If you believe the FBI, the late daredevil Evel Knievel made it a habit of harassing his rivals. He even ordered his enemies to be beaten, especially if they wouldn’t back down from challenging his records. That’s according to a 290-page file on Knievel released by the FBI earlier this year. Click…
It’s no shocker that a St. Thomas Aquinas High School senior has accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Notre Dame. The Fort Lauderdale football powerhouse has two players in gold helmets already — offensive linemen Sam Young and Dan Wenger. Another, senior punter Ben Turk will be…
What a weekend for South Florida newspapers — a very bad one. The Miami Herald is up for sale and Tribune Co., the parent of the Sun-Sentinel, is preparing for what may be inevitable bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the media company — which counts among its…
Thought this was a good time to listen to McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt defend the Knight Ridder buy and talk about journalism’s promising future — from early 2007. In it, he quotes Abe Lincoln and Lenny Kravitz and proves he’s a clueless tool. I can’t believe he still has his…
Bidders welcome The debt-ridden McClatchy Company is trying to unload the Miami Herald, reports the New York Times. So far, it hasn’t found any buyers, though. This is huge news, but its not being reported on the Herald home page (or the Sun-Sentinel’s — though it had a brief in…
Speaking about the ill-fated efforts of the Dunkin’ Donuts suspects to board a ship bound for Bermuda, a trip for which they would have needed passports they didn’t have and which was a stupid choice anyway because the Bahamas would have arrested and extradited them. Nudge. That’s your cue, Al.”They…
The people who love the Dolphins are having a pretty good year, too. At least if you judge by the recent totals in fan voting for this year’s NFL Pro Bowl. Four, that’s right, FOUR Miami Dolphins are in first place in their respective positions in on-line fan balloting. This…
James Herard. You’ve just been charged with shooting up Dunkin’ Donutses with your buddies and you’re facing life in prison. What do you have to say for yourself?Video here. Listen closely, and you’ll hear Herard barking, DMX style, at Judge John Hurley. The best part is toward the end, when…
When Joe Kollin began working in the newspaper business more than four decades ago, he began a routine. Every day the self-described pack rat had a story, he would snip it out of the newspaper and glue it onto a letter-sized piece of paper. Then he would staple it with the carbon copy version from…
In the first minute of the video below, the remarks by Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery that have earned him a six-game suspension by the National Hockey League:Hockey’s a sport that needs to generate fan interest in the worst way, a truth that’s even more apparent here in South Florida,…
On the Democrat side of the Florida’s 2010 U.S. Senate race, the field keeps getting larger, with Congressman Allen Boyd, of Monticello, looking like a contender. Boyd (right) runs with the congressional Blue Dogs — socially conservative Democrats who walk and talk so much like Republicans, it can be hard…
Hey, South Florida, I know a six-foot-five, 230-pound troubled wide receiver who needs a hug. Come on. By South Florida troublemaker standards, Plaxico Burress is a pussycat. Can we keep him? Huh, can we? There aren’t too many places with open arms for the big guy these days. On top of…
Dan Marino has ninja problems. Dan Marino Says: Mistrial Declared in Tobacco CaseA Broward County judge has declared a mistrial in the tobacco lawsuit filed against Philip Morris by the widow of a guy from Cooper City. That’s the big news this morning, at least according to The Juice’s news…
Did you hear? Did you hear? Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy called Dwyane Wade a “cheater”! Well, not exactly. At all. But somehow what Dunleavy said about Wade to someone a thousand miles away traveled through cyberspace and wound up on Sun-Sentinel baskethack Ira Winderman’s keyboard as “cheater,” with the quote…
The American Association of White Americans is using the election of the first black president to tell the country a few things about its American organization of Americans. In America. In two open letters addressed to the “Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Senate Wash, DC,” the Lantana-based association declares that it…
We used to joke about serving a “knuckle sandwich” and washing it down with a cool “can of whoop-ass” (pictured above). But no more. Not since this rash of cuisine-related crime struck Florida. This past week, we’ve been too scared to enter a Dunkin’ Donuts, and only now that our…
One of the ladies above is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. The other was recently arrested in Broward County for contempt of court. Adding to the weirdness, the Browardian is named Zulma Coris, which sounds a bit like a character in a Morrison novel.– Thomas Francis…
Being a trafficker in rank speculation and flimsy rumors, I can’t help but admire the science-based speculation and rumor creation available on FiveThirtyEight.com, which I checked approximately 642 times daily in October. The captain of this vessel is Nate Silver, who crunches poll numbers in a way that unlocks the…
What’s more embarrassing for a congresswoman, getting caught in a radio prank or erroneously hanging up on the president of the United States? Miami Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen is probably wondering that about right now. Not only did she hang up on Barack Obama, thinking it was a radio hoax, but then she did the same…
Phone Call from Obama, Congreswoman. No wait, Osama.Sure, there are a lot of people wondering how much of a dumbass Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is for hanging up on Barack Obama. It took three phone calls before Ros-Lehtinen finally figured out it wasn’t a hoax. But in these times, terrorists…
Kids Know Better “The Lost Season” (Bob Norman, November 27) should have been titled “The Lost Parents.” As an AYFL parent for eight years, I have seen everything you spoke of and much more. However, you seem to have lost the magic of what it is to be a kid…
Amanda Moran’s eyes widened as she walked from a blinding July afternoon into the cool living room of a red-roofed house just off South Dixie Highway in Coconut Grove. Piled like cheap toys in this ordinary suburban house, some tightly wrapped in Ecuadorian newspaper, were more than 160 pieces from…
