Never underestimate those Miami Hurricanes. Tell them their opening stretch against four ranked opponents is the gridiron equivalent of a minefield in which they might get blown away, and they’ll rack up three wins. Tell them the rest of their season should be a breeze, and they’ll somehow lose at home to…
If the fact that the Dolphins were leading the unbeaten Saints at the beginning of the third quarter seemed too good to be true, it was. The Saints put 21 unanswered points on the board in the fourth, and the Dolphins didn’t have any response. [ESPN]Fidel Castro’s sister in Miami,…
Social media that makes life easier is a thing of beauty. Miami on the Cheap (@miamicheap) is just such a thing, making it a snap to find the best deals this side of the swamp. Teresa Mears is the publisher, author, and editor of a small South Florida blog empire…
Mary, a straight-talking senior citizen, is the kind of woman who would jump in front of a car to save a family of ducklings. So you can imagine the sense of horror when — lying in bed one night — she heard the sound of a mother duck in pain…
For all the gargantuan shit stains Nick Saban left on the Dolphins’ proverbial bed, no shit stain was as big a shit stain as the shit stain he left in the form of not signing Drew Brees when the Chargers made him available. Instead, Saban went with Daunte Culpepper. The…
While UCF was an easy win, watching their defense sack Jacory Harris six times wasn’t a pretty picture. Especially considering that the on-going saga of Sam Bradford’s shoulder was still fresh in the mind. It’s not exactly great news that this week the Hurricanes take on the 12th ranked defense…
Barra da Tijuca has the bad:To some, Barra da Tijuca is Rio de Janeiro’s hottest new neighborhood, blessed with beautiful rock formations and a beach blanketed with some of the planet’s sexiest bodies. To others, it is a Brazilian version of the worst of Miami, full of traffic jams and…
The lengths men will go to get it hard knows few limits, yet thousands of guys don’t have the balls to tell their doctors they can’t get it up. So enter the booming illegal Viagra trade, and like so many drugs sold illicitly, you never know if what you’re getting is authentic.Today, U.S…
In this week’s New Times, you read about how difficult it is for police to break up brutal dog-fighting rings — even with tough new laws on the books. Unless cops see a fight in person, as they did in a Miami case, they rarely get the conviction.There’s a flip…
Generally, David Cross is a pretty funny fellow, but sometimes he seems so damn smug. I guess if I starred in Arrested Development and Mr. Show, I would be pretty self-satisfied, even if I had done some Hollywood bullshit like Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and the Amanda Bynes vehicle She’s the…
The City Beautiful isn’t just about historic Mediterranean homes and manicured lawns. Today, Coral Gables is launching a new website that will hopefully shake a few stately columns and bring one of Miami’s oldest cities well into the leading edge of citizen journalism in the 21st century. George Merrick, the…
Shortly before 7:30 p.m. last night, a sparse crowd gathered outside the entrance to the freshly renovated $5 million U.S. Century Bank Arena at Florida International University’s south campus.A bald man with a goatee wearing a navy blue FIU t-shirt talking to three other Golden Panthers fans relayed the latest…
Here’s how the Herald cleaned up Channing Crowder’s “They’re undefeated, they’re probably smelling themselves, rubbing each other’s balls, all that shit…” quote: “They’re probably smelling themselves, rubbing each other’s [back]…” Come on, since when is back a proper substitute for balls? [Herald]The funeral service for slain UConn player Jasper Howard…
Doesn’t the whole “balloon boy hoax” boondoggle feel like something that should have happened in South Florida? It’s one of those things where if you try to understand what might have motivated somebody to do something so dumb, you can feel your own brain melting a bit. Did the parents…
The Dolphin’s Joey Porter hasn’t quite lived up to his trash talker potential this season, probably due to injury, but that’s okay because it seems linebacker Channing Crowder is more than making up for it.Hell, with this quote he might be the trash talker MVP for the entire league.Here he…
Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas used to be such good friends they exchanged kisses on the cheek when the Lakers met the Pistons in the 1988 NBA Final, but in a new book due to be released November 4 Johnson admits that there’s been bad blood between the two since…
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First it was free Jack Black® skin care and Kangaroo® handheld devices. Now fans attending the Dolphins-Saints game this Sunday at LandShark® Stadium will get a free Breathe Right® Nasal Strip in teal and orange!The strips are mainly used to prevent obnoxious storing, but some athletes use them because it…
Of all the outrages perpetrated at Guantánamo Bay — which New Times explored in depth earlier this year on our visit to the prison camp in southern Cuba — one of the strangest has to be the military’s music-based “futility technique.”In case you’ve succeeded in washing the stain of Gitmo…
In a poll of frequent international travelers, Miami International Airport has been named one of the worst in the world.Priority Pass, a company specializing in fancy airport lounge access, asked 14,500 of its members, who combined take about 250,000 flights a year, to rank their favorite and least favorite airports,…
The Miami-Dade government promised it would cut pay to several workers to balance the budget, but sure is taking its time doing so, which is costing millions every week. [Herald]Alex Sink, Democratic candidate for Governor, will headline the state’s biggest gay rights group’s annual gala in Ft. Lauderdale. [NakedPolitics]Miami CIty…
