305 Photo of the Day: I Only Damage My Own Liver, Thank You
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Lingerie Football Brawl: Miami Caliente Game Ends in Fisticuffs
We can debate the merits of the Lingerie Football league all we want, but there’s no question that the competition is real. This Friday’s game between the Miami Caliente and the Tampa Bay Breeze erupted in straight up fisticuffs. Wait, with the Dolphins stuck in permanent suck and the Hurricanes…
Teddy Bridgewater Commits to Louisville, Spurning Canes
Al Golden has only been in charge of the Miami Hurricanes for a week, and he’s already lost a major recruiting battle. Teddy Bridgewater, the quarterback for Miami Northwestern and rated the number two best quarterback prospect in the country by Rivals.com, has committed to the University of Louisville. Bridgewater…
Miami Dolphins Lose Record for Most All Time Regular Season Wins During Modern NFL Era
Perhaps less heralded than the 1972 perfect season, but more illustrative of the Miami Dolphins proud position as a historically non-sucking team is another record: most regular season wins since 1970 (that’s the year the AFL and NFL merged and is generally considered the start of the modern era of…
Miami Christian Group Protests Univision for Airing Interview with Openly Gay Ricky Martin
A South Florida church apparently thinks featuring a gay man on television is obscene. Oscar Aguero Ministry announced plans this weekend to picket the offices of Univision for airing an interview back on November 2 featuring a now openly gay popstar Ricky Martin discussing his sexuality…
Shocking Finding: Retirees Love Florida
Florida really is Heaven’s waiting room. According to a new study by Portfolio.com, the Sunshine State is by far the most popular destination for retirees, which has major implications as the gigantic baby boomer population continues to enter retirement age. The good news for Miamians who hate old people: Miami…
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Tea Party Group Sponsoring Presidential Primary Debate in Florida
Last time around, presidential hopefuls of both parties came down to the University of Miami to participate in the nation’s first primary debates broadcast in Spanish. In 2012, the Republicans will return to Florida for a primary debate, but this one is being sponsored by a group called the “Tea…
Wild Monkeys Living with Adopted Raccoon Near Fort Lauderdale Airport
A family of ververt monkeys that have roamed freely in Broward County since the 1950s has recently relocated to a patch of trees near the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, according to Local 10. Which is adorable and all, but, you guys, they also report that “a raccoon is treated like…
305 Photo of the Day: iSkyline
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Spike Lee is “Gonna Kick LeBron’s Ass” and Other Knicks Fans Delusions
Tonight, the Miami Heat travel to Madison Square Garden to face off against the New York Knicks, who are suddenly relevant again for the first time in years. Of course, New Yorkers are a hell of a lot more excited for the match than Miamians. They’re still fuming over the…
Top Ten New Times Covers of the Year
The peek out at you from practically every street corner in the city. They’re sometimes the most talked about thing in town. They’re our covers. In a feature on our art director Pam Shavalier earlier this year, the Society of Publications Designers said that our “creative, highly-original set of covers, [created]…
Congressman-elect David Rivera Being Investigated for $500,000 in Secret Payments from Dog Track
Floridians sure didn’t let silly things like “ethics” get in their way of voting this year. Just ask Governor-elect Medicare Fraud. Despite evidence that David Rivera claimed employment for years as a state legislator from an organization that said they’d never employed him, he was easily elected to the U.S…
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Florida Judge Worried Obama Might Make Us All Buy Broccoli
A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding… oh, wait, never mind. The judge is already…
Two Miami Republicans Break with Party to Vote for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal
In one of his last votes of his 18-year congressional career, retiring congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart was just one of 15 Republicans in the House to vote to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. He was joined in voting for the repeal by fellow Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, perhaps…
Tiger Woods’ Penis Beats LeBron for “Sports Story of the Year”
Members of the Associated Press have voted for the “Sports Story of the Year,” and it seems the winner actually was a bit more of a tabloid story than really a sports story …and that’s only if you consider golf a sport. The continued fallout from Tiger Woods’ massive cheating…
305 Photo of the Day: Grasp
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LeBron James’ Name Censored from Jay-Z Track on Cleveland Radio Station
Cleveland’s hate for LeBron James has reached new levels. The city’s 96.5 Kiss FM has decided to censor the player’s name from Jay-Z’s hit “Empire State of Mind.” One of the station’s DJs decided that the word “LeBron” was just as offensive as any other word banned from radio airplay,…
Raymond Adderly, Close Friend of Rick Ross, Killed in Miramar Home Invasion
Yesterday, a WSVN report on a Miramar man who was shot to death in front of his three young children and wife included a quote from a neighbor claiming the man was “best friends” with Miami rapper Rick Ross. Though no one could confirm the relationship this set off a…
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Space Heater Mishap Sets Duplex on Fire
Northerners like to rag on Miamians when we complain about our cold, dropping comment like “You don’t even know what cold is.” Which is exactly the point. We don’t know what cold is! It confuses us, and we are not at all prepared to responsibly deal with it. Many of…
Candidates Line Up to Replace Frederica Wilson in Special State Senate Election
While Frederica Wilson is up in D.C. preparing to be sworn into the U.S. Congress, her seat in the Florida Senate sits empty. Yesterday, outgoing Governor Charlie Crist announced that the primary election to replace Wilson will take place on February 8, while the general election will be March 1st,…
Report: Mark D’Onofrio to be Named Hurricanes’ Defensive Coordinator
Al Golden isn’t the only coach from Temple making the move to Miami. According to several reports out of the Philadelphia media, it seems that his defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio is likely to join him. Going solely by this year’s ranking, D’Onofrio is a pretty good choice. The Miami Hurricanes…
Jets’ Alosi Did Order “Human Wall,” Suspension Extended Indefinitely
Following the biggest scandal involving a trip since that Linda woman was involved in the Lewinsky affair, the Jets announced that they had fined and suspended strength training coach Sal Alosi. Though, they said their was no formal instruction to create a “human wall” of sorts against the sideline. Well,…