Holy fucking ass clenching horsefuckery, this team!!The Miami Heat had everything in its favor. A game at home. A 13-point lead in the second quarter. A 9-point lead in the third. The Boston Celtics stars struggling on offense. A chance to go up 3-2 and force Boston to win two…
For the past week, rumors regarding the Miami Zombie attack have been going bananas on the Internet. In one version, face-eater Rudy Eugene was infected with something called the LQP-79 virus. A website and YouTube video devoted to the supposed outbreak racked up over 10,000 views in less than 24…
Was I in the right place?Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals had just started, and the denizens of On The Rocks Sports Bar in Miami Beach couldn’t give a shit. Well, that’s not entirely true. The older woman seated to my right at the bar — with her baby…
Republicans are fond of saying that unions are corrupt, opaque, and lazy. It’s a mantra of theirs, right up there with de-funding Planned Parenthood and telling liberals to get their god-damned, latte-drinking hands off of their firearms.But not even in their wildest labor-bashing wet dreams could they have imagined the…
A good chunk of the sports media and NBA fandom relishes holding up LeBron James as the biggest sports villain that ever did live, so much so that every little flaw is blown up out of proportion and presented as proof that he falls somewhere on the evil spectrum between…
Florida is once again shaping up to be the biggest battleground of the 2012 election, and many election prognosticators have pointed out it’s would be nearly impossible for President Barack Obama to win Florida and still lose the general election. Though a poll in May showed Mitt Romney with a…
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A masseuse died at Chris Bosh’s Miami Beach home on Sunday morning, according to Local 10. The cause of death has not yet been released, but according to a Miami Beach Police report, that woman had battled cancer less than a year before…
As if Carly Rae Jepsen’s perfect little pop tune “Call Me Maybe” wasn’t already set to become the song of the summer, the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders have come along to help bounce it in that direction. Yeah, there’s certainly a lot of bouncing going on in this video.While on location…
Well this couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Today, the Miami-Dade County Commission took the first step towards adopting a strict ban on synthetic marijuana products. It comes hot on the heels of news that a North Miami Beach man on some sort of synthetic drug tried to…
Another week, another local man on synthetic drugs showing bizarre behavior with a penchant for biting others. Brandon DeLeon, a North Miami Beach man, is under arrest for walking into a Boston Market and trying to get into a fight with two police officers who were dining at the restaurant…
We will savor any good news linked to our tiny little indulgences. So thank you, University of Miami and University of South Florida researchers, for confirming that there is a link between in taking moderately high levels of caffeine on a daily basis and the avoidance of Alzheimer’s disease…
Hialeah Gardens’ Mater Academy senior Albert Almora has one hell of a choice on his hands this morning — whether to become a star playing college baseball for his hometown Canes, or whether to take an estimated $3.25 million bonus to join the Chicago Cubs system.Almora tells the Miami Herald…
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As if we needed any more evidence that Florida nightlife anywhere outside of the 305 absolutely sucks, a recent foam party over in Naples failed so hard that it sent at least 40 people to the hospital. Some of the victims even ended up in wheelchairs. There wasn’t even any…
It was really only a matter of time before some high profile, right wing homophobe somehow decided to connect the Miami zombie attack to gays. Their thought process must be, “Something horrible happened? Well, obviously somehow the gays are involved.”Bryan Fischer, the director of Issues Analysis for the American Family…
Chris Bosh is coming back for Game 5 of the Heat-Celtics series, according to ESPN. We haven’t been this excited about anything Bosh-related since he first signed with the Heat, because good basketball lord the Heat seriously need something to get them over the hump and finish off this series…
Have you ever seen a zombie movie? The zombies usually get shot. Which is a pretty good reason never to roam the streets pretending to be a zombie any other day besides Halloween. Vitaly Zdorovetskiy learned the lesson the hard way, as he taped his exploits chasing after people in…
The Miami Heat went into Boston over the weekend and promptly took a giant shit all over their season, as they allowed the Undead Celtics to fight their way back into the Eastern Conference Finals and knot things up at two games apiece. Games 3 and 4 were near mirror…
Hugo Chavez had himself the kind of action-packed weekend fit only for a Bolivarian strongman. First, he banned all private gun sales in Venezuela — limiting hand guns to just police and military forces — in a move he says will help stem the wave of violent crime in his…
You know the deal in Miami: When your daughter turns 15, you throw her a giant shindig. It’s the Latina’s mitzvah. No expense is spared. Everything is perfect — until you find the hidden cameras in the girls’ bathroom. That’s what Elizabeth De Angeles Gazo says happened to her April…
When Carolyn Modeste earned 30 months in prison a few weeks ago for stealing more than $200,000 from Miami Shores taxpayers, she nabbed a few hundred words in the Miami Herald and a quick mention on the afternoon news. But no one bothered to answer the real question: Why did…
