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​Miami Dolphins @ Atlanta Falcons, Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS4. Not to say the Dolphins don’t have some well-deserved swagger, but let’s be real: Out of all the defending division champs, Fins fans’ optimism might be the most muted. We knew last season’s historic turnaround was thanks in no small part…

The AP poll is out, and the Miami Hurricanes are a ranked team once again, while the Florida State Seminoles have been totally knocked off from their former 18th spot. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes’ next three opponents line up one after another in the poll, with Oklahoma at 13, Virginia Tech at…

Forget Montu, the Incredible Hulk, and Space Mountain. Last night’s football game between the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Seminoles might have been the best roller coaster the state of Florida has ever had to offer. By the end of it, I wasn’t sure if I was more happy…

After last year’s Lingerie Bowl was canceled when the nudist resort that was hosting it wanted to allow spectators to be au natural, the Lingerie Football League is back for its first full season. Tonight at 8pm your Miami Caliente will take on the Chicago Bliss in the Windy City…

If you ask us, way too many of Will.i.am’s dreams have come true. The Black Eyed Peas’ resident shoddy producer has an ever growing ego, and now he has another modest dream: trying out for the Miami Dolphins. We say let him. Will.i.am took to some website called Dipdive… To brag…

You have to give the Fish some serious credit this year. For the 87th consecutive season, they rank last in the bigs in team salary. But somehow they’ve stayed in the Wild Card hunt.  (Quick fun comparison sure to add to the New York Mets fan base’s collective PTSD: If the Mets finished…

Perhaps, if things had worked out differently, Willie Williams could be sitting at an NFL training camp right now. Instead, he’s sitting in jail. Again. He’s behind bars in Lawrenceville, Georgia, after being arrested Thursday on charges of burglary and wreckless driving, according to the Miami Herald. Williams apparently had befriended a…

Up to a dozen NFL teams this year might face game blackouts, including the Dolphins, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. Under NFL rules, any home game that doesn’t sell out within 72 hours of kickoff cannot be broadcast locally. Ten to 12 teams were mentioned as possible blackout…

Remember “The 7th Floor Crew,” the raunchy nine-minute rap opus dedicated to gangbanging ladies, recorded by members of the University of Miami football team? Boy, do we, and it’s with a bit of trepidation we report that some are speculating a new rap song recorded by current Canes players has…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Poor Mike Lowell. The Miami native has already been through a lot. In between World Series wins with the Marlins and Boston, he endured testicular cancer, a massive John Henry fire sale, and a badly fractured hand.But now he has really invited a true stain on his good name: He…

Thomas Jones. Running back for our heated rivals the New York Jets. 2009 Pro Bowl starter. First round draft pick in 2000. Star of a Trina video. Even if he does play for our rivals, you have to admit he’s pretty much a bad ass. So how does he like to…

When Riptide saw the news this week that an all-star band of celebrities and local power-players — including the always busy Emilio Estefan and Alonzo Mourning — was trying to bring the World Cup to Miami, we were tempted to laugh it off as a pipe dream.But then we remembered…

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…