SEC probes and baffling aesthetic choices aside, the Miami Marlins really do deserve credit for keeping good on their promise of upping their payroll and making the team a serious contender. A day after adding prized shortstop Jose Reyes, ESPN is reporting that the Fish have made a 10-year contract…
If you thought the Port of Miami’s deep dredging project was controversial, get a load of this.Riptide has obtained a copy of the port’s 2035 Master Plan. It calls for adding three new cruise ship berths, a mega-yacht marina near downtown, and a seven-story “multi-modal center” with hotels, retail, entertainment,…
From its South Florida headquarters, Purebredbreeders.com matches up thousands of pet lovers around the country every week with purebred puppies through a “network of responsible and professional dog breeders” that sell “happy and healthy” canines, according to the company’s website.The problem, according to a new lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit…
Donnie Riggins, the school resources officer at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, tried way too hard to be the “cool school cop.” He’s been removed from the school after an internal investigation centered on a bizarre skit he delivered on the school’s morning announcement involving a teacher trying…
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A large white tube mysteriously washed up on a stretch of Miami Beach sands this morning and caused officials to order beach goers to evacuate. WSVN reports that the U.S. Navy is now investigating. Updated: It’s totally a U.S. Navy training mine…
Parents, how much is your kid worth to you? For Kenia Bosque the answer is a cool seven grand, according to Monroe County Sheriffs agents.The now-front runner for the Hialeah mother of the year award had arranged to meet a man from Monroe County to trade her 8-month-old son for…
I was in the stands at Shea Stadium in 2006 when Endy Chavez, God bless his tiny heart, made this heroic catch in the NLCS’ Game 7 to seemingly seal the Mets’ glorious destiny. That was the last time I’ve ever experienced joy. Three innings later, Carlos Beltran was frozen…
Al Golden’s surprising contract extension apparently wasn’t enough to let the rest of the college football world know that the coach isn’t planning on abandoning the University of Miami ship anytime soon.After firing head coach Rick Neuheisel, the UCLA athletic department reportedly decided to give Golden a call, but the…
Sure, Burger King probably makes tons of money from stoners. Who else is going to eat half that menu? Lets be honest, who do you think all those bizarre ads they ran for years were targeted at? But BK is not in the business of selling pot. Thirty-two-year-old Shawn Porter…
When a Sarasota daily newspaper went looking for Florida’s dirtiest cop, they landed in our very own Middle Eastern-themed, bullet-riddled, corruption-crazy backyard. The most surprising aspect of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s epic exposé of Opa-Locka Sgt. German Bosque’s history on the job isn’t the forty cases of reported brutality, theft, and…
Amazingly and infuriatingly, the Miami Dolphins have come tromping out of the depths of a shitty season like a reanimated zombie and have suddenly started kicking opponents asses and eating their brains.The Dolphins defense stabbed the Raiders in the face with their ferociousness, while the offense — led by the…
Sure, the big-money Warhols and eye-popping, million-dollar deals get all the headlines, but we all know what really gets your pulse jacked about Art Basel and its satellite fairs: the free booze and the really weird art.Sometimes it’s hard to recall the latter through the head-pounding hangover left by the…
Maybe federal investigators finally got around to reading our piece about the six biggest lies behind the monumentally awful Miami Marlins stadium deal? Whatever the motivation, the Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoened the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County for financial information about the $500 million in bond sales…
Former Miami Dolphins defensive end Igor Olshansky was having a bad week. A calf injury forced him to miss the Thanksgiving Day game against the Cowboys, and the team rewarded him by releasing him on Wednesday. All the dude wanted to do was get a little high after a tough work…
F*ck art, lets eat!This weekend a local rotary group will attempt to set a world record for the longest Cuban sandwich ever. That’s a whole lot of ham and pork…
You probably know by now that Back to the Future II predicted that there would be a baseball team using the name “Miami” as their home signifier, but did another movie predict the Miami Marlin’s new uniforms?The 1998 box office bomb BASEketball, staring South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey…
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Will the Beyssiah be raised amongst us?A very pregnant Beyonce and Jay-Z have been spotted house hunting in Miami Beach a few times over the past month, and TMZ reports that world’s most important couple was in town last week to tour a mansion currently owned by none other than…
Reality television watchers love drama, dysfunction and dread, so it only makes sense that Miami International Airport is set to be the star of its own reality show, or excuse us, “docu-drama.” The Travel Channel will start airing the program next year…
This WTF Florida story is so, uh, very special, we couldn’t even fit the part we’re she pees on someone’s driveway into the headline.You see, up in Niceville, Florida earlier this week, a 32-year-old woman had her boyfriend stop their 1998 Mitsubishi SUV in the middle of an intersection. The…
The Nevin Shapiro scandal may have left all those folks talking up the Hurricanes football program as an upstanding group of brainy, good two-shoed scholars eating crow, but you better believe Donna Shalala is still dead-set on keeping up the school’s academic reputation.Maybe that’s why its likely the team is…
