While the University of Miami athletics department is surely full of anxiety this week, you also have to feel for the fine folks down the street at AllCanes, the store that specializes in nothing but Hurricanes merchandise. The Shapiro scandal could affect the shop’s bottom line, but at the moment, the place…
Harvard scientist Arkhat Abzhanov has done what dozens of drunk Miamians living near the Everglades have probably attempted in a cruder fashion at one point or another: successfully mixed the DNA of a chicken and an alligator. Unlike hypothetical local attempts, however, Abzhanov’s method did not involve getting a gator…
Vladimir Louissant, 25; Victoria Barkley, 26; Byron Kyler, 23; and Reginald Mitchell, 26, have been swiftly arrested after the murder of a Brinks armored truck guard yesterday afternoon outside the Calder Casino in Miami Gardens. The four suspects had fled the scene but were captured by the FBI’s South Florida…
Charles Robinson got a few sources beyond Nevin Shapiro to go on the record for his Hurricanes humdinger, and now the only former Cane who spoke on the record denies he was even interviewed. Robinson stands behind his story. He says he even has the recordings to prove it…
Despite Michelle Bachmann’s recent Iowa straw poll victory, don’t be surprised if the GOP field eventually winnows to Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. If the latest Florida poll numbers from McLaughlin & Associates are any indication, the two are at the top of the pack. Plus, both are showing traction…
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While some people want to see the Miami Hurricanes scandal wind up with congressional hearings, at least one prominent Senator says he’d rather see the NCAA shape up than ship the Hurricanes out. Of course, that Senator is Marco Rubio, who just happens to be a former college football player…
Buzz Bissinger is a grumpy man who likes to yell about sports and who was once, and still occasionally moonlights as, a pretty damn respected journalist. Of course, in his post as a sports columnist for the Daily Beast, he mainly sticks to his angry, self-righteous sports-guy shtick and last…
Rick “The Jobs Governor” Scott has pointed to Florida’s slowly dwindling unemployment rate since he took office in January. In fact, from January through June the state added 64,300 jobs. July is a different story. More than a third of those total jobs gained have now been lost.The good news…
Luis Conte Agüero, a well-known figure in Miami’s exile community and a former close friend turned arch-nemesis of Fidel Castro, has been arrested for domestic violence and accused of molesting his former girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter. The 87-year-old was arrested yesterday in the parking lot of the Telemiami studios shortly after…
Frankie, the 13-year-old son of Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria who often appeared on the show alongside his mother, is recovering from a serious car crash this past weekend. Multiple sources say the injuries were quite serious, and the boy underwent pelvic surgery yesterday…
New Times columnist, former 2 Live Crew leader, and Hurricanes fan for life Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell is none too pleased with this Nevin Shapiro fellow who went around wreaking infractions havoc at the University of Miami football program while dubbing himself “Little Luke.” Campbell has already written about it,…
The average amount paid for a condo in Miami-Dade rose in July for the first time since the real estate boom of 2008. Though, the total number of condos sold dipped slightly since June…
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Among the claims made by Nevin Shapiro that Yahoo! Sports journalist Charles Robinson really had no business including in his story: allegations that Shapiro funded an abortion for a woman impregnated by a University of Miami football player. That aspect really has no impact on the school. It neither breaks…
Florida offers 122 specialty license plates, and all but two saw declines in sales between 2009 and 2010: The “In God We Trust” plate and the Miami Heat plate. Yep, unless you’re God almighty or LeBron almighty, Floridians just don’t want to shell out the extra cash to worship you…
Not even Burt Reynolds and his legendary mustache are immune to Florida’s foreclosure fiasco. According to a lawsuit filed by Merrill Lynch Credit Corp., Reynolds hasn’t made a mortgage payment on his multimillion-dollar mansion in Hobe Sound since August 2010. Not even the Bandit himself can keep himself out of foreclosure. …
Republican insiders aren’t exactly thrilled with the crop of candidates who have entered the race for the GOP nomination to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, a powerful and influential fiscally conservative 527 group that endorsed Marco Rubio in 2010, says neither…
For the first time in nearly 15 years, talk of the NCAA giving the so-called death penalty to a major sports program has surfaced. Reason: the Yahoo Sports-generated University of Miami football scandal. Of course, that talk is coming mostly from sports pundits, columnists, and message board hacks. It is…
Caribbean elkhorn coral used to be one of the most plentiful corals in the Caribbean and Florida Keys. But over the past 15 years, it has declined by about 90 percent and is now considered an endangered species. Scientists weren’t quite sure exactly what was to blame until now. It’s…
Did you hear about the Florida university that’s being investigated by the NCAA for ties to a convicted felon who worked for a sports agency and allegedly helped recruit players? No, not Miami — the other Florida university under investigation. Yes, the University of Central Florida is also being probed…
How truthful was Nevin Shapiro in his bombshell allegations about the University of Miami football program? At least one person implicated by Shapiro in the story has come out to strongly deny any wrong doing on his part.Michael Huyghue, now the commissioner of the United Football League, and formerly the…
