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Hurricane Andre

The University of Miami administration has nothing to say about the Andre Johnson cheating case, but some faculty won't stay quiet

Letters for April 18, 2002

Big Bob

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 backgrou ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 gazillio ... More >>

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Bru's Room

Readers Choice: Bru's Room Sports Grill

Best Place to Gamble

The University of Miami Hurricanes Football Team Dania Jai-Alai

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 inten ... More >>

The She-Zebra

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

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 ... More >>

Reel in the Big Game

Cinema Paradiso brings the BCS Championship to the big screen

Playin' With the Big (East) Boys, Now

The Bearcats have something to prove at the Orange Bowl.

Hurricane Strength

The Bearcats have something to prove at the Orange Bowl.

No? How About Fighting Hooters?

The Bearcats have something to prove at the Orange Bowl.

Gang Tackled

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

Letters for January 18-24, 2007

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

Au-burned?

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

Owls on a Mission

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

Fins Look for a Fix

Team trains with playoffs on the brain

Comeback Kid

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

Fourth and Long

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

The Strange Case of Dr. Dave and Mr. Hyde

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

Turner Tackles Football Future

The football stars of tomorrow get drilled today

F-A-Who?

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

Bombshell

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

What a Mouthful!

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

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

Louisiana Purchases

Shuck-N-Dive Cajun Sports Café

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 a ... More >>

Even Dick Enberg’s Toupée Is Excited

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 a ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Football Told by Rakontur Filmmakers

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 ... More >>

It Ain’t Super but It’s a Bowl

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 ... More >>

Top Five Orange Bowl Moments of the Decade

flickr.comTebow's finest hour came at the BCS championship game in 2009.​Since Bucknell beat Miami in 1935, the annual Orange Bowl has provided some of the best moments of every college football season. Starting in the '90s, the game also provided a few national championships. Though the game hasn ... More >>

Why South Florida Should Be Rooting for Texas and NOT Alabama Tonight

flickr.comNick Saban lied to, then abandoned South Florida.​There are dozens of reasons South Floridians should be cheering for the University of Texas in tonight's BCS National Championship game. Now, I'll admit I'm not completely objective on the subject, but I want to convince you, South Florid ... More >>

In Super Bowl Hypefest to Come, High Stakes for Foreign Football Players

Photo courtesy USA FootballChris Merritt, the Miami coach leading the USA Team​It's liable to get lost in the avalanche of pregame media coverage, but on January 30, Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium will host the first-ever Junior World Championship, pitting 45 of America's best football players ... More >>

South Florida Football Stars Committed to Lane Kiffin; He Just Didn't Commit to Them

Flickr: National Collegiate Scouting AssociationKiffin​With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee nativ ... More >>

The Other Big Game

Flickr: National Collegiate Scouting AssociationKiffin​With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee nativ ... More >>

Jon Gruden to University of Miami: A Story Line the Sun-Sentinel May Regret Reporting

This PhotoShopped job floating around the net may not reflect reality.​On Sunday, the Sun-Sentinel became the first media outlet to name Jon Gruden as a candidate for head football coach at the University of Miami. The paper cited "multiple UM sources" who claimed that the former NFL coach is "hig ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Is the Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi Empire

This PhotoShopped job floating around the net may not reflect reality.​On Sunday, the Sun-Sentinel became the first media outlet to name Jon Gruden as a candidate for head football coach at the University of Miami. The paper cited "multiple UM sources" who claimed that the former NFL coach is "hig ... More >>

Best Sports Bust: Chad Henne -- An Explanation

sportsgreed.comChad Henne: New Times' Best Sports Bust.​New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.If you noticed that Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne took the cake for biggest sports bust, you might wonder if we're second-guessing our selection of Henne over LeChoke LeBron ... More >>

Miami Dolphins or FAU Owls: Who Will Win a Game First (or at All)?

Dad, what's the "postseason"?​Florida is a death trap for football this year -- there are no college football teams in the state in the Associated Press' Top 25 poll for the first time in almost 30 years, and the three NFL teams have a combined record of 5-12.Two of those teams, the Florida Atlant ... More >>

Suck for Luck

Dad, what's the "postseason"?​Florida is a death trap for football this year -- there are no college football teams in the state in the Associated Press' Top 25 poll for the first time in almost 30 years, and the three NFL teams have a combined record of 5-12.Two of those teams, the Florida Atlant ... More >>

FAU Rated as Second-Worst Team in College Football; ESPN Likens Owls to Charlie Sheen

achtungtshirt.wordpress.comFAU's new playbook.​Despite the fact that just over half of our readers predicted the Florida Atlantic University Owls would win a game this year before the Miami Dolphins, the nearly 27 percent who thought both teams would go without a win this year may be on the right ... More >>

Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky Show the Danger of Making Gods Out of Men

achtungtshirt.wordpress.comFAU's new playbook.​Despite the fact that just over half of our readers predicted the Florida Atlantic University Owls would win a game this year before the Miami Dolphins, the nearly 27 percent who thought both teams would go without a win this year may be on the right ... More >>

FAU Now the Worst Team in College Football; ESPN Uses a Sixteen Candles Reference on Owls

​The Florida Atlantic University Owls are now the worst team in college football, as FAU remains the only team without a win in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.The New Mexico Lobos were consistently rated as worse than FAU, but after a 21-14 win over UNLV on Saturday, FAU takes over the top spo ... More >>

FAU Becomes Last Team in College Football to Win a Game With 38-35 Victory Over UAB

Too soon?​After ten straight failed attempts at winning a football game (13 if you include last season), the Florida Atlantic University Owls finally figured out how to score more points than the other team.FAU, the only team in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision that went into this weekend withou ... More >>

Carl Pelini Named New Head Coach of FAU Football

huskers.comCarl Pelini​Carl Pelini -- the former defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Nebraska -- is officially the new head coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls.Replacing the retiring Howard Schnellenberger, Pelini signed a five-year contract that starts with a $450,000 ... More >>

How Insiders Use the College Bowl System to Loot American Universities

huskers.comCarl Pelini​Carl Pelini -- the former defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Nebraska -- is officially the new head coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls.Replacing the retiring Howard Schnellenberger, Pelini signed a five-year contract that starts with a $450,000 ... More >>