It appears Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has now accepted that he’ll be sitting out an entire season after New Times uncovered his links to Coral Gables PED-pushing clinic Biogenesis.. A-Rod and his legal team have voluntarily dropped a lawsuit against Major League Baseball, the Players Association, and Commissioner Bud Selig…
Despite the fact that Orlando’s soccer team is still more than a year away from playing in the MLS and the fact that Miami’s MLS team doesn’t even exist yet (to the point that it doesn’t even have a name), the two future franchises are already bickering. Orlando City SC…
As native Floridians, we’ve always viewed the Winter Olympics as some sort of weird arctic elf games we’ll never truly be able to comprehend. As it turns out, there are not that many Floridians who go on to compete in these frigid competitions compared to northern states. Though, this year…
Good morning! While you were asleep last night, the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Clippers played future basketball, where people can fly, only dunks count, and playing defense is frowned upon. The Dunk counter ran out of batteries in this one, because all of the dunks happened, all shapes…
Despite last-minute interest in Alabama and continued overtures from Florida State, five-star defensive end Chad Thomas of Booker T. Washington Senior High approached the podium at the school’s national signing day event, popped “U,” and put on a Miami Hurricanes jacket. It was the highlight of a day that saw…
So how would you feel about losing LeBron James if it meant getting rising star Blake Griffin in return? ESPN wants you to think about it. Because they’re going to run the LeBron free agency story into the ground almost as severely as everything Tim Tebow, ESPN’s website is running…
David Beckham didn’t say much we didn’t already know, but damn did he look good. Becks took the PAMM podium in a slate-gray suit this morning to officially announce Major League Soccer’s newest team would be in Miami. “Miami… is a vibrant city. It’s a city with a lot of…
David Beckham finally formally announced what we all knew: he’s bringing an MLS team to the city, with the condition that he find a location to build a stadium. Besides noting that the team would start play in either 2016 or 2017, we didn’t get any more details…
David Beckham, to the delight of soccer fans in South Florida, is expected to confirm Wednesday that Major League Soccer will return to Miami, possibly as soon as 2016. Since the Fort Lauderdale Miami Fusion closed up shop in 2001 due to a wide assortment of issues, including a lack…
You ever get into weird internet k-holes? One second we’re browsing a Deadspin story about this former NFL quarterback who is now 320 pounds and still playing quarterback in an indoor league, when next we’re on Wikipedia reading about various internet indoor football leagues. Which is when we learned that…
Almost 12 years ago, Major League Soccer announced it was shuttering the financially faltering Miami Fusion. Fast-forward to today, and sometime in the next 24 hours the league is expected to announce it’s officially re-entering the market with a David Beckham-owned team. Back on that fateful January 2002 day, Commissioner…
The Miami Heat beat the Detroit Pistons 102-96 Monday night, starting what they can only hope is a post Super Bowl run that rivals the 27-game winning streak they enjoyed last season. The Big 3 combined for 71 points in the win, dominating from the start behind Wade and Bosh’s…
Despite everyone knowing that David Beckham is actively trying to bring an MLS franchise to Miami, he hasn’t said anything official about it. That will change Wednesday, when he’s scheduled to make an announcement alongside Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and MLS president Don Garber at Pérez Art Museum Miami…
To bolster Richie Incognito’s position that threats of violence between him and Jonathon Martin were just the pair’s special way of “bantering,” Incognito’s attorney released 40 pages of text messages between the former teammates to CBS Miami yesterday. Ironically, the controlled leak could lead to more problems for both Martin…
Every year, there is a Super Bowl. Every year, for the past 31 years, the Miami Dolphins have not been in that Super Bowl. So every year, Miamians are left deciding which team to nominally root for that night. In fact, over the past few years, Riptide has used a…
In response to Jonathon Martin’s first interview after leaving the Miami Dolphins, Richie Incognito’s lawyers have released 40 pages of text messages between the pair to certain media outlets. Some of the texts don’t make Incognito look too good, including a joke about how he’d shoot Martin and get away…
Forget cheering in the stands. If you really want to get a hold on a football team’s fandom’s true feelings you might be better off checking their Facebook posts. In fact, Facebook has done just that. They tracked fans (identified as people who liked a team’s official page on Facebook)…
If Kevin Durant was looking to send a message, message received loud and clear. Durant continued his streak of lighting the NBA on fire, scoring 33 points in a 112-95 stomping of a mistake-prone Miami Heat team Wednesday. Durant scored 30 or more for a career best 12th straight game,…
What’s it like watching professional basketball players step completely out of their comfort zone? No one would know better than legendary basketball guru and Miami Heat president Pat Riley. “Tomorrow is probably going to be the funnest day of the year at practice,” the 68-year-old Riley said at the Fillmore…
NFL legend Warren Moon is apparently a Miami Heat fan. So much so that when someone approached him with the opportunity to not only buy courtside tickets but also a 5 percent stake in the team, Moon jumped on the deal and transferred $200,000. Turns out the whole thing was…
In their first meeting since last years epic NBA Finals, the Miami Heat blew the doors off the San Antono Spurs 113-101. In contrast to last years seven-game craziness, this one had very little drama, as the Heat pushed their lead to nearly 30 — with the starters sitting on…
Chris Bosh scored 31, and LeBron James finished with 27 points, 13 rebounds, and six assists in a 109-102 Miami Heat win over the L.A. Lakers Thursday night. Chalmers and Cole both chipped in 11; Ray Allen had 10. Paul Gasol had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers…
