University of Miami is clearly not embarrassed about naming its baseball stadium after an admitted steroid user. So much so that Alex Rodriguez is front and center on UM’s homepage. The media, admittedly, is being overly hard on Rodriguez, considering more than 100 other players tested positive at the same…
Reporters are herd animals. That was made painfully clear last week when approximately 76 of us had the same idea: Hey, let’s go to that A-Rod park dedication thing Friday night. I mean, I can understand why news cameras were there — you can’t beat a local A-Roid/steroid segment at…
In 2008 Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks was traded from the Suns to the Heat for Shaquielle O’Neal, barely a year latter the Heat are trading him out again for another O’Neal, according to AP. Jermaine O’Neal that is, along with his Toronto Raptors teammate Jamario Moon. Marion, a four…
Never for the life of me have I ever understood why South Florida has its own Ice Hockey team. Of course, being a native Floridian I have never made much sense out of hockey in general. It is just not natural.I guess we have enough snow birds and ex-Northerners to…
You have Selena Roberts to thank for the A-Rod steroid scandal. The sports journalist broke the news for Sport Illustrated, but not after scouring all over Miami to get a quote from A-Rod himself. Five days before the story was published on SI.com, Roberts flew to Miami and engaged in…
Unlike last year, when the Hurricanes got to play the Ponytown High School Flag Football Fightin’ Sad Clowns, or whatever that no-name team was, to kick of their season, next season they’ll start things off with their oldest rivals, FSU, in Tallahassee. As previously reported, we’ll also be playing three…
With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit … um … new Marlins Stadium proposal, it’s easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It’s a shame, really. For true baseball fans, Spring Training is the best…
Back when an unconfirmed rumor hit Deadspin that Dwyane Wade’s soon-to-be ex-wife Siohvaughn went haywire with a baseball bat on his MVP trophy, we predicted that this was just the begining of a series of nasty rumors. Unfortunately for Dwyane, we were right. Wade’s former business partner Baron Richard Von…
Whoever runs PR for the University of Miami Athletics Department should either be fired, or is having a hard time convincing higher-ups that they’re being total idiots. Even after Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the University of Miami sees no reason, no reason whatsoever, to rethink…
For the past few years, the University of Miami athletic department has had a reputation of coming down hard on anyone who dares bring bad PR to their program*. Hell hath no fury like a UM Athletic Director scorned. Unless of course, you happen to have donated nearly $4 million…
Bill Parcells flies around the NFL like some sort of caped superhero saving distressed teams from the villainous forces of “sucking.” After a successful year as the Dolphins VP of FB, in which he turned that team from the laughingstock of the league to something resembling an actual football team,…
We’re barely a month into 2009 and here’s a completely incomplete list of high-profile companies that have or will be slashing local jobs: Macy’s, Circuit City, the Miami Herald, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami City Ballet, and American Airlines. The South Florida Business Journal reports Miami Jai-Alai might soon join…
Larry Coker got fired from his gig as University of Miami’s football coach after a six-loss season, and left the school with a respectable winning percentage of .800 and a national championship. Shortly thereafter, he lost out on a coaching job at Rice and has held some analyst gig at…
Up until last night, the ’09 edition of the University of Miami basketball team had been acting more like a UM football squad circa the 1990s, in all its cocaine-fueled, felonious glory. Except without all the victories. Best of both worlds, really. The school tossed point guard Eddie Rios off the team last month…
University of Miami used to have this wonderful, magical football program that everyone feared. Then sometime a few years ago everyone got tired of being wonderful and magical and stopped winning games, and they’ve officially been having “a rebuilding year” every single year since. Today is the first official day…
All the naysayers (me included, often) think the Dolphins’ roller coaster 2008 season ought to come with a few caveats: “Yeah, yeah, but Tom Brady was out the entire season… Sure, but the Jets had that old guy… Well, the wildcat won’t be as effective next year… Whatever, you had…
A few miles north of Miami, on the swampy edges of Lake Okeechobee, there are a couple of impoverished little towns called Pahokee and Belle Glade where they churn out gasp-inducing football talent like a cash crop. Without much else to do, the kids chase and skin rabbits and play pigskin in the…
The thought in the back of my mind last night while watching the game was “Hmmm, how do I recap this for Riptide tomorrow with some sort of Miami Dolphins peg.” Something of a challenge, considering the Dolphins weren’t playing, if you weren’t aware.When the Cardinals went scoreless for the…
Here’s everything interesting we know for sure about the Dwyane Wade divorce situation: His soon-to-be ex Siohvaughn claims Wade gave her some sort of STD. Everything else is just hearsay, but my old pals at Deadspin have the ultimate hearsay. Now, before irresponsibly spreading this, it should be noted it…
Randy Shannon has been in Catholic nun mode trying to steer his football players clear of the rich thug history of the UM football program, but we’re guessing after yesterday’s shenanigans, Frank Haith may want to borrow Shannon’s habit and ruler to slap the knuckles of his basketball team. Suspended…
We always thought Dwyane Wade’s latest signature shoe, the Wade 4 by Converse, is kind of ugly. So we can’t really blame him for never wearing them on court, but that’s a bit controversial. When basketball players sign these ridiculously lucrative sneaker deals, they are expected to actually wear the…
According to the News-Press, University of Miami will at 1 p.m. officially announce Mark Whipple as their new offensive coordinator. Whipple was previously with the Philadelphia Eagles. I’d be a lot more excited about this if the Eagles didn’t just get beatwn by the friggin’ Cardinals, of all teams, but I’m sure that’s…
