If you’re looking for Florida’s most exciting, high-octane offense, forget the Hurricanes, Gators, and Seminoles. And you sure as hell better skip the Dolphins.The most electrifying show in the sunshine state is none other than Miami Central Senior High School. The Rockets have averaged over 50 points per game so…
A trio of NFL Network analysts recently broke down the final minutes of last week’s Dolphins-Jets game and came to the conclusion that Miami receiver Brandon Marshall was either tired, dogging it, or simply the worst human person walking on the face of the earth. On the show The Playbook,…
National police in Ecuador are pissed at President Rafael Correa. So pissed that riots have broken out in the capitol, and Correa claims he is the victim of an attempted coup. The police unleashed the protest after they say Correa cancelled promised promotions and bonuses…
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LeBron James is now the sixth most hated athlete in America after his decision to ditch Cleveland and join a superteam in Miami. He now says that part of the backlash he endured stems from racial issues. James made the comments in an interview that aired on CNN yesterday and…
After watching one too many sad bastards who’d lost their licenses to a DUI come wandering into his scooter shop, Doug Vitello had a brilliant idea: What if he could sell them a low-speed bike that could get them to work or the probation office?Thanks to a Chinese manufacturer and…
Just before the start of the season Dolphins vice president of football shocked fans by announcing he was handing over all of his duties to General Manager Jeff Ireland. While he still remains as a “consultant” to the Dolphins and his contract with the team runs through the 2011 season,…
In and of itself, the fact that Liberty City native and Cincinnati Bengal’s star Chad Ochocinco has a breakfast cereal called OchocincO’s is ridiculous enough. Of course, this being Ochocinco, the ridiculousness doesn’t end there. The box implores consumers to call a phone number where they can help a charity…
Despite The U, Rakontur’s documentary on Miami Hurricane’s football during the ’80s, being a critical and ratings smash and one of the best films in ESPN’s lauded “30 for 30” series, director Billy Corben has put plans for a sequel on hold. The news comes after the University of Miami…
A custody battle that could only happen in Miami has come to its conclusion. Father David Dueppen will share equal custody of his daughter with former stripper Beatrice Hernandez. The two met while Dueppen was an active priest in the Archdiocese of Miami and Beatrice was an active topless dancer…
In today’s stunning return of Riptide’s news roundups: the man who fatally struck a Miami Heat dancer’s motorcycle admits to having been drinking, a Miami police officer is sent to prison for stealing from a traffic accident victim, a rare destructive beetles species is found in Miami, and the latest…
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Crist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officials
We’re not sure what’s stupider: that a fur coat company is supplying sponsorship and prizes to a teen beauty pageant in Florida, or that an animal rights group is going to protest it while wearing furs themselves. Yes, the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida is pissed that the Fur Information…
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We can not tell you how many times we’ve been in those sticky situations where we need some extra gold bars, but unfortunately wherever it is you go to get gold bars (the gold bar store?) is closed. We’re sure, like most regular citizens, you have the same exact problem…
As most other Democratic senate candidates in the nation try to scuttle to the political middle in the face of a climate that’s supposedly hostile to liberals, Florida’s Kendrick Meek is in the unique position of reminding everyone, proudly, that he’s a tried and true Democrat. That’s because Independent candidate…
As New Times reported last week, shady Latin American politicians have a habit of ending up in our neck of the woods.This time, however, it seems Miami dodged a bullet. Álvaro Uribe, ex-president of Colombia accused of links to paramilitary death squads, has landed a sweet job at Georgetown University…
After running away from an abusive mother in the 1950s, the courts deemed Robert Straley an “incorrigible youth” and sent him to live at the Florida School for Boys in picturesque Marianna, near the Georgia border. Straley couldn’t imagine the horror he’d endure: regular beatings and torture at the hands…
