Riptide 2.0’s regular sports commentator and FinsNation blogger Chris Joseph looks back at the top ten Miami sports moments of the decade. Low points like the Miami Dolphins crappy performance and the after-thought known as the Florida Panthers didn’t make the cut. Sorry. 10. Canes BaseballCoach Jim Morris and his…
Despite NBCMiami’s sort of brilliant “Fin” headline this morning, the Dolphins playoffs hopes are still alive. Well, not really alive. Their playoff hopes are more zombie-like. It’s as if the Dolphins are in a cheesy horror movie where the undead have taken over and bitten the Fins, and the team…
That Dolphins halftime speech must have been some kind of fire and brimstone sermon. Something along the lines of Henry V’s Saint Crispen’s Day address. The pre-game speech, meh, not so much. It was probably more along the lines of, “Okay men, we’re gonna go out there and we’re gonna…
It’s hard to imagine anything that would be all around better for the Marlins than signing pitcher Aroldis Chapman. They need another possible superstar, and an athlete who defected from Cuba would do wonders for whipping up the local fanbase.The Herald reports that the Fish offered Chapman a 5-year contract…
No college football team hit such heights and then sunk to such lows this decade than the Miami Hurricanes. From the 2001 team that won a national championship — and is considered by most sane sports commenters as the best college team of the past ten years if not of all time…
Just days before Christmas, the Miami Dolphins were supposed to come up with another big win to inch closer to a post-season berth. Instead, they delivered a stocking full of turds in the form of a 27-24 loss in overtime to the Tennessee Titans. There’s plenty of blame to go…
The legend goes that every year the ’72 Dolphins pop a bottle of champagne when the last remaining undefeated team looses. Typically, at this point in the season that mythical toast would have come and gone by now. Somewhere, Mercury Morris is getting nervous.As anyone even vaguely paying attention to…
Any Canes fan will tell you the media, especially ESPN, hates Miami, but ESPN aired its two-hour apology in the form of Rakontur’s fantastic documentary, The U, this past weekend. One segment, of course, focused on that perceived media bias, and right on cue, the media is stirring up some controversy…
If we had told you before this game started that the Dolphins would only manage to score 14 points in the first half, zero points in the second half, turn the ball over three times in enemy territory, but will still win the game, you would have stabbed us in…
The horrible eight months in which we’ve had to refer to our football stadium as “Land Shark” in honor of a horrible Chevy Chase sketch Jimmy Buffet’s beer is just about over.As soon as the Dolphins play their January 3 game against the Steelers. the stadium will revert back to…
Just when you thought they were good and dead, the Miami Dolphins pull off one of the most satisfying, Scarlett-Johansson’s-knockers-in-your-face awesome victories of the 2009 season. It came thanks in large part to Chad Henne, Vontae Davis, and a Dolphins team that simply won’t die.On their first drive of the…
You might as well call this year’s Champs Sports Bowl “The Shalala Bowl,” because Miami’s current President and University of Wisconsin’s former Chancellor Donna Shalala might be the person most excited by the match-up. Maybe the only person? Yes, that means The Gator Bowl’s nefarious scheme to pick a 6-6 FSU…
Riptide’s dear Miami Hurricanes won’t be playing this week, and instead will watch as a team they beat take on a team they narrowly lost to in OT battle it out for the ACC championship. That should be interesting and all –we’ve got our money on GT, btw–, but it…
We were all sweet on Bobby Bowden and his retirement on Tuesday, but it appears FSU’s long time coach could screw the Miami Hurricanes one final time.As most sentient beings are painfully aware, the current college football post-season system makes no fucking sense what so ever. As of right now,…
After a weekend full of rumors, Bobby Bowden has officially announced that he’s retiring as the head coach of Florida State University’s football team after 34 years. Thirty-Four Years. In that same time Miami had 8 coaches, and Florida had 5. He’ll coach the Seminoles for the final time in their…
The Panthers aren’t exactly having the finest season on ice. They choked away their third game in a row last night, dropping to 10-12-4, good for the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference.But it wasn’t the 4-3, last-second loss to the Thrashers last night that stung like a Paula Deen…
For a sold-out 65,000-plus seat complex during a supposed rivalry game, Raymond James Stadium was eerily quiet throughout much of Saturday’s game between the Miami Hurricanes and the South Florida Bulls.Your intrepid blogger braved sitting in the USF student section and was warned by a Bulls fan to keep his…
Four things you must have in order to be a Miami Dolphins fan:A total lack of surprise when they lose to a 3-7 team.An understanding that when they’re presented with a golden opportunity scenario, they, more often than not, blow said opportunity.An expectation that things can and eventually will implode.Booze…
On this Thanksgiving weekend USF fans better be thankful for all the opportunities Miami, inadvertently or not, have given the insurgent Bulls in their short history. Our exit from the Big East gave them a chance to escape the college football ghetto known as C-USA, and now we’ve allowed them…
It’s just before the start of the Cotton Bowl Classic at the Fair Park Stadium in Dallas on the morning of January 1, 1991. There is not an empty seat in the place. And just about everybody is there to root against the University of Miami Hurricanes, who are taking…
Florida Gators dominance is getting pretty boring for college football fans (apparently even for Gators fans), but UF athletic director Jeremy Foley is still set on making sure UF’s non-conference schedule remains a cake walk for years to come, even if it means never playing one of the team’s oldest rivals…
The FSU Women’s Basketball Team’s website looks more like a prom scrapbook than a site for a high-ranked athletic program. Unsurprisingly, it’s raising some eyebrows.The new campaign, put together by Ron Sachs Communications (which does a lot of business in Tallahassee), features the team posing around a limo in different…
