Bucs vs. Fins: Meaningless Battle for Florida Preseason Supremacy

You might recall our “Weekend Football” blog column from last year. It was probably the most proudly ignorant thing ever penned about South Florida football anywhere. Well, with the NFL and NCAA regular seasons around the corner, it is time once again to force ourselves to catch football fever. Basically, we’ve…

Miami Dolphins Partner with Ocean Drive for In-Stadium Club

The Miami Dolphins continue their embarrassing march toward all things ridiculously South Florida stereotypical and cheesy. Add an “exclusive, ultra-modern” nightclub cobranded with Ocean Drive magazine in the middle of the stadium to their dumb venue name, ever-growing list of celebrity owners, crappy collection of new theme songs, and Britto art…

Isiah Starts His FIU Career with Some Good Ol’-Fashioned Whining

Well, that didn’t take long. Ever since FIU shocked the basketball world earlier this year by landing Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas to coach its less than notable program, Riptide has been waiting for that first sweet whiff of the controversy that seems to follow Thomas wherever he walks. Looks like he’s…

Owners of Miami FC Might Make Play for Entire USL

Delightfully British kicks maker Umbro started the USL in 1988, and the brand that never gained much traction in the States seemed quite happy owning a league that never gained much traction here either. That is, until Nike bought Umbro. USL is apparently the red-headed stepchild of the Nike portfolio, and…

UM Loses Two Back-up QBs, But Hey, No Pressure, Jacory

University of Miami, the alma mater of Vinny Testaverde, Gino Torretta, and Ken Dorsey, hasn’t exactly been a powerhouse quarterback school in the past couple of years. Jacory Harris is the latest QB hope for the Hurricanes, and even if he doesn’t have a jaw-droppingly spectacular season, he, at best, better…

RE: Beasley’s Tweet-cident: Time for Riley and Wade to Step Up

The Miami Heat’s Michael Beasley clearly has a lot of emotional problems, which were well-documented even before a bunch of people thought they saw some weed in a self-taken Twitter photo this past weekend. How extensive these problems are I can’t possibly speculate. But only a very sensitive person with a…

UM-FSU Battle of the Has-Beens Not Yet Sold Out

If the University of Miami/Florida State rivalry is supposed to be one of the most storied in the game, how come this year’s matchup isn’t sold out? Oh, right. Probably because neither team has been relevant on the national title scene for years. Nowadays, the matchup barely has implications for…

Heat’s Michael Beasley Reportedly Heading to Rehab

After this weekend, we were pretty sure Heat forward Michael Beasley was addicted to tacky tattoos and oversharing on Twitter, but it seems his problems might run a bit deeper. Yahoo! Sports reports the 20-year-old has checked himself into an undisclosed Houston rehab center for possible psychological and substance abuse issues. Beasley’s…

Which of These Miami Dolphins Songs Is More Embarrassing?

In hip-hop, Jay-Z is God, and since he declared Auto-Tune dead, we’ve hoped that would put a swift end to the career of professional Auto-Tune abuser T-Pain. (I will never understand how a musical technique pioneered by Cher became “gangsta.”) Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross didn’t get the message, and drafted…

Three Players Quit Fins Training Camp, Including Best Named Prospect Ever

News flash out of Davie this morning, courtesy of the Associated Press: Dolphins training camp really sucks ass, and coach Tony Sparano knows it.Fullback Matt Quillen, a 24-year-old prospect out of the fightin’ New Mexico Lobos, lasted only one day under Sparano’s apparently brutal and unprecedented regime of running around out in…

Miami Heat 2009-10 Season Unveiled

The Miami Heat’s full 2009-10 schedule was released upon the world today. Dwyane Wade and company will kick off the season with a home game October 28 against the New York Knicks (who are somehow still considered a professional basketball organization). Things get interesting, not to mention challenging, when we meet our ol’…

Marlins Acquire Nick Johnson

The Marlins finally showed some trade deadline sac and ordered one large Johnson.Washington National 1B Nick Johnson, he of the .295 average, 44 RBI, and most importantly for the free-swinging Fish, a .408 on-base-percentage, is heading to the Land of Teal and Empty Seats for AA left-hander Aaron Thompson, according…

Lamar Odom Reportedly Staying in LA

Just this morning we were wondering when Lamar Odom would make up his mind about joining the Heat or not. Well today he reportedly did, and it wasn’t the outcome we were hoping for, but at least the suspence is over. ESPN.com reports an NBA source told them that Odom will stay put…