Most of us don’t make NBA money and we still manage to show up to work every day. And when we do decide to skip out, we at least have the decency to come up with an elaborate excuse. Not the Heat’s Rafer Alston. He didn’t show up to the…
Apparently, Chad Ochocinco is preparing for his stint on Dancing With the Stars by jogging naked around his home.”I was running naked. It was in the privacy of my own home. Fuckin’ noisy people filmed me,” Ochocinco tells Sports Illustrated. “Yeah, why wouldn’t I? What’s wrong with that? I take…
There are nights when the Miami Heat drop games against the crappiest of teams, causing you to want to punch random people in the pants at a bus stop. There are nights when it seems as if Dwyane Wade is playing alongside Michael Beasley, the churros guy from across the…
Don’t be surprised if you see hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s son Trevor in a Hurricanes jersey some day.No, not the NHL team in Carolina, the original Miami Hurricanes. And we don’t mean the school is starting up a hockey team either, we’re talking football.Trevor Gretzky is heading into his senior…
A couple of Wednesdays ago, as the University of Miami basketball team battled Duke on ESPN, a strange noise rang out in the stadium. It sounded like a broken flute — or an animal dying slowly? — and was so loud that Duke’s longtime “Coach K” pulled aside a referee…
Whatever their reasons may be, the Brown brothers have been a flaky headache for the Miami Hurricanes. Now, Arthur Brown Jr., considered by some to be the top linebacker in the recruiting class of 2008, has enrolled at Kansas State after mysteriously leaving the University of Miami last month.Brown never…
Despite some talk that the Pro Bowl may be played every other year in the same city as the Super Bowl, or find a semi-permanent home in Miami, the NFL announced today that it’s headed back to Hawaii for the next two years. One change from this year that seems to have…
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James announced that he just sent in paperwork to have his uniform number changed from 23 to 6. The official word is that it’s a tribute to Michael Jordan, though the number 23 figures quite prominently into the logo used for his Nike apparel. Why the…
Last time on Dwyane Wade Watch, we said we were “about 75 percent sure [Wade will] stay with the Heat.” Well, Heat owner Micky Arison is a bit more optimistic than our already sunny prediction. In fact, he’s 20 percent more sure. “The bottom line is he has publicly and privately said…
Well, it’s official. Dwyane Wade needs a crap-load of help. Sure it was great to see D-Wade back in action last night after being sidelined with a strained calf since February 17. But even with Wade doing his usual routine of denting asses in a single bound, the Miami Heat…
Two important things happened on the NBC television network this weekend. The Winter Olympics finally ended and Jennifer Lopez, who has been busy raising her twins, buying an apartment in Miami, and letting her husband buy a stake in the Dolphins, finally got back to the important work of being…
Apparently, the Hurricanes have brought on Richard Simmons as a uniform consultant, because during spring practice yesterday, the team sported short shorts that left little to the imagination…
It’s bad enough to lose a game at home to a team riding a six-game losing streak. It’s quite another to get your ass pounded into a fine powder by a team with a 4-22 road record. But that’s exactly what a Dwyane Wade-less Miami Heat did last night, falling…
To the cynical of Miami who believe there’s nothing worth watching at the Winter Games, we humbly present Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe … The Most Interesting Man in the World.German prince. Mexican Olympian. World-class photographer. Professional musician. Fluent in five languages. Heir to the Fiat fortune. As far as Riptide…
Let’s be honest. The brightest star in the black hole of mediocrity that is the South Florida sports landscape is Dwyane Wade. As we all know, he enters free agency after this season. While we’re about 75 percent sure he’ll stay with the Heat, the media is going to have…
The Dolphins might be cooking up various schemes to get South Florida taxpayers to foot the bill for the proposed makeover of Sunny D Sun O))) Sun Life Stadium so the city can host future Super Bowls, but a new study shows Miami didn’t receive much of an image boost from the…
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…
