Yesterday morning, in a dirt lot off Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach, I witnessed Vanilla Ice (real name Rob Van Winkle) jump over a jacked-up Monster Truck with about 10 people in the bed. Ice, who lives in Wellington and has ridden professionally, was on a buddy’s dirtbike.This is…
This is footage from Saturday’s fight between South Florida’s own Glen Johnson (in gold) and “Bad” Chad Dawson. For most of the fight, Dawson, age 27 and undefeated, floated around Johnson, who will turn 41 in January. Johnson never made strong contact with Dawson and in the end looked worn…
Despite some public relations issues in the past, I think Ricky Williams is a pretty kickass guy. And no matter what you think of him, yesterday he did a kickass thing:Ricky took fellow Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown, some Dolphins cheerleaders, and 20 local wounded military veterans, and went to…
Boxing fans may have seen the last fight from a legendary South Florida pugilist this weekend. Glen “Road Warrior” Johnson, the light heavyweight who will turn 41 years old in January, finally got his rematch against undefeated 27-year-old phenom “Bad” Chad Dawson in Hartford, Connecticut, on Saturday.Johnson looked good in…
Now that Chad Henne has twice dusted the rival Jets this year and revived what looked like an atrocious season, sports outlets all over South Florida are discussing the man. They debate his arm strength, his ability to lead a team, his fit in this offense, his Marino-ness. Some have…
The Oasis of the Seas, the largest ship ever built (think Noah’s Ark meets the Titanic meets Rhode Island), cleared her largest obstacle this week en route to a new home in Fort Lauderdale.AP reports that crew on the massive 20-story, $1.5 billion ocean liner lowered the telescopic smoke stacks…
If you haven’t seen Mattel’s newest addition to the Adult Barbie Collector line, it’s an appalling creation they’re calling “Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken.” This week brought news that the doll is, in fact, a real product the company is really selling to real adult collectors (and really warped, seriously…
ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap (the best sports journalist in television for our money) put together a fantastic package on the former Yankees catcher and one-time World Series hero that included Leyritz’s first televised remarks about the drunk driving accident that killed a Fort Lauderdale woman two days after Christmas 2007.Three hours…
Watch CBS News Videos Online In this video from this morning’s Early Show, we have a scary barefoot clown dressed up as Santa. We have choreographed dance steps. We have Early Show anchor Maggie Rodriguez awkwardly singing and dancing along. Most important, though, we have Robert Van Winkle (you know…
The Heat season is officially upon us again, and judging by the very small sample size thus far, Miami will go 82-0 and Dwyane Wade will finally secure the MV3. Most experts have them finishing fourth or fifth in the division and either barely making or missing the playoffs.There are…
In the last few weeks, we’ve brought you the story of Ronald Murphy, the convicted rapist forced to sleep on a bench outside his parole officer’s building in Delray Beach. (You can read some background here, here, and here.)Well this week Murphy moved from his bench to a new address…
Trevor Keezor broke his company’s rules. He was warned several times. Then he was fired. That should probably be the end of the story. But Mr. Keezor sees himself as a martyr, a spokesperson for Christians everywhere who aren’t allowed to write their own dress code policies and demand they…
If the most famous magician in history were to come back from the dead as a publicity-related favor for any group or organization, it would probably be the skeptics.Harry Houdini spent most of his career debunking psychics and scamsters, convincing the world that these people are frauds — not worth…
Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been raped. As a safety precaution, she visited her doctor, who prescribed a…
On the warm, humid afternoon of June 22, 2007, Liz Roehrich, a petite woman in her 40s, turned left into a predominantly black, middle-class neighborhood and parked her animal control truck in front of a gray house with a well-manicured lawn. Visible on a gate leading to the backyard was…
Florida has seen its history of hilarious marketing strategies. (Remember the Tampa Bay Bandits’ million dollar give away…that was actually $50,000 every year for 20 years, starting in 20 years? The team folded after three years. Nobody got a dime.) But offering Brits the chance to have tea with dated…
It sounds like a joke, but Vanilla Ice really is huge in South Africa. Same goes for Australia and East Asia. He just returned from South Africa, where he played several sold out arenas. So who could blame the ad folks at Castle Lite, the South African brew, when they were…
Over the last week, we’ve given you several posts about the pending fate of Ronald Murphy, the convicted rapist confined by ankle bracelet every night to a wooden bench in front of his probation officer’s building. This weekend, superstar reporter extraordinaire Gail Shepherd met with Murphy at his bench. He…
Ron Woodson. The Chicago native was standing on the corner of Wilton Drive and NE 21st Ct., right next to the Wilton Manors police station, with a sign reading “OFFiCER FERTiG LiES”. He claims that six months ago he and a black friend were the victims of profiling in Wilton…
With the first (and likely only) season of Police Women of Broward County all wrapped up, I thought the first South Florida-centered mom-kid-cop docudrama-ality show deserved some sort of special send off. But instead of, oh say, a recap of the show’s high points, I thought it might be nice…
Super Democratic awesome-man Rep. Alan Grayson, from Orlando, is like the a left wing version of Joe Wilson, but slicker and funnier. After proposing a a federal paid-vacation law and his hilarious rants against the Republican health care “plan”–Plan A: don’t get sick, Plan B: if you do get sick,…
It’s lewd. It’s crude. It’s a few years old. And damn, it’s funny. In a press conference this afternoon, the Miami Dolphins new resident badass, Chad Henne, discussed some disparaging comments made by Jets players after Monday night’s amazing come-from-behind victory. The remarks were nothing compared to a song created…
