The University of Miami’s search to replace athletic director Kirby Hocutt has come to an end. The Miami Herald reports that Shawn Eichorst, a deputy AD at the University of Wisconsin, has been hired for the job, and what a job it is. Not only will Eichorst be charged with…
During his failed Senate bid, Charlie Crist ironically used the Talking Heads’ song “Road to Nowhere” in an online ad attacking Marco Rubio. Problem was Crist didn’t get permission from Heads frontman and songwriter David Byrne to use the tune, and Byrne promptly sued Crist for $1 million. Well, unlike…
The University of Miami is pursuing multiple options to fill their men’s basketball coach vacancy, including, the latest, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker. The only person they haven’t seemed to call is the must-buzzed about and perhaps best option: Kansas State coach Frank Martin. In his latest remarks to the media…
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We have no idea why former Miami Heat legend Glen Rice’s post-NBA life involves hiring people to film and organize a handball tournament (hell, we have no idea why handball tournaments need to be filmed in the first place), and perhaps after finding himself in legal trouble Rice is thinking…
The Royal Palm hotel was the first black-owned hotel in all of Miami Beach, and as our Francisco Alvarado once put it, “was supposed to be a beacon of atonement for Miami-Dade County’s racist past.” After it re-opened on 16th and Collins in 2002, a string of bad business calculations…
Back in 2008, Mitt Romney came in second place to John McCain in Florida’s GOP primary, a loss that signaled the beginning of the end for his campaign. Perhaps though the Sunshine State could prove warmer to Romney’s presidential hopes a second time around. A new poll from Mason-Dixon shows…
For a school that used to be known as one of America’s greatest institutes of outdoor tanning practices the University of Miami has certainly improved its academic standings on President Donna Shalala. Though with that heightened emphasis on academic prestige comes more stress for students, and the school finds itself…
Clear your calendar on May 24 because we’re holding an election! The Miami-Dade County Commission meet this morning and, as expected, officially set the day for the election to replace recalled Carlos Alvarez on that Tuesday. Though, the mayoral race won’t be the only thing on the ballot. Voters will…
It’s actually kind of amazing that the debate over Barack Obama’s place of birth is still raging. I guess that’s what happens when national punch line Donald Trump tries desperately to make headlines for his grand publicity stunt of pretending to think about running for president and decides to reignite…
You wouldn’t know it from polling that indicates Floridians increasingly think the state is heading in the wrong direction, or our emotional health rankings from the Gallup Well-Being Survey, but apparently Florida is one of the happiest states in the nation. At least on Twitter…
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Those prim and proper old folks over in Naples are always worried about those cretins from Miami-Dade traveling over Alligator Alley and coming to take their valuables. But apparently all Miami thieves want from Collier County is their precious, bountiful supply of cardboard. Yes, two Miami men have been charged…
Yet another Miami-Dade Police officer has found himself on the wrong side of the law. Midwest District Officer Joey Ganem, 47, has been arrested after allegedly trying to buy cocaine in Coconut Grove early this morning. Ganem, a 27-year veteran of the force, has been relieved of duty pending the…
A horrific story of an 18-year-old man severely beating his grandmother with a hammer in Texas has ended in Miami as police captured the man after he fled.Friends and family of Orange County, Texas resident Sylvia Vaughns, 51, hadn’t heard from her since the weekend, and police were sent to…
When Fontainebleau valet Sorel Rockefeller got slapped by Gloria James, the mother of LeBron James, instead of seeing stars he must have been seeing dollar signs. He’s quit his job and is now considering a lawsuit against James. He’s also been to a doctor and plans to visit a chiropractor.Oh,…
Regulating what America whacks off to has not been a chief concern of the Obama administration. But now a group of 42 senators have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder complaining that his justice department hasn’t been keeping a close enough eye on the mainstream adult pornography business…
It’s been a busy few days for LeBron James: he became a minority owner of one of the biggest soccer team in the world, his mom got arrested, he lost to the Bucks last night, and now the premiere episode of his animated YouTube series, The LeBrons, has hit the…
Martha, a 52-year-old ad executive from suburban Connecticut, often lies awake at night thinking back to those glorious few days she spent sailing the high seas and cruising the young men aboard the first ever Cougar Cruise. Though, even she’ll admit her looks and libido have faded some since her…
During former Miami Hurricanes basketball coach Frank Haith’s introduction at his new gig Missouri he had cutting words for University of Miami saying, “I know I’m in a different place. I know I’m in a place where they care.” We’d be more outraged though if we thought people actually really…
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Ramon Buchanan, the Hurricanes linebacker who was arrested and immediately suspended from the team following an arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove in March, has been reinstated on the team. According to the arrest report, Buchanan screamed, “I’m a UM football player and I don’t give a fuck what…
