The NBA’s free-agency period began at midnight, which means we can finally start getting some facts to go with all of the insane rumors and mindless speculation. Our Miami Heat, which has basically put all of its eggs in this year’s free-agency basket, is already hard at work trying to…
If we were conspiracy theorists we’d have some half-formed theory that whenever Miami played host city to the Super Bowl there is some secret plan to make sure the Dolphins don’t make it to the big game. It would ensure that other team’s fan bases travel down in droves with…
Step 1 of the Miami Heat’s master plan might be near completion if Miami Herald scribe/radio host Dan LeBatard’s Twitter feed is to be believed. He reports that a mega sign-and-trade deal between the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat is pretty much done in principle.The Heat would get Chris Bosh,…
Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh apparently did have that free-agent summit this past weekend in Miami, according to ESPN.com. The Yalta Conference of the NBA, if you will, apparently discussed the possibility of all three teaming up on the Heat roster. Either the media is engaged in a vicious conspiracy to raise the hopes of wary…
The U.S. defeat at the hands of Ghana this past Saturday was the inevitable letdown after the euphoric last-minute victory over Algeria last week. There are a lot of questions looming now for this team, with the coaching staff, some of its players, and whether their Round of 16 World…
So last week, the Marlins canned manager Fredi Gonzalez for no clear reason, sort of like how they canned Joe Girardi for absolutely no good reason, and now they’re on a search for a new skipper. Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine was reportedly a candidate, but word on the street…
The nominations for ESPN’s annual attempt at putting on an awards show, The Espys our out. As if to underscore the city’s all-around sports mediocrity, players with Miami teams only got two nominations. The first is a given, the other is kind of surprise. The Heat’s Dwyane Wade is nominated for…
From a baseball standpoint, we still can’t make sense of the Marlins’ unceremonious firing of manager Fredi Gonzalez (dude did the best he could with that salary). From a Jeffrey-Loria-is-an-idiot standpoint, it at least added up. Loria has been keen on the idea of replacing Gonzalez with his buddy Bobby…
This past Friday, ESPN’s Ian O’Connor made a million Miami hearts sink by reporting Dwyane Wade was set to visit the New York Knicks this Thursday, the same day Chris Bosh and LeBron James were said to be meeting with the struggling franchise in the nation’s biggest media market. However, the Miami…
When it comes to hipsters, there’s a very short list of sports about which they give even the tiniest shit. (This whole phenomenon can be linked back to the punk notion that jocks are nothing but incipient fascists.) Really, you can narrow it down to skateboarding, drug hunting, and soccer…
Your Florida Marlins last night finished their interleague series with the Baltimore Orioles. It was a series filled with ups, downs, stranded runners, bullpen implosions, and people getting fired. You know, just a typical week in the wacky world of Florida Marlins baseball! Here’s how it all went down:Game 1…
The former couple in happier times.Just days before Dwyane Wade become a free agent on the NBA market, he’s now free on the dating market. His eight-year marriage to high school sweetheart Siohvaughn Wade is officially done. A judge granted the divorce today after a prolonged and dramatic legal battle,…
University of Florida fans, so distraught over losing their beloved savior Timothy Tebow to the NFL’s Denver Broncos, apparently traveled to a hidden island floating far away in the ocean: the Island of Dr. Moreau (the crappy Val Kilmer version, not the Burt Lancaster version, obviously).They took a lock of…
We have no idea how much to believe Jalen Rose, an ESPN analyst (read: not an actual reporter) and former player, but he Tweeted today that there’s no way LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers next season.#NBA BREAKING NEWS (research/sources say) It is almost CERTAIN that LEBRON JAMES…
Team USA is moving on the knockout round of the World Cup the only way America knows how – with drama and determination and come-from-behind heroics! After overcoming even more crappy FIFA officiating, an unyielding Algerian goalkeeper, England’s 1-0 win over Slovenia, goal differentials, and Koman Coulibaly’s asscrack call in…
Well, well, well USC, who’s the big private college in a major city whose top tier football team has been struck with sanctions and put on probation now? Yeah, Hurricanes fans know what that’s like (though, we didn’t have to vacate any wins or, possibly,a national championship, sucks for you),…
Even after delivering a 10-4 win against the Baltimore Orioles last night, the Marlins have announced that they’ve fired manager Fredi Gonzalez and two other coaches: bench coach Carlos Tosca and hitting coach Jim Presley.”It is never easy to make a change in managers. Fredi has been with our club for…
It’s not exactly news that fans of different sports teams hate each other’s guts, but usually those teams play in the same league. The continuing war of words between Miami DolFans and Alabama’s Crimson Tide nation is a bit absurd considering one team is professional and the other is college…
We might not have been very good about sustaining an MLS team, but it’s pretty evident from World Cup ratings that Miami loves fútbol. According to data from Nielsen ratings, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale TV market has by far the most interest in watching the World Cup on television — even in…
America has a new enemy. And his name is Koman Coulibaly. He’s like Lex Luthor, because he’s bald and because he could be responsible for America’s downfall in the World Cup. But mostly, because he’s bald. By now the whole world knows had badly team USA got hosed on Friday…
Warning to baseball purists: Watch the above video with extreme caution, industrial-grade earplugs and a few highlight reels of the 1964 World Series handy to revive your sense of basic MLB dignity. The Marlins have brought vuvuzelas to baseball. Specifically, they handed out 15,000 of the horns that are currently…
Whew. So how exactly is a U.S. soccer fan to feel after this morning’s nail-biter against Slovenia? Pissed that the defense slept through the first half to give the Slovenes a 2-0 halftime lead? Exhilerated that the Yanks pulled off a stunning second half comeback to walk out with a…
