We here in Miami carry the responsibility of the sole defenders of LeBron James, but the guy has only been in town for six months. It wasn’t that long ago when we sort of hated the guy, like everyone else, and maybe didn’t pay attention to him that much. I…
Jason Taylor has been dead to us ever since he left the Dolphins for the Jets, but Zombie Taylor appeared on Joe Rose’s WQAM show this morning to join the cavalcade of players who are criticizing head coach Tony Sparano. This comes as reports that the team has reached out…
Nevin Shapiro, the South Beach architect of a $880 million Ponzi scheme, will have to endure another few weeks of Jersey lockup before learning his punishment. His sentencing, which was originally scheduled for this week, has been postponed until Valentine’s Day, says Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s…
We received a ton of reaction to last week’s story on Puppies R Love, the Miami pet shop which has been repeatedly sued for selling sick and dying pups. Something about this one line from reader Jennifer Nunez forced a sad groan out of us:…
We have taken our fair share of shots at Hugo Chavez over the years. But in the tug-of-war over the remains of former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez, Chavez has somehow come across as a veritable voice of reason.Yesterday Chavez pleaded for a quick resolution to the familial dispute that…
Being extravagantly wealthy is really, really hard sometimes. It’s like you own so many expensive things it’s hard to keep track of them all. Especially, when you’re jetting off between all your different luxury homes all the time. You’re bound to lose something once in a while. Sometimes you just…
Natacha Seijas, perhaps Miami-Dade’s most infamous and reviled sitting commissioner, has filed a lawsuit in a desperate attempt to try and derail her recall election. Attorneys for Seijas claim they are challenging flaws in the signed petition sent to the Clerk of Courts, but Seijas is also likely trying to…
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Elizabeth Cuesta has plead guilty to manslaughter for events that lead up to the death of her 18-month-old son back in May of 2009. The child was left inside Cuesta’s pickup truck in the parking lot of a PetSmart where Cuesta worked. The plea bargain means that Cuesta will not…
Between 1994 and 2008, the Miami Hurricanes had a player selected in the first round of the NFL draft every single year. The good news is that Hurricanes players are likely to return to first round status this year. The bad news is that means the team is losing a…
Just when it looked like ex-Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was headed back to Caracas for burial, a brand new round of fighting between his wife and mistress has again left his body in a Miami funeral home limbo.Cecilia Matos, his longtime companion in Miami and his daughters now deny…
It’s noon on this, the second work lunch hour of the year 2011, and we here at Riptide hope to make all your lunch breaks this year special. Which is why we’re introducing a new daily noon feature where we basically get to have some fun and post whatever the…
Back when LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade down here in Miami there was a mini-obsession with finding the perfect nickname for them. There was talks of Miami Thrice, MV3, the James Gang, and even three-headed shitstorm. Though, we never really settled on anything, did we? Well, the…
A defrocked Los Angeles priest accused of sexually molesting 33 girls shipped off yesterday from the Bahamas for a three-month tour of South America on a South Florida based cruise line.Voyages of Discovery, a Fort Lauderdale-based cruise company, says there is nothing it can do to prevent George Neville Rucker…
Maybe because Nicki Minaj had one hell of a 2010 she didn’t want the year to end. Or maybe she was just having a wardrobe malfunction. Whatever the reason, Mansion, the club where Minaj was hosting her all-pink New Year’s Eve party had to turn back time in order for…
Florida International University’s former Associate Vice President of the Office of Business Services Patti Bamford has filed suit against the school, claiming that it fired her after blowing the whistle on some shady handling of money. Bamford claims the school publicly stated it didn’t have the money to operate at…
This week’s feature story describes an effort by Wal-Mart stores to sell green items from jewelry to clothing. The manufacturing giant made a promise to buyers that both its workers and the environment would be treated well when it comes to the things it sells. Unfortunately, jewelry made by a…
Efraim Diveroli, the young Miami Beach gun runner who stirred national outrage two years ago with a fraudulent a $300 million Pentagon ammunition deal, listened with downcast eyes yesterday as a federal judge read aloud his sentence: four years in prison, a $250,000 fine and $149,000 in restitution.The term came…
Ricky Williams is known for not being your typical professional football player. He’s introspective and, at times, something of a recluse. But even Ricky Williams can’t stand another losing season for the Miami Dolphins, and after the Fins got hammered 38-7 by the Patriots on Sunday, Ricky took to the…
There’s a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy brown dunes are speckled with red and green dots that mark points carefully calibrated by a Global Positioning System. It could be the cartographic reckoning of a crime…
Despite public votes of confidence, Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano’s job is likely in danger. Though, if the Dolphins do fire Sparano they better make sure they bring in someone better to replace him. Looks like one of the leading buzzed-about candidates isn’t likely to want the job. A report…
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