This week, New Times publishes “Dwyane’s Disaster,” a cover story about Dwyane Wade’s catastrophic partnership with Richard von Houtman, a British baron with a sordid past. Von Houtman has been making wild allegations about the Heat superstar’s personal life since their business relationship dissolved. Two weeks after Wade responded by…
For those keeping score at home, there are now three lawsuits involving Heat superstar Dwyane Wade and his former partners in an aborted South Florida restaurant chain bearing his name. In June, Riptide first reported Wade had filed a libel suit in Miami-Dade court against Richard von Houtman, the vociferous British…
Since 2007, the Marlins have held their free Super Saturday concerts after Saturday-night home matchups in a ploy to get people to attend games even if not for the baseball. The concerts sometimes snare an extra 10,000 fans, and KC and the Sunshine Band were last season’s biggest draw, so the corporate-disco outfit…
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points, Adrian Peterson’s 296 rushing yards, and Roger Clemens’ 20 strikeouts all prove that a single player can win a game in a team sport. While her name doesn’t carry nearly as much weight as the aforementioned fellows, Puerto Rico’s Aurea Cruz can be added to the list…
Brazilians have a natural happy-go-lucky attitude and have a saying for when life gets difficult: “Tudo bem” basically is a combination of “it’s all good” and “no worries.” That carefree outlook was on display when a well-rested, undefeated US team playing on its homecourt punched the Brazilians squarely in the mouth by taking…
As a reward for a perfect 5-0 run through the first round of the Pan-American Cup, the US women’s volleyball team had today off. But they could still be seen in the BankUnited Center scouting Thursday’s 8 p.m. marquee match-up between Puerto Rico and Argentina. IPuerto Rico defeated Argentina in four sets; 25-18,…
Aroldis Chapman is considering one of the best left-handed pitching prospects in the world. If he was born anywhere else in the world a lucrative contract with the MLB would be a given, but Chapman was born in Cuba. So this week, while the national team was playing in the…
Men’s Health has stuck us with another label: the least sports obsessed city. The mag took into account number of ticket sales and attendance on the pro, college and high school level for baseball, basketball football, and NASCAR as well as memorabilia sales. Miami came in dead last. That’s kind of sad considering…
Your Florida Marlins defeated the Washington Nationals 5-3 yesterday, running their record against the MLB bottom dwellers to 9 – on the season, with 7 of those wins of the “come-from-behind” variety.Perhaps that’s why the Nationals have agreed to make a uniform change. The next time the two teams…
“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever, until you are dead.” That was said about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, but it also applies to the US women’s volleyball team (except for the death…
Having won just five matches in 26 attempts againts the United States, Peru faced a challenge as daunting as trying to climb to Machu Picchu with one leg and a blindfold. But the scrappy 17th-ranked Peruvian squad gave the U.S. its toughest challenge of the tournament despite losing in three sets:…
On Sunday the number one team in the world; Brazil. The Brasileros were playing their most hated rival; Argentina. To put it in perspective, Brazil-Argentina is intense as Florida State-Miami, Biggie-Tupac, Alien-Predator, Emeril-Wolfgang Puck, etc. And on Sunday the the Brazilian supporters were drunk off their soccer team’s earlier triumph…
The top of the net in ladies’ volleyball is nearly seven and a half feet above the ground explaining the need for tall players. The US roster includes a player as tall as 6-foot-7 with eight others taller than 5-foot-10. Guatemala did not make the heights of their players available,…
Costa Rica is known for its beautiful scenery, coffee beans, and — now — for not practicing enough volleyball. A sparse crowd at the BankUnited Center watched the second-ranked United States team dismantle Costa Rica Friday night in the 2009 Women’s Volleyball Pan-American Cup in straight sets; 25-7, 25-6, and…
The Miami Heat made minimal moves in the NBA draft, but did pick up a few players, including Robert Dozier out of the University of Memphis. Earlier this month, ESPN reported that the organization that administers the SATs invalidated his score. Dozier score of 1260 didn’t match his grades or his PSAT score. When he…
Wally Pipp was a good player and the first Yankee to ever win a home run title. One day in 1925, the New York manager benched Pipp and other veterans to shake up a slumping lineup and replaced the first baseman with a young Lou Gehrig. Gehrig never relinquished the…
View Larger Map When MLB nailed Manny Ramirez with a 50-game suspension in May for using banned substances, several newspapers reported that he got his juice from a Florida doctor. Now, if ESPN’s investigative team is correct, we know his name: Dr. Pedro Bosch, a 71-year-old Coral Gables physician. ESPN…
Today, Gloria and Emilio Estefan officially announced their minority ownership of the Miami Dolphins. And while some people may scoff at the Estefans’ acquisition, Gloria herself has had some previous sports-related endeavors. So come on everybody let’s do the conga as Riptide takes a trip back in time:Superbowl XXVI Halftime…
One week ago, a lifelong Dolphins fan named Lionel Lightbourne called out Mr. Margaritaville himself, Jimmy Buffett, and demanded an Internet duel for the soul of the aqua-and-orange nation.Buffett had a new, corporate-approved anthem for the Dolphins, soullessly penned in exchange for renaming the stadium after his watered-down Budweiser-hawked beer…
How many Vontaes are there in the world? How many of those have the last name Davis? Well, if there happens to be more than one, Miami Dolphins first-round draft pick Vontae Davis wants you to know he wasn’t the Vontae Davis who was arrested earlier this month in Champaign,…
Last month, Riptide received a vague but alarming email invitation with this headline: “JIMMY BUFFETT, MIAMI DOLPHINS AND DOLPHIN STADIUM TO HOST MAJOR CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENT.”Riptide quickly RSVPed and was treated to one of the most disturbing displays in sports history: Jimmy Buffett playing to a crowd of Parrotheads and getting…
The Marlins’ recent cakewalk against the beasts of the AL East revealed that Josh Johnson is a Cy Young contender, Chris Coghlan is a talented lead-off hitter, and after going 6-3 against Toronto, Boston, and New York, the Marlins are actually pretty good. Oh, and Matt Lindstrom needs to be…
