You all are dirty! On Wednesday we asked Riptide readers to come up with the most vulgar possible name for the Miami Marlins’ technicolor home run statue. We waded through the comments both here and on our Facebook page. After scrubbing ourselves clean in the shower with a wire brush…
Last night’s game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls at the American Airlines Arena was as close to a playoff atmosphere as you’re going to get in a game that was mostly meaningless, but also mostly amazeballs.Spurred by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, Miami took down the Bulls 83-72…
Riptide has gone on record admitting we don’t know much about hockey, but at least we’re able to tell the difference between the collegiate FIU Golden Panthers (who do not have a hockey team) and the NHL’s Florida Panthers. Apparently WSVN knows less about hockey than we know…
Former superstar basketball center and current TNT mumbling head Shaquille O’Neal has told Jon Stewart, the New York Times, and ESPN that he’s getting his doctorate at Miami’s Barry University, where he defended his dissertation this month. His purported title? “How Leaders Utilize Humor or Aggression in Leadership Styles.” Unfortunately,…
Yesterday, Palm Beach Post writer Dave George filed a column entitled, “Help us find a proper name for the outrageous home-run contraption at Marlins Park,” in which he asked readers to submit nicknames for that thing in the Marlins stadium. Well, what do you know, today the Miami Herald announced…
The Dolphins have an outpost of LIV at Sunlife Stadium. The Marlins have a mini-Clevelander at their new park. Now, the Heat wants to get in on the in-stadium nightclub craze and is planning to open a new nightclub inside American Airlines Arena in time for next season.Unlike the other…
Unknwn, the Aventura Mall shop owned by LeBron James and friends, just debuted online shopping on their website, and to celebrate the store teamed up with street fashion’s Dr. Frankenstein-like couturier Dr. Romanelli for a limited edition collection of some, uh, really, really interesting LeBron jerseys…
The second season of The Franchise, Showtime’s baseball “docudrama” (a fancy word for reality series) isn’t supposed to debut for months. Of course, this season the show is following the exploits of the Miami Marlins, and the season has already had its fair share of drama. So, Showtime is rushing…
Up until the last 50 seconds of last night’s 101-98 win over the New Jersey Nets, the Miami Heat were flat out refusing to give a single fuck. Oh they had fucks. Had them stored away somewhere. Perhaps in a box inside a FedEx truck marked “playoffs.” But they just…
The Miami Heat went into Madison Square Garden yesterday for the first and only time this regular season, and proceeded to mash the spleens of the New York Knickerbockers to the tune of 93-85, snapping New York’s nine-game home-winning streak, sweeping the season series against the Knicks and taking the…
Holy shit bananas, that was rough.The Miami Heat dropped a gut-wrenching loss to the Chicago Bulls 96-86 in overtime last night.And while the game is meaningless in terms of overall playoff importance, it still feels like Heat fans got their collective cocks slammed in a Metrobus door. WILL SOMEONE START…
Did you guys hear the Florida Panthers are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs? You guys heard of the Florida Panthers? You guys even heard of hockey?No? Well, great, this guide is for you. Being native Floridians we’re glad that our team has finally broken their playoff slump. We’d like to…
Well, at least some people think Isiah Thomas was a good basketball coach.The former NBA All-Star and failed New York Knicks coach last week was fired as head coach of Florida International University’s men’s basketball team. His players staged a walkout during an awards banquet, and now some of them want…
Anyone familiar with Miami wasn’t surprised that Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen’s comments about Fidel Castro set off a fire storm. But certain folks in the sports world were off on the sidelines scratching their heads or muttering things about how baseball managers aren’t diplomats. Some are even defending Guillen. That…
LeBron James scored a game-high 36 points last night, while the rest of the Miami Heat stood and watched as the Boston Celtics shot 60 percent from the floor in yet another listless-shit-the-bed-let’s-all-go-outside-and-punt-a-litter-of-kittens-loss by the Heat.Rajon Rondo once again had his way against the Heat defense, dishing out 18 assists…
For months, anyone writing about the Marlins’ new ballpark has had to mention the catastrophe sure to ensue whenever 37,000 fans descend on Little Havana’s tiny side streets, only to find that Miami’s finest civil engineers included only 5,000 new parking spots. But how bad would it really be? There was only…
Ozzie Guillen has only spent five games as the Miami Marlins’ manager, and he’ll spend the next five at home. The team has announced that Guillen will be suspended for the next five games following the controversial remarks he made about Fidel Castro.Update: We have live coverage of the press…
With two national championships and a Christian morals poster boy in Tim Tebow, it’s easy to look at Urban Meyer’s reign with the University of Florida Gators as some sort of shining example of the best of college football.A new report from the Sporting News suggests otherwise. Former players says…
Ask your average American Joe about cricket, and he’ll picture noblemen, dressed in white livery, sipping cups of tea while a sickly servant polishes their finely carved bats. But a new lawsuit claims the state of cricket in the U.S. is anything but aristocratic. A Silicon Valley millionaire is now…
The Isiah Thomas era is officially over at FIU, and, well, the program still exists! So there’s something! Thomas’s stunt hiring didn’t irretrievably break the program. There’s still hope. Maybe FIU can hire some respected assistant from a larger program to help take the school to a new level. Or…
Isiah Thomas has been fired from his job as head basketball coach at Florida International University, according to a statement released by the school. The former NBA star and New York Knicks coach brought big hopes with him to the campus but failed to deliver…
Ozzie Guillen is officially all of Miami’s drunk uncle. He’s the kind of guy who just mutters and complains and yells at your bratty cousins during the day on family trips, and spends the nights getting drunk by himself at the hotel bar.No, really, that’s exactly who he is…
