Subject: College Football

• He's Our Guy Now

  January 19, 2007

• Justice Served

  January 19, 2007

• Post Wins Pulp Headline Competition

  January 9, 2007

• Go Gators

  January 5, 2007

• Cribs: The Seminole Version

  November 27, 2007

• Undercurrents

  November 11, 1999

• Undercurrents

  June 29, 2000

• Hurricane Andre

  March 21, 2002

• Letters for April 18, 2002

  April 18, 2002

• Tonight: Live Blogging from the BCS National Championship Game

  If you happen to have an extra grand or so to blow on a football game, you probably won't need to come here for my bitter blog posts, live from the BCS Championship. But if you live in the same country as the rest of us non-yacht owners, you can get everything you need right here. A bit of background: I graduated from one of the few schools that probably deserves a spot in this game more than at least one of the two participants. So forgive me if I accidentally (and often) refer to the teams as

  January 8, 2009

• Live Blogging from the BCS National Championship Game

  As any blog reader knows, live blogs are the current way of the future. And any journalist who wants to keep his job embraces the latest way of the future. So...welcome to the first ever LIVE BLOG in Juice history. I secured my spot in the press booth months ago, when it looked like my school, The University of Texas, would be playing here. Instead of rooting on the Longhorns, I'll be roaming Dolphins Stadium for hours tonight, covering all the celebration and action in the

  January 9, 2009

• Gators Binge, Purge, Intend to Repeat

  For an encore, Tim Tebow will rescue a kitten from the top floor of a burning skyscraper.Judging by the large number of blue and orange-adorned ticket holders puking in the parking lot, it was great to be a Gator last night. The Super Bowl of college football featured jets and fireworks and gazillions of reporters (including me, blogging live) and tickets going for thousands of dollars, all in the name of crowning the most arbitrarily chosen champion in all of sports. Let us bask in it, after th

  January 9, 2009

• Best Sports Bar

  May 15, 2003

• Best Place to Gamble

  May 15, 2003

• St. Thomas Aquinas: Screw It. We'll Play NFL Now, Please

  OK, I'm exaggerating a little. But are you telling me this team couldn't have scored a couple touchdowns against the Detroit Lions? Next Wednesday is National Signing Day, which is to college football fans what Christmas is to 8-year-olds. It's the day when high school seniors sign a letter of intent to the college of their choice. Every year, St. Thomas sends roughly half its starting lineup to major university football teams. Ironically, this year's state champs, regarded as the nation's best

  January 30, 2009

• Locals You Can Cheer (or Jeer) at the Super Bowl

  Yeah, all the Florida football teams are done for the year, and when you watch the big game this weekend you'll probably care more about the commercials than either team (unless you're a gambler, like me, and the commercials just delay the inevitable sobbing and cursing and swearing never to bet on another game). But just because your team is out (you shut up, Steelers fan!), doesn't mean you don't have anyone local to cheer for. In fact, there are a total of 15 players in this game who wer

  January 30, 2009

• How Things Should Be

  January 3, 2008

• The She-Zebra

  Will Erin Meehan be the first female ref in the NFL?

  February 14, 2008

• Florida's "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" Is Shaky

  At 21-years-old, Tebow beat out legends like Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Roy Jones Jr., and Shaq.It started around Presidents' Day. ESPN has been picking the "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" in every state, then choosing the top five states. This week, it decided Illinois had the best mountain, with Michael Jordan, Ernie Banks, Walter Payton, and Mike Ditka. Hard to argue those guys aren't Da Best. Florida's mountain wasn't so clear, however. We ended up with an all-football mountain, with two q

  February 26, 2009

• An Idea for the Democrats in the Senate Race: One-on-One Hoops, for All the Marbles

  Seriously, wouldn't that be fun? Kendrick Meek versus Dan Gelber. Both were college athletes in another sport: Meek played linebacker at Florida A&M, while Gelber rowed for the crew team at Tufts University. And yes, I know that linebacker translates better to basketball and that at age 42 Meek is six years closer to his athletic prime than is Gelber. But before the state senator makes his decision, he should watch the video below, from Politico.com, of Congress members including Meek playin

  April 3, 2009

• Reel in the Big Game

  Cinema Paradiso brings the BCS Championship to the big screen

  January 1, 2009

• Playin' With the Big (East) Boys, Now

  The Bearcats have something to prove at the Orange Bowl.

  January 1, 2009

• Hurricane Strength

  October 2, 2008

• No? How About Fighting Hooters?

  November 22, 2007

• Set! Hike!

  Are you ready for some FAU football?

  September 4, 2003

• Gang Tackled

  Football star Jarvis Hicks couldn't resist the undertow of gang violence

  June 21, 2007

• Letters for January 18-24, 2007

  January 18, 2007

• Ashlee Blows

  But she's getting better

  April 7, 2005

• Cane-o-rama

  Spring game gives fans something to cheer about

  April 7, 2005

• Au-burned?

  December 30, 2004

• Ultimate Thrill

  Throw Caution to the Sky

  December 9, 2004

• Owls on a Mission

  October 21, 2004

• Fins Look for a Fix

  Team trains with playoffs on the brain

  July 29, 2004

• Comeback Kid

  Johnny Mitchell gave up football for his tiny, disabled daughter. But the dream dies hard.

  May 13, 2004

• Wah!

  Your team got its ass kicked, little baby

  April 22, 2004

• Fourth and Long

  He was bound for football stardom until that night at Notre Dame. Now Abram Elam struggles for redemption.

  April 8, 2004

• The Strange Case of Dr. Dave and Mr. Hyde

  Or, how the Sun-Sentinel got two sports columnists for the price of one

  October 2, 2003

• Turner Tackles Football Future

  The football stars of tomorrow get drilled today

  June 12, 2003

• F-A-Who?

  Florida Atlantic's multimillion-dollar investment in a legendary coach has so far been a bust

  October 17, 2002

• Bombshell

  Anita Marks might look like a delicate flower, but watch out. She's tough as nails.

  November 8, 2001

• What a Mouthful!

  With the founding of his own steak house, Howard Schnellenberger has finally arrived

  August 30, 2001

• Is This a Fútbol Town?

  As Miami plays political footsie with the first-place Fusion, the U.S. Soccer Federation prepares to give the boot to Fort Lauderdale's hopes for a national training center

  July 26, 2001

• Louisiana Purchases

  Shuck-N-Dive Cajun Sports Café

  August 12, 1999

• Statewide Tebow Crush Now Officially Creepy

  Flickr User: jgirl4858Tebow, standing akimbo. ("Teebows" not pictured.)Florida is utterly besotted with Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow. The latest demonstration is Tebow's being appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to co-chair the Council on Physical Fitness. It's gotten so bad, that I defy you to get a perfect score on the True-False test below. Click on the link if you believe the statement true, and you'll either get confirmation or a message that you've erred.Tebow made his decision to attend the Un

  May 7, 2009

• Nephew of Troubled Local Football Legend Also Tackled by Off-Field Problems

  Photo: University of Michigan Athletic DepartmentJustin Feagin​Justin Feagin inherited the athletic brilliance of his uncle Steven Feagin, but the star quarterback at American Heritage High School in Delray Beach was also saddled with the challenge of trying to focus on schoolwork and football practice while back home in Deerfield Beach his uncle awaited trial on rape charges.Late last week, Justin Feagin was dismissed from the team. Wolverines Coach Rich Rodriguez said only that Feagin violat

  July 28, 2009

• Billboard Top 5: The Football Stars Who Inspired Region's Creepiest Advertisement

  National Collegiate Scouting AssociationLane Kiffin wants South Florida's 17-year-old boys.​South Florida football players are a weird obsession for University of Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin. In the last recruiting campaign, he sparked controversy -- then the kind of back-pedaling you'd prize in an All-America cornerback -- after he accused Florida Coach Urban Meyer of breaking NCAA rules with a prospect from Pahokee. And in this year's recruiting cycle, he's bought a billboard on I-95 near Oa

  August 4, 2009

• Even Dick Enberg’s Toupée Is Excited

  October 1, 2009

• St. Thomas Aquinas Football Stars Plan for Weekend Visit for USC - Notre Dame Game

  Lamarcus Joyner must have looked at a football schedule recently and said, "Fine, then. I'll fly out to watch USC play Notre Dame on Saturday." And why not? Free plane ticket. Free ticket to the sold-out game. Free food. Free lodging. It's good to be a star player at St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale.The funny thing is that Joyner -- a self-professed "freak of nature" -- may not even be interested in Notre Dame, which is footing the bill.

  October 14, 2009

• Frankly, My Dear, This Rhett Gives a Damn

  Flickr: BruceFloydErrict Rhett (left) poses with a Gators fan.​Broward County's a popular place for retired athletes -- for better, and in Jim Leyritz's case, for worse. Count Errict Rhett in that former category. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back, who starred at the University of Florida and, before that, at McArthur High School in Hollywood. Recently, Rhett gave an expansive interview to a fan website of his alma mater, GatorCountry.com, in which discussed his memories from the un

  October 21, 2009

• Who Let the Dawgs Out? Florida, It Seems.

  Flickr: sonny kennedy photographyJeff Owens, a Sunrise native who wants to punish his home state school.​So many talented high school football players in South Florida. So few South Florida universities. And when some of those players must leave the state to play college ball, it breeds resentment. It also adds some extra hostility to games like today's between the Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs.This week's Athens Banner-Herald quotes one such expatriate, lineman Jeff Owens from Sunrise."I wa

  October 31, 2009