Hey, Miami-Dade voters: Looks like you’ll have a chance after all to decide whether the Dolphins — and their billionaire owner, Stephen Ross — deserve tax dollars to help renovate Sun Life Stadium. With bills to approve a hike in bed taxes stalled in Tallahassee, the NFL flew out its…
Norman Braman likes to think of himself as a man of the people. The billionaire famously sued the county and the Marlins in 2008 on behalf of taxpayers pissed off over the disastrous stadium deal. When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez raised property taxes two years later, it didn’t put a…
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Earlier today, NBA player Jason Collins made history as the first active athlete in a major American sports league to come out as a gay. Just hours later, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mike Wallace was just the latest athlete to come out as an idiot…
What the hell exactly is a wrong with Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross? This is a guy who saw the public outrage over the Marlins stadium debacle, and almost immediately begins his own ill-timed campaign to seek public funds for a stadium upgrade. He’s also apparently a guy who can’t understand…
Hialeah Police Sgt. Tomas Muñoz wants you to know he’s not some sort of coke fiend. He’s merely an innocent public servant who happens to be dating a prostitute with an evil pimp. Muñoz was arrested over the weekend on charges of possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia after drugs and…
In an event that can be described only as one of the most Florida things to ever happen, three self-proclaimed rednecks attempted to catch a 277.7-pound bull shark with their bare hands. Floridians might be odd, but we are nothing if not tough. So, naturally, these guys succeeded. Of course,…
With Michael Bay’s big-screen adaptation of Pain & Gain opening atop the box office this weekend, masses of moviegoers discovered what Miamians already knew: Pete Collins’ tale of bodybuilders gone bad is one hell of a great yarn. But the Sun Gym Gang’s capers barely scratch the surface of Miami’s…
The Miami Heat minus an injured Dwyane Wade closed out the Milwaukee Bucks Sunday afternoon with an 88-77 victory, sweeping the best-of-seven series four games to none. As was a theme in this series, the Bucks lulled the Miami Heat to sleep for three quarters, hanging around until the Heat…
Polling sites will open today in Miami-Dade for an election that might not actually come to pass. Yes, you can head to several early-voting sites beginning today to cast your ballot on the contentious Dolphin Stadium renovation referendum, but the election might end up just getting cancelled…
Florida lawmakers don’t want you to relax with a hit off your bong, but apparently they don’t mind you winding down with wine. Lots and lots of wine. For the first time ever wine kegs will be legalized in Florida, assuming of course Rick Scott signs the bill into law…
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A day after a bill that would ban the sale of bongs and certain pipes in Florida overwhelming passed the Florida House, its sister bill found similarly broad support in the Senate. The bill passed the legislative body 31-2 today, and will now head to Gov. Rick Scott. Though, the…
During a confrontation with police, 19-year-old University of Florida student Michael Silecchia begged the officers not to cut his penis off. Then he seemingly had an abrupt change of mind and started asking police to in fact go ahead and cut his manhood off. We should probably mention that he…
Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that’s exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong.See also:- Florida School Responds To Criticism…
The Tampa Women’s Club thought they’d come up with a pretty cheeky way to raise some money at their big banquet last weekend: Attendees could pay 20 bucks for a champagne flute with the chance to grab the one lucky glass with a $5,000 brilliant cut diamond inside. Yet when…
The Miami Heat overcame a dismal first half Thursday night to defeat Milwaukee 104-91 to take a commanding 3-0 lead in this best of four series. Ray Allen came off the bench to score 23 points, hitting five of eight threes, while LeBron James finished with 22 points, six assists,…
Miami Hurricanes linebacker Gabe Terry was found with less than an ounce of marijuana and his time with the team is over because of it. The school announced today that he’s been kicked off the team in the wake of his felony arrest…
Perhaps Marco Rubio’s biggest flaws is his tendency to remain “open” to just about any right wing nonsense. He’s the kind of guy whose flirted with the Birther movement before, and he refuses to take a position on exactly how old the Earth is. He wants to portray himself as…
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On one hand, we have nice beaches and warm weather. On the other, you could get eaten by a python or bath-salts-addled zombie, so we really weren’t sure where Florida would fall on Gallup’s ranking of the least stressed states. Turns out the Sunshine State made the top ten…
While other states are legalizing medicinal marijuana and decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, Florida is going in the exact opposite direction. A bill that would ban the sale of pipes and bongs that could be used to smoke marijuana passed the state House yesterday with a lopsided 112-3…
