Big Jimmy Johnson news day, we suppose. He wasn’t at home during the bizarre standoff at his mansion yesterday, because he’s off filming reality TV. The 67-year-old former head coach of the Hurricanes and the Dolphins (and, oh yeah, some sort of team somewhere in Texas) will be a cast…
Could Florida’s Senate race get any weirder? First, we have revelations that Jeff Greene (also buddies with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fliess) hosted Lindsay Lohan on his yacht during a New Year’s Eve vacation on St. Barts. Now we learn that governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist stayed at the…
In today’s roundup of the shame of South Florida: The caretaker of Jimmy Johnson’s Keys mansion has a five-hour standoff with police, a man is shot for his necklace outside a day-care center, the house of a soldier serving in the Middle East is burglarized, and, oh yeah, the Metromover…
If you’re like us you probably missed Miami Herald FIU sports reporter Pete Pelegrin’s epic, bridge burning farewell notice to the paper this morning. Probably because it was posted on the Herald’s own oft-neglected FIU sports blog, and really who cares enough about FIU sports enough to read much about it?…
Can we propose a moratorium on criticizing LeBron James’ move to the Heat? What’s done is done, and we won’t even have a solid idea on how the new-look Heat will preform until at least a few months into the season. Hasn’t stopped a never ending stream of former NBA all stars from throwing…
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Hey, Miami, you wanna know how The Daily Beast knows you’re gay? Because the Gay/Lesbian Index developed by demographer Gary Gates at UCLA’s Williams Institute says so. The index measures the prevalence of same-sex households in metro areas, and the South Florida area made the top 20 with 4.81 same-sex households per 1,000. …
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a list of “Crooked Candidates,” which, according to the organization, includes “the most corrupt and unethical candidates vying for federal office in 2010.” The list includes only 11 names, and three of them are running for Florida’s vacant Senate seat. Yes, Charlie Crist, Marco…
In today’s roundup of troubling things: A Dolphins player is formally charged for hitting his pregnant girlfriend, city leaders claim Miami’s teen curfew is reducing crime, a Hialeah bank robber is on the run, and the Biltmore has finally reached an agreement with Coral Gables…
Multiple reports claim LeBron James is about to officially become a resident of Miami-Dade by purchasing a $49.5 megamansion in Coral Gables that once belonged to his new boss, Pat Riley. Nestled in the waterfront Gables Estates section of Coral Gables, it’s probably one of the grandest properties on the…
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It’s apparently OK to use 9/11 metaphors only if you’re a war-hawk politician on the campaign trail. Dwyane Wade had to find out the hard way. The Miami Heat star has apologized after an off-the-cuff comment to the media this past weekend made it seem like he was comparing the possibility of a Heat…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez seems to be acting absolutely insane. At least more than usual. He took to Twitter to let the world know he cried tears of joy after seeing the 180-year-old remains of South American hero Simón Bolívar. Chávez had the corpse exhumed with the hopes of somehow proving Bolívar died due…
Last Friday, 64-year-old Armand M. Pacher of Aventura was arrested for suspicion of having sex with his female Great Dane. Pacher’s lawyer says the whole thing is a miscommunication started by a bad joke. It doesn’t help his case any, though, that the dog was named for supermodel and sex…
Miami-Dade Police are apparently here to serve and protect us from the sight of Enrique Iglesias’s man bits flapping in the wind as he waters-skis in the buff. Yes, the crooning heartthrob promised to water-ski naked in Biscayne Bay if Spain won the World Cup, but local cops tell TMZ…
Since at least 2008, Dwyane Wade and Hollywood hottie Gabrielle Union have kept their relationship on the down-low as Wade’s heated divorce from the mother of his children slowly worked its way through the courts. Now that the divorce papers have officially been signed, Wade and Union have acknowledged publicly…
In today’s roundup of horrible things and other news: a tourist couple is robbed at gunpoint, a 15-year-old is fatally shot in Overtown, an 11-year-old is accidentally shot by his own mother, and two people are found hanging in a South Florida park. …
The overall unemployment rate in Florida declined in June, but the Miami-Dade county saw the steepest ride in the entire state. The unemployment rate jumped half a percent from 12.3 in May to 12.8 in June. …
Looks like we shouldn’t be quite so worried about a third world disease roaring back into Miami-Dade yet (take that Tom Tancredo). Health officials reported yesterday that a case of Dengue Fever had popped up in a Miami Beach man, but now they say his test results have come back…
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Penny Hardaway has a lot to be proud of: four times an NBA All-Star, an Olympic gold medalist, and the world’s most memorable basketball puppet. What he doesn’t have, however, is a championship ring. Maybe that’s why he wants to come out of retirement and play, once more, for the…
In today’s roundup of horrible things: a pet parrot that could order pizza was stolen in Hialeah, “baby sperm dies,” the Miami-Dade man infected with dengue fever is doing just fine, and 36 people were arrested in a Medicare fraud sweep…
