The NBA lockout is making people do strange things: Heat players are beating on little kids at basketball camps, Chris Bosh went and got himself MARRIED, and Dwyane Wade is making YouTube videos about his Lasik procedure.Yes, the 2006 NBA Finals MVP and 2010 NBA All-Star Game MVP is now…
Despite the fact that he may have gotten legally married to Adrienne Williams shortly before the playoffs, Chris Bosh made it official this weekend with a lavish ceremony at the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach. (Yes, the same place where the Mavs celebrated their finals win.) Unlike his bachelor party, both…
It looked like the Fish were going to lose this one. Down 2-0 against the Chicago Cubs going into the ninth at Wrigley Field, there didn’t seem to be much hope. Then Cubs closer Carlos Marmol came in.His first three batters saw a combined 12 balls and one strike. With…
In journalism, three is a trend, so we’re declaring it here first: There is now an epidemic of Miami Heat child abuse going on at basketball camps around the country…
UPDATE: Wambach scored the game winner in the USA’s 3-1 win over France this afternoon.We’ve heard all the bogus excuses: “soccer is boring; women aren’t good enough; if they aren’t in bikinis, I’m boycotting.”Accept it, dude. The Women’s World Cup has been downright kick-ass this year: from six-goal thrillers –…
Joakim Noah aside, lots of sports stars are coming out in favor of GLBT rights. Few however are willing to take their convictions far enough to end up shirtless and oiled on the cover of a gay magazine. Then again, Miami Hurricanes legend Michael Irvin has never been like most…
If former Carol City High football star Willie Williams played his cards right, he’d be spending his summer locked out of the NFL. Instead he’s once again locked behind bars. Cincinnati.com reports Williams is being held in jail on charges of second-degree robbery in Ohio…
Well, you’ve finally done it Florida. You’ve beaten the Marlins into submission. The team with the worst attendance in the major leagues has given up: They have closed the upper deck of its stadium for the rest of the season, an inconvenience to the three people that ever sat up…
Former Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal will be joining the studio team on “NBA on TNT,” the popular basketball show also featuring noted Heat hater Charles Barkley, according to unnamed reports in the Orlando Sentinel.The reports cast an eerie glow around former Heat owner Micky Arison’s reaction last month to Shaq’s…
After years of flirting with the line, it has become official: It’s more expensive to drink one beer at Sun Life Stadium than it is to watch nine innings of professional baseball.There really isn’t much else to say — parking is $10, a beer is $8, and the Marlins sent…
LeBron James helped turn Miami, a pretty solid football town, into a major basketball loving city almost over night, but can he get people interested in the University of Miami men’s basketball team? The Heat superstar has inked a sponsorship deal with the Hurricanes team, and next season the team…
Dwyane Wade could be taking his talents across the ocean. The Miami Heat guard was in suburban Chicago with Chicago Bears (and former Miami Hurricanes) player David Hester while the two were hosting camps for kids. Wade told the AP he’d be open to playing for the foreign league if…
Happy first anniversary, LeBron James! It was exactly one year ago today when you got down on one knee sat on one seriously uncomfortable-looking wooden chair and announced before God and the entire ESPN-watching world your intention to enter an unholy union with Miami and our professional basketball franchise. Well, actually…
Finally a political polling firm has decided to poll on something other than politics. Public Policy Polling surveyed Floridians on another contentious topic: sports. The poll shows LeBron James isn’t exactly that popular in his new state, while Florida’s favorite pro team is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the favorite college…
A new chapter of the Jack McKeon Is Really Old Chronicles was written last night: The 80-year-old Marlins manager skippered a game against the son of a player he managed in the early 1970s.John Mayberry was the Kansas City Royals’ hard-hitting first baseman when McKeon took the reins for the…
The NFL recently unveiled its list of the top 100 players for the 2011 season, and at least one football team in town is really, uncontrollably, super excited about it. No, it’s not the one that actually plays in the NFL. The Dolphins placed three players on the list, but the Miami…
Sun Life Stadium should expect a visit from the Herald any day now: the ballpark has officially become an assisted living facility.The Marlins took another shaky, walker-assisted step towards an All Star break nap by acquiring 38-year-old outfielder Mike Cameron on Tuesday.”I hear he’s good at Sudoku,” manager Jack McKeon…
The Florida Marlins. Man. What a June. A streak of 19 losses in 20 games, an entire starting lineup batting below .280 for the month, a drop to dead last in the majors for runs scored. Oh, and the manager was replaced by a guy who was getting senior citizen discounts…
Aggressive LeBron James dunks may have been too few and far between during the NBA finals, but fear not Miami Heat fans, James can still take it to the house with no mercy …against middle schoolers at least. James made a surprise appearance at the Nothing but Net basketball camp…
Despite being perhaps the biggest biggest bust in MMA’s short history, Kimbo Slice still has a lot on his plate. Besides making plans to star in a motion picture, Slice is set to make his professional boxing debut in Miami …another Miami. Miami, Oklahoma. Lets hope he lasts more than…
The Miami Heat may be in danger of losing one of their hometown players. James Jones has informed the organization that he won’t be exercising the player option in his contract and will instead chose to become a free agent, reports The Miami Herald…
Despite the fact he may have already gotten legally married, Chris Bosh is officially walking down the aisle with Adrienne Williams next month. Like any respectable sports star, Bosh had to have one hell of a bachelor party. A four-day trip to Las Vegas that Bosh dubbed “The Hangover 3″…
