After dogging it out with Duke in a tough 76-79 loss on Saturday night, the University of Miami basketball team was ripe for a dip in this week’s polls. It happened — but the damage was minimal to the Hurricanes. According to the latest reports, UM has fallen from fifth…
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The 25th-annual Arnold Classic — an event that began as an annual bodybuilding competition and morphed into a multisport extravaganza — took place in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend, and who totally dominated the ladies’ “Bikini International” competition? Thaassssss right — some Broward women. India Paulino of Pembroke Pines was runner-up in…
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria took out a full-page ad in the local papers last week titled “Letter to our Fans,” (inexplicably, that letter failed to make its way to the New Times!) to explain why he and his team suck so hard. The letter was probably the most pedantic, lacking self-awareness,…
“To be the best, you got to beat the best.” That was University of Miami basketball coach Jim Larranaga’s message to his team before Saturday’s showdown with No. 3 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. And while the Canes couldn’t quite complete the regular season sweep, falling to the…
Your world champion Miami Heat have hit up their own version of the internet viral dance craze “Harlem Shake.” LeBron James tweeted it out Thursday evening as a “King James and Dwyane Wade production.” And it is glorious. It has all the ingredients of pure unadulterated awesome: LeBron dressed as…
Former Miami Dolphins cornerback Vontae Davis wanted to tell his 154,955 Twitter followers that current Miami Dolphins cornerback, and current free agent, Sean Smith has been talking to the Kansas City Chiefs about possibly signing with them. As it turns out, NFL free agency doesn’t get kicked off until March…
The Sacramento Kings putting up 129 points on the Miami Heat at the Triple-A and forcing two overtimes is as absurd as IKEA selling meat. And yet, there it is. The Kings came into Miami’s house, put their feet up on the table, ate all the food, and scratched their…
It was probably going to happen, but it’s still rough to see: after going 14-games without falling to competition, the University of Miami’s basketball team lost this weekend. The Hurricanes’ first lost in 2013 didn’t come from Duke, UNC or any other ACC heavies predicted to take down the squad…
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has had just about enough of all the criticism and finger-pointing at his taking a giant heaping dump on South Florida and baseball in general, thank you. So it’s time to tell HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. And so he did. Loria took out a full-page…
The NCAA is learning that it’s hard swing around the morality stick when you’re own ethics are under question. After the organization dropped official allegations on the University of Miami athletic program last week, head Hurricane Donna Shalala came out with some choice words of her own, calling on the…
The Miami Heat is currently riding a nine-game winning streak through a subtle yet delicate and refined mixture of sound fundamental basketball and relentlessly and mercilessly smashing opponents in the face. The latest victim of the maelstrom of ass-bludgeoning was the Chicago Bulls. Battling through a sloppy first half, a…
There’s always concern when a team on a hot streak gets assaulted by the NBA All-Star game and everyone’s gotta stop playing so the media can make a big deal out of Kobe Bryant’s blocking LeBron James’ shot in the most meaningless game of the year. And that concern was…
Last night in Coral Gables, the UM men’s basketball team extended its winning streak with a last-minute, stress-inducing decision over Virginia. Unlike high-wire finesse wins over Duke and UNC, the Hurricanes recent match-ups against ACC competition like Florida State, Clemson, and now Virginia have all been mud-splattered and grimy, tough…
The Miami Hurricanes are now the second-best college hoops program in the country. Better than Duke, UNC, Florida, Louisville, and all the other usual suspects, according to a hot-off-the-press AP poll. Does that sound weird to you? All season, Jim Larranaga’s senior-hearty squad has been defying expectations, particularly on the…
The NBA All-Star game is about to get really dinosaury, because Erik Spoelstra has chosen Chris Bosh to start for the Eastern Conference All-Star squad. With Boston’s Rajon Rondo being out with an injury, a fifth and final slot was open. Debate immediately began on who Spoelstra should start in Rondo’s…
The Oklahoma City Thunder are among the best, most dangerous teams in the NBA. Particularly on their home floor, where they storm the court like bloodthirsty grizzly bears, frothing at the mouth, scoring at will, and laying waste NBA teams that dare walk onto Chesapeake Energy Arena to take them…
Thirty points and 60 percent shooting.In six straight games. That’s all LeBron’s been up to lately. No one else has ever done that in the history of the NBA. And so, LeBron James is in the record books.Again. Because it’s important to have his face-melting, carnage-inducing, soul-crushing dominant feats of…
Hey, LeBron James. Hi. Hello. How are you? See the news about the Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried being the first NBA player to take a stand against homophobia? It’s true! The Manimal has joined Athlete Ally, an organization that combats homophobia in all sports, and he’s hoping other pro athletes will…
By halftime on Saturday at the BankUnited Center, while most of the sold-out crowd was twisting out their necks trying to get an eyeful of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade courtside, the national beat writers and TV analysts holed up in the media room were already tossing around the question:…
LeBron James has demonstrated such deity-like powers lately, the pope said, “Ah fuck it. I quit.”Throughout his career as an indomitable nard-crushing baller, LeBron has repeatedly demonstrated his astonishing ability to cock-punch his opponents unconscious while simultaneously lighting them on fire with every shot and dunk. And yet, he’s never…
For a long while now this season, the Miami Heat were languishing at the bottom of the league in rebounds. This was partly due to them not having a real rebounding specialist. It was also because the Heat sometimes approach regular season games like a kid playing with his mashed…
