NHL Eastern Conference

Florida Panthers Will Get A New $4.2 Million Scoreboard, Thanks to Broward Commission

The Florida Panthers will be getting a new publicly funded $4.2 million scoreboard and master control room, thanks to the Broward Commission. The commission voted to allow Broward County's bed tax to pay for it -- which was the same exact tax the Miami Dolphins were asking for from Miami-Dade Count ... More >>

Florida Panther Rookie Eric Selleck Suspended After Getting His Ass Beat

For an athlete beating around the lower rungs of professional play, it doesn't get any sweeter than that first big league appearance. Mom invites the girls from canasta over to watch the game. Dad brags it up to the guys at work. Grandma makes some t-shirts with your high school varsity headshot. Bi ... More >>

Delray Marketplace Finally Opens Saturday

Tomorrow - Saturday, March 23 - the long-awaited Delray Marketplace will open on West Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. While most of the action in Delray is to be found in the quaint but bustling downtown area in the eastern most part of town, civilization has been slowly pushing itself westward.Thi ... More >>

Scott Timmins, Florida Panthers Prospect, Allegedly Broke Into a Family's Home and Slept on Their Couch

A mother of three walked into her San Antonio home to find a Florida Panther sitting on her couch. Not an actual panther, mind you. A professional hockey player, which is still pretty scary and weird. Scott Timmins, a Panthers prospect currently playing for the minor-league San Antonio Rampage, al ... More >>

Wayne Huizenga Gets a Boulevard Named After Him in Fort Lauderdale as a Birthday Gift

When you celebrate a birthday, your friends buy you a Hallmark card and make fun of you for being old and then take you out for drinks. But when rich people celebrate a birthday, their friends name a whole street after them. Business magnate; Waste Management and Blockbuster founder; onetime owner ... More >>

Kenneth Nolan Hits Panther While Riding Motorcycle, Sues Florida Department of Transportation

See also "Urban Sprawl Kills Endangered Florida Panther"Some lawsuits make you want to punch mankind's collective crotch and pray to the gods that the Mayans are right about the whole 2012 thing. Case in point: Kenneth Nolan filed a suit in Broward County Court seeking $15,000 from th ... More >>

Sixteenth Dead Panther of 2012 Killed By Cat-on-Cat Aggression

See also "Urban Sprawl Kills Endangered Florida Panthers"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission this week recovered a "heavily scavenged" panther carcass, marking the sixteenth dead panther recorded by state officials this year. The endangered predator was found on a pi ... More >>

Dolphin's Owner Stephen Ross Donates $130K To Romney, RNC and Super Pacs

Go long, Mittens. Miami Dolphin's owner Stephen Ross has thrown down $133,000 in donations to support the Romney campaign. A $100,000 of that has gone to the Restore Our Future super pac, while the remainder was divvied up among Romney, the Republican National Committee, the Repu ... More >>

Whodunit?

Green Day

Broward County Encouraging Water Conservation by Treating Residents Like 4-Year-Olds

​It's the dry season, and Broward County is looking to encourage water conservation efforts by offering rebates to residents who buy high-efficiency toilets and other incentives, depending on your city. The goal is to cut water use by 30 million gallons per day -- and officials decided the be ... More >>

Get a Clue!

Dear Fort Liquordale,

He Still Has His Yacht, Right?

Lobbyist Russ Klenet better hope things are going well in D.C., because the situation on the home front has deteriorated rapidly. The yacht, "Symphony," owned by Klenet and Ginsburg​Last night, the Sunrise Commission voted him right out of his $60,000-ish contract with  ... More >>

Coral Springs Mayor: Athletic Hot-Spot Status Brought "Best City" Honors From Money

alexis-thompson.comCoral Springs golfer Alexis Thompson at the 2010 U.S. Women's Open.​Earlier this week, Money magazine named Coral Springs the 44th best "small city" to live in of 2010. Not too shabby, eh? Coral Springs beat out Coconut Creek (48) and Wellington (72), the only other Florida loca ... More >>

Tim Finnegan's in Delray Beach Is a Real Irish Pub; Duffy's in Deerfield Is a Corporate Wonderworld

Morning Juice: Another Investigation Blooms in Goodman Case; Inferno in Oakland Park

​Your Wednesday local news roundup:A Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue medic somehow failed to find 23-year-old Scott Wilson after a crew arrived at the site of the February crash with polo mogul John Goodman. The medic is said to have been looking in the driver's seat but didn't find him there. And y ... More >>

Ponzi Playboy Sean Healy Blew Through the Money He Swindled

South Florida Has Never Produced an NHL Player; Will Andrew Yogan Be the First?

Yogan​The state of Florida has produced some of the world's finest athletes; and so it's hard to believe that in the history of the National Hockey League there have only been three Florida natives -- and none of them from South Florida.Andrew Yogan from Boca Raton is going to try to change that. ... More >>

Morning Juice: Palm Beach Teachers Are Art Critics; Panthers, Heat Heading in Opposite Directions

​Your daily glance at what's news in South Florida:More friction between Palm Beach County teachers and district Superintendent Art Johnson. The union is threatening a work slowdown, asking its members to work only the seven and a half hours called for in the contract rather than the extra unpaid ... More >>

Joke’s on the Canuck-cle Heads

Burn Victim's Medical Bills No Match for South Florida Celebrities

LA TimesPicture of 15-year-old burn victim, Michael Brewer​Joe Kessling isn't ready to start naming names, but suffice to say they're big -- literally. He has commitments from Miami Dolphins, among other South Florida athletes, all dedicating part of their Saturday, November 21 to raising money fo ... More >>

More Losses, No TARP $ for BankAtlantic

Pretty sparse and mellow for a bank run... Oh! It's just a Panthers game at the BankAtlantic Center. Fort Lauderdale-based BankAtlantic is, like most big banks, getting crushed by home loans that aren't paying -- the dreaded "toxic assets." But unlike the biggest banks in the nation, BankAtlant ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Films Kitchen Nightmares Segment @ Anna Vincenzo's in Boca Raton

Although I like cranky British Chef Gordon Ramsay, I'm not really a huge fan of his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares. It's far too formulaic, for one - every episode shares the same story arc, with only the set pieces changing - and it's 99% about drama and only 1% about food. The show on which the it w ... More >>

If It's Late June, It Must Be Time for the Panthers to Ditch Their Best Player

Flickr User: Burns!Will the last Panther fan in South Florida please turn off the lights in the BankAtlantic? Late Friday, star defenseman Jay Bouwmeester was traded to the Calgary Flames for... well... nothing.As a hockey fan who wants to see the team thrive in South Florida, I tried to give manage ... More >>

A Secretive Slush Fund Has Big Plans in Sunrise

Follow the Green Brick Road: "Oz" Coming to Broward

  Artist's Rendering of Sunrise ProjectYou've probably never heard of the largest development planned in Broward County, but you've heard the name before: Oz.  The plan is to build something called the "City of Oz" on the BankAtlantic Center's parking lot in Sunr ... More >>

Does Kemp's Death Alter Deal for Panthers?

Flickr User: gojaysgo9293Jack KempAn investment fund chaired by longtime Republican Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp emerged last week as a potential buyer of the Florida Panthers and their handsome revenue-sharing lease at the BankAtlantic Center. Then this weekend, Kemp ... More >>

Stacy Ritter v. The Miami Herald: Who's Right?

The Miami Herald broke a story Sunday on Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter's alleged vote that favored the firm that runs BankAtlantic Center, Arena Operating Co., at the same time her husband was a paid lobbyist for the company. In the story, Ritter admits that she supported the move ... More >>

The Stacy Ritter Corruption Compendium

After the Miami Herald over the weekend broke a story on yet another Stacy Ritter vote that benefitted the lobbying business of her husband, Russ Klenet, I think it's time we had a one-stop shopping spot for all the alleged misdeeds of the Ritter-Klenets. Because of its length, the post jumps. ... More >>

New Year, New Coach, New Attitude

Cold Blooded

What Is in a Name

Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

Cold as Ice

NHL 2K7 looks pretty, but fails to light the lamp.

Hot Dog Crime

You Regurgitate, You Lose

Fish Bait

Baseball in Broward is possible, if we didn't have to deal with these bloodsuckers

Ice Age

Jock Support

The Big Chil

Bikers, gourmands, 30,000 country fans, and bare boobies collide at a massive chili cook-off. Bottoms up!

Celebs Hold Court

Best Florida Panthers Player

Trevor Kidd

The First Team's Last Stand

With four professional teams in South Florida, sports radio should be big business. It isn't.

Best Florida Panther

Pavel Bure

Best Jazz Artist

Lyn Moore

The Wolfgang Factory

Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998