Buried deep in Barry Jackson’s Florida Sports Buzz column yesterday was the news that the embarrassed former MMA fighter known as Kimbo Slice will now switch his career aspirations towards boxing. Miami-based mixed martial arts star Kimbo Slice will become a pro boxer (as a heavyweight), with his first fight in late…
“Hmmmm, I wonder what happened to that unremarkable but sturdy backup catcher that played for the Fish through the turn of the millenium?”Ponder no further, friend. Mike Redmond spent twelve years with the Florida Marlins organization, including seven- from 1998 to 2004- with the big team. He’s the consummate backup,…
It’s kind of a shame the Miami Hurricanes don’t have a regular series with the Tennessee Vols, because if we played them next season it would be one of those games shaped with dramatic backstory. Even football fans love a good soap opera once in a while. On the surface you have two…
Well, earlier today we wrote about Jason Taylor and the Dolphins flirty romance, and look what happened while we were out to lunch: they slowly embraced, looked deep into each other’s eyes, and realized they belonged together! Cue fireworks, soft focus, and the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights!” (The freckles in…
For the benefit of all the middle-aged lady fans Jason Taylor picked up during his stint on Dancing with the Stars, let’s break down his current free-agent situation in Romantic Comedy terms. See, basically Jason Taylor and the Dolphins (played by Cameron Diaz) are soul mates. They had some really good…
A prized high school athlete who is drawing out his college decision and has a bit of legal trouble in his past? Why of course University of Miami is in the running to recruit him. John Wall, one of the top high school point guards in the nation, has yet…
French Tennis player Richard Gasquet tested positive for cocaine during the Miami Masters. He ended up not playing in the tournament anyway due to a shoulder injury, and the result was only announced on Saturday. Do you think it was just a mere coincidence he happened to have cocaine in his…
Miami native Jose Canseco has made a post-baseball career out of snitching on his former teammates and getting punched in the face. This is not a dignified existence. And yet he insists on respect. Every time evidence emerges that a star did ‘roids, he has to point out that he…
Duane Starks started his football career at the age of eight in a local optimist club program, he became a star quarterback for Miami Beach Senior High, briefly attended Miami-Dade Community College and then played as a starting cornerback for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He entered the NFL, and…
It’s like deja vu. Alex Rodriguez, a baseball superstar, got caught in a banned substance scandal and tried to claim that he didn’t know exactly what he was putting in his body, but some guy in Miami told him to do it. Now, Manny Ramirez, a baseball superstar, gets caught in a banned…
The Marlins came so close to signing Manny Ramirez a year ago, and the fact that we didn’t still has some fans mad. Turns out even if we had signed Ramirez, he’d be no good to us for the next fifty games. Ramirez, a Dodgers player and an off-season resident of…
Miami already has the 2010 Super Bowl on lock down, but we just can’t get enough of hosting the damn thing. So of course we’re in the running to host the 2013 game along with Phoenix and New Orleans. The New Orleans Saints and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation…
After the infamous 2006 brawl, the University of Miami and Florida International University decided to call it quits on their burgeoning rivalry. The football teams haven’t played each other since, the baseball teams won’t meet this season, and a match in December 2008 between the basketball teams was supposed to…
Dear Chicago, please trade us Derrick Rose for Michael Beasley…Dear Memphis, please trade us O.J. Mayo for Michael Beasley…Dear New Jersey, please trade us Brook Lopez for Michael Beasley…Dear Minnesota, please trade us Kevin Love for Michael Beasley…Dear L.A. (no, the other L.A.), please trade us Eric Gordon for Michael…
I think it’s been proven by now that LandShark Stadium is the dumbest name for a stadium ever, probably by science. But a stadium by any other dumb corporate sponsored name is still a stadium. More concerning is Stephen Ross’s plan to South Florida-up the feel of the stadium, because apparently a stadium…
The AP is reporting something that really isn’t shocking, and we’ve known it in our hearts for some time, but according to its sources, LeBron James will win the NBA MVP award. Not Dwyane Wade. So yeah, that was pretty anticlimactic…
Oh, Selena Roberts. The Sports Illustrated writer unleashed the biggest sports story of the year by revealing Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for steroid use during his Major League Baseball career. And then, to quickly capitalize, she wrote a book, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez. It was originally slated…
The Heat’s season ended yesterday pretty much the same way it played out all year long — as a one-man D-Wade show. Unfortunately for the Heat, Sunday’s game was one of those “Wade can’t possibly carry these clowns all by himself” duds, instead of those “Holy crap, Wade is carrying…
If only Kenneth Clark Loggins had a beer company and a ferocious appetite for marketing.
There seemed to be something almost poetic about the rumors that Jason Taylor might return to the Dolphins. Well, maybe not poetic, but sort of like a happy ending to a romantic comedy or something. However, it seems that Bill Parcells and staff has stopped showing interest in a reunion, according…
Selena Roberts made a name for herself by breaking the Alex Rodriguez steroid story, but, dammit, she has a book to sell, so she saved just a little bit of hot, juicy gossip for her tome. The New York Daily News got a hold of an advance copy of the…
Time to shave that Rasputin-length win-beard. The Marlins are at last back in the win column after a season start that can only be described as more confusing than Charlie Crist’s sexuality.Somehow the Fish won 11 freaking games before they lost two and then decided to go on a seven-game…
