Every weekend the local professional and college level football player-type people assemble on the field to play their games. Every weekend we write things about it, because it is an easy Friday afternoon post. We also post something dumb holding a football. This week is no exception. Anyway, we are…
UM Coach Randy Shannon is clearly sending secret signals to the GOP about the path to redemption after a few years of stining defeat. Listen Republicans, Randy Shannon took the helms of Larry Coker’s sinking ship and has turned it around. Whoever takes over your party in is going to…
Don’t look now but the Miami Hurricanes are in first place in the ACC Coastal Division. Couldn’t decide between watching the Canes getting their mojo back or 30 Rock last night? That’s what the “previous channel” button on the remote is for (or, for those of you still living in…
Virginia Tech Hookies @ Miami Hurricanes, 7:30 pm on ESPN The sports press has a crush on all the young, true freshman on University of Miami’s footballing sports crew, but they aren’t sure if they’re ready to commit. Sure, the Canes have won four in a row and have an…
Last week New Times ran a story on the 14-second fall of Kimbo Slice and the death of EliteXC, entitled “MMA’s Post-Kimbo Limbo” written by Bob Norman. The same piece ran in Norman’s home paper, The Broward Palm Beach New Times, with the title “Kimbo Slice’s a sissy: The fight…
via Auto Cosmos Florida’s cultural transition into fitting its new blue state status is already underway. Case in point: the first NASCAR race in the state since the election, the Ford 400 this Sunday at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, will feature hybrid cars. Seriously, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid will serve…
The New Jersey Nets have been struggling with their three-point shooting all season. So, naturally, they decided to rain threes down on the Heat from every angle imaginable inside the American Airlines Arena last night, connecting on a season-high thirteen of them. Five of those three-pointers came from Yi Jianlian,…
In one of the ugliest wins of the season, the Dolphins showed us all what they are: scrappy, crappy, exciting, infuriating, imposing, cringe worthy, and pretty awesome all at the same time. Yet despite all the ugliness, the Dolphins were able to pull off the 21-19 win with a strong…
Fins are on a role, Golden Panthers are in a rut, and the Hurricanes have a bye. We have had enough drama and triumph off the football field this week, so we don’t need, and don’t really expect anything super exciting this weekend. Seattle Seahawks at Miami Dolphins, Sunday 1:00pm…
Some Dolphins players take their success on the football field and use it to open restaurants and car dealerships and pose for NutriSystem ads. Others take the opportunity to run their mouth. We’re not here to judge which is right, but we do know Joey Porter’s nonstop trash talk is…
All week long, Dolphins fans had the sweats thinking about what Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall was going to do to Miami’s secondary. And yet our boys in back stepped up and had their finest performance of the season. It all started with Will Allen’s 32-yard interception return for a touchdown…
We are nearing the end of another exciting week here at Riptide, so it is time for this blogger to round up the weekly pig skin-ery and post a picture of something cute involving a football. For this week I’ve chose a confused bunny holding a ball. Adorable, no? Miami…
Well, not quite. The Phillies did, but the good news for Miami is that the Marlins remain the only Florida team to win the championship, and Pat Burrell became only the second University of Miami alum to win the series. With the Canes, Burrell was named MVP in the 1996…
Won’t someone please, please, please think of all the sad little sports-team-owning billionaires during this election? America, they need our help. Iraq War? Pffft. Mortgage crisis? Whatevs. Schools, poverty, health care, research, the environment, civil rights, an ever-deepening ugly partisan divide? Wayne Huizenga would just like to not-so-subtly remind you…
We’re all used to the idea that none of our football teams is going to have a great season. Not bad either. Just painfully, boringly average. Buffalo Bills @ Miami Dolphins, Sunday 1 p.m. on CBS4 It’s the future team of Rush Limbaugh versus the former team of OJ Simpson…
Remember when Marge Schott owned the Cincinnati Reds? The woman caused one PR and PC nightmare after another with comments sympathizing with Adolf Hitler and unapologetically using slurs to describe African-Americans, homosexuals, Jews, and Japanese. There couldn’t possibly be another owner in sports who could ever top her in the…
VMan is a men’s fashion magazine with a capital F, and like all such mags, it must reassure straight readership it’s not gay. I mean, artsy shots of $2,000 shoes and such with a shot of sexually ambiguous Gossip Girl actor Chase Crawford on the cover. What better way to…
Poor little Memphis Grizzlies. They’re one of only three NBA teams to never win a NBA Championship, Conference Championship or a Division Championship. They’ve won less than 30% of the games they played in the last two seasons. They gave the first pre-season win to the Heat last night, and…
Last weekend proved a harsh bit or reality to Dolphin’s fans. We lost to a friggin’ winless team! It wasn’t quite the upset that our win against the Pats were, but damn it must not do much for morale, one point difference or not. Things were brighter on the college…
Miami is one of seven cities that submitted a bid for a Major League Soccer expansion team. Though, Sports Illustrated finds some curiosities in the latest announcement. For one, they were surprised that neither New York or Las Vegas was amongst the city’s bidding. They also find the language used…
First off, some Australian rules football star named Mr. Wayne Carey reached a plea deal in an assault case he got himself entwined with during a visit to Miami about a year ago. He was charged with elbowing and kicking some of Miami’s finest, but ultimately the officers involved agreed…
The Miami Dolphins dropped to 2-3 after a frustrating 29-28 loss to the Texans yesterday. When the Fins defense caught two early interceptions and Patrick Cobbs scored a 53-yard and an 80-yard touchdown, and it seemed like Joey Porter was going to turn Texans left tackle Duane Brown into his…
