In Sunny Isles Beach, Raanan Katz has a street and an official day named in his honor. His company, with its omnipresent “RK” basketball logo, seems to claim every other strip mall in North Miami-Dade. He’s also a minority owner of the Miami Heat.Yet Katz apparently believes he’s not a “public…
The Miami Dolphins were able to manhandle the Carolina Panthers last night 20-10 in their second pre-season game of the year.It was a far cry from last week’s craptacular outing against the Atlanta Falcons where quarterback Chad Henne did himself no favors by playing like a massive sack of ass…
Despite Michelle Bachmann’s recent Iowa straw poll victory, don’t be surprised if the GOP field eventually winnows to Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. If the latest Florida poll numbers from McLaughlin & Associates are any indication, the two are at the top of the pack. Plus, both are showing traction…
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While some people want to see the Miami Hurricanes scandal wind up with congressional hearings, at least one prominent Senator says he’d rather see the NCAA shape up than ship the Hurricanes out. Of course, that Senator is Marco Rubio, who just happens to be a former college football player…
When it comes to the University of Miami football program, Luther Campbell is like E.F. Hutton. When he speaks, everybody needs to listen.Campbell’s weekly Miami New Times column, “Luke’s Gospel,” was the first to report the rift between former Hurricanes football head coach Randy Shannon and Nevin Shapiro, the conniving convicted Ponzi…
Buzz Bissinger is a grumpy man who likes to yell about sports and who was once, and still occasionally moonlights as, a pretty damn respected journalist. Of course, in his post as a sports columnist for the Daily Beast, he mainly sticks to his angry, self-righteous sports-guy shtick and last…
Rick “The Jobs Governor” Scott has pointed to Florida’s slowly dwindling unemployment rate since he took office in January. In fact, from January through June the state added 64,300 jobs. July is a different story. More than a third of those total jobs gained have now been lost.The good news…
Luis Conte Agüero, a well-known figure in Miami’s exile community and a former close friend turned arch-nemesis of Fidel Castro, has been arrested for domestic violence and accused of molesting his former girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter. The 87-year-old was arrested yesterday in the parking lot of the Telemiami studios shortly after…
Last month, we reported on smoldering rumors that legendarily loquacious news anchor and fallen Hispanic hero Rick Sanchez was joining local Spanish-language channel Mega TV. Those rumors burst into flame days later when he revealed he would announce football games this fall for Florida International University.Well, things turned into a…
Welcome to another bizarre Friday in the Magic City.Our story today involves a man in a wheelchair, a teenage shape-shifter, and a hella buff Mexican soap opera star.According to Miami Police, 16-year-old Gabriel Soto was riding the bus in Little Havana one Friday morning last month when he befriended a…
New Times columnist, former 2 Live Crew leader, and Hurricanes fan for life Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell is none too pleased with this Nevin Shapiro fellow who went around wreaking infractions havoc at the University of Miami football program while dubbing himself “Little Luke.” Campbell has already written about it,…
The average amount paid for a condo in Miami-Dade rose in July for the first time since the real estate boom of 2008. Though, the total number of condos sold dipped slightly since June…
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Among the claims made by Nevin Shapiro that Yahoo! Sports journalist Charles Robinson really had no business including in his story: allegations that Shapiro funded an abortion for a woman impregnated by a University of Miami football player. That aspect really has no impact on the school. It neither breaks…
Florida offers 122 specialty license plates, and all but two saw declines in sales between 2009 and 2010: The “In God We Trust” plate and the Miami Heat plate. Yep, unless you’re God almighty or LeBron almighty, Floridians just don’t want to shell out the extra cash to worship you…
The orishas must be looking out for Carlos Valdes. We wrote this week about the local Santería priest’s legal battle with Kellyd Rodriguez — a man Valdes says has stalked his family for four years because he hates the Afro-Cuban religion.Yesterday Rodriguez, who was out on bond on the stalking…
Not even Burt Reynolds and his legendary mustache are immune to Florida’s foreclosure fiasco. According to a lawsuit filed by Merrill Lynch Credit Corp., Reynolds hasn’t made a mortgage payment on his multimillion-dollar mansion in Hobe Sound since August 2010. Not even the Bandit himself can keep himself out of foreclosure. …
Republican insiders aren’t exactly thrilled with the crop of candidates who have entered the race for the GOP nomination to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, a powerful and influential fiscally conservative 527 group that endorsed Marco Rubio in 2010, says neither…
For the first time in nearly 15 years, talk of the NCAA giving the so-called death penalty to a major sports program has surfaced. Reason: the Yahoo Sports-generated University of Miami football scandal. Of course, that talk is coming mostly from sports pundits, columnists, and message board hacks. It is…
Nevin Shapiro and his Coral Gables attorney, Maria Elena Perez, have the national media eating out of their hands these days. Shapiro is trying to bring down UM’s football program, and Perez — who’s not in jail — has helped him by making TV appearances. But the pair wasn’t all…
Caribbean elkhorn coral used to be one of the most plentiful corals in the Caribbean and Florida Keys. But over the past 15 years, it has declined by about 90 percent and is now considered an endangered species. Scientists weren’t quite sure exactly what was to blame until now. It’s…
