This is like the baseball fan’s version of that time Beyonce went to Cheeseburger Baby. I was in the courthouse district an hour or so ago when I saw the strangest thing: Baseball superstars David Ortiz and Jose Batista strolling down Northeast 1st Avenue, in full baseball uniform. It was…
Good news for LeBron James! He’s now only the sixth most hated professional athlete in America! That’s down from second place on Forbes.com’s list last year. Hell, as we’ve previously noted, he’s no longer the most hated player in the NBA. That title now belongs to that guy who had…
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes arrived at Miami International Airport this morning ahead of a meeting with top Marlins brass. The Marlins have made no secret of their desire to land the Cuban slugger, and now Cespedes is returning the love.”It would be good [to play here],” Cespedes said while briefly…
Dwyane Wade led the way with 26 points, while LeBron James added 24 as the Miami Heat took down the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-91 last night.The Heat will now embark on a five-road-games-in-seven-nights-palooza beginning in Orlando tonight and ending when all the players die from severe fatigue.But the story of the…
Ricky Williams, the enigmatic running back who spent the majority of his 11-year NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, is officially retiring from football. No, really, for real this time. After ditching the Dolphins last year, Williams signed a two-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens but has decided to forgo…
A recent GQ profile of once-high-flying NFL star Terrell Owens — who’s now close to broke despite earning more than $80 million — has shined a national spotlight this month on his South Florida agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and financial advisor, Jeff Rubin. T.O. has lambasted Rosenhaus’s management and sued over…
Riptide has a now established tradition of mathematically (in the loosest sense of the word) deciding which team Miamians should root for the in the Super Bowl. This year the answer seems obvious: F*ck the Pats! But should we really f*ck the Pats? Lets run both the New England Patriots…
It sure sounds like Peyton Manning is going to end up in Miami eventually one way or another. The only question is whether it will be in a Dolphins jersey or a pair of board shorts lounging at his condo at the Continuum in the South of Fifth area of…
Khalilah Camacho-Ali remembers the first time she walked into 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach was during the summer of 1967. Back then she was known as Belinda, the 17-year-old second bride of the man who would go on to become the greatest boxer of all time: Muhammad Ali. At…
Forget the new logo, uniforms, coach, roster or shady funding for the new stadium — by fair the most despair-inducing feature of the Miami Marlin’s recent makeover is what we originally termed the “insanely ugly animatronic home-run sculpture.” The thing looks like a Mardi Gras float impregnated a Guy Harvey…
Former Miami Hurricane and current Washington Redskin Rocky McIntosh was a guest on D.C.-area sports radio show this morning, and on the day after national signing day the hosts had recruiting on their mind. They started throwing questions at McIntosh about what part strip clubs and hot girls may have…
It’s easy to forget now, but Miami Beach was once the nexus of the world boxing scene thanks mostly to Angelo Dundee, the Hall of Fame trainer who opened the legendary 5th Street Gym with his brother Chris. Dundee trained dozens of elite fighters at the SoBe gym — most…
The Miami Heat looked like they were on their way to demolishing the entire Milwaukee Bucks franchise into a fine powder after scoring a season-high 40 points in the opening quarter of last night’s game. And then?Deercocks.For what seemed like the 30 billionth time this season, the Heat couldn’t close…
National signing day started out with a bang for Al Golden and his Miami Hurricanes. Tracy Howard, the number one cover cornerback in the nation and a Miramar High star, surprisingly picked the U over both FSU and UF after only making his first official visit to the school last…
We might have been a bit hyperbolic in calling LeBron James’ crazy over-the-head-of-an-opponent drunk the “most awesome dunk ever.” Sure, it was awesome, but it’s not even LeBron James’ favorite dunk of his career. He told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst his favorite five dunks. Here’s video of each…
Somewhere in the world exists a person who has decided that it would be a good idea to upload 2,600 YouTube videos in which he mispronounces various names in a strange inflection. As part of this person’s RunTheCube YouTube channel he has uploaded videos mispronouncing the name of every single…
FIU fans recently breathed a sigh of relief when Mario Cristobal was passed over for the head coaching job at Pitt, but fans are tense again this morning as several reports indicate that Cristobal is close to be being named the new head coach at Rutgers…
There’s a reason the Miami Dolphins pay Brandon Marshall all that money. He’s a damn good wide receiver. That’s a fact he reminded everyone of with his MVP performance in yesterday’s Pro Bowl; the kind of performance we see far too little of when he’s actually in a Dolphins jersey.After…
Everybody likes to talk about how LeBron James can’t get it done in the fourth quarter, that he isn’t clutch, that he’s a righteous ass-wrecking machine for the first three quarters of games but then inexplicably turns into a little old Chinese woman in the fourth quarter, costing his team…
The Miami Heat seemed to have been sleepwalking through the first three quarters of last night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And all that dicking around might have cost them the game if not for Chris Bosh blowing up with his 17 fourth-quarter points.Miami was able to sustain some furious…
So, apparently LeBron James isn’t exactly a big fan of Miami Heat prez Pat Riley’s management style. And unless Riley heads into retirement soon, James is supposedly thinking about packing up and taking his talents back to Cleveland. That’s according to FoxSportsOhio.com columnist Sam Amico, anyway…
In remarks to the media today, Miami Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland said, “We need a quarterback that can get us over the hump.” Though he praised Matt Moore’s solid and reliable mediocrity, he said the Dolphins “have to do better.”Ireland is clearly a man with a singular vision and…
