Miami Sports Agent Returns after Cuban Prison Term

When Miami sports agent Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar, 51, flew into Miami Friday after spending 13 years in a Cuban jail, he felt a bit like Rip Van Winkle. The small children he had left behind were all grown up and Miami had sprouted a new skyline.Hernandez, who tried to…

Hurricanes Host Cavaliers for Homecoming

​Virginia Cavaliers @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday 12pm on ESPN360.com and 90.5 FM. College football is a ridiculously frustrating thing, and playing in the ACC only magnifies that. Listen, we know the chances of it happening are slight, but if Duke beats NC and somehow knocked off Georgia Tech next weekend they’d…

Counterpoint: A-Rod is Still a Douche

Maybe it’s a bad idea to publicly disagree with your boss. But I gotta say, watching this postseason only confirmed my belief that Alex Rodriguez is a world-class douche. It’s not just the strangely purple lips or the gingerly smug way that he digs in at bat like he’s got…

Miami Dolphins at New York Jets: 10 Predictions

Despite winning the last two meetings against the New York Jets, the Dolphins enter Sunday’s rematch as 3-point underdogs. This is mainly because the Jets are coming off a big win against the Raiders (which is basically the equivalence of beating a team made up entirely of organ grinders and…

Will the Hurricanes Out-Devil the Demon Deacons on Halloween?

Last week’s Clemson game got Canes fans’ hearts pumping in fear harder than anything they’re likely to experience on Halloween. After last week’s trick, please, Great Pumpkin, deliver us a treat.Tomorrow, the Canes will travel to Wake Forest to take on the Demon Deacons, the second most ghoulishly named team…

Top Five Dream Miami Heat Lineups for 2010

Running off the pure optimism of Wednesday night’s opening beat-down of the New York Knicks, I present to you the top five Miami Heat starting lineups for the 2010-2011 season.As most fans know, the Heat will have perhaps the best cap space situation in the league next summer to lure…

Miami Dolphins Literally Slaughtered on South Park

Last night, likenesses of your Miami Dolphins were literally slaughtered on South Park, which was a lot more enjoyable than watching them get figuratively slaughtered on the field most Sundays. We just pretended every player was Ted Ginn Jr., and it was rather cathartic.For some context: In last night’s episode,…

Taking the Miami Heat’s Temperature: Lukewarm at Best

Is this the last year in Dade for Dwyane Wade? Can Michael Beasley overcome his Twitter and TMZ problems to prove he deserves that starting slot? These are the questions on the minds of Heat fans the day of the season opener. Not, noticeably, “Are we going to win another championship?…

Top Ten Ways Ted Ginn Can Repay the City of Miami

For a more thorough and humorous review of every Miami Dolphins player who shat himself during yesterday’s 46-34 loss to the New Orleans Saints, see Chris Joseph’s post from this morning. I care only about my boy, Ted Ginn, Jr., who managed to sneak past Darrelle Revis two weeks ago…

Miami Dolphins Implode Against New Orleans Saints

When a team leads 24-10 at the half while having forced three turnovers, combined for five sacks and rushed for 128 yards and four touchdowns, that team will, more often than not, end up the victor. But this is the Miami Dolphins. Normal rules need not apply. This is Suck…

Miami Dolphins Preview: What Might Have Been

For all the gargantuan shit stains Nick Saban left on the Dolphins’ proverbial bed, no shit stain was as big a shit stain as the shit stain he left in the form of not signing Drew Brees when the Chargers made him available. Instead, Saban went with Daunte Culpepper. The…

Football: Clemson Would Love to Upset Miami’s Cake Walk

​While UCF was an easy win, watching their defense sack Jacory Harris six times wasn’t a pretty picture. Especially considering that the on-going saga of Sam Bradford’s shoulder was still fresh in the mind. It’s not exactly great news that this week the Hurricanes take on the 12th ranked defense…

Isiah Thomas Promises A Scrappy Team For FIU Fans

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. last night, a sparse crowd gathered outside the entrance to the freshly renovated $5 million U.S. Century Bank Arena at Florida International University’s south campus.A bald man with a goatee wearing a navy blue FIU t-shirt talking to three other Golden Panthers fans relayed the latest…

Dolphins® Game Won’t Be a Snore-Fest

First it was free Jack Black® skin care and Kangaroo® handheld devices. Now fans attending the Dolphins-Saints game this Sunday at LandShark® Stadium will get a free Breathe Right® Nasal Strip in teal and orange!The strips are mainly used to prevent obnoxious storing, but some athletes use them because it…

Is All Forgiven for A-Rod?

2009 was shaping up to be one of the worst years of Alex Rodriguez’s life. He was already embroiled in a public divorce underscored by rumors that he was schtupping a woman 17 years his season — ok it was Madonna, but still.Then in February, Sports Illustrated and that pesky…