There are a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers fans in South Florida. But none love the boys in black and gold as much as a 31-year-old North Miami Beach man who's a package handler at UPS. Or by now, probably, an ex-package handler. Thanks to the Steelers' late rally over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Samuel Louis-Charles won $1 million in ESPN's Streak for Cash contest.
ESPN promised the million to the first person to pick 25 consecutive winners in its free internet challenge. Playing as "Bigsam1122,"
The Miami Dolphins beat the Jets Sunday to win the division and make it to the playoffs. It's a great achievement for a team that went 1-15 last year and a nice gift for the fans. But a miracle?
That's what a headline on the the Sun-Sentinel's front page called it this morning -- a "miracle turnaround." That's right, this season was authored not by the Big Tuna, our local newspaper tells us, but by the the Big Guy himself, God almighty.
Of course, I'm adhering to the st
See you in Fort Lauderdale, hot stuff.I've been seeing an awfully lot of Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals paraphernalia in the Fort Lauderdale area. Two possible explanations:The locals are jumping on the bandwagon now that these teams are Super Bowl-bound.Steelers and Cardinals fans are flocking to South Florida because they're going to the game.Wait, No. 2 doesn't make sense. The game's in Tampa Bay.Well, either the Pittsburgh and Arizona faithful are really bad at geography, or they'
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 bet on another game).
But just because your team is out (you shut up, Steelers fan!), doesn't mean you don't have anyone local to cheer for. In fact, there are a total of 15 players in this game who wer
Flickr: hbs34Tyrone Carter, celebrating the Steelers' 2009 Super Bowl victory over the Arizona Cardinals​Where do you start with the Tyrone Carter story? Probably in Pompano Beach, where he was one of five children in a three-bedroom home, raised by his grandmother because his parents had drug problems. A child of his own by his junior year in high school, then another by another woman after he followed a football scholarship offer to the University of Minnesota. And during that same time as
