Two big updates in two big stories about comings and going in the Miami sports world we posted this morning. It looks like Jeremy Shockey coming to the Dolphins could be in the realm of reality. Meanwhile, a reports says Kirby Hocutt is definitely leaving his post as University of…
Ashley Cowie, a sophomore at Florida State University, was shot and killed last month after an AK-47 accidentally went off at a party at a property housing fraternity brothers. Clearly, firearms and college parties don’t mix well, but a bill introduced last month would allow students at Florida state colleges…
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Quick, what causes more heart attacks: cocaine or air pollution? It’s actually air pollution, which triggers roughly five to seven percent of all heart attacks. Whereas cocaine is responsible for only 0.9 percent of all heart attacks. Of course, cocaine is much more dangerous on a personal level. Yet, studies…
Naked Politics carries the results of a private poll showing that exactly 50 percent of Miami-Dade voters want to see Miami-Dade Carlos Alvarez recalled, while only 34 would vote to keep him in office. 46 percent have an unfavorable opinion of Alvarez, while only 24 percent view him favorably. There’s…
Jeremy Shockey is no stranger to Miami. Besides living here, he helped the Miami Hurricanes win a national championship in 2001 and helped the New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl in 2010 in Sun Life Stadium. Now that he’s been cut from the Saints, speculation is ramping up that…
University of Miami Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt has interviewed for the same position at Texas Tech, according to The Sun-Sentinel, and apparently the interest is mutual. Hocutt has only served in the position in Coral Gables since 2008, but he’s reigned over an uncertain era of Hurricane sports. Update: Reports…
Some 130 dissidents were arrested in Cuba, while several hundred demonstrators hit the streets of Miami to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The arrests on the communist island included the reported harassment and roughing up of a dozen Ladies in White, mothers…
Raise your hand if this sounds like what Miami needs: fourteen new glowing LED billboards along the highway demanding drivers in hi-def to buy Svedka Vodka, iPods and cut-rate car insurance. Oh, hi there Commissioner Marc Sarnoff!This morning, the Miami Commission will decide whether to give Clear Channel the go…
Lee Brian Schrager is the undisputed king of Miami cuisine. This Thursday, 50,000 people will flock to the tenth anniversary of his South Beach Wine & Food Festival, hosted by Food Network. Everyone from Emeril to Anthony Bourdain will be in town to eat, drink, and toast the tubby 51-year-old…
After serving breakfast and lunch to migrant workers and farmers from a tin-roof shack for more than half a century, David Anderson’s Redland Grocery (26400 SW 187th Ave.) is in hot water with Dade County’s environmental bureaucracy. “We’ve been in survival mode for quite some time,” he says. “It’s hard…
“I’ll wear a flower in my hair or something,” Karen Raley says chirpily, “because you’ll never recognize me from my mug shot!” She sits in a back booth at Roasters’ n Toasters in Aventura. It’s her favorite diner, a low-key joint where the bagels are cheap. She doesn’t seem to…
When Alex de Gasperi resigned last month as board director of Imperial House, a luxury Miami Beach tower, he didn’t leave quietly. Instead, he circulated a four-page letter lambasting another high-profile resident: Circuit Court Judge Mindy Glazer. De Gasperi says Glazer kicked down a door and later intimidated the board…
In an effort dubbed “Operation Pill Nation,” federal and local authorities executed the largest crack down on pill mills in South Florida to date. South Florida has become a hotbed of shady pain clinics dolling out prescriptions for powerful and addictive pain killers, and while most of these clinics are…
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As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has gone straight up tyrant in his country by ordering the killing of protesters seeking an end to his rule, some of his close allies across Latin America seem to be sticking with him. In fact, Fidel Castro thinks that the protests will be used…
As expected, the Cuban government has been doing a bang-up job keeping protests from flaring into major demonstrations on the first anniversary Wednesday of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The anniversary coincides with major upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. But the Castro regime should have little…
Miller time may be coming to an end at American Airlines Arena. ESPN reported last night that as the trade deadline nears the Miami Heat are quietly shopping around Mike Miller in the hopes of landing a better center. Though, there chances of making a trade don’t look so good…
All Urania Lot wanted was for her 18-year-old son to eat his sandwich in the dining room. When he refused to quit chomping in the living room, the 60-year-old Stock Island mom grabbed a hammer. And when threats of smashing the TV to bits didn’t work either, Lot wailed on…
Yesterday, Riptide debunked embattled Krop High athletic director Michael Kypriss’ claim that he had never before encountered an immigration paperwork conflict of the type that recently got his boys’ basketball disqualified. Turns out, he had dealt with the same issue just last year, when the Florida High School Athletic Association…
To commemorate the first anniversary of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s death today, Cuban artist Geandy Pavón, who has projected images of the dissident on Cuban government buildings, has something big up his sleeve. And he promises it will be “legal, creative and have major impact.” “I don’t want to…
Despite a triumphant concert in Miami and a Grammy win within the last few months, Buju Banton’s dark days are not behind him. After an initial trial on drug charges was declared a mistrial, Banton has been found guilty of conspiring to set up a Florida cocaine deal back in…
