Some of us see faith as a very personal matter. Others of us want to shout our faith from the rooftop. Tim Tebow, he of the Bible-passage eye black and religious right commercials, definitely falls into the latter category.Tebow is participating in the NFL scouting combine, and players are given…
Apparently, there’s more excitement about the upcoming Florida Marlins season than previously thought. This reasonable proposal was found on a bathroom wall — Churchill’s? — and relayed to Deadspin:…
They live, as quietly as cloistered monks, among us. They wash our dogs, write our blogs, prepare our taxes, and, you know, do other things people do for a living. They are Florida Marlins fans. They do exist — 600 at a time.OK, so Miami doesn’t have the most rabid fan…
With basketball demigod Dwyane Wade’s Miami Heat contract expiring after this season, speculation has reached a fever pitch: Will he stay? Will fellow superstar LeBron James, currently a Cleveland Cavalier, join him on the Heat to form a championship juggernaut? Or will Wade instead return to his hometown of Chicago,…
There’s a band named Radiohead, a band named Horse the Band, another band named Band of Horses, and now there’s a horse named Radiohead, after the band. Got it?Radiohead, like his musical namesake, is from England. A 3-year-old chestnut colt whose trainer says he’s a “cool, happy, curious horse” who’s…
Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence this weekend. Unlike the majority of athlete DUI arrests we hear about, this one didn’t happen on South Beach and did not involve a Bentley.Brown was arrested near Atlanta in his hometown late Friday, according to the…
Chad Henne committed sacrilege by daring to criticize his holiness, St. Tim Tebow, and now has been made to repent.”My judgment is that he’s not an NFL quarterback. I’ll leave it at that,” Henne said yesterday on WQAM. The comment ended up getting national attention, and Henne was forced to…
Ricky Williams had previously stated that he wouldn’t play football past the 2010 season, and we just assumed he’d move on to his dream of owning a chain of medical marijuana stores or something. But this morning Williams, who previously represented himself and was signed with Leigh Steinberg, signed up…
Last night, the Miami Heat lost 108-102 to the Orlando Magic in overtime, inspiring the following ten observations about the state of our b-ball team.1. Outside of Michael Beasley (on the nights Erik Spoelstra actually lets the kid play), Dwyane Wade is all alone.2. The Magic out-rebounded Miami 14-6 and…
Will Tim Tebow make it in the NFL? That’s the million dollar question of the football world now, and everyone has an opinion. Including Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne.He was on WQAM this morning with hosts Curtis Stevenson and Anita Marks. They asked him his opinion on the curious case of…
Puerto Rico absolutely loves baseball. Too bad they don’t have their own MLB team yet, but hey, apparently we’re willing to lend them ours for a weekend.The AP reports that the Marlins June 28-30th series against the New York Mets will be played in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’ll go…
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson catapulted out of professional wrestling and into the mainstream in a way few wrestlers have, and he hasn’t looked back. I mean, why humiliate yourself prancing around in tights on cable television when you can humiliate yourself prancing around in tights in Hollywood flicks like The…
The Miami Dolphins have signed a one-year deal with controversial guard Richie Incognito, who was released late last year by the Rams. The deal is worth a little more than $1 million to the player with a suspiciously comic book villain-esque name.The Nebraska grad comes with a bit of baggage…
Chicago Bulls fans’ biggest wet dream involved hometown boy Dwyane Wade suiting up in their version of black-and-red next year. We think it’s unlikely to happen, but on the off chance it does, Wade might already have some bad blood with a teammate.Bulls rookie Taj Gibson complained to ESPN that the…
For college basketball teams, getting an NIT invite is kind of like winning an all-expense paid, mid-winter trip to Detroit.Better than nothing,kinda, but tough to get too excited about. Win the NIT, and you’re officially the 66th best team in the land. Wooo!So what, exactly, is equivalent to getting screwed…
Welp, we might as well update you on the ACC tournament, and sadly the Miami Hurricane’s surprising run has come to an end. They lost to top seeded Duke 77-74, despite a lead at half time and catching up from some large deficits.Alas, you really can’t expect, as much as…
The Miami Hurricanes basketball team came into the ACC tournament seeded last with a dismal 4-12 in conference record, but have been the surprise of the tournament so-far.After beating 5th seeded Wake Forest in the opening round, the Miami Hurricanes have shocked 4th seeded Virginia Tech in a nail biting…
Finally, the Miami Hurricanes have actually benefited from some recruiting drama. Five-star recruit Latwan Anderson has decided to switch his commitment to the team. Ranked the 15th best player in his class by Rivals.com, the defensive back originally committed to West Virginia but never inked with the team on National…
Oh, man, we kind of feel bad for making light of Rafer Alston’s mysterious disappearence from the Heat. According to ESPN, Alston says his decision had little to do with losing his spot in the starting lineup and more to do with the attempted suicide of his twin sister.”I’ve never…
Rumor has it the Jaguars think their attendance problems will be solved if they draft local boy Tim Tebow. Maybe it’s not exactly a bad strategy to get a locally-raised player who was a star at a nearby college.Despite the fact that South Florida is a major talent pipeline, and…
Most of us don’t make NBA money and we still manage to show up to work every day. And when we do decide to skip out, we at least have the decency to come up with an elaborate excuse. Not the Heat’s Rafer Alston. He didn’t show up to the…
Apparently, Chad Ochocinco is preparing for his stint on Dancing With the Stars by jogging naked around his home.”I was running naked. It was in the privacy of my own home. Fuckin’ noisy people filmed me,” Ochocinco tells Sports Illustrated. “Yeah, why wouldn’t I? What’s wrong with that? I take…
