In his Sisyphean quest to continually one-up his latest absurd headlines, local hero-clown Jose Canseco faced a steep challenge this week: How to best his shenanigans in Hollywood, where he sent his brother Ozzie to fight in his place at a D-list celebrity boxing match?Well, here’s a start: Jose and…
Entering this season, the expectation for the Miami Heat was that they’d give the Boston Celtics a run for their money, and topple them as the best team in the Eastern Conference. But then the Celtics beat Miami three times, taking Suck to a whole other level. Expectations became so…
It’s been a busy few days for LeBron James: he became a minority owner of one of the biggest soccer team in the world, his mom got arrested, he lost to the Bucks last night, and now the premiere episode of his animated YouTube series, The LeBrons, has hit the…
During former Miami Hurricanes basketball coach Frank Haith’s introduction at his new gig Missouri he had cutting words for University of Miami saying, “I know I’m in a different place. I know I’m in a place where they care.” We’d be more outraged though if we thought people actually really…
The Miami Heat must really want to not have the second seed in the Eastern Conference, because they came out and completely crapped themselves last night in a 90-85 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.With Dwyane Wade and his hobbled thigh on the bench, the Heat turned the ball over 16…
LeBron James is set to go global by buying a piece of one of the most storied soccer teams in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, James is set to enter a deal with Fenway Sports Group that would give him a minority stake in the Liverpool F.C.,…
Regardless of what’s actually on the mind of University of Miami interim athletics director Tony Hernandez, the media has already anointed Kansas State coach Frank Martin the frontrunner for the Canes’ open basketball coaching job because of his considerable connections to the Miami area (connections that involve a past high…
For the past two years, Dwyane Wade has been just about the only NBA superstar not to have his own signature sneaker. He traded his own line of Converse kicks and apparel to take the historic honor of being the first basketball-player spokesman for Nike’s Air Jordan brand since Michael Jordan himself. But the…
With the strange but not unwelcome departure of Frank Haith for the University of Missouri, UM is now in the market for a new head basketball coach.And less than five hours after the vacancy became public knowledge, rumors are already flying over who might take the helm at the struggling…
Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Or so hopes the University of Missouri, which is set today to hire away UM basketball coach Frank Haith — a man so under-the-radar at Football U that Canes fans this morning are scratching their heads en masse at the…
If Isiah Thomas talked much about his job as head coach at FIU basketball during his interview with Fox Sports’ Bill Ritter it didn’t make the copy. Instead Ritter paints a picture of a man in a situation he doesn’t want to be in desperately hoping to one day soon…
Spanish tennis player David Ferrer, currently ranked sixth in the world, was knocked out of the Sony Ericsson tournament in Key Biscayne yesterday by American Mardy Fish. Though, Ferrer directed his angriest swing toward a crying baby in the stand. Yep, the guy actually sort of tried to hit a…
The Florida Marlins kickoff their 2011 season against the New York Mets tonight, and while the game marks the last, first game the Fish will play at Sun Life Stadium, their home tank over the past 18 years, it may be the final home opener the Marlins have until 2013…
Chad Pennington is a man of many comebacks. Heck, he’s a two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, but his latest quest to return to the gridiron hit a snag when the former Dolphins QB tore his ACL while playing basketball. He’ll undergo knee surgery for the injury and was…
The University of Miami has a whole lot of proud history that the team hasn’t bothered living up to in years, and new coach Al Golden is hoping to return the team to the glory days. In fact, he’s bringing Michael Irvin back into the locker room, or at least…
This week’s New Times feature, “Talent Trap”, tells the story of Choice Learning Academy– later named Center of Life Academy– a tiny school in a homeless shelter that defrauded the state of learning-disability education funds and illegally recruited basketball players from around the world to board them in an Opa-Locka…
After last night’s humiliating loss, it’s hard to muster evidence that the Miami Heat is number one in much of anything right now, but it might be the best-dressed team in the NBA. No, we’re not talking about the uniforms. Sports Illustrated polled 137 current NBA players as to who…
It’s Christmas morning for the Heat Haters Dick Biters Brigade! Because the lowly 15-58 Cleveland Cavaliers took down and exacted revenge on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in a 102-90 win.The Heat were outplayed and out hustled on both ends of the floor. And even though they…
It’s really no secret that many marriages amongst professional athletes aren’t the most sacred unions. When the man is on the road a significant number of dates a year it’s not uncommon for him to at least be tempted to get some on the side. Well, former MLB star Barry…
With the NBA playoffs just a few weeks away, it’s that time of year when we get a whole lotta Dwayne Wade and his towering deeds of heroic awesomeness all up in our faces. And even though D-Wade has made his name around these parts as a pretty righteous ass-kicker,…
The city may be enamored with a new generation of Miami Heat superstars, but we’ve still got love for Alonzo Mourning. Doesn’t hurt that he’s a pretty good guy. Apparently not content with his work through charities as a source of good karma, Mourning literally stopped traffic on the busy…
Wielding a thick black marker, Marlins President David Samson flourished his signature onto a gray steel beam. Moments later, a massive crane hoisted the girder high above the new Marlins stadium and guided it into place as the last link in the new retractable roof.Voters may not be enthralled by…
