Normally when a sports star gets arrested on drug charges, it’s the athlete who has to answer the hard questions. But following yesterday’s arrest of Miami Heat fan favorite Udonis Haslem, it’s the Florida Highway Patrol that seems to have some explaining to do…
In today’s surprisingly light roundup of horrible things and various crimes that happened over the weekend in our fair metropolis: Norwegian’s Epic cruise ship is forced back to the Port of Miami after a man dies after eating food, a gunman attacks a Greyhound bus, and the city’s bond status is called into…
In US News and World Report’s rankings of America’s best colleges, the state of Florida boast two schools in the top 50: University of Florida and University of Miami. Forbes is now in the college ranking business too, and the rankings for the schools in Florida strike as a bit weird…
For some people, Miami fashion will always bring to mind images of Gianni Versace’s pastel suits on Miami Vice, but according to a new survey from the Global Language Monitor, Miami ranks among the top ten fashion capitals in the world…
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Brandon Marshall probably would have been the biggest accusation of the off season for a Miami team if it wasn’t for that whole LeBron thing. Maybe he was worried we forgot about him, so he decided to say something ridiculous to garner some attention. See Marshall thinks there’ll definitely be…
“We can ship them out to the middle of the country and put up high walls and leave them there,” Marg Baker says of illegal immigrants. The Tea Party candidate for the Republican nomination to a state house seat north of Tampa made the remarks at a rally for Glenn Beck’s “9/12″…
Key Biscayne’s Academy of Martial Arts RDCA apparently wants to help you beat the queer out of your cross-dressing son. At least that’s the message a new set of print ads conveys. Put together by local agency Zubi Advertising, the two print ads feature a little boy getting in touch with…
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What makes an NFL team successful? For the coach, players and fans it means winning games. For the owner and front office it also means making lots of money. According to a new analysis from Portfolio.com, your Miami Dolphins ranked near the bottom in both categories in 2009. Of the league’s 32 teams,…
Maybe we’re biased, but we think the University of Miami athletics logo is one of the most original and aesthetically pleasing in all of sports. It’s minimalist yet says so much. However, in its ACC preview, Rivals’ group of experts seems to think the team’s helmet, which features the logo,…
With millions of his own dollars at his disposal and an aggressive campaign, political outsider Rick Scott seemed he might take the Republican primary for governor over career politician Bill McCollum. Well, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll, McCollum is back on top, but Democrat Alex Sink now leads both…
In today’s news roundup: The city’s big brass shows up at the scene of a police-involved shooting, Miracle Mile goes up in flames, the future president of Earth visits, and a Miami Beach serial robber comes clean…
A demolition project set to destroy an abandoned building in South Beach had to be postponed today. What dare stop the mighty wrecking ball? Kitty cats, apparently…
Anything related to the Republican primary for governor has long since stopped making sense. Bill McCollum supporters are now set to hold a protest outside the headquarters of a social networking website in which Rick Scott once invested. The site, QuePasa.com, has a business relation with Playboy Mexico, which the…
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It was only a matter of time until someone wrote a book about the Miami Heat’s amazing off-season in which it secured three of the biggest prizes of a historic free-agency class. Of course, we doubt Ric Bucher’s tome, tentatively titled Overheated (har-har), will be sitting on the bookshelves of…
We’re pretty sure that no one, not even hard-core Democrats, really likes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He’s this wishy-washy, spineless moderate with a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth. Yesterday he was back at it again by saying, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could…
Cuba has been a communist state for more than 50 years, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t lots of underground capitalism going on. For almost as long as the United States has had a trade embargo on the island nation, there’s been a significant amount of black-market activity. You can…
In this morning’s slow but deadly news roundup: A Hialeah man impersonates a police officer, makes off with a woman’s purse, and then gets sat on; and two terrible car accidents send multiple people to the hospital…
According to TMZ, LeBron James paid controversial Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto six figures to sit in on a merchandising meeting on a yacht somewhere off the coast of New York. Pinto is styled as something of a business guru-slash-spiritual leader to the rich and famous. He only speaks Hebrew, and…
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