We call men fighting in Speedos a “big fight over prime beach blanket space on the 12th Street beach.” The WWE calls it Wrestlemania, and Miami desperately wants a piece of the tens of millions of dollars in economic impact it represents.The Magic City recently lost out on hosting the…
The sports world is in full freak-out mode over Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez displaying legendary laziness in botching a play and then lashing out at manager Fredi Gonzalez for benching him. Never before have scribes busted out this many synonyms for half-ass performance — loafing, lollygagging, trotting, dogging it — and…
Despite the pleas of New York’s local media, it seems that LeBron James will not be heading to join the Knicks. Or so says Charles Oakley, a former Knicks player and close pal of LeBron. “Chicago or Miami. Not New York. He’s leaving,” Oakley told the New York Daily News.Hmmm, the…
Usually when we talk college ball around here, it’s about the Canes. Or at least about FAU’s unstoppable rain delay antics.But for the last week, the FIU Golden Panthers have dominated the local aluminum bat scene. Everyone from Sportscenter to MLB.com, in fact, can’t stop talking about FIU infielder Garratt…
Today’s the day when the U.S. Soccer Federation submits its final bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. Despite the fact that only 12 cities are needed, the bid includes 18 cities.Miami’s role in the bid gets special prominence, because, according to AP reports, we’ve been chosen to…
It’s one of the great college football injustices that during the past two decades or so, the Miami Hurricanes have had only one yearly heated rivalry.Those damn Fighting Irish and Gators pulled out of the annual matchups in ’90 and ’87, respectively. Miami has met Florida sporadically (and will again in 2013), but…
In an ideal sports world, referees would not be humans. They’d be highly functioning subhumans devoid of any emotion, desires and just about anything but the sole focus to fairly enforce the rules of the game. Of course, they are humans. Humans who like to get drunk and piss in…
Are the Shulas broke? Or is football demigod Don’s wife just a cheapskate? First, the wife of Dolphins Hall of Famer Don Shula made a bizarre plea of poverty at a council meeting in ultra-exclusive Indian Creek Village, in protest of a new tax assessment that will cost the Shulas…
It’s the weird time of year where for college football fans when spring training is over and the NFL draft is in the history books, yet next season and even meaningful pre-season polls are months away. Which means they look for other things to talk and tweet and blog about, and lately…
Siohvaughn Wade has turned herself into Chicago Police, after the judge in the Wade’s divorce trial ordered police to track her down after she failed to show in court yesterday.Siohvaughn voluntarily turned herself in today, and will not be released until a $10,000 bond is met. Her attorney, Marsha Fisher,…
Writing every new update in the bizarre divorce proceeding of Dwyane Wade and his estranged wife Siohvaughn gets a little more sad each time. Honestly, we don’t take much pleasure in watching this divorce-from-hell unfold. Now, according to multiple sources, the judge in the case, Marya Nega, has ordered police to take…
Dwyane Wade’s divorce continues to be one of the nastiest in recent sports history, and now his ex-wife Siohvaughn Wade filed a bombshell new lawsuit. The suit however isn’t against Wade, its against his Hollywood actress girlfriend Gabrielle Union. She’s seeking more than $50,000 from the actress.Siohvaughn claims that Union…
Former NFL linebacker Nick Rogers died in a car crash early yesterday morning at the age of 30. The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports Rogers perished in a one-vehicle accident after his car veered off the road into a power pole in College Park, an Atlanta suburb. It happened around 1:30 a.m…
Whatever the Miami Hurricanes road map is to get back to championship contention, it certainly doesn’t go through super-easy out-of-conference games (unlike, say, those Gators). The Miami Herald reports that the Canes are in discussions to open the 2012 season against SEC powerhouse the Alabama Crimson Tide in Atlanta for a…
It’s a travesty. An outrage. Mess with Jorge, Josh, or Freddi — but don’t fool around with Hanley.At 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, Florida Marlins wunderkind Hanley Ramirez awoke from graceful slumber to find somebody had vandalized three of his matching white vehicles parked in front of his seven-bedroom Weston…
It might be a while before we get complete confirmation that Dwyane Wade will again sign on the dotted line for the Heat, but president Pat Riley has extended his own contract. No big surprise there, but he’s also open to extending his career as a coach. Watch your back,…
A lot has changed for the Orange Bowl since 1989. Back then, Jimmy Johnson was coaching the Canes, and they blew out Nebraska 23-3 in the game that year. That was when it was played in the actual stadium known as the Orange Bowl and before all of this BCS…
Context is everything, and Sports Illustrated says they have the full conversation leading up to Jeff Ireland’s now infamous question to Dez Bryant. But ESPN says it’s not true! Yahoo! Sports reported last week that the Dolphins GM asked Bryant if his mom was a hooker, before columnist Mike Silver tour…
Earlier this month, multiple reports popped up that World Wrestling Entertainment was trying to secure Tiger Woods as a special guest host when it stages Raw at the American Airlines Arena June 7. It’s not a completely far-flung idea. Woods is apparently a fan of rasslin’, friends with some WWE superstars, and lives…
College athletic conferences are always finding new and exciting ways to further screw with the already tortured fabric of college football. The Big Ten has been talking for so long about expanding to 12 in order to get a championship game that we’re surprised it hasn’t happened. Now it seems to have raised…
Led by sharp-shooting Ray Allen’s 24 points, the Boston Celtics put the Miami Heat away last night 96-86, closing out the series and ending the Heat’s season and OH MY GOD, DWYANE WADE, PLEASE DON’T LEAVE!!!It’s the Heat’s second straight first-round exit. In fact, the team hasn’t taken a playoff…
Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland is sorry for asking Dez Bryant whether his mom was a hooker. So sorry, in fact, he released a statement to the Miami Herald (which didn’t even cover the outburst to begin with).”My job is to find out as much information as possible about a player that I’m…
