The saga of Renyel Pinto, fugitive Marlins reliever, continues. In November, Riptide reported that the rotund Venezuelan pitcher had skipped court dates in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties and was being chased by an arrest warrant and a $6,000 summary judgment as a result.Worse yet, in our mind, Pinto’s Facebook…
The Winter Olympics may be getting dismal local ratings, but if the pleas of poll dancers across the world to have their “sport” recognized by the Olympics are heeded, we’ve got a feeling ratings would shoot through the roof. “After a great deal of feedback from the pole dance community,…
Eventually, we’re all going to end up unwittingly shooting one of our friends. It happens. It happened to Dick Cheney and his hunting buddy. It happened to Charlie Sheen when he inadvertently capped then-fiancée Kelly Preston. It happened to Plaxico Burress and his thigh. Now the Marlins’ Jose Ceda has admitted…
Personally, we barely understand what is going on during these Winter Olympics. Apparently we aren’t the only ones in Miami who feel that way.Out of the 55 television markets monitored by Nielsen, the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market has come in 54th in terms of viewership, according to Glenn Garvin. The only…
Not only did Hurricanes basketball blow a first-half lead and lost to Duke, but also a fan blew his conch and lost it to security.The Canes’ student section doesn’t get a lot of credit during basketball season, but Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski got pissed at a conch horn in…
It was already clear that we wouldn’t be getting Amar’e, but last minute rumors that The Heat might be landing Carlos Boozer from the Utah Jazz appeared to be unfounded.”That was like, huh, what?” Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor said this afternoon, according to the Deseret News.So that means no…
With the NBA trade deadline less than an hour away, it seems that Phoenix Sun star Amar’e Stoudemire will not be making a mid-season move to Miami. Our brethren at the Phoenix New Times report that any Stoudemire trade is “unlikely.” The Heat had become the late leading candidate to land the…
Rakontur films has announced a sequel to their documentary The U, which chronicled the Miami Hurricanes football team of the ’80s. It became the highest rated documentary in ESPN history. They plan to have the sequel ready for release by December, about one year after the original’s premiere. Since The…
Tiger Woods, that famous golfer you might have heard got caught having sex with many, many women who weren’t his wife, will hold his first press conference Friday morning since the affairs came to light. He’ll talk to a small gathering of reporters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida at 11…
There are several ways a team can kick off the second half of an NBA season following an All-Star break. One is to come out of the gates stumbling and disorganized, setting a terrible precedent for the remainder of the season. Another is to come out on fire, playing sound…
There was a time when you could get in real trouble for helping Cuban ball players defect from the Communist island. Ask Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar, the Cuban agent profiled by the New Times last year. He spent 13 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help El Duque and…
The Dwyane Wade situation is pretty clear: He wants to stay in Miami but also demands the Heat commit to making another championship run by signing another superstar. Now, just about everyone in the world, except for Cleveland fans and whoever is in charge of the Heat’s salary budget, wants that…
Joey Porter’s contract has been terminated by the Miami Dolphins. This comes after Porter’s very public two-week campaign demanding that the Fins either play him as a full-time starter or let him go.Late last month, Porter went on a media rampage, making stops on ESPN and WQAM, complaining of Coach…
Corporations like Gatorade, T-Mobile, and Nike have paid many millions of dollars to go into business with Heat demi-God Dwyane Wade. But what of the little man? Shouldn’t everybody, even if they live with their parents in South Miami, be able to partner with an NBA superstar? Apparently, 20-year-old Michael…
Did we just wake up in Bizarro World? Because usually when the Heat visits Atlanta, the Hawks tend to go all Cirque du Soleil on their asses with their slam dunk aerial assaults, sparking the home crowd into a frenzy and causing Josh Smith to hop up and down and…
Last season for Miami Hurricanes fans was a respectful rebound, and should provide encouragement that our days of being left off most pre-season polls are over.The season doesn’t officially kick off for another seven months, but that hasn’t stopped ESPN’s Mark Schlabach from making his pre-season rankings. He’s got the…
On Monday afternoon, as part of his I Need to Stay in the NFL Because I Owe $20 Million Tour, quarterback/dogfighter Michael Vick showed up at the Overtown Youth Center to thoroughly confuse a gymnasium full of little kids. Who is this dead-eyed man, and are we supposed to emulate…
Like most Miamians, we were pulling for the Saints last night. Yeah there’s a huge part of us that wished it was the Dolphins, but we couldn’t have been happier for New Orleans. Of course, as you’re probably aware, Saints QB and MVP Drew Brees was courted by the Dolphins when…
The Super Bowl getting high ratings isn’t news as much as it is practically a law of physics, but when it breaks a 27-year-old record that’s certainly something.Last night’s broadcast from Miami Gardens drew an astounding 106.5 million viewers, making it the most watched television program in the history of…
As we mentioned in our live blog, Riptide still isn’t entirely sure how it got an invite to the Super Bowl. And we have no comment on whether blackmail may or may not have been involved.Either way, we were there dammit! We saw Drew Brees carve up the Colts secondary, we watched…
Workers at a Pollo Tropical across the street from Sun O))) Sun Life Stadium attempted to break the world record for biggest bowl of salsa. [CBS4]Economists say Florida’s jobless rated should peak this year at about 12.3 percent before finally turning around before the end of the year. [CBS4]A man…
Riptide got invited to the Super Bowl!We know. We couldn’t believe it either. It’s amazing what twenty bucks and some extremely compromising Polaroids of Roger Goodell at King of Diamonds will get you. Not that we have anything like that.Anyway, the point is we are at the muthaflippin Super Bowl…
