Eric Laakso played his entire NFL career in South Florida, and sadly he died here on Christmas at the much too young age of 53. After playing at Tulane, Laakso was drafted by the Dolphins in ’78 and was the team’s starting right tackle from ’80 to his retirement in…
Looks like the Hurricanes’ brewing bowl game quarterback controversy has come to an end. Unfortunately, it came at the expense of red shirt quarterback Stephen Morris’s ankle. The Miami Herald reports that Morris hurt his left ankle during the second snap of practice this morning. Looks like Jacory Harris gonna…
No team in the NFL has gone as many years without drafting a quarterback in the first round than the Miami Dolphins. The last time they did the year was 1983 and the man was Dan Marino, which, of course, made drafting a quarterback not much of a concern for…
New Miami Hurricanes coach Al Golden isn’t having much luck in retaining star recruits who had verbally committed to the team under former coach Randy Shannon. Albert Louis-Jean, rated by some recruiting services as the best recruit in the state of Massachusetts and the 9th best corner back in the…
It’s not official yet, but another Florida football team may soon be on the hunt for a new head coach. Following the Fin’s friggin’ seventh home loss of the season, speculation is brimming that Tony Sparano may soon be sleeping with the fishes, professionally anyway. Which means rampant replacement speculation…
As if taking a kick to the nuts from the horrific Detroit Lions wasn’t bad enough, a few fans got a little cherry on top of their Sunday turd sandwich courtesy Dominic Raiola, the Lions’ center. As he strutted through the tunnel, he offered the Sun Life crew a witty…
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly seemed to have a lot of strange things on his mind leading up to the Sun Bowl. Things like nude beaches and Mexican drug lords. Ok, well maybe that last thing wasn’t so strange. The Fighting Irish will be renewing their famous rivalry with…
With no playoffs and no hope left for this season, the Dolphins entered a pretty meaningless game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, all things considered. There was very little to be gained from a win other than to say they didn’t lose to the Detroit Lions. But that didn’t…
It was hailed as the most highly anticipated NBA game in the history of everything ever! The NBA game of NBA games! The game that was going to blow your ass off with its sheer apocalyptic awesome! And, in the end, the Miami Heat took down the defending NBA champion…
Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist, is Riptide’s stringer for the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University. It will be played on Sunday. He’s in Detroit to drum up enthusiasm for the Polish American Football League. His prose is…
There’s some hubbub over whether the NBA should schedule so many games on Christmas day. The Miami Heat’s match-up versus the Los Angeles Lakers will undoubtedly be the most talked about sporting even of the holiday, but LeBron James himself says he’d rather be spending Christmas at home (in his…
The USC Trojans and the Miami Hurricanes aren’t that different: private schools in big warm weather cities with a healthy amount of national championships and a sometimes troubling amount of controversy. The big difference is that ‘Canes haven’t won a national championship since ’01, whereas Trojans have claimed two since…
We said yesterday that if Dwyane Wade ever left Miami we’d wouldn’t freak out to the same degree that Cleveland did over LeBron. But, yes, we’d probably have some sort of temporary meltdown before maintaining a stiff upper lip pretending that we’ve never even heard of the guy before. After…
First year Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly really does seem to have a lot of odd things on his mind in the run up to the Sun Bowl, which will see his team reignite its historical rivalry with the Miami Hurricanes. First, he was just glad that El Paso, Texas,…
With state title rings on their fingers, it’s hard to feel sorry for the Miami Central Rockets. Still, it bears remembering that Central was just one blown call away from a mythical national championship. After all, the team entered the season ranked second in the country.Instead, Central’s opening loss to…
Who says an alt-weekly’s blog can’t have a foreign correspondent? Meet Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist and Riptide’s stringer for the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University…
Because LeBron hate apparently can’t be contained to the internet, sports pages, radio, and ESPN, a new documentary hoping to chronicle “NBA superstar LeBron James’ first season with the Miami Heat, through the eyes of the fans he left behind,” has just meet its goal on Kickstarter. Yep, LeBron hate is…
Apparently, the Miami Heat are only able to beat the Dallas Mavericks if the two are playing in the NBA Finals. Dirk Nowitzki dropped 26 points while Jason Terry scored all of his 19 late in the fourth quarter as the Mavericks ended the Heat’s 12-game winning streak in a…
Jews love a deal (not to imply any sort of hurtful stereotype, because let’s be honest people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds love a deal. There is something wrong with you if you don’t). Jews also love the Miami Dolphins (again regardless of identity, there is something wrong with…
We can debate the merits of the Lingerie Football league all we want, but there’s no question that the competition is real. This Friday’s game between the Miami Caliente and the Tampa Bay Breeze erupted in straight up fisticuffs. Wait, with the Dolphins stuck in permanent suck and the Hurricanes…
This weekend marked the homecoming of Frank Martin, a Miami native who’s turned the Kansas State Wildcats into a Top 10 basketball team. If you read the Herald’s glowing piece on Martin though, you may have stumbled over a couple quick sentences: Martin “was fired” as coach of Miami High,…
Al Golden has only been in charge of the Miami Hurricanes for a week, and he’s already lost a major recruiting battle. Teddy Bridgewater, the quarterback for Miami Northwestern and rated the number two best quarterback prospect in the country by Rivals.com, has committed to the University of Louisville. Bridgewater…
