Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday afternoon, Twitter was rife with rumors that the Washington Wizards’ Rashard Lewis had been carrying on some sort of affair with Samantha Brinson, LeBron James’s longtime girlfriend and mother of his children. It didn’t help matters that an actual “journalist,” Stephen A. Smith, helped start…
You might remember that last year, Fox Sports Radio personality Stephen A. Smith was the first guy to report that LeBron James indeed would be joining Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade with the Miami Heat. People laughed at him when he first Tweeted the assertion, but he looked pretty prescient…
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Shaquille O’Neal may have hung up his high tops for good, but according to spreading internet rumors he may have not made his last athletic appearance at Sun Life Stadium yet. The buzz is that WWE is trying to sign Shaq to take on similarly tall wrestler The Big Show…
Jackson Health System has enough money problems at the moment. The last thing it needs is its own surgeons stealing medical equipment from the financially strapped public hospital system. Yet Nir Hus, a surgeon and postgraduate fellow at Jackson Memorial Hospital, has been arrested on charges of repeatedly snatching equipment…
What is it with local traffic-ticket lawyers and their misadventures at strip clubs? In April, Ticket Clinic founder Mark S. Gold sued Goldrush strip club, claiming the establishment got him drunk and made him run up a $18,930 tab. Now the Ticket Cricket’s Bret Lusskin is suing Tootsie’s Cabaret because he claims the club lured…
Charles Barkley took time out of his very busy schedule of criticizing the Miami Heat to switch it up a bit and criticize the Heat’s fans. Oh, yeah, he went there…
Well, it’s only been about seven years since Saturday Night Live first unveiled Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer character, and Republicans are finally getting around to using it to spoof DNC chair and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. …
Custody and child support disputes between Chris Bosh and his ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis concerning their 2-year-old daughter Trinity are nothing new, but even Mathis’ lawyers have said she hopes their daughter can have a good relationship with her dad. Oddly, however, TMZ is reporting that Bosh is now begging a…
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Miami is home to a couple of neat sports stats, but The Sun-Sentinel points out we’re about to become home to another: the first and only county in America where the championship trophies of all four major sports leagues have been handed out…
We haven’t heard much out of Mexican pop star Paulina Rubio over the past few years, and maybe she wants it that way. The Latina superstar is facing a pending court case in Miami after locally-based CMG Entertainment sued Rubio for not showing up for a concert they had booked…
Here’s a disturbing contrast in the way the U.S. media approaches political scandals: One congressman accidentally tweets a picture of his boxer-brief-clad boner, and a week’s worth of wall-to-wall media coverage ends in teary and bizarre press coverage and leaders of his own party calling for an investigation. Another congressman…
Nevin Shapiro lived like a modern-day Caligula. He seemed to have it all: a luxurious Miami Beach mansion on the bay, parties that attracted local notables and sports superstars, fast cars, big yacht, women and the athlete’s lounge at the University of Miami named after him. It all came tumbling…
Narces Benoit claims that Miami Beach Police smashed his cellphone and threatened him at gunpoint after they noticed he had captured video of the shooting on Memorial Day Weekend. However, the police department has released a statement today claiming that they did not smash Benoit’s phone, and that the officers…
A tense standoff between a SWAT team and a man who fatally stabbed his wife came to an end after police successfully apprehended the suspect.Lazaro Bernabeu, 49, is believed to have stabbed his common-law wife, Eileen Lozano, 32, multiple times following a dispute this morning. The man has a long…
No matter who becomes Miami-Dade’s next mayor, don’t expect him to have the rosiest of relationships with deeply unpopular Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The race is nonpartisan, but both Carlos Gimenez and Julio Robaina are registered Republicans. However, at a debate this morning, both made it clear they aren’t exactly…
Whether or not Rep. Anthony Weiner manages to hold onto his congressional seat by either surviving ethics investigations that could force him to resign or the possibility of a primary challenge come next fall, something seemingly far more important to Weiner than the chance to serve his constituents New York’s…
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Dolphins fans have a right to be concerned about Brandon Marshall’s play last season and the legal situation stemming form his wife stabbing him in the gut with a kitchen knife, but is the best solution to that really signing a guy who just got out of a jail yesterday…
Hopefully you haven’t found a new barber named Rocky you like recently. Hopefully you don’t have an appointment with him this week, because “Rocky” isn’t going to be able to keep it. Those same hands that have been clipping your hair are accused of pulling the trigger that ultimately ended…
The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using “skimming” technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both Romanian citizens, were…
