National League (MLB)

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 >>

42 Almost Makes a Flesh-and-Blood Man of Its Hero

New Times Says No to MLB

Jeffrey Loria Wrote Everyone A Letter, All Is Well Again!

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has had just about enough of all the criticisms and finger-pointing at his taking a giant heaping dump on South Florida and baseball in general, thank you. So it's time to tell HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. And so he did. Loria took out a full page ad in the Sunday morning edi ... More >>

A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

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Jack Reacher Movie Review: Tom Cruise Reaches and Scores

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

Boycott the Marlins and Sue Jeffrey Loria for Racketeering: A Note to Carlos Gimenez and John Rodstrom

Now is when you step up, Mr. Mayors of Miami-Dade and Broward.Now is when you two political leaders of South Florida join forces, head to New York, and demand a meeting with Commissioner Bud Selig. You tell that twerp to nix yesterday's trade of Marlins stars Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, and Emilio Bon ... More >>

Miami Marlins Have Traded Everyone: Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonafacio, and Maybe More

After swindling the entire city of Miami, then building their tax-laden $560 million stadium and promising everyone they were going "all in," the Miami Marlins have decided to gut their roster and trade away ace pitcher Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Jose Reyes, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio to ... More >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

Giancarlo Stanton Grand-Slammed a Scoreboard in the Face Last Night (VIDEO)

The batting stud formerly known as Mike Stanton hit his second grand slam in eight days last night, busting a bunch of lights on the Marlins left-field videoboard in the process. If he'd swung a moment earlier, he could have destroyed that home run statue instead. Ah, what could have been.Stanton wa ... More >>

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 >>

Logan Morrison's Obnoxious Twitter Feed Is Exactly What's Great About Baseball

​There are a lot of ways to describe Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison's attitude. Brash, maybe, or better yet, obnoxious. Some would say inappropriate, and the Marlins brass would most certainly add unprofessional. Take a look at his much-followed Twitter feed and you'll see posts that are all of ... More >>

Spring Training

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 >>

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

Fish at the Well

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 >>

Brazilians in South Florida Spend Millions, but They Aren't the Only Foreigners to Thank

farm3.static from Flickr.com​Shop till you drop has a whole new meaning. At least for Brazilians, that is. With a strong currency and booming economy, they've been flocking to Florida for lengthy shopping sprees, buying everything from designer jeans and handbags, to cheap shoes and cosmetics ... More >>

LeBron James' "Decision" Should Serve As Cautionary Tale For Albert Pujols Negotiations

​As dozens of media outlets descend upon Jupiter this week, looking for any news from the on-going contract negotiations between the St. Louis Cardinals and their mega-awesome, all-time great, super-incredi-star, first baseman Albert Pujols, fans and concerned parties should look a few miles South ... More >>

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

Nelson Diaz Went From Cuba's Best Ump to Just Another South Florida Transplant

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 >>

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

Clash of the Young Titans

Apology Watch: Marlins Manager Expects Hanley Ramirez to Give Pre-Game "Sorry"

FlickrRamirez​The Marlins open a series tonight in St. Louis, and manager Fredi Gonzalez sounded an optimistic tone that his star shortstop would finally form the word that the team's been waiting for: "Sorry."ESPN quoted from an interview Gonzalez gave today to a local radio station:"It's going t ... More >>

Morning Juice: Friday Night Fraud by Lauderdale Twin; Escaped Inmates Caught, Charged With Murder

​A glass of what's-goin'-on in South Florida news:Ana Gardiner, the former Broward judge who resigned rather than face possible penalties for judicial misconduct, awarded $600,000 in legal fees last summer to an attorney, Richard Cole, who has recently hired Gardiner at his firm. Cole denies a qui ... More >>

Hello, 2003. We Missed You.

The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers

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