College Football

Mother of Alex Collins, Star Plantation High Football Player, Ran Off With His Letter of Intent

Today is National Signing Day, the day when high school football stars declare which college they'll be attending. One of those players is South Plantation High five-star running back Alex Collins, who earlier this week committed to attend Arkansas over closer-to-home University of Miami. Turns ou ... More >>

Palm Beach County Sending More Players to the Super Bowl Than Anywhere Else in the Country

After a weekend of some top-quality football, the Super Bowl face-off is all sealed up: on February 2, the San Francisco 49ers will knock heads with the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans for all the marbles. Wrapped up in a soundbite, that news doesn't seem to have a lot of import for South Florida fo ... More >>

Miami's Best Youth Football Team Beats Opponents, Violence, Gambling, and Turmoil

Is Charlie Crist Florida's Next Governor?

A Professional Tailgater? Jeff Dockeray On Best Tailgaiting Products and How Florida Can Up Its Game

The last time Jeff Dockeray was in South Florida, he watched his prized New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl in 2009. While Doc, as he likes to be called, basks in the glory of his team winning the most important football game ever, he also remembers the tailgaters.  "There isn't a lot of spac ... More >>

Graham B. Spanier, Former Penn State President, Charged With Perjury in Sandusky Case

While Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was busy raping little boys in the shower, his bosses apparently not only looked the other way but tried to sweep the whole thing under the rug. Because nothing ruins the hallowed sanctity of a university with a long, rich tradition lik ... More >>

Atlantic High Unveils Crazy Neon Uniforms

A few years ago, the Oregon Ducks unveiled neon green uniforms to the masses. The colors were retro and the style unique. Then everyone went bananas with the neon green (the Seattle Seahawks adopted a similar color scheme). But Atlantic High in Delray has taken the neon colored uniform thing and u ... More >>

New Miami Herald Profit Model: Just Take Extra Money From Subscribers

The Miami Herald's impending paywall, it seems, will not be making enough money to make the paper feel better. They've got a creative new way of pulling in cash, starting RIGHT NOW! They're charging readers for stuff they don't want.The Herald sent out an email to subscribers on Friday explaining ho ... More >>

Ricky Williams: NFL Football Healer Begins His Next Chapter

Paralyzed College Football Player Eric LeGrand Signed by Good-Guy Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Bucs did a cool thing this week.We're not anywhere near Tampa, but the Dolphins have had one winning season in six years, and the Marlins went and stole a half-billion dollars from taxpayers to build a stadium, so here's a story that shows that at least one Florida sports team can make a nice ge ... More >>

Train's Scott Underwood on Big Booty Women and Marrying Johnny Rzeznik

​It didn't take Train very long to get "back on track" after returning from a three-year hiatus begun in 2009. They had all but disappeared from the public eye, and there was serious doubt among fans, their label, and themselves as to whether they would return at all. And, if they were to give it ... More >>

Tim Tebow More Popular in Florida Than God is Nationwide, According to Poll Results

broncogator15.com​Tim Tebow is quite possibly more popular than God Himself -- at least, he may be in Florida.The former Florida Gator, Heisman Trophy winner, two-time BCS national champion, and current Denver Broncos quarterback is viewed favorably by 59 percent of Floridians, according to su ... More >>

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

Florida Gators Accused of "Cheating" to Block Punts

​The University of Florida Gators are going to Lexington this weekend to face off against the Kentucky Wildcats, and after the Gators blocked three punts in two previous games against the Wildcats, people in Kentucky are bitching bringing up the point that UF may be "cheating" to block punts.To cl ... More >>

Howard Schnellenberger to Retire From Florida Atlantic -- Four Years Too Late

No. 1? This year, coach, it's No. 103.​Howard Schnellenberger had yet to coach his first game at Florida Atlantic University when he unveiled a new steak-house restaurant in 2001. Coach Schnellenberger's the Original Steakhouse & Sports Theatre in Plantation opened as the flagship of a future ... More >>

Reggie Bush Reportedly Headed to Miami Dolphins

reggiebush25.comReggie Bush, likely to become the newest Miami Dolphin.​Fox Sports' Jay Glazer says the New Orleans Saints have worked out a trade to bring running back Reggie Bush to the Miami Dolphins, as long as Bush agrees to a new contract with the Fins.UPDATE: The deal has reportedly gone th ... More >>

Did Bobby Kent Invent "Da Da Da Da Da Da Charge!" or Steal It?

Bobby Kent​You know at a stadium, when they play that "Charge!" thing over the PA? It's the kind of annoying tradition that people never stop and think about -- and certainly people never wonder who first came up with it.Well Bobby Kent (pictured), co-owner of Pompano Beach's Hollbrand Music Publi ... More >>

Tyler Colvin Is Not a Vampire (And Other Things We Learned This Weekend in Sports)

FlickrTyler Colvin got staked by a shattered bat in yesterday's Marlins game, but he'll live to play again.​What would it take for a Florida Marlins game to overshadow a Dolphins victory on a Sunday in September? An act of God? No, just a freak accident in which a shattered bat impales itself in t ... More >>

Denard Robinson Now a Legit Heisman Contender

FlickrPhoto by John Peckham​He had a big game last week against UConn, but Michigan Wolverine (and Deerfield Beach native) Denard Robinson needed to wax Notre Dame this past weekend to establish himself as a Heisman Trophy candidate. How about 502 yards total offense and three touchdowns? Yep, tha ... More >>

Michigan Football Puts Itself on Probation; Former Deerfield Star Not Named in Report

Flickr: Michigan DailyFeagin's career in Maize-and-Blue was cut short by an off-field incident.​The University of Michigan today announced that its football coaching staff violated NCAA rules for the amount of athletics-related activity its players could perform and the number of coaches who could ... More >>

Morning Juice: Gardiner Leaves Bench; Fins Trade Down, Take Penn State Lineman

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach:Broward Circuit Court Judge Ana Gardiner has decided to resign her post rather than face allegations of misconduct that were first reported by Bob Norman in New Times two years ago. Gardiner was to be tried by the Judicial Qualifying Commission fo ... More >>

Oliver Fist

Would You Kill Someone For a Chicken Sandwich?

Michael J. MooneyHe's not dead, just dead tired.​ At noon on Tuesday, there was one man waiting, seated quietly on the curb outside the new Chick-Fil-A on US-1 in Pompano Beach. By 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday there were already 20 more people. By 6:00 a.m. there were nearly 200 people waiting in line j ... More >>

University of Tennessee Probe Leads Investigators to South Florida

Flickr: imnatronCheerleaders are OK; but is the University of Tennessee using its feamle student body for football recruiting?​Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players --  we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see ... More >>

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 Flori ... More >>

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 Laude ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Football Star Getting Buzz for Big Game; Another Won't Be Playing

That's the long, long highlight video from Denard Robinson's career at Deerfield Beach High School. Impressive, but no more so than Justin Feagin's highlight reel of a year before. Feagin played at American Heritage, but he's also from Deerfield Beach. Both played quarterback. And both players acce ... More >>

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 >>

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 pra ... More >>

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 per ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 >>

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 be ... More >>

How Things Should Be

Cribs: The Seminole Version

No? How About Fighting Hooters?

He's Our Guy Now

Justice Served

Post Wins Pulp Headline Competition

Down On Florida

Ashlee Blows

But she's getting better

Cane-o-rama

Spring game gives fans something to cheer about

Big Bowl

Ultimate Thrill

Throw Caution to the Sky

Owls on a Roll

Owls on a Mission

Wah!

Your team got its ass kicked, little baby

Set! Hike!

Are you ready for some FAU football?

Undercurrents

The 'Noles offend more than just the Gators

Undercurrents

Endangered birds?