When it comes to the University of Miami football program, Luther Campbell is like E.F. Hutton. When he speaks, everybody needs to listen.Campbell’s weekly Miami New Times column, “Luke’s Gospel,” was the first to report the rift between former Hurricanes football head coach Randy Shannon and Nevin Shapiro, the conniving convicted Ponzi…
Buzz Bissinger is a grumpy man who likes to yell about sports and who was once, and still occasionally moonlights as, a pretty damn respected journalist. Of course, in his post as a sports columnist for the Daily Beast, he mainly sticks to his angry, self-righteous sports-guy shtick and last…
New Times columnist, former 2 Live Crew leader, and Hurricanes fan for life Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell is none too pleased with this Nevin Shapiro fellow who went around wreaking infractions havoc at the University of Miami football program while dubbing himself “Little Luke.” Campbell has already written about it,…
Among the claims made by Nevin Shapiro that Yahoo! Sports journalist Charles Robinson really had no business including in his story: allegations that Shapiro funded an abortion for a woman impregnated by a University of Miami football player. That aspect really has no impact on the school. It neither breaks…
For the first time in nearly 15 years, talk of the NCAA giving the so-called death penalty to a major sports program has surfaced. Reason: the Yahoo Sports-generated University of Miami football scandal. Of course, that talk is coming mostly from sports pundits, columnists, and message board hacks. It is…
Did you hear about the Florida university that’s being investigated by the NCAA for ties to a convicted felon who worked for a sports agency and allegedly helped recruit players? No, not Miami — the other Florida university under investigation. Yes, the University of Central Florida is also being probed…
How truthful was Nevin Shapiro in his bombshell allegations about the University of Miami football program? At least one person implicated by Shapiro in the story has come out to strongly deny any wrong doing on his part.Michael Huyghue, now the commissioner of the United Football League, and formerly the…
During the early segment of 560 WQAM’s Michael Irvin show, Yahoo Sports investigative reporter Dan Wetzel gave his take on convicted Ponzi schemer and former University of Miami athletic booster Nevin Shapiro, who fed the website what will arguably one of the biggest sports scandal stories of all time. Wetzel…
When Al Golden was plucked from college football obscurity as head coach of the Temple Owls to take over the Miami Hurricanes, a storied program that needed just a bit of fine tuning to be competitive again, it seemed like — pardon the pun — a Golden opportunity. Now, if…
The mainstream media doesn’t quite know how to handle a lawsuit in which a convicted felon has accused Shaquille O’Neal — one of basketball’s most beloved characters — of attempting to using police connections to try to frame an enemy for possession of child porn. The Associated Press and the Miami…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro may have just killed the University of Miami football program. (And men’s basketball program, but, really, who cares about that?) Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson just published a report detailing Shapiro’s involvement in paying and providing impermissible benefits to players.The report is 11 months in…
Though he announced his retirement last week, former Miami Dolphin Channing Crowder says he is open to returning to the game next season after the birth of his first child. Don’t expect the Fins to come calling. Bridges have been burned. He ripped both quarterback Chad Henne and general manager Jeff…
After news broke yesterday that the NCAA would question the University of Miami about gifting allegations made by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shaprio, initial reports indicated the school didn’t think the NCAA would be able to find enough evidence to prove anything. Well, now coach Al Golden, who was hired long…
After disappointing attempts at mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, Miami’s back-yard brawling sensation Kimbo Slice might have finally found his professional punch-throwing niche: boxing. Sure, the competition was considerably low-level, but over the weekend Slice made his boxing debut and knocked his opponent out in 17 seconds flat. Watch…
Last year, New Times chronicled the rise and fall of flashy Miami Beach Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro. The man who had donated more than $150,000 to the University of Miami football program now sits in jail on a 20-year sentence. He has been threatening since April 2010 to pen a…
Back in January, Florida was ahead of the curve on an important national issue. Yes, you read that right. That’s when a bill designed to protect youth athletes from concussion passed the Florida House. The new law would require kids who had suffered a suspect head injury to be taken…
It’s over! After exactly two years, one month, and one week, the Miami Heat’s stubborn refusal to talk to Riptide about anything for any period of time has finally come to an end. Well, sort of.The cruel and arbitrary lockout really began 15 years ago when we wrote this article…
The Florida Marlins would have you believe they abruptly demoted fan favorite Logan Morrison after last night’s loss to the Giants because his batting average dipped below .250 — an excuse so blatantly untrue that Jeffrey Loria must have been cackling in his Hamptons mansion as he helped ghost-write the…
The good news is football season started again last night. The bad news is the Miami Dolphins still pretty much blow.The Dolphins visited the Atlanta Falcons for the first game of the 2011 pre-season and, while the Fins ultimately delivered the 28-23 victory, it was mostly thanks to the second…
Lest you think Miami Dolphins fans were being overdramatic in their disappointment that the team couldn’t get a starting quarterback better than Chad Henne, we now have cold, hard rankings to back our whining. USA Today ranked all 32 teams’ starting quarterbacks, and Henne came in 31st out of 32…
While Howard Schnellenberger may be the coach at Florida Atlantic University, news of his impeding retirement will surely resonate down in Coral Gables. Before Schnellenberger arrived at the University of Miami in 1979, the school was better known for its palm trees and good weather than its small-time football program…
The answer to the question in the headline, depending on your outlook, is either “probably not” or “who the hell cares?” Yet, by virtue of the fact that newly minted Miami Dolphin Reggie Bush used to date the crown jewel of the Kardashian empire, the team’s media relations people better…
