At the Marlins’ home opener on Monday, commentators threw around words like “respectable” and “surprising” to describe the announced crowd of 34,439 (minus a few troublemaking protesters, of course). By the season’s second game last night, though, the more appropriate adjectives were “embarrassing” and “unsurprising.”The Fish drew just 14,222 to…
In a game that featured two teams seemingly just going through the motions, the Miami Heat pulled out its franchise-record-tying 61st win of the season, equaling the 1996-97 squad that finished 61-21. LeBron James was the sole member of the Big Three to suit up, and he led the Heat with 28…
Like most lifelong Marlins fans, Dan Barton feels like team owner Jeffrey Loria spent the offseason repeatedly kicking him in the junk. So the 25-year-old and three of his friends showed up at last night’s home opener with some homemade signs and T-shirts — “Free the Marlins” and “F Jeff”…
Miami voters are one step closer this morning to getting the chance to weigh in on whether their tax dollars should go toward another big-ticket stadium project. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giminez announced that the city and the Miami Dolphins have agreed on a basic “framework” for a deal that would…
Hope you’re psyched for Opening Day, Miami! Your hometown Marlins are off to a roaring start. If by “roaring,” you mean they’re tied for the worst record in baseball, have scored just 14 runs in six games, and are so desperate for a first-baseman they held open auditions yesterday, that…
Sure, the ‘Canes might not have made it as far in the tournament as your Miami pride and/or bracket would have hoped, but luckily head coach Jim Larranaga still managed to storm through the competition in the race for the AP Coach of the Year award.See also:- Miami Hurricanes Basketball…
Well, we were being a bit facetious by trying to get excited about the Marlins going on the longest losing streak in MLB history, but it turns out the team is already on the brink of setting another dubious record. They could become the first team on record since at…
Sure, Chris Bosh had a live-tweeting camel at his birthday party last night, but the real highlight was the cake.We’ve seen crazy cakes at parties for LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, but leave it to Bosh to commission a tiny pastry version of himself riding a cake elephant…
Fallon Fox, a transgender mixed martial artist, has been cleared to fight in Coral Gables next month. The 36-year-old Fox was born male, married his high school girlfriend after getting her pregnant, and served in the Navy. Fox underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 2006 before launching her recent MMA career.That career,…
It’s one and done at FIU for head basketball coach Richard Pitino. According to ESPN, Pitino has been hired to fill the vacancy at the University of Minnesota after just one season as the Golden Panthers’ top dog.See also:- FIU Might Redesign Their Basketball Court to Look Like a Cheesy…
Ameen Najjar, the former NCAA investigator who botched the investigation into the University of Miami in the first place, kept in contact with Nevin Shapiro even after he was fired. In e-mails sent to Shapiro win prison, Najjar theorized that NCAA higher ups were trying to save Miami and apologized…
Former Rutgers coach Mike Rice is a sad little rage ball of a man who makes Bobby Knight look like a Zen Buddhist. The coach was fired yesterday after ESPN aired video of Rice hurling balls at players’ heads, repeatedly shoving his players during practice, and calling them slurs such…
Miami City Ballet is about to have its own experience with dancing with the stars. Former All-Star catcher Mike Piazza (who, you might recall, was a Florida Marlins once for approximately a week) will join the production Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on May 3. …
Heat fans tuning in for a possible Eastern Conference Finals preview Tuesday night were instead treated to another helping of the Miami Heat “B-Team” with an extra-large side of Carmelo Anthony ass. Anthony sizzled all night long, finishing with a career-high-tying 50 points as the New York Knicks pulled away…
Could Al Golden’s recruiting problems at the University of Miami be over? Today the Hurricanes landed a commitment from five-star offensive tackle Kc McDermott out of Palm Beach Central High. The commitment is an early win for Golden’s 2014 class, and one of the ‘Canes first big catch since the…
In the first shutout of the young MLB season, the Miami Marlins fell to the Washington National 0-2 today, but fans of schadenfreude only have one number on their mind: 20. That would give the Marlins the single longest losing streak in the post-wildcard era. If anyone can top the…
Though it’s been the worst kept secret in sports for a few weeks now, the Miami Dolphins officially unveiled their new logo today. The public intellectual trust that makes up Twitter users have basically fallen into two camps: that it looks like a sign for an aquarium or, oddly, that…
Opening day is about hope. Sure, there’s beer and hotdogs and warm weather and, um, more beer. But underneath all that, baseball’s new beginning is about the effervescent inkling that this year is going to be better than the last.Hope is a four-letter word these days for Marlins fans, however…
Backups? We ain’t got no stinkin’ backups! San Antonio seems like a good place to take a nap, and indeed rest is what the Miami Heat did while visiting the city Sunday, sitting LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Mario Chalmers with various minor injuries. Sending out a starting lineup of…
In today’s “no shit” legal news, a lawsuit brought on by a Miami man against the San Antonio Spurs after the team decided to send its star players home during a road game against the Miami Heat has been dismissed.The lawsuit was filed by local lawyer Larry McGuinness, and he…
Step right up, meet your 2013 Miami Marlins, same as the 2012 Miami Marlins — only completely different! If you’re anything like me, you’re angry, you’re hurt, and you may or may not say to yourself during a jog, “Hey, that’s a good place to hide a body named Jeffrey…
You love your team so much that you get its logo permanently tattooed on your skin. Then the team does the unthinkable: changes that logo. Sure, that automatically establishes you as an old-school fan of sorts, but it’s gotta suck when you have something inked on your body that the…
