NL East

Interim President of FAU Pushed Chick-fil-A Stadium Naming Deal, Former A.D. Says

"Can't anybody here play this game?" -- Baseball manager Casey Stengel, about the 1962 New York Mets, whose 120 losses are the most by any MLB team in one season in the 20th century. See also: - Chick-fil-A Stadium: FAU Considered Homophobic Firm Hapless Florida Atlantic University president Mary ... More >>

Everybody’s Doing the Fish

Jeffrey Loria Denies Meddling With Marlins Pitching Staff Days After Meddling With Marlins Pitching Staff

On Tuesday, the human pustule known as Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria reportedly decided that he was going to be the manager for a day and switched around the scheduled starting Marlins pitchers for a double-header against the Twins. Now Loria is saying he did not meddle with the Marlins pitching sta ... More >>

New Times Says No to MLB

Jeb Bush Tried to Buy the Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins held a fan/player meet-and-greet at the Hollywood Dave & Busters last night where they literally could have dressed the guy who hands out prize tickets in a suit and told people he was one of the new players and no one would have batted an eye. Meanwhile, word from the Miami H ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Top Turkeys of 2012: The South Florida Personalities We Love to Hate

South Florida Web Awards: Meet Your Twitter, Instagram, and Arts/Culture Nominees

To say the web bridges worlds together seamlessly through invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. In any case, New Times is well aware of the importance of the web, and we're celebrating with our first South Florida Web Awards. We've scoured the internet in search of the best of ... More >>

Ozzie Guillen Fired By the Miami Marlins

In keeping with the long and storied tradition of blaming the managers and never, ever the decision making by the ownership and front office, the Miami Marlins have announced that they have fired manager Ozzie Guillen. Marlins baseball operations president Larry Beinfest released a statement: "Aft ... More >>

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 Keep Lying About Stadium

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 >>

Larry Beinfest to be Fired by Miami Marlins Next Week, According to Report

The Miami Marlins had what you might call a bit of a crappy season. Even though they entered this year super excited about their brand new stadium, their brand new $100 million payroll, their brand new shortstop, their brand new closer, their brand new manager, and being featured on Showtime's The F ... More >>

In "Trouble With the Curve," Eastwood Is Even More Crotchety

Meek Mill Popped Up Out of Nowhere to Appear in Every Corner of the Hip-Hop World

Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami's Changing Market

Take Me Out to the Ball Game — Seriously

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 >>

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 >>

Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen Goes Two Games Before Offending Everybody

The Miami Marlins' season started Wednesday. By Sunday, news outlets across the country were writing about all the people calling for manager Ozzie Guillen's resignation.The hubbub is over an article from Time magazine that quotes Guillen saying pretty much the one thing Miami public figures should ... More >>

Marlins Outfielder Mike Stanton No Longer Mike Stanton

​The man in right field for the Miami Marlins has "Stanton" written on the back of his jersey, but the name on his baseball cards will be changing, according to the Associated Press.The Home Run Artist Formerly Known as Mike Stanton would like it to be known that he wishes to be called Giancarlo S ... More >>

Former Marlins Catcher Benito Santiago Arrested, Accused of Smoking Weed in His Mercedes

​Five-time MLB All-Star catcher Benito Santiago was "disoriented and did not know where he was at" when he was arrested next to Fort Lauderdale High School late last month, according to court documents.The former Marlins catcher, who now lives in Fort Lauderdale, was accused of hot-boxing his Merc ... More >>

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 >>

Tickets for Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival on Sale Monday

Brustman Carrino PR​Calling all gourmands and scenesters: Tickets go on sale Monday for the foodist event of the year: The 11th annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, to benefit FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.Remember Paula Dean's pants episode, or Mario B ... More >>

Florida Panthers Draftee Rocco Grimaldi Not a Big Fan of Boobies

​Rocco Grimaldi, drafted 33rd in this year's NHL draft by the Florida Panthers, loves Jesus -- there's no doubt about that.As far as boobies go, Grimaldi would prefer the ladies keep those bad boys covered up. And he's expressing his grievances on Twitter.Whereas Florida Marlins outfielder Logan M ... More >>

Baseball and Brews: Beer Sampling and Game at Roger Dean Stadium Saturday

​What's a George Steinbrenner without a Billy Martin or a Tom Glavin without A Greg Maddux? Probably like a baseball game without beer.You can assure a happy marriage of the two Saturday night at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, when Baseball and Brews comes to the same field that hosts the popular ... More >>

Astro-nomical Flop

Jack McKeon Making a Comeback as Marlins Skipper

25yearsofbaseball.com​Trader Jack is back.Jack McKeon, manager of the 2003 Florida Marlins World Series-winning club, is taking back his old post at the age of 80.Edwin Rodríguez called it quits on the Fish, who have lost 11 straight amid a 1-19 record in June and a 32-41 record on the season -- ... More >>

Pompano Beach Harness Racing: A Select Group of Drivers Carries on With an Endangered Sport

Total Recall: Can It Happen in Broward?

As we watch the images of the common folks -- and multimillionaire Norman Braman -- celebrating in Miami over the successful recall of Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Commissioner Natacha Seijas, it's easy to wonder: Can it happen here? Can the people in Broward County dump the co ... More >>

Scott Stapp Puts "Marlins Will Soar" Behind and Embarks on Solo Acoustic Tour

The Other Super Rookie

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 >>

Stanton to the Rescue?

Hanley Ramirez Starring Hanley Ramirez

Sophomore Slump Busters

Lauderdale High School Baseball Stars Taking Different Paths to Big Leagues

Flickr: jajohnson19Eric Hosmer​Eric Hosmer and Deven Marrero starred at first base and shortstop, respectively, for a 2008 American Heritage School team that won a state and national title. They were separated by a year, but both players were heavily recruited by the nation's elite baseball progra ... More >>

Fredi's Right; Hanley's Wrong. But Can Marlins Manager Afford to Make an Enemy?

Flickr: Michael G. BaronHanley Ramirez​Hanley Ramirez is acting like a diva following his being benched last night for an error. Check that; it wasn't the error so much as Ramirez jogging casually after the ball he kicked into the outfield, while opposing base-runners were hustling toward home pla ... More >>

Can Do

Big-League Chew

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 >>

Let the Sunshine In

Never Say Die

The Marlins keep beating each other up, and they like it that way.

Marlins Super Saturdays

One for the Team

You can’t miss Craig Biggio, and neither can that fastball

Got Game?

At this bar, you can watch baseball. The food is competitive too.

Wonton Desires