What’s the beef? The Miami Heat beat the LeBron-less Cleveland Cavaliers back on Friday 99-84 — but you knew that already. Heat fans broke out in a hilarious “LeBron Is Tired” chant late in the big win, referencing James deciding to sit out the game due to fatigue caused by…
Three years ago, Porter Fischer sparked the biggest steroid scandal in baseball history when he leaked files from the Biogenesis clinic to Miami New Times. Fourteen MLB players were later suspended in the saga, none more visibly than Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees superstar who lost a whole year on the…
In many ways, Mark Richt is unlike any head coach the Hurricanes have hired in their recent history. He’s not a coordinator getting his first shot at the captain’s chair, nor is he a promising talent plucked from a mid-major. The man has spent 15 years coaching in College Football’s…
The Miami Hurricanes have reportedly interviewed a good portion of the high profile names that have been floating around as possible replacements for Al Golden. Well, everyone but Texas’s Charlie Strong and current Alabama offensive line coach and former ‘Canes player Mario Cristobal. That list however does include recently fired…
Jeffrey Loria is the most despised team owner in Major League Baseball, not just among local fans — who he’s spent years antagonizing with brutally bad rosters and a highway robbery stadium deal — but also among fellow owners and league officials. Barry Bonds, meanwhile, left the game in 2007…
David Beckahm hasn’t built a soccer stadium in Miami yet, but he has built a graveyard of failed soccer stadium plans. Much like attempts to build a stadium near American Airlines Areana and at PortMiami, Beckham and his business partner’s latest plan to build next to Marlins Park in Little…
Black Friday, the day Americans decide cheap waffle irons and flat-screen televisions are enough reason to hurdle other shoppers, face-smush an old lady, and dive into Macy’s before the doors close like in Indiana Jones. It’s a tradition like no other. Being a sucker for an unbelievable deal isn’t unique…
The Miami Heat are your rock. They are Netflix on a gloomy South Florida Winter day. They make you feel more emotion on a nightly basis than any Adele album ever could. They are waking up in the middle of the night and remembering tomorrow is Saturday. They are chicken…
There are few cities in America quite as in love with their primary area code as Miami. It’s pretty much in every Miami rap song. Pitbull calls himself “Mr. 305,” and has an upcoming Miami-set drama in the works called “305.” You can see it on tattoos, hats, shirts and…
In summer 2012, lawyer Laurence Leavy was late to a Miami Heat playoff game. Before the matchup began, the team had laid out white T-shirts on every seat so the crowd would match. “But somebody had stolen my shirt,” he remembers, so he remained in a gaudy bright-orange Marlins jersey…
The Miami Marlins are what happens when you remove any semblance of magic from professional sports and reveal it to be the cold hard public welfare-leaching business it is. In just the latest attempt to alienate every possible person in South Florida, the team has reportedly parted ways with long…
The Miami Hurricanes flew to Puerto Rico this weekend for ESPN’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament as an unranked team pegged as finishing somewhere in the middle of the pack of the ACC. They returned as not only tourney champs but as now the most buzzed about team in college basketball…
The clock is ticking on David Beckham’s quest to build a new soccer stadium in Miami-Dade County. The sports icon and his business partners have until just December 5th to have a plan ironed out and presented to Major League Soccer. That doesn’t mean a plan has to be totally…
Maybe it’s not even a question of whether anyone out there likes the Miami Marlins. Maybe it’s one of whether anyone doesn’t think the team is a pox upon the house of Major League Baseball. If it was’t bad enough that most Miamians don’t particularly have warm feelings for the…
In a race that was going to last hours, trouble came just a minute after the starting gun. Caryn Lubetsky, a local mother, law professor, and veteran distance racer, was competing in the Ironman triatholon in Panama City Beach last Thursday, a grueling endurance race that combines a 2.4-mile swim,…
Remember when as a kid you dreamed about your parents putting your little sibling up for adoption? Well, The Heat have pretty much actually done that. According to several reports, the trade of Mario Chalmers to the Memphis Grizzlies is all but official, bringing to end the point guard’s more…
As if the week couldn’t get worse for the University of Miami football team, now a player is sitting behind bars on charges of domestic battery and has been suspended indefinitely from the team. Defensive Lineman Michael Wyche, a former USC recruit with a tragic history, was booked at 4:50…
Diagnosing the state and the future of the University of Miami’s football program in the wake of the firing of Al Golden is currently the favorite parlor game of college football commentators. To some, the head coaching job is the single greatest open position in college football right now other…
The Golden era at the U turned out to be nothing more than Brass, and now the Hurricanes are on the hunt for a new head coach. Names like former FIU coach Mario Cristobal and former ‘Canes coach Butch Davis are the most frequently cited in actual media reports, but…
Saturday’s University of Miami loss to Clemson was costly. The 58-0 annihilation cost fans another season of false hope. It cost players their remaining shreds of dignity. And in the long run, it’s probably going to cost the University of Miami many millions of dollars. To loud cheers from pundits,…
Miamians love soccer. This city would love to see a big-time team here. But by now, an element of stadium anticipation fatigue is surely setting in — for more than two years, since the news first broke that soccer giant David Beckham was interested in starting an MLS team right here…
There’s few cities that have been has burned as badly by a stadium deal as Miami, and few voting blocs that have made politicians pay the price for that as Miami’s. That political atmosphere has made it difficult for David Beckham and his business partner to nail down a site to…
