Last week, Sports Illustrated inexplicably named Peyton Manning Sportsman of the Year. But, on Thursday, the Associated Press was able to return order to the known universe and named LeBron James its Male Athlete of the Year. LeBron got 31 of 96 votes cast in a poll of news organizations,…
The Miami Heat’s first ever Christmas Day game was in 1997 when they lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. Since then, the Heat have played 9 other times in the NBA’s annual X-Mas game, going 7-2 in that span. The Heat will face the L.A. Lakers today at 5:00p.m. for…
Dwyane Wade got on one knee and popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union, over the weekend. The event went down as a Heat Christmas party Saturday night. As it is with everything these days, the news was revealed through social media, as the two took to…
Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
The Tallahassee Police Department screwed up the Jameis Winston rape case. This, according to Winston’s accuser, who is now asking Gov. Rick Scott’s office to open an internal investigation of the Tallahassee PD. According to a report from TMZ, the accuser’s attorney, Patricia Carroll, says she’s sent letters to Scott’s…
Your Miami Dolphins took down the New England Patriots 24-20 on Sunday, ending a seven-game losing streak against the Pats, bringing Fins fans everywhere a most welcome Victory Monday, and silencing a multitude if obnoxious douchebags all across New England. And the best part of all is that they were…
The Miami Heat took down the Minnesota Timberwolves 103-82 on Saturday, giving the Heat its 15th win of the season. The game gave us so much more, though. Namely, more proof that LeBron James — despite exercising his right to leave one team to go play for another team when…
Jameis Winston, FSU’s star quarterback, will not be charged for sexual assault, according to ESPN. The report says that State Attorney Willie Meggs is expected to read a statement saying that the decision is final…
Delta airlines ended up screwing passengers at the Gainesville Regional Airport on Sunday so that the Florida Gators men’s basketball team could get to their game in Connecticut with plenty of time to spare (their game wasn’t until Monday night). Problem is, Delta lied to the passengers, telling them that…
The Florida State Seminoles throttled the Florida Gators 37-7 on Saturday. But that wasn’t enough for one Noles fan, who apparently wanted to add injury to insult by trying to attack some Gator fans with a machete. Ah, FSU and Gators games. It’s like the Family Feud: Inbred Week! (Also,…
With the Miami Heat having to play a game in Cleveland on Wednesday (really, NBA? Send the two-time champion on the road during Thanksgiving to Cleveland?), LeBron James hosted the team for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at his Akron mansion. And, as it is with this team, once dinner was over,…
Thanksgiving week marks the busiest travel week of the year. And with a nasty winter storm barreling down the Northeast, things are going to get messy. Ice, sleet and rain is going to make for some treacherous driving conditions. However, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price knows exactly how to…
The Miami Heat loves winning championships. But in between all the championship winning, the players also love their fans, and they love fun. And no one typified that better than Dwyane Wade last night, before and after the Heat took down the Phoenix Suns 107-92. For starters, Wade gave away…
I didn’t throw any batteries at LeBron, but I could probably pick some faces out of a lineup. It was December 2, 2010. The Miami Heat was making its first post-Decision trip to Cleveland. To put in mildly, my bruised hometown was still not over King James’ choice to leave…
Jose Canseco got pulled over by cops while he was driving around with goats wearing diapers. We’ll give you a minute to reread that sentence because, yeah. As proof, the ex-ballplayer tweeted out a photo of one of the goats. OK, so, first of all, why goats? Also, what kind…
As the NFL investigates the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal, new reports of alleged terrible behavior by Richie Incognito have surfaced. This time, however, the abuse was toward a team staff member. According to Jason Cole of the National Football Post, Incognito and at least one other Dolphins player apparently mocked…
So, apparently, yesterday at the Miami Dolphins game, some fans were so passionate that they decided to enlist an expensive method of getting their message across — an airplane carrying a banner. As broadcast on Twitter, fans could see this sign: There is a banner flying over #Dolphins stadium right…
The Miami Marlins’ young pitching phenom, Jose Fernandez, was named the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year, taking 26 of 30 first-place votes and beating out Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers. Fernandez, 21, was the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal and crappy year for the Marlins, who…
On his Monday Night Football interview with ESPN, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross revealed that he had reached out to Jonathan Martin via text and that the two were scheduled to meet Wednesday. But the NFL has stepped in and told Ross to postpone that meeting while it investigates the…
As the Miami Dolphins are reeling from a week where they became the face of bullying in America and then got their faces dented by the worst team in the league on Monday night comes even more distressing news that Jonathan Martin was repeatedly fined for being soft. According to…
Leicester Bryce Stovell, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who insists that he’s LeBron James’ biological father, has filed an appeal with a federal court after a U.S. District court judge shot down his previous lawsuit. Stovell has claimed that he and LeBron’s mother, Gloria James, had a one-night stand after meeting…
On Sunday, Richie Incognito finally broke his silence, post bullying-gate, when he sat down with good pal Jay Glazer of Fox Sports for an exclusive interview. Glazer lobbed softball after softball and allowed Incognito a chance to tell his side of the story, which included revealing that he and Jonathan…
