Well, insult has been definitively added to injury. After they stomped the Miami Heat 105-95 in game 6, the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks — and owner Mark Cuban — went clubbing on South Beach.Yup. The same Dirk Nowitzki who was so coolly walking into the locker room alone after the…
So Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban refrained from acting like Mark Cuban during these playoffs, which was refreshing because Mark Cuban is insufferable when he acts like Mark Cuban. But then the Mavericks won the Finals and Mark Cuban unleashed his Mark Cuban-ness by cursing on live TV and twisting…
So Chris Bosh going all Sean-Penn-in-Mystic-River moments after tonight’s loss? Yeah, prepare to see that 8,000 times this summer. We’re not going in to work tomorrow…
It’s no secret LeBron hasn’t been playing like himself lately. Explanations have ranged from his girlfriend cheating on him with Rashard Lewis to fatigue from playing too many minutes to lacking Michael Jordan’s killer instincts.The simple answer — he’s choking. Literally.Choking is a real, recognized psychological problem. It happens when…
Terrelle Pryor won’t be playing in Sun Life Stadium when the Miami Hurricanes take on the Ohio State Buckeyes, but will he be in the stadium a lot more as a member of the Dolphins? The star QB will enter the supplemental draft instead of playing another season with the…
Except for the 2009 edition, the NFL’s Pro Bowl has been held in Honolulu, Hawaii since 1979, but the state’s new governor is sick of spending $4 million to secure the relationship every year. In a blistering attack on the NFL, Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested it could take its…
The Heat are down 3-2. Dwyane Wade has a busted hip. LeBron James had a triple-double and still, somehow, looked horrible. It was a bad night.But it doesn’t have to be a bad day, too. Cheer up! Make yourself feel better by winning an argument about the game. Don’t bother…
Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday afternoon, Twitter was rife with rumors that the Washington Wizards’ Rashard Lewis had been carrying on some sort of affair with Samantha Brinson, LeBron James’s longtime girlfriend and mother of his children. It didn’t help matters that an actual “journalist,” Stephen A. Smith, helped start…
After the giant mound of ostrich shit that was LeBron James’ 8-point performance from Game 4, he called Game 5 the biggest of his career. The world then waited for LeBron to come out in Game 5 and serve the Mavericks a can filled with ass whoopin’. Instead, Heat fans…
You might remember that last year, Fox Sports Radio personality Stephen A. Smith was the first guy to report that LeBron James indeed would be joining Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade with the Miami Heat. People laughed at him when he first Tweeted the assertion, but he looked pretty prescient…
Shaquille O’Neal may have hung up his high tops for good, but according to spreading internet rumors he may have not made his last athletic appearance at Sun Life Stadium yet. The buzz is that WWE is trying to sign Shaq to take on similarly tall wrestler The Big Show…
Charles Barkley took time out of his very busy schedule of criticizing the Miami Heat to switch it up a bit and criticize the Heat’s fans. Oh, yeah, he went there…
Custody and child support disputes between Chris Bosh and his ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis concerning their 2-year-old daughter Trinity are nothing new, but even Mathis’ lawyers have said she hopes their daughter can have a good relationship with her dad. Oddly, however, TMZ is reporting that Bosh is now begging a…
Miami is home to a couple of neat sports stats, but The Sun-Sentinel points out we’re about to become home to another: the first and only county in America where the championship trophies of all four major sports leagues have been handed out…
Well, shit. The Miami Heat must really love blowing fourth-quarter leads, because the team did it again last night in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, allowing the Dallas Mavericks to win the game 86-83 and tying the finals.Meanwhile, LeBron James had the worst performance of his playoff career. Dwyane…
It was like nobody told the Heat fans it was an away game.American Airlines Arena hosted a “road rally” in the stands Tuesday night to watch the live broadcast of game 4 of the NBA Finals, and that place was full. Say what you will about Miami fans, but more…
Dolphins fans have a right to be concerned about Brandon Marshall’s play last season and the legal situation stemming form his wife stabbing him in the gut with a kitchen knife, but is the best solution to that really signing a guy who just got out of a jail yesterday…
Assuming there even is an NFL season this year (even one that is only eight games long), the Miami Dolphins will find themselves once again in a tough quarterback situation. There’s been murmurs about signing a free agent all off-season, and the latest rumors center around the Tennessee Titan’s Vince…
Nothing screams “I Am A Righteous Ass Kicking Machine” quite like overcoming one of the NBA Finals worst collapses, an officiating crew that absolutely refused to call any fouls for you but insisted on blowing the whistle if you so much as breathed on the giant German, and having one…
For game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Mavericks, the Miami Heat will be going on the road and into unpleasant territory. Not just unpleasant for opposing professional sports teams — we’re talking bad for everybody.There has been plenty of good-natured trash talk bouncing back and forth — cries…
The dozen or so people who can make a serious claim to being true Florida Marlins fans are stoked that his may be the year for the Florida Marlins! The year the team finally loses a playoff series! The Fish currently have a .574 record. That’s the fourth best in…
In these still shady economic times, placing a bet on the Miami Heat seemed as sound an investment plan as any. At least, that’s probably what rapper and Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman thought. He announced on Twitter that he made a $2 million bet on the Miami Heat in…
