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New Times Says No to MLB

New Times Says No to Major League Baseball

Sorry, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. We won't hand over records that detail the inner workings of Biogenesis, the controversial Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied prohibited drugs to six professional baseball players, including Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.The reasons are manifol ... More >>

Ryan Braun, Francisco Cervelli Confirm They Were Clients of Tony Bosch

On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch. In statements issued Tuesday to ... More >>

A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

See also: "The A Rod Files: Every Mention of the Yankees Slugger in Tony Bosch's Records"

New Times' Biogenesis Story: Extraordinary Attention and Denials

A story broken yesterday in New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times has received astounding national and international attention.The piece, which employed hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to show that major sports stars had received performance-enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables clin ... More >>

As A-Rod Battles His Neighbor, Miami Beach's Film Renaissance Hangs in the Balance

Yunel Escobar, the Marlins' New Shortstop, Was Recently Suspended for Gay Slur

Well, this seems rather fitting. The owner of the Marlins, known for insulting the South Florida community by lying and then gutting the ball club, just traded for a guy who is known for insulting the gay community. It's like assholes just gravitate to each other. Yunel Escobar, Miami's new short ... More >>

Miami Marlins Have Traded Everyone: Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonafacio, and Maybe More

After swindling the entire city of Miami, then building their tax-laden $560 million stadium and promising everyone they were going "all in," the Miami Marlins have decided to gut their roster and trade away ace pitcher Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Jose Reyes, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio to ... More >>

Gay Athletes Go Public

Alex Rodriguez Might Be Traded to the Marlins, According to Keith Olbermann

According to former ESPN/MSNBC/Current TV personality, Keith Olbermann, the Miami Marlins have been in discussion with the New York Yankees on a possible trade for third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Olbermann says his sources claim that one possible scenario would be for the Yankees to pay for a portion ... More >>

Miami Marlins "Aggressively Seeking to Replace" Ozzie Guillen, According to Report

The Miami Marlins are a damn mess. They traded away a bunch of good players for a bunch of not-so-good players. They've had horrible attendance all year. They've lied about the stadium from the word GO. And now, thanks to a terrible owner, a horrendous general manager, and a stripped down talent ... More >>

Ozzie Guillen Is Trying Really Hard to Memorialize Kevin Hickey in English

Kevin Hickey, a former pitcher and assistant with the Chicago White Sox, died earlier today at the age of 56. The Chicago Tribune has a short story about Hickey, whom White Sox GM Roland Hemond called "a South Side kid made good."Hickey, after playing softball and semi-pro baseball, was discove ... More >>

Baseball Star Johnny Damon Gives UF Money to Build Lab on Remote Viking Island

As far as mash-ups go, this is one for the books. Johnny Damon -- the former long-haired, free-rocking, super-awesome Boston Red Sox outfielder turned short-haired, lame-o Yankee turned Cleveland Indian, ugh, Cleveland -- has decided to donate a bunch of money through h ... More >>

Casey Anthony's Lawyer Writing Tell-All Book; You Can Pre-Order It

Texas-based BenBella Books announced yesterday that Jose Baez, the South Florida attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony on murder charges, will be releasing a book in July that "exposes shocking, never-before-revealed, exclusive information from the trial of the century."Although the annou ... More >>

George Zimmerman Has More Support Than the Miami Marlins, New Florida Poll Finds

Public Policy Polling decided to pick Florida's collective brain last week, and results released yesterday shed light on some very interesting trends. The most interesting: 26 percent of Floridians polled said George Zimmerman is innocent of the second-degree murder charges filed in the February kil ... More >>

Logan Morrison Serves as the Wild Child for the Already Loony Miami Marlins

NYY Steak in the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek: First Look

Meet your meat at NYY Steak. ​Would a former New York Mets star dine in a Yankees themed steak house in a casino in Coconut Creek? This is the question my dinner guest and I mulled over for the latter part of our meal at NYY Steak in the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek on Thursday night. For the ... More >>

NYY Steak Opens in Expanded Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek

​If you're still riding high on NY pride after the Giants' big victory in Sunday's Super Bowl, you may want to give a look at the newest steak house to hit Broward County. The recently unveiled $150 million expansion of Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek includes the first Florida location of high-e ... More >>

Bucky Bleeping Dent: A Yankees Villain Just Too Damn Nice to Hate

That's Reggie Jackson on the left, the guy who's supposed to win you the game. And then the other guy, yeah, that's Bucky.​Growing up in southern New Hampshire as I did, kids knew there was one way to curse around parents and teachers. You put Bucky before the four-letter word and then Dent afterw ... More >>

Marco Rubio Butt-Kissing Won't Help GOP Candidates Win Florida, According to Poll

​There's been a common theme among this year's GOP presidential candidates -- firmly planting their lips on the buttcheeks of Sen. Marco Rubio and dropping his name as a potential running mate.If that's a ploy to win Florida in a general election, it won't help, according to survey results release ... More >>

David Bogenschutz and Ex-Broward Judge Ana Gardiner Possibly Engaged, According to Report

mariahburton.blogspot.com​About a year after former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner resigned from her post amid a Judicial Qualifications Commission inquiry over allegations of a relationship with a former prosecutor, she's now reported to be engaged to the lawyer who defended her through ... More >>

Did Ryan LeVin Buy His Way Out Of Prison?

Broward Sheriff's OfficeRyan LeVin​Ryan LeVin -- the hard-partying, Porsche-driving, Brit-killing douchebag -- managed to escape prison time in his sentencing yesterday.Judge Barbara McCarthy sentenced LeVin to two years house arrest, ten years probation, and 1,000 hours of community service ... More >>

Turf Wars

Batter Up, or New York’s Not So Finest

Brazilians in South Florida Spend Millions, but They Aren't the Only Foreigners to Thank

farm3.static from Flickr.com​Shop till you drop has a whole new meaning. At least for Brazilians, that is. With a strong currency and booming economy, they've been flocking to Florida for lengthy shopping sprees, buying everything from designer jeans and handbags, to cheap shoes and cosmetics ... More >>

UPDATED: Leyritz Acquitted of DUI Manslaughter

Associated Press No more tears for Leyritz.​UPDATED: Judge Marc Gold just issued a directed verdict in the former baseball star's favor on the DUI manslaughter charge, a reliable courthouse source tells me. But Leyritz may still be convicted of a second mansla ... More >>

Nelson Diaz Went From Cuba's Best Ump to Just Another South Florida Transplant

Don't Eat at the Concession Stand, LeBron: Florida Stadium Food Worst in Health Code Violations

flickr.com​ESPN recently released a comprehensive study of concession food preparation conditions at all major professional sports stadiums and arenas in the United States and Canada. Specifically, it lists and ranks stadiums by the percentage of food or beverage vendors at each location cited for ... More >>

Steinbrenner's Fort Lauderdale Freakout

​As soon as we heard about the death of George Steinbrenner, we couldn't help but think about his Fort Lauderdale connection. After all, the Yankees did spend 33 spring-training years down here. Not all of those were good years, if memory serves, since more than once did ol' George pull one of tho ... More >>

For Polo Mogul John Goodman, Other Celebrity DUI Cases Offer Hope of Minimal Punishment

Facebook.comScott Wilson, 23, drowned in a canal after Goodman's Bentley crashed into his car.​As polo mogul John Goodman faces vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter charges for the Wellington car accident that led to the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, many wonder if he'll receive special le ... More >>

Stanton to the Rescue?

Weston Retiree Was Drafted Before Derek Jeter

Photobucket: Rocket1124Jeffrey Hammonds retired in 2005.​It's the second day of the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, which must bring a wave of nostalgia for a Weston retiree named Jeffrey Hammonds. Eighteen years ago, he was the Stanford University outfielder selected as the fourth pick in th ... More >>

Top Five Foodies to Follow on Twitter

In the world of instant gratification, Twitter provides us with more quick and up-to-date information than we can actually swallow. With more than 50 million tweets per day, keeping up with the traffic has proven to be difficult. Since it's next to impossible to follow every foodie in the Twitterve ... More >>

Joe Girardi: A Big Fish Who Left Our Small Pond

PhotobucketFormer Marlins manager, now as a NYY​For a third-hand manager, Joe Girardi's doing pretty well for himself.  In 2006, the Marlins fired the feisty Girardi after he got a verbal altercation with team owner Jeffrey Loria. Then Girardi's longtime team, the Chicago Cubs had a chance to ... More >>

Yankees' Whitey Ford Watching Series From Lauderdale Home

PhotobucketYanks pitcher Whitey Ford during his heyday.​They wear Speedos when it's 50 degrees. They're pushy in person and even pushier in a car. Then there's those nauseating accents... With November, the snowbirds are back in town, and the New York variety have something to celebrate: Their bel ... More >>

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Waterfront Plunge

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