Jeremy Shockey is no stranger to Miami. Besides living here, he helped the Miami Hurricanes win a national championship in 2001 and helped the New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl in 2010 in Sun Life Stadium. Now that he’s been cut from the Saints, speculation is ramping up that…
University of Miami Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt has interviewed for the same position at Texas Tech, according to The Sun-Sentinel, and apparently the interest is mutual. Hocutt has only served in the position in Coral Gables since 2008, but he’s reigned over an uncertain era of Hurricane sports. Update: Reports…
In an effort dubbed “Operation Pill Nation,” federal and local authorities executed the largest crack down on pill mills in South Florida to date. South Florida has become a hotbed of shady pain clinics dolling out prescriptions for powerful and addictive pain killers, and while most of these clinics are…
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As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has gone straight up tyrant in his country by ordering the killing of protesters seeking an end to his rule, some of his close allies across Latin America seem to be sticking with him. In fact, Fidel Castro thinks that the protests will be used…
Miller time may be coming to an end at American Airlines Arena. ESPN reported last night that as the trade deadline nears the Miami Heat are quietly shopping around Mike Miller in the hopes of landing a better center. Though, there chances of making a trade don’t look so good…
Real Housewives of Miami premiers tonight, but Basketball Wives, that other Miami-set show about bickering bimbos, may have just stolen its local shine with news that they’ve snagged a lady connected to one of the Miami Heat’s big three for their next season. TMZ reports that Allison Mathis, Chris Bosh’s…
Despite a triumphant concert in Miami and a Grammy win within the last few months, Buju Banton’s dark days are not behind him. After an initial trial on drug charges was declared a mistrial, Banton has been found guilty of conspiring to set up a Florida cocaine deal back in…
On Sunday, The New York Times editorial board slammed Rick Scott’s decision to kill Florida’s federally funded high-speed rail system and suggested he was caught up in some high-speed race to out-pander to Tea Partiers faster than other Republican governors. Though, there’s one governor Scott apparently doesn’t want to match…
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The nation may be slowly moving out of recession, but Miami’s real estate market may not be out of the woods yet. Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices track national housing prices, as well as sales in twenty different metro areas. New numbers released today show that Miami’s index,…
Among Governor Rick Scott’s cavalcade of controversial ideas is a plan to drug test all recipients of welfare in the state. Now Republican legislators have filed a bill to carry out a version of the plan, but it would only require welfare recipients with a felony drug conviction in the…
America’s ever expanding weight problem: not just for humans anymore!According to The Wall Street Journal, more than 50 percent of America’s pet cats and dogs are now considered overweight, with about one fifth considered obese. You guys, despite what the comic page says, you are NOT actually supposed to feed…
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Miami’s credentials as a cocaine capitol are well established, but for that last weekend every March during the Ultra Music Festival, it’s no secret an extravaganza of ecstasy use takes hold of the city. Now, one of the largest studies into the long term effects of the drug claims that…
Florida officials are always talking about innovative new ways to boost education in the state, but perhaps Tampa-area mom Ronda Holder has found an unusual answer: public student humiliation. She made her son stand on a street corner holding a sign displaying his dismal 1.22 GPA as a last resort…
Officials believe they’ve caught the South Beach arsonist, but the Miami Beach Fire Department was still feeling the heat this weekend when an unrelated fire sparked up in the ArtCenter South Florida on Lincoln Road. The fire destroyed one artist’s studio completely, while two other studios were severely damaged by…
LeBron James had plans to bring his acting talents to South Beach long before he made plans to bring his basketball talents here. According to a report from Variety, just days before LeBron made his fateful “decision,” he had plans to star in a movie called Ballers that would have…
President Obama sure loves hitting up Miami for fundraisers. POTUS has been in the area several times since his election for numerous cash raising soirees (including one at the Estefan household) and will be back in town March 4 to attend a fundraiser for Democratic Senate candidates as well as…
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Every great Hollywood sports movie where our heroes must turn themselves from chumps into champs includes the ever important montage. Or as South Park once sang it, “We’re gonna need a montage. (Montage!) A sports-training montage! (Montage!).”Indeed coming off a 7-6 season and under the guidance of a new coach…
The latest incarnation of Bravo’s signature shit show, Real Housewives of Miami, hasn’t even begun airing yet, but one cast member and her self-proclaimed “witch” of a mother have already stirred up the show’s first scandal for getting matching mother-daughter DUIs. Marysol Patton, a cast member and prominent local PR…
