Just about the only bold names casual American tennis fans can be expected to recognize who performed up to expectations at this year’s Miami Masters were Andy Roddick and Venus Williams. Roddick made it as far as he could until he got dropped by Roger Federer; meanwhile, Venus put up…
Lately, telling sports fans you’re a UM alum never leads to anything good. It’s always, “Man, what happened to your football team?” or “Sucks you’re losing McClinton.” And that’s just the cordial ones. But there’s always baseball. You can always take pride in baseball. Which is why Friday’s big loss…
The mens’ side of the Miami Masters has shaped up to be quite surprising. First top seed Rafael Nadel went out in a sloppy loss in the quarter finals, then, today, second seed Rodger Federer lost to Novak Djokovic in the semis.Then, the normally reserved and professional Federer smashed his…
There are few rivalries in modern sports more intriguing than the one between Venus and Serena Williams. Sure, there are the haters who want to think the outcomes are fixed, but for the rest of us watching the two sisters, who just happen to be the most dominant players of…
On March 14th, Donte Stallworth, a wide receiver with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, got drunk, hopped into the front seat of his Bentley, drove across 195, and hit and killed a pedestrian. According to secret AP sources he’ll be charged with DUI Manslaughter. If convicted, Stallworth could sit in jail…
The McDonald’s All-American High School basketball games goes off tomorrow on the UM campus. The Washington Post has been posting blog dispatches from Maryland’s National Christian Academy stand out Dante Taylor. He has been having all sorts of fun in Miami. He’s swam with dolphins, noted the algae on the…
The Dolphins Pre-Season scheduled was announced today, and they won’t be playing teams from that far away. They’ll match up against the two other Florida franchises, Carolina and New Orleans. The exact dates aren’t set in stone, but this gives you a general idea. Aug. 14-18 … vs. Jacksonville at…
Jason Taylor spent 11 long years with the Miami Dolphins, the last of which was particularly embarrassing, but did our love not make up for it? It wasn’t a Dan Marino type of love, but we loved him in a way a city loves the standout star of their otherwise…
Pulling out of the Sony Ericsson Open this week further delayed Maria Sharapova’s return to tournament glory, but it hasn’t slowed down her celebrity status. Sharapova still made the trip to Miami, but is instead partying and playing fashionista. She made a promotional appearance at the Cole Haan store at the…
After Randy Shannon came aboard and decided to portray the football team as a monastery, it’s been up to other University of Miami athletes to pick up the slack and keep the spirit of Thug U alive. The UM men’s tennis team seems to be willing, in its own inept,…
Bruce Feldman is no stranger to Canes Football. He literally wrote the book, Canes Mutiny, on the team. His recent blog post over at ESPN doesn’t directly address the Canes, but it does bring up an interesting point to ponder: in eight of the ten past seasons the National Championship…
The Marlins settled for 600 fans to a home game last year. The Panthers are literally giving away tickets. Our minor-league soccer team is hemmoraging cash, And those are sports that Americans have at least heard of. So you might think it’d be foolhardy to bet millions on Miamians attending the…
Maria Sharapova occasionally pops up on my TV screen to sell me digital cameras in ads where she’s constantly upstaged by a small dog who thinks in the most stereotypical French accent ever. But the 21-year-old former number one hasn’t popped up on my TV screen in any important tennis…
As a wee boy my baseball hero was Kirby Puckett. I know Marlins fans may not be able to comprehend the idea of a star player staying with a single team his entire career, but Puckett did, and racked up two World Series championships for the Twins and an impressive…
79% of male cheerleaders resemble cast members of “Saved by the Bell”
The first big upset of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament, #13 Cleveland State defeating #4 Wake Forest, really demands an intelligent analysis, especially since I watched it live from three feet away. But hey, this is the alternative press, and I have a great sense of humor, so instead, I’m…
‘Madness’ is a pretty outdated term — offensive really — so at Riptide we prefer to classify what’s going down at American Airlines Arena this afternoon a little more precisely. Our psychologists are rolling out a diagnosis of paranoid basketball schizophrenia with a touch of hoops paranoia and a major…
Floridians haven’t followed the Marlins this closely since the Gary Sheffield Era, and today, another chapter was written in the saga of the proposed Little Havana stadium. Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones pretty much played this perfectly, even using a fetus to her advantage. She was on maternity leave when the remaining…
By now you’ve seen the brackets so many times you know North Dakota State’s mascot by heart and you’ll break down in tears if another person mentions President Obama’s picks. But are you really ready for Miami’s first-round matchups tomorrow at the AA Arena? More important, do you know whom to mercilessly…
It’s still kind of unclear to me how many soccer fans in Miami want a local team, but for those that do it’s been a bad few weeks. First Miami’s MLS bid was withdrawn, and then came rumors that our ULS-1 team may leave town. Well, finally there’s some good…
I counted three Venezuelan girls in bikini’s that made me want to defect on the next plane to Caracas.
Or so went the chants in the first round of the World Baseball Classic, when Venezuela played in Toronto. With Dolphins Stadium’s proximity to Westin-zuela, the atmosphere at tonight’s Puerto Rico-Venezuela match-up should be even more rife with entertaining political sing-song. Game starts at 8pm, and the outfield seats are…
