The cruel joke played on South Florida every year by Major League Baseball has officially reached its season-ending punch line. Despite sitting near the top of the National League earlier this season, the Marlins have now been officially eliminated from playoff contention. A 5-7 loss to the Mets last night…
Dear Miami: You’re the capital of Latin American culture, a city so soccer-crazy that trying to find a free field for pick-up footy is tougher than sneaking an inflatable banana into a nightclub. Yet you cared so little for your MLS franchise that it dissolved after three seasons. The only professional…
Despite the fact the NCAA likes to uphold illusions that its merely sanctioning amateur athletics, there’s no doubt that college football is a big business. In 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, all Division 1-A teams combined brought in an astounding $2.5 billion.So which Florida schools…
The Miami Dolphins screwed up when they decided to honor the 2008-2009 national champion Florida Gators football team during the October 23 home game against the Denver Broncos. Gator rivals, the UM Hurricanes, are both our home team and in trouble with the NCAA. This stupidity shouldn’t surprise Dolfans.The franchise hasn’t had…
Despite being named in Yahoo! Sports’ Nevin Shapiro report, Aldarius Johnson yesterday walked away without any suspensions from the NCAA. However, coach Al Golden put Johnson on indefinite suspension anyway. Turns out he might have been caught lying to the NCAA…
According to a lawsuit filed in Orlando, Shaquille O’Neal had henchman Justin Zormelo stalk a mistress named Vanessa Lopez in October 2009. Two months later, Shaq and Zormelo had a bizarre online chat about the job. Riptide has obtained a stash of several of the Big Berlusconi’s salacious and infidelity-laced…
Just six days before the University of Miami Hurricanes season opener against the Maryland Terrapins, the NCAA has confirmed the eight players previously ruled ineligible by the school for their part in the Nevin Shapiro fiasco must miss games and repay benefits from the crooked booster. Five of those players,…
This could very well be the Hurricanes’ last chance to make a post-season appearance for a while, and both CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated predict the Hurricanes will wind up in a respectable, but not stellar bowl…
The sight off Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez staring out at you from the cover of the latest GQ is probably not a welcome site for most Miami sports fans, but rest assured there will be some local athlete representation in the men’s fashion section of you local magazine rack soon…
University of Miami Hurricanes’ head football coach Al Golden expects to have an answer on whether eight players deemed ineligible will be reinstated by the NCAA in the next 48 hours. And it’s just in time. The season is a week away. …
What the hell are the Miami Dolphins thinking? When the Denver Broncos come to town on October 23 with Tim Tebow in tow –assuming he isn’t cut or traded by then — they’re planing a celebratory reunion of the 2009 Gators team.Not only does this amount to basically a celebration…
First we discover that our childhood hero is a giant horndog. (Say it ain’t so, Kazaam!) Now we find out that Kardashian-news-leader TMZ pays for stories!? In Shaquille O’Neal’s personal emails, it seems nothing is holy. A judge sealed the stash of messages, which were filed in court in a…
The Dolphins lost 17-13 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last night. But Chad Henne played well, so… EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY GOING TO BE OKAY NOW!The third pre-season game is generally considered the most important, since it’s where the first-teamers get the most playing time before the real games begin. It’s…
As reports earlier in the day suggested, ESPN is now confirming the University of Miami has officially declared 13 football players ineligible. Yahoo! Sports had reported earlier in the night that only 8 players faced ineligibility.That doesn’t mean the 13 players in question won’t play in the season opener against Maryland,…
“The Chief’s good friend Nevin Shapiro needs two rooms for tonight (8/15/06) at the Ritz-Carlton. Would you be able to help him with that? Thanks for your help!” So reads an email sent five years ago from then-Miami Beach Police chief Don Delucca’s assistant to a manager at the posh…
So in a November 2008 email conversation with Newsweek scribe Allison Samuels, Shaquille O’Neal casually mentioned that former teammate Dwyane Wade was romantically involved with actress Lauren London. Well, actually he said: “Loren is d wade’s girl” When Samuels protested that Wade– who was married at the time– was involved…
Today’s batch of Shaquille O’Neal emails makes yesterday’s entry — in which the giant basketball superstar man-child played pick-a-mistress with Newsweek scribe Allison Samuels — look downright scholarly. This morning, we’re embracing our inner TMZ. According to emails and texts sealed in court, but which we were able to obtain…
Hey, remember how we’re giving the Marlins a free baseball stadium because of the fiery, raging passion for baseball down here in Miami-Dade? Honestly, when you have the kind of fan base that bleeds teal-and-blue like the 305, nothing make more sense than investing hundreds of millions in … wait,…
In 1995, on the heels of the Hurricanes’ Pell Grant scandal, Sports Illustrated published one of its most minimalist but powerful covers: a plain green background featuring the headline “Why the University of Miami should drop football.”To many Canes fans — most of whom believed up until last week that…
If you’re of the thought that LeBron James second- guessed himself a bit too much during the NBA Finals and shied away from making big moves in the moments that mattered, this video of him sheepishly taking minutes to jump off a diving platform in front of a large crowd…
In an ongoing, bizarre local lawsuit, Shaquille O’Neal is accused of trying to orchestrate a frame job using child porn and the help of Miami Beach Police. Recently a judge temporarily barred the admission of a cache of the superstar’s emails into the public record. We’ve gotten our grubby hands on…
The Miami Dolphins signed ex-Chiefs running back Larry Johnson as they continue to bolster and tinker with their running back corps, which was probably the only spot on the roster that didn’t entirely suck raccoon balls last year. Johnson’s best and only good seasons were 2005 and 2006, when he…
