With state title rings on their fingers, it’s hard to feel sorry for the Miami Central Rockets. Still, it bears remembering that Central was just one blown call away from a mythical national championship. After all, the team entered the season ranked second in the country.Instead, Central’s opening loss to…
Who says an alt-weekly’s blog can’t have a foreign correspondent? Meet Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist and Riptide’s stringer for the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University…
Because LeBron hate apparently can’t be contained to the internet, sports pages, radio, and ESPN, a new documentary hoping to chronicle “NBA superstar LeBron James’ first season with the Miami Heat, through the eyes of the fans he left behind,” has just meet its goal on Kickstarter. Yep, LeBron hate is…
Rosa Marie Pou, 44 of Miami, was arrested yesterday after allegedly abandoning her severely disabled son at the SeaWorld amusement park in Orlando and then laughing about it. Her son has severe mental and developmental disabilities, and police originally thought he was about 8-years-old when they found him alone in…
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The Daily Beast has giving us a new listicle gift for the holidays (listicles are basically the internet equivalent of fruit cake) and apparently Miami is the country’s 10th “Grinchiest” city. Which means we apparently hate Christmas so very, very much. We apparently neither buy each other enough gifts, donate…
Last we heard from Carlos Bertonatti — the handsome, would-be pop singer accused of killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway while drunkenly speeding home from Club Space — his bond had been revoked after prosecutors said he was a flight risk who had lied about owning multiple passports.Well, Bertonatti…
Apparently, the Miami Heat are only able to beat the Dallas Mavericks if the two are playing in the NBA Finals. Dirk Nowitzki dropped 26 points while Jason Terry scored all of his 19 late in the fourth quarter as the Mavericks ended the Heat’s 12-game winning streak in a…
Miami voters are one big step closer to a vote on whether to strip County Mayor Carlos Alvarez of his office, as Clerk Harvin Ruvin officially certified billionaire car dealer Norman Braman’s recall effort this afternoon.Braman managed to collect more than 95,000 valid signatures in favor of the recall, Ruvin…
The good news is that Florida’s economy has pretty much no where to go but up. The bad news is that it’s going to take a long time to get it their. An economic forecast published by Sean Snaith, director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Competitiveness,…
A new study by the Environmental Working Group found that high levels of hexavalent chromium, a probably carcinogen also known as chromium-6, were found in the tap water of Miami, and many other American cities. Thirty-one of the 35 cities in the study were found to have some levels of…
Inaugural parades are a time-honored American tradition, a treasured moment when fat corporate cats and scummy developers can make millions of dollars rain on a newly elected governor, all so he can throw a masturbatory party celebrating what a swell guy he is. So why is South Florida getting shut…
Even though they lost last night to the Mavs, the LeBron-ified Miami Heat are finally playing like juggernauts. And the team is profiting like one, too, from ticket and paraphernalia sales. In fact, the Micky Arison-owned wunderkinds expect to make more money this season than ever before. Do you think…
Jews love a deal (not to imply any sort of hurtful stereotype, because let’s be honest people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds love a deal. There is something wrong with you if you don’t). Jews also love the Miami Dolphins (again regardless of identity, there is something wrong with…
How much does it cost to own the jewel of Downtown Miami’s skyline? A cool $105.5 million. The Miami Tower (up until last year known as the Bank of America tower) is undoubtedly the signature of the skyline, and is now owned by I&G Miami LLC, a group backed my…
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We can debate the merits of the Lingerie Football league all we want, but there’s no question that the competition is real. This Friday’s game between the Miami Caliente and the Tampa Bay Breeze erupted in straight up fisticuffs. Wait, with the Dolphins stuck in permanent suck and the Hurricanes…
This weekend marked the homecoming of Frank Martin, a Miami native who’s turned the Kansas State Wildcats into a Top 10 basketball team. If you read the Herald’s glowing piece on Martin though, you may have stumbled over a couple quick sentences: Martin “was fired” as coach of Miami High,…
Al Golden has only been in charge of the Miami Hurricanes for a week, and he’s already lost a major recruiting battle. Teddy Bridgewater, the quarterback for Miami Northwestern and rated the number two best quarterback prospect in the country by Rivals.com, has committed to the University of Louisville. Bridgewater…
Perhaps less heralded than the 1972 perfect season, but more illustrative of the Miami Dolphins proud position as a historically non-sucking team is another record: most regular season wins since 1970 (that’s the year the AFL and NFL merged and is generally considered the start of the modern era of…
A South Florida church apparently thinks featuring a gay man on television is obscene. Oscar Aguero Ministry announced plans this weekend to picket the offices of Univision for airing an interview back on November 2 featuring a now openly gay popstar Ricky Martin discussing his sexuality…
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has shaken the Washington D.C. bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations — from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to State Department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations officials. Then Assange was shaken to his well, you know what, when sexy…
