Maybe it was a natural let-down after thoroughly dominating the 12th ranked Florida Gators over the weekend. Perhaps it was the fact that Qdoba provided the pre-game meal, which can’t possibly be good per-game chow. Or maybe URI pitcher Eric Smith is just that great. Whatever the reason, the Rhode Island…
The only elongated yelp wannabe soccer announcers in Miami will be proclaiming anytime soon is, “Nooooooooooooooooooo!” As in no “gooooooooool!” Major League Soccer, FC Barcelona, and Marcelo Claure jointly announced today that a plan to bring an expansion team to Miami has ended “due to adverse market conditions.” In the…
It was supposed to be Chris Hernandez’s night. When the preseason All-American took the mound Friday before a sold-out crowd in newly renovated Mark Light Stadium, fans were ready for him to nail the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.After all, the sophomore lefty was a perfect 11-0 last season. But Hernandez was…
For whatever reason, the press is eager to talk to Alex Rodriguez’s cousin Yuri Sucart. Can’t two primos inject unknown substances into each other without the media getting all up in their grill? Whatever happened to privacy, people? Sucrat has so far eluded reporters and photogs, who have apparently been sitting…
It appears the divorce of Dwyane Wade and his wonderfully named wife Siohvaughn is going to be one of the ugliest high-profile sports star divorces in recent memory. Siohvaughn’s lawyers fired the first shot by claiming Wade gave her an unnamed STD. Then came some rumors that Siohvaughn went ballistic…
Yuri Sucart’s Google search will never be the same again. On Tuesday, Alex Rodriguez held a press conference saying his cousin provided and injected him with ‘roids. A day later, ESPN has identified that cousin as Kendall resident Sucart, A-Rod’s right-hand man. His name has today’s top rank in Google…
About a year ago Bryce Brown as a promising, young high school running back orally committed to the University of Miami footballing concern. Makes sense, considering his older brother Arthur is also a Cane, but then Brown found him self the top rated recruit in the entire US of A,…
After a series of heartbreaking overtime losses, the Canes have fallen to 4-7 in ACC play and desperately need to rack up a few more conference wins to keep those NCAA tourney hopes alive. The good news for UM is that the remaining ACC teams left to play are more…
University of Miami is clearly not embarrassed about naming its baseball stadium after an admitted steroid user. So much so that Alex Rodriguez is front and center on UM’s homepage. The media, admittedly, is being overly hard on Rodriguez, considering more than 100 other players tested positive at the same…
Reporters are herd animals. That was made painfully clear last week when approximately 76 of us had the same idea: Hey, let’s go to that A-Rod park dedication thing Friday night. I mean, I can understand why news cameras were there — you can’t beat a local A-Roid/steroid segment at…
In 2008 Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks was traded from the Suns to the Heat for Shaquielle O’Neal, barely a year latter the Heat are trading him out again for another O’Neal, according to AP. Jermaine O’Neal that is, along with his Toronto Raptors teammate Jamario Moon. Marion, a four…
Never for the life of me have I ever understood why South Florida has its own Ice Hockey team. Of course, being a native Floridian I have never made much sense out of hockey in general. It is just not natural.I guess we have enough snow birds and ex-Northerners to…
You have Selena Roberts to thank for the A-Rod steroid scandal. The sports journalist broke the news for Sport Illustrated, but not after scouring all over Miami to get a quote from A-Rod himself. Five days before the story was published on SI.com, Roberts flew to Miami and engaged in…
Unlike last year, when the Hurricanes got to play the Ponytown High School Flag Football Fightin’ Sad Clowns, or whatever that no-name team was, to kick of their season, next season they’ll start things off with their oldest rivals, FSU, in Tallahassee. As previously reported, we’ll also be playing three…
With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit … um … new Marlins Stadium proposal, it’s easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It’s a shame, really. For true baseball fans, Spring Training is the best…
Back when an unconfirmed rumor hit Deadspin that Dwyane Wade’s soon-to-be ex-wife Siohvaughn went haywire with a baseball bat on his MVP trophy, we predicted that this was just the begining of a series of nasty rumors. Unfortunately for Dwyane, we were right. Wade’s former business partner Baron Richard Von…
Whoever runs PR for the University of Miami Athletics Department should either be fired, or is having a hard time convincing higher-ups that they’re being total idiots. Even after Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the University of Miami sees no reason, no reason whatsoever, to rethink…
For the past few years, the University of Miami athletic department has had a reputation of coming down hard on anyone who dares bring bad PR to their program*. Hell hath no fury like a UM Athletic Director scorned. Unless of course, you happen to have donated nearly $4 million…
Bill Parcells flies around the NFL like some sort of caped superhero saving distressed teams from the villainous forces of “sucking.” After a successful year as the Dolphins VP of FB, in which he turned that team from the laughingstock of the league to something resembling an actual football team,…
We’re barely a month into 2009 and here’s a completely incomplete list of high-profile companies that have or will be slashing local jobs: Macy’s, Circuit City, the Miami Herald, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami City Ballet, and American Airlines. The South Florida Business Journal reports Miami Jai-Alai might soon join…
Larry Coker got fired from his gig as University of Miami’s football coach after a six-loss season, and left the school with a respectable winning percentage of .800 and a national championship. Shortly thereafter, he lost out on a coaching job at Rice and has held some analyst gig at…
Up until last night, the ’09 edition of the University of Miami basketball team had been acting more like a UM football squad circa the 1990s, in all its cocaine-fueled, felonious glory. Except without all the victories. Best of both worlds, really. The school tossed point guard Eddie Rios off the team last month…
