Things aren’t looking too good for our beloved Miami Heat in the playoffs. Especially after their disastrous 106-77 loss to the Celtics Tuesday. Even an inspired performance by Dwyane Wade can’t ensure a win. Yes, we’ll get hometown advantage in tomorrow’s game, but we think it’s time for the Heat to pull out every…
Fans are the biggest losers in Jason Taylor’s decision to head to the Jets, but we’re still not sure exactly with whom to be angry: Taylor for heading out of town or Bill Parcels and company for apparently not caring too much that Taylor was packing his bags. This morning, ESPN reported the Dolphins actually…
To hear former Vice President Dick Cheney tell it, if Florida voters don’t elect Marco Rubio as our next senator, we’ll soon live in a socialistic hellhole where terrorist attacks are scheduled every hour on the hour. Yes, the scariest vice president in history officially endorsed Rubio today and then took some…
Jennifer Lopez is a huge Dolphins fan. She pretty much has to be, considering husband Marc Anthony is a minority owner. While promoting her new movie, The Back-up Plan, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, she made a first-round draft prediction.”We have the 12th pick, you know, so…
The 11 students who got high off of Coricidin while at Hialeah Middle School might have already faced the consequences of vomiting, collapsing, and in one case having a seizure in school, but they could face charges. The students, all between ages 13 and 14, will be suspended, according to the school board, and…
Poor Snooki, when will she ever find love? Or was it always there right in front of her all along? She was dating some random gelled meat bag named Emillio, but apparently broke up with him when she thought he was seeing guidettes on the side while she was down in…
Bolivian President Evo Morales, who plays the Larry part in Latin America’s socialist Three Stooges with Castro and Chavez, claims that eating chicken will turn you into an effeminate gay. “The chicken we eat is loaded with female hormones. So, when men eat it, they tend to deviate from their manhood,” said…
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Point guard Kenny Hasbrouck is the newest member of the Miami Heat, signing with them on March 16th out of the developmental league, but he’s already found himself in a drunk driving scandal. The charges date back to February 5th, before the Heat signed the former Siena College star.Hasbrouck was…
Why is the media so obsessed with the Ritz-Carlton on South Beach’s tanning butler position? The Miami Herald showed up to cover the audtions for the hotel’s next sunscreen slayer and were joined by CBS 4, NBC 6, the Associated Press, CNN and WLRN. All in all there were 14…
“Will that be paper or plastic?” Despite the fact Nevin K. Shapiro ran a grocery diverting business, when he was asking that he was most likely wondering how victims of his alleged $900 million ponzi scheme wanted to pay up. The SEC has charged Shapiro with running the scheme since 2005. The…
Dear CNN,Please refrain from having Rick Sanchez cover natural disasters. We here in South Florida all remember his over-the-top hurricane coverage. Then when covering tsunami warnings for Hawaii he asked, “Nine meters in English is what?” Now, he does not understand volcanoes.While covering that volcano in Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull, he wondered…
Jason Taylor deserved better. Certainly better than having to join the Jets. Now his former teammate Zach Thomas, who spent 11 seasons with the Dolphins himself and is Taylor’s brother-in-law, is calling out the front office for their shady and disrespectful handling of the situation.”I’m not trying to be hard…
Sherry Marks, the 19-year-old driver whose Ford Mustang struck and killed Miami firefighter Leslie Luma two weeks ago, admitted she had taken drugs at the time of the crash. Marks admitted to taking Xanax and Lexapro, which she may have been prescribed, but she was also high on nitrous oxide,…
Purvis Young, who in the later years of his life rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of Miami’s most well-known and respected artists, has died today at the age of 67 from cardiac arrest following a battle with diabetes that had left him in a wheel chair. Young lived…
The saga of Jason Taylor’s off-season has finally come to an end. The linebacker — who spent 12 seasons with the Dolphins (six of those as a Pro Bowler), was active in the South Florida community, and was one of the franchise’s most popular players, even during low points –…
The Urban League of Greater Miami helped to desegregate public housing in Dade County, supported Miami’s Fair Housing Ordinance, and over the past seven decades has spearheaded a number of housing projects in the county. Now, shockingly, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has charged the group with discrimination of its own. HUD claims…
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Teenagers have unfortunately become experts in the area of getting high off legal substances, and a practice known as “robo-tripping” has become a standard for those looking to get a buzz off drugs readily available over the counter at pharmacies. Dextromethorphan, an active ingredient found in Robitussin and other cough medicines, in…
Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s decision to hold a swanky $30,400-per-couple fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee featuring Barack Obama didn’t sit well with many in Miami’s largely Republican Cuban-American community. Hell, Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa even gave ink to the idea that some folks should throw out their entire Estefan…
An orange-looking girl with no tan lines desperate for her next session in a tanning booth might exhibit similar behaviors to a crackhead looking for his next hit. Yes, science suggests that indoor tanning could become addictive just like drugs and alcohol. Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and…
A South Florida helicopter pilot found himself under attack by a laser. No, we do not live in some Star Wars age where helicopters can be brought down by laser blasters. But as anyone who attended Ultra Music Festival knows, we have harnessed the power of lasers for ultimate distraction, annoyance,…
