University of Miami’s diminutive president Donna Shalala has surprisingly emerged as the biggest bad ass in the world of sports by telling NCAA prez Mark Emmert where to stick it last night. Or as Bruce Feldman put it, “I have never seen a school President go after the NCAA like…
Yesterday, Buzzfeed laid out 43 reasons why “growing up in Florida was heaven on Earth.” We can’t necessarily disagree. Pool noodles, manatees, and free Publix sugar cookies were great and all, but we feel like it’s not so much the joys but rather the shared pains that truly unite a people. So…
The University of Miami finally received a notice of allegations from the NCAA today, and University president Donna Shalala sent a statement to students and alumni tonight detailing the association’s findings. Though Shalala did not specifically mention it, the AP reports the school has been charged with the vague “lack…
The U.S. Coast Guard seized $17 million worth of cocaine in the southwest Caribbean on January 24. Today, that 1,400 pounds of cocaine was offloaded at the Coast Guard station in Miami Beach…
Earlier this month, news broke that the Perry Hotel will undergo its third name change in a little more than a year. The resort was formerly known as the Gansevoort but will soon close for a nearly a yearlong, $100 million renovation to reopen as the eco-friendly 1 Hotel.Unfortunately, that…
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While the Miami Dolphins are asking for millions in state money to help upgrade Sun Life Stadium, some lawmakers are focusing on sports teams that don’t even exist yet.A state Senate panel today approved a bill that would grant $2 million a year in order to build new soccer stadiums…
On one hand: What the hell, people? You can’t just bring your unleashed dog to the steps of the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building and expect it to patiently wait outside until you’re done with your courthouse business. On the other hand: Awwwwww, cute!…
University of Miami President Donna Shalala has had about enough of the NCAA’s BS. Following today’s release of the NCAA findings of its own investigation into itself, Shalala released a strongly worded statement demanding that the NCAA basically stop screwing around, put an end to the two-and-half-year investigation, and, oh yeah,…
Manatees are for looking, not touching. Even people who lack common sense should have learned that after Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez turned herself in for attempting to ride a manatee in the Tampa Bay area.Not everyone got the message. Ryan William Waterman, a 21-year-old Fort Pierce man, has been arrested after…
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It’s nonstop Miami Hurricanes athletics news today. Mario Cristobal is leaving the Canes football staff less than two months after he was hired.The former Florida International University head coach has been hired as Alabama’s offensive-line coach…
While the NCAA’s investigation into allegations made about the University of Miami athletic department by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro has lagged for about two years, the NCAA’s investigation into itself over botching the Miami investigation has come to a relatively swift end.The NCAA’s vice president of enforcement, Julie Roe…
Another week, another historic ranking for the University of Miami’s men’s basketball team. Thanks to Duke’s loss to Maryland and the Canes’ buzzer-beater against Clemson, the team has moved up to number two in the polls. It’s the team’s highest ranking in school history and also the first time the Canes…
More porn stars were born in Florida than any other state but California.
Obviously, one of the very important political questions many of us had following Marco Rubio’s State of the Union rebuttal and the gulp heard round the world was who would play him on Saturday Night Live? Obviously, the show couldn’t resist, and sent out Taran Killam to play our junior…
Sunset Place, the South Miami open air shopping mall where teenage cliches go to die, was riled up today because a man was carrying an umbrella.Dozens of police and a SWAT team swarmed the mall because they thought the umbrella-carrying man was in fact holding a rifle…
It all started with Michael Jordan claiming yesterday that Kobe Bryant was a better player than LeBron James simply because he had more rings.James at first shook it off, but clearly he’s been thinking it over enough to realize that by Michael Jordan’s own logic, Michael Jordan would only be…
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Sure, you might have been mad when the Marlins unloaded almost all of their stars on the Blue Jays, but how do you think the players felt? Jeez, they had to give up living in sunny Miami for frigid Canada.Jose Reyes was none too pleased with Jeffrey Loria after the…
So, the Flip Collective folks decided to combine cartography with Google’s autocomplete search function to have some fun. Florida is labeled “Crazy,” obviously. Because it’s a Friday and we had an extra ten minutes, we decided to apply this to Miami-Dade County and see what happened…
Hugo Chávez hasn’t been seen or heard from by the public since December 10, right before he underwent surgery in Havana, Cuba. Now, new pictures of the Venezuelan president have emerged, and they’re pretty oddly staged…
