Southeastern Conference

Jim Larranaga Dancing, Heat Winning Streak, FGCU: Florida Is Suddenly The Mecca of Basketball

In what has become the perfect storm of face-smashing dunks, fearsome jumpers, and all-around hardwood awesomeness, Florida is right now, officially, the mecca of basketball. Thanks to the Miami Heat, Miami Hurricanes Men's basketball team, and the rise of the mightiest of underdogs in Florida Gulf ... More >>

Five More Unethical NCAA Ethics Investigations

The NCAA is learning that it's hard swing around the morality stick when you're own ethics are under question. After the organization dropped official allegations on the University of Miami athletic program last week, head Hurricane Donna Shalala came out with some choice words of her own, calling o ... More >>

Alex Collins Says He's Sticking With Arkansas, Despite Mother's Best Efforts

Yesterday we told you about South Plantation High star running back Alex Collins' mom confiscating his letter of intent to attend Arkansas and then disappearing with it. Basically, Momma Collins doesn't want her baby to go so far away. And who can blame her? It's her son; it's a tense time in a you ... More >>

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 >>

Bobbi Sue BBQ in West Palm Beach: First Look

A few months ago, Forbes magazine wrote an article highlighting the eight hottest food trends on the rise in cities across the U.S. Among them, grass-fed meats, farmers markets, and Greek fare -- all the same trends we've been seeing pop up across Broward and Palm Beach County recently.While these t ... More >>

Harlem Globetrotters Hosting H-O-R-S-E Game; Of Course, South Florida Provides Actual Horse

futuramaff.comWe're told it's a horse.​When something wacky happens somewhere across the country, a gamblin' man would probably bet that it came out of South Florida.So when the Harlem Globetrotters announced they were hosting a nationwide H-O-R-S-E contest, we weren't extremely surprised that Sou ... More >>

Allen West Insults Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Didn't Have the Guts to Do It to Her Face

Rep. Allen West would prefer to be insulted to his face but pulls his punches via email or at Tea Party gatherings.​Rep. Allen West decided to insult Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz again over the weekend, but in spite of his angry email tirade to her saying Wasserman Schultz "doesn't have the guts" ... More >>

Professional Eaters Descend Upon South Florida for the Great Pickle Battle

Felony Past Puts Boyd Anderson Football Star in No Man's Land

That video's from an all-star game in January. These days, Demar Dorsey doesn't have nearly as much to smile about. The Boyd Anderson star, who originally gave a verbal commitment to the Florida Gators, then switched to the Michigan Wolverines, now finds himself without a destination after the scho ... More >>

Pembroke Pines Native Tosses Perfect Game for Gators

Flickr: GoOrangeAndBlueBrombacher has been stingy with opposing batters.​Stephanie Brombacher, a Pembroke Pines native who starred at American Heritage High, threw a perfect game yesterday in the Florida Gators' 10-0 victory over the University of South Florida. It was the first perfect game for a ... More >>

Ultra-Hyped Hoops Player From Pine Crest on Brink of Making College Decision

Flickr: PJC CorsairExpect a decision this month from Knight.​Last week, star point guard Brandon Knight's Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest team lost in the state championship to Tallahassee Rickards. This week, he's trying to decide what college basketball program will be his one-year layover en route ... More >>

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 >>

Bank Robbery on Las Olas

Photo: Fort Lauderdale PD​No, this one didn't involve Scott Rothstein. It was the lonely, forlorn creature to the left, who came to the SunTrust at 501 E. Las Olas this morning, then waited patiently for other customers to leave. This is from the Fort Lauderdale Police news release:Once he was alo ... 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 >>

Bank Shot

For a former basketball star, a new career starts with the J.V. team. B

For This Deon, Prime Time Is Overdue

Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.Specifically, Thomas is the absur ... 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 >>

SEC Fans: Boycott The Big Dance

All right, for the first time since I was about six, I'm going to stay away from the NCAA tournament this year. This is a whole new version of March Madness for me. Because I'm mad. And I'm boycotting the tournament -- and urge all you Gator fans to do the same. Those of you more familiar with ... 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 >>

SEC Coaches Engage in Old Fashioned Cat Fight Over Local Recruit

So first Nu'Keese Richardson said he would play for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida. Then on national signing day the speed-demon wide receiver from Pahokee decided he would rather play for University of Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin (a UF rival). Then at a press conference yester ... More >>

Live Blogging from the BCS National Championship Game

As any blog reader knows, live blogs are the current way of the future. And any journalist who wants to keep his job embraces the latest way of the future. So...welcome to the first ever LIVE BLOG in Juice history. I secured my spot in the press booth months ago, when it looked ... More >>

Cane Collapse

How Florida's only team in the NCAAs almost did it

The Dirty Dozen of 2007

Rush, Naugle, Loria... and, hey, what's going on in the criminal justice system?

It's True: People Are Stupid

Gators Win, Readers Lose

Pulpa Culpa

Letters for January 18-24, 2007

Runaway Coaches

What did Nick say to Pat before they both bailed?

Post Wins Pulp Headline Competition

Go Gators

Pants Aflame

Letters for August 10-16, 2006

Getting Thrashed

A Royal Beating

Heat look to spank Kings

Veterans Affairs

It takes a lot more than a bumper sticker to support the troops, says a crusty ex-Marine and best-selling author

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

The Life of Riley

Pat's past catches up with him this Yuletide. But can it overtake his huge ego?

Don't Just Animate Me

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Listings for the week of November 3-9,2005

Beast of the East

Rivalry

Hall in Flames

Strife at swimming's prime shrine threatens to wash away a local icon

Foodstuff

Shootersville Billiards

Louisiana Purchases

Shuck-N-Dive Cajun Sports Café