The Miami Heat, for the second consecutive year, raised some fancy fabric and accepted some gaudy jewelry last week. The journey toward a third straight title is now underway, and if the team can pull it off, it’ll join the Bulls (who did it twice in the ’90s), the Lakers…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted this week that he smoked crack cocaine, while mayor, in a “drunken stupor.” LeBron James was in Toronto last night for the Heat vs. Raptors game. Understandably, the only thing Torontonians, including sports reporters, can talk about is that their mayor smoked crack. James had…
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It’s beginning to look like Richie Incognito’s use of racial slurs was habitual. Warren Sapp, the former Miami Hurricanes great, faced Incognito only once in his NFL career but says that during that game, Incognito called him the N-word while on the field. Sapp, however, didn’t seem particularly offended by…
So last night I was live blogging and tweeting up a storm about election results, but I sort of had a personal chip on my shoulder. See, I like voting, and, after having previously lived in Coral Gables, this was my first time casting a ballot in a City of…
Lou Panick dreams of YouTube stardom. The only thing holding this wannabe prankster back is that he can’t come up with a single idea beyond harassment. Most of his uploads revolve around assaulting pedestrians or making offensive comments toward women on Miami Beach. It’s all typical, juvenile fare that no…
Minus new Papa Chris Bosh, the Miami Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 104-95 in Toronto Wednesday night. LeBron James led the Heat with a season high 35 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists, while Dwyane Wade looked the best he has all season, notching 20 points, six rebounds, and five…
Good morning Miami Beach. Are you feeling sore and tired from swilling too many flutes of celebratory champagne last night? Are you surprised to find yourself wearing a campaign T-shirt altered to say “Philip Levine Latrine”? Is your living room floor littered with more flyers than a Free Tibet rally?…
Today voters across the county went to the polls for elections in Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Homestead as well as a county-wide referendum concerning funding for Jackson Memorial Hospital. As always, we’ll be keeping an update post on those results as they come back. We’ll update results at the…
Only four players have done it in NBA history, and tonight LeBron James will likely become the fifth. Yes, LeBron could join the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who did it twice), Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, and Moses Malone as a player who has played 500 straight games in which they…
Almost 30 years ago, William Potts, a Black Panther with his sights set on overthrowing the American government, boarded a Miami-bound plane out of Newark Airport with a pistol and plan. He hijacked the plane and demanded that the pilots fly to Havana. He thought he’d be greeted as a…
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Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland’s sports legacy will always be that of the guy who asked a prospective player if his mom was a whore, and there’s no evidence to suggest it will ever be anything more than that. The current Dolphins mess centering on race-baiting potato Richie Incognito, just…
Dan Sileo is a former Miami Hurricanes linebacker and now he’s a former WMEN 640 AM radio host. After the FSU game Sileo tweeted out that he’d pay $1,000 to any Miami Hurricanes player who took out Devonta Freeman with an injury during the possible rematch between the two teams…
This week, New Times pulls back the spattered porn curtain on one of the most bizarre and brutal stories in South Florida history. It’s the tale of Miami’s biggest male porn performer, his rise to smut-screen stardom, and his descent into murder. But John Snavely — better known as “Champ”…
At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater’s new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel’s home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami’s grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du…
Since at least 2004, Club Madonna owner Leroy Griffith has been clamoring to overturn a ban on adult entertainment venues serving alcohol on South Beach. It’s unfair, he says, that he has to serve ARIEL wine and O’Doul’s at his strip joint when others across the causeway can be one-stop-shops…
After years of trial delays and four days of juror deliberation, a verdict has finally been delivered in the Sean Taylor murder case. The jury found Eric Rivera Jr. guilty of the second-degree murder of the late Miami Hurricanes and Washington Redskins star. See also: Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Shot…
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Rafael Herman, a man who never fails to run for mayor of Miami Beach while stirring up more controversy than any chance of being elected, is at it again. Yesterday, the perennial candidate was arrested in an incident that started with him yelling at African-American passengers on a Miami Beach…
As this saga unfolds, Richie Incognito’s douche-level has quickly escalated from “teen ’80s movie villain jock” to “unhinged bigoted rage-o-holic.” CBS Sports has obtained text messages the now suspended Incognito sent to Jonathan Martin in which he calls him a “half-n*gger,” threatens to defecate in his mouth, and threatens to…
Well, Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist officially announced he’s running for his old Governor gig again this morning, cementing one of the more improbable political evolutions in Florida history. Crist’s name instantly started trending on Twitter, and the Twitoverse isn’t sure what to make of the announcement. See also: Is Charlie Crist…
