a tidy $30 million back in May, A-Rod has now “downgraded” to a luxury $2.1 million condo in a mid-beach tower. According to Gossip Extra, Rodriguez’s new digs are in the…
Yesterday Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced his intention to nix the nomination of openly gay judge William Thomas to the federal judiciary, citing questions about the judges”judicial temperament.” Rubio’s flack, Brooke Sammon, told the Daily Business Review Thursday Rubio has “questions about his judicial temperament and his willingness to impose…
The best thing you can say about the Miami Marlins is that they’re not technically the worst. The Houston Astros have a worse record and TV ratings, and the Tampa Bay Rays have lower attendance. So when ESPN magazine decided to rank every professional franchise in all four major North…
Remember when four kids under the watch of the Department of Children and Families were found dead in June and July? Overworked and understaffed employees at the agency repeatedly deemed the living situations of youngsters safe when clearly things were far from it. The whole scenario caused chief administrator David…
In Florida, there is an apparently fuzzy line between loving animals and loving animals. For those who do not understand the difference, let’s look at two examples from yesterday’s headlines. In the first case, the Miami Gardens Police Department announced it would hold funeral services tomorrow for a German shepherd…
Tyrell Johnson was only on the Dolphin’s preseason roster for a couple of months before the 2012 season, but apparently he liked Miami so much he still sticks around here to pee on the street. Johnson was arrested this weekend on Miami Beach for doing just that…
More often than not the loser of the annual FIU-FAU game gets crowned the worst FBS team in Florida. This year something weird and strange is happening. USF, who once touted itself as part of Florida’s “big four,” sucks in historic measures. They opened their season with a 53-21 loss…
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The rumors at the beginning of the season went that unless the Dolphins managed to turn things around this year General Manager Jeff Ireland would finally find himself with a pink slip. Of course, now that the team is off to a 3-0 start those #Fireland Twitter hashtags are getting…
Jacob Landis had a bike, a passion, and a cause. Since April, the 24-year-old Annapolis, Maryland resident has been biking across America to attend games at every single MLB park with the hope of raising $1 million to help children who need cochlear implants. This past Saturday, he was on…
Florida, we have an epidemic, and it’s time that the suits up in Tallahassee did something about it. Riptide is urging Rick Scott and our state legislature to pass a comprehensive law mandating that all strip clubs include an attached child care center, because stories of people leaving their kids…
Chiquita Brands International is in damage control mode, requesting a federal appeals court block lawsuits filed against it in the U.S. by Colombians whose relatives were killed in that country’s decades-long civil war. The produce giant has admitted to paying a right-wing Colombian paramilitary group $1.7 million over a seven-year…
Meet Josue Pierre, the Rickenbacker Causeway Creeper. The 25-year-old has a skeevy way of trying to pick up women he doesn’t know; groping the most intimate parts of their bodies. Four ladies jogging the William Powell Bridge along the causeway experienced Pierre’s personal-space-invading mitts the morning of Aug. 13. “If…
For much of the game yesterday, the Falcons bruised, battered and manhandled the Dolphins along the line of scrimmage, and there was the sense that this Dolphins game would end like so many others we’ve witnessed in the last decade or so: with a loud, wet fart heard for miles…
City politics is supposed to be simple. Private companies vie for public projects, with the job going to the best bid. But not in Miami Beach. Here, city officials secretly conspire to award friends with lucrative contracts in exchange for envelopes full of cash (just Google “Gus Lopez”). Government on…
The baby born in the middle of a busy Miami road after his father got into a crash while driving his mother to the hospital he’ll grow up, get caught in Miami-Dade traffic, and think, “This is where I was born. This is where I am from. Bad driving brought…
