Sure, the Tea Party may be economically illiterate and prone to asking stupid questions of important people, but if its pols are booted out of office in 2012, it won’t be because of poor communication. Those online commenters are really on their collective game. They hunt in packs, like wolves,…
Did you hear about the Florida university that’s being investigated by the NCAA for ties to a convicted felon who worked for a sports agency and allegedly helped recruit players? No, not Miami — the other Florida university under investigation. Yes, the University of Central Florida is also being probed…
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How truthful was Nevin Shapiro in his bombshell allegations about the University of Miami football program? At least one person implicated by Shapiro in the story has come out to strongly deny any wrong doing on his part.Michael Huyghue, now the commissioner of the United Football League, and formerly the…
Two Miami Gardens men, Emerson Callum and Lavont Flanders Jr., have been arrested for drugging woman, engaging in forced sex acts with them, videotaping the acts, and then selling the videos. Both were similarly charged in 2007, but those claims were dropped just weeks ago…
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During the early segment of 560 WQAM’s Michael Irvin show, Yahoo Sports investigative reporter Dan Wetzel gave his take on convicted Ponzi schemer and former University of Miami athletic booster Nevin Shapiro, who fed the website what will arguably one of the biggest sports scandal stories of all time. Wetzel…
Jared Cano, 17, has been arrested after law enforcement officials uncovered a plot to blow up his Tampa high school. Tampa Police Chief Janet Castor said the alleged plan could have been “a potential catastrophic event the likes of which this city has never seen.”Cano might have been trying to outdo the…
We’re not sure what kind of grown man gets into a heated public argument with a random 12-year-old boy. We’re certainly not sure what kind of man then decides it’s a good idea to end the argument by pulling out a knife and stabbing the child. All we know is…
When Al Golden was plucked from college football obscurity as head coach of the Temple Owls to take over the Miami Hurricanes, a storied program that needed just a bit of fine tuning to be competitive again, it seemed like — pardon the pun — a Golden opportunity. Now, if…
If lesbians can’t even keep it classy in Florida, there really is no hope for our state’s weird-news reputation.Jantavia Taylor was arrested for felony domestic assault after allegedly trying to beat up her live-in girlfriend with a strap-on dildo. No, we don’t mean “beat up” in any sort of slang…
The mainstream media doesn’t quite know how to handle a lawsuit in which a convicted felon has accused Shaquille O’Neal — one of basketball’s most beloved characters — of attempting to using police connections to try to frame an enemy for possession of child porn. The Associated Press and the Miami…
The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday — winning the state’s straw poll over Smucker’s jam spokesman Ron Paul — but also the congresswoman claimed the scalp of fellow Minnesotan conservative Tim Pawlenty.Bachmann’s surge is particularly significant in Florida,…
So Yahoo! Sports dropped an ass-seeking clusterbomb all over the University of Miami last night with a mammoth exposé about Nevin Shapiro’s (alleged) hooker-buying, yacht-lending, abortion-funding services for Hurricanes athletes. The story doesn’t spend much space on a basic question, though: Who in hell is this gelled-hair clown burying Miami’s premier…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro may have just killed the University of Miami football program. (And men’s basketball program, but, really, who cares about that?) Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson just published a report detailing Shapiro’s involvement in paying and providing impermissible benefits to players.The report is 11 months in…
So a man crashed his pickup truck into a Waffle House after trying to run over his wife. Of course, it happened in Florida. And, of course, it happened in Panama City Beach, the crown jewel of the Redneck Riviera. PCB, baby!…
Julio Cesar Garcia had a problem last week. He was sick of his job at Miami International Airport, and he was ready for a promotion. Sadly, his bosses weren’t quite so interested in bumping him up the food chain.So Garcia did what any good Santeria true believer would do –…
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