Hialeah Gardens’ Mater Academy senior Albert Almora has one hell of a choice on his hands this morning — whether to become a star playing college baseball for his hometown Canes, or whether to take an estimated $3.25 million bonus to join the Chicago Cubs system.Almora tells the Miami Herald…
Chris Bosh is coming back for Game 5 of the Heat-Celtics series, according to ESPN. We haven’t been this excited about anything Bosh-related since he first signed with the Heat, because good basketball lord the Heat seriously need something to get them over the hump and finish off this series…
The Miami Heat went into Boston over the weekend and promptly took a giant shit all over their season, as they allowed the Undead Celtics to fight their way back into the Eastern Conference Finals and knot things up at two games apiece. Games 3 and 4 were near mirror…
We might have been a bit grossed out by the amount of borderline-pervy attention Lauren Tannehill, the wife of Dolphins’ first-round pick Ryan Tannehill, received after draft day, but apparently she wasn’t. She may or may not have already shot a photo spread for Maxim. However, as far as Maxim…
Do you think Boston fans are blaming Wednesday’s Celtics loss on the weak play of team’s veteran core? No, of course not. They’re blaming it on the refs. That’s just what Boston Celtics fans do. They may have a long list of rivalries with other actual teams, but everyone knows…
The Miami Marlins started the season with the most expensive tickets in the league. Granted, that was for their opening day game against the defending world champs in their brand new stadium, but according to a site that aggregates secondary market tickets prices, the Marlins now have the least in…
The Miami Heat aren’t going to make this easy. Assholes. The Heat overcame a sluggish start, a dickload of missed free throws, a motivated undead Celtics team, and an All-World epic playoff performance from Rajon Rondo to get their 115-111 overtime win over Boston and take a 2-0 lead in these Eastern…
The Miami Marlins are only the third favorite baseball team of Floridians according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Which is quite odd once you remember Florida is only home to two major league baseball teams. In fact, Florida’s favorite team doesn’t even play in Florida. Yes, the New York Yankees…
What does a celebrity do when they need a quick jolt of publicity to revive a fading career? Reality TV, of course. What does a sports team desperately in need of some public goodwill and attention do when they’re being overshadowed in their own city? Apparently, the exact same thing.The…
Miami-Dade County already coughed up $376 million to help build the new Marlins Park, but now the County government and Marlins brass are in a fight over about $1.7 million in non-construction costs related to the project. The Marlins actually tried to charge the county for a nearly $11,000 bill…
The Miami Heat are three wins away from their second consecutive trip to the NBA Finals after taking down the Boston Celtics 93-79 last night.And while the rest of the world seethes in furious anger in their unbridled and irrational hatred at this news, perhaps even blaming LeBron James for…
Despite reports the University of Miami had reached out to the Big 12 conference to gauge interest in a possible move in case several ACC members leave for more Midwestern pastures, athletic director Shawn Eichorst has broken his silence on the matter. He laims the U is “committed to the ACC.”…
Last night’s sloppy game between the San Francisco Giants and the Miami Marlins saw pitching so bad the score ended up in NFL territory. Naturally, the Marlins ended up as the sloppiest team on the field and lost the game 14-7. They also almost lost Logan Morrison’s pretty little face…
Remember when Dwyane Wade crapped the bed last week and we all wrote him off, like a bunch of assholes? Pffft.Wade dropped 41 points in Miami’s 105-93 beatdown of the Indiana Pacers. MV3 scored 20 of his 41 in the second quarter, going 8-for-11 from the floor, and leading the…
Supremely bizarre baseball slugger– and South Florida resident– Manny Ramirez has had a long road back to the game. He abruptly retired from the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011 after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. He was arrested for allegedly battering his wife in their Weston home. Then he decided…
Who knows what goes through a basketball player’s mind when he spends the vast majority of the time sitting on the bench during such a heated and important playoff series. Perhaps the Miami Heat’s Dexter Pittman thought to himself, “Man, the whole world is watching this series, and ain’t no…
Let’s not put the cart before the horse, but there are other Miami matters to think about besides whether or not the Hurricanes leap to the Big 12 or stay relegated to the ACC. And that’s mostly the fate of the Orange Bowl. The game has already lost a lot…
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined for 58 points and the Miami Heat shot a franchise-best 61 percent from the field as they blew out the Indiana Pacers 115-83 last night. The series now heads back to Indiana with Miami up 3-2.But because this is the Miami Heat and because…
Ready for your unsubstantiated sports mega-rumor of the day? The University of Miami has informally contacted the Big 12 conference to gauge the interest in the possibility of ditching the ACC and joining the Texas-centric conference, according to one report at least. Of course, there are already rumors swirling that…
Danny Granger’s attitude during the Indiana Pacers series against the Miami Heat has been somewhere between that of an angry junkyard dog and a spoiled two-year-old throwing a tantrum because his mom wouldn’t buy him any more Bob the Builder toys. Granger has done his best to try to provoke…
Quarterback U? Not anymore. It seems Jacory Harris’ NFL fate is starting to look like a lot of other recent former University of Miami quarterbacks, as Harris was cut from the Philadelphia Eagles’ roster just ten days after having been signed by the team…
What’s better than having one face-cleaving rim wrecking badass mother cow on your basketball team? TWO face-cleaving rim wrecking badass mother cows.In front of a capacity crowd of Indiana fans waving a golden shower of yellow towels, and a Pacers team that had gotten a little too cocky for its…
