Former Miami Hurricane and current Washington Redskin Rocky McIntosh was a guest on D.C.-area sports radio show this morning, and on the day after national signing day the hosts had recruiting on their mind. They started throwing questions at McIntosh about what part strip clubs and hot girls may have…
A Florida teacher is in hot water after administrating some hot sauce-based discipline.Lillian Gomez, a special needs teacher at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimme, Florida, had a problem with some of her autistic students eating the crayons. So, she decided to dip the crayons in hot sauce. She’s now been…
We thought we’d have to wait for a Point Break sequel to see someone in an Obama mask pull off a robbery, but the insanity of Florida has pulled through where Hollywood hasn’t. Police are on the hunt for a man who held up a Riviera Beach McDonald’s this weekend…
Some of the most enriching experiences student have in college come outside of the classroom and in various campus clubs and activities, but students at Florida A&M University may be missing out on those opportunities. In a perhaps overzealous way of battling hazing at the school in the wake of…
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There’s no longer a Gansevoort in Miami Beach. The hotel on 23rd and Collins is now known as the Perry. It’s a long overdue name change as the hotel hasn’t had anything to do with the owners of the original Gansevoort Hotel in New York for a few years now…
The hillbilly heroin hoedown in Florida has ended. The number of pain pills sold by Florida doctors dropped 97 percent from 2010 to 2011 according to the DEA. In 2010, 90 of the top 100 Oxy-prescribing doctors in the country were in Florida. In 2011, just 13 made the list,…
National signing day started out with a bang for Al Golden and his Miami Hurricanes. Tracy Howard, the number one cover cornerback in the nation and a Miramar High star, surprisingly picked the U over both FSU and UF after only making his first official visit to the school last…
There’s no shortage of lists purporting to rank America’s gayest cities, but those often come from a gay male point of view. And those lists tend to leave both lesbians and Miami in the cold. For example, a recent Advocate list somehow concluded that Orlando is gayer than Miami.Thankfully, a…
What a difference four years make. Back in 2008, Charlie Crist played a crucial in the Republican primary by working to deliver Florida to John McCain. Now, in 2012, he’s so fed up with shenanigans of this Primary season that according to Politico the now independent says he might just…
We might have been a bit hyperbolic in calling LeBron James’ crazy over-the-head-of-an-opponent drunk the “most awesome dunk ever.” Sure, it was awesome, but it’s not even LeBron James’ favorite dunk of his career. He told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst his favorite five dunks. Here’s video of each…
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It’s always fun to see different strains of a political ideology rub against each other in conflict, and that’s exactly what’s happening as a Florida House committee ponders whether or not to limit the kinds of foods that can be bought with food stamps. On one hand you have the…
Newt Gingrich is all but certain to lose today’s Florida Primary, but he’s not going out without a fight. In a last-ditch effort to secure the Jewish vote, Gingrich’s campaign is running Robocalls in Florida claiming that as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney literally took Kosher food out of the…
Peter Cottontail’s Florida cousin is no longer hopping down any bunny trails in the Everglades. That’s because he was eaten by a python.A new study says that rabbits may have been completely eliminated from areas of the Everglades where invasive snake populations are the most heavy. Bobcats, raccoons, white-tailed deer,…
Marian Searchwell may have wound up behind bars for domestic violence, but frankly it’s hard to blame her for her actions. The 56-year-old resident of Vero Beach was at the home she shared with her husband of 5 months when the man showed up around 10 p.m. on a Thursday…
Somewhere in the world exists a person who has decided that it would be a good idea to upload 2,600 YouTube videos in which he mispronounces various names in a strange inflection. As part of this person’s RunTheCube YouTube channel he has uploaded videos mispronouncing the name of every single…
For the second time in a matter of months a South Florida woman has been killed in after being run over by her own car. The latest incident happened Sunday around 11 p.m. in the 4200 block of Northwest Fourth Street in Miami according to The Miami Herald…
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FIU fans recently breathed a sigh of relief when Mario Cristobal was passed over for the head coaching job at Pitt, but fans are tense again this morning as several reports indicate that Cristobal is close to be being named the new head coach at Rutgers…
There’s a reason the Miami Dolphins pay Brandon Marshall all that money. He’s a damn good wide receiver. That’s a fact he reminded everyone of with his MVP performance in yesterday’s Pro Bowl; the kind of performance we see far too little of when he’s actually in a Dolphins jersey.After…
Most local officials would jump at the chance to take their talents to Washington. Who wouldn’t want national influence? Apparently not Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. He claims he turned down a job offer from Obama’s secretary of education Arne Duncan…
