Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is a felon. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to his sponsorship of a large dog-fighting ring — he admitted in 2007 to setting up the ring, stocking the kennel with trained pit bulls, traveling to other states for dog fights, and “destroying or…
Right now, someone is trying to sell an autographed LeBron James jersey on Ebay for $14,999, or roughly a down payment on a condo. It’s a white Cleveland jersey from James’ rookie year, and he apparently wore it during a game.Given that I have as much financial savvy as a badger on meth, I…
Update: The team tweeted this morning that Ochocinco has been given number 85; I missed it. No word yet on whether he did anything to get it.The Dolphins confirmed yesterday that they’d signed wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, whom you may recognize from his role last year as Tom Brady’s last…
Anyone with a passing interest in sports is about to be inundated with talk of King James versus Prince Durant, Oklahoma City versus Miami, a wholesome young crop of basketball players versus the most hated/worshiped trio in the NBA. Sports rivalries are fun, especially the kind that are gratuitously hyped…
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…
Two weeks ago we introduced you to the ambitious, endearing world of competitive jump rope in South Florida. There are speed drills, tears, backflips, and Olympic aspirations.You can read the cover story — including my stint…
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 semipro baseball, was discovered at…
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…
For bicycle geeks, a well-executed manual is a thing of beauty. While a typical wheelie involves yanking up the front wheel and pedaling like a madman, a manual demands a thrust of the hips and flick of the wrists to get the bike coasting — no pedaling once the front…
Public Policy Polling decided to pick Florida’s collective brain last week, and results released yesterday shed light on some very interesting trends. The most interesting: 26 percent of Floridians polled said George Zimmerman is innocent of the second-degree murder charges filed in the February killing of Trayvon Martin, but only…
Showtime released a 30-minute preview on Saturday to its show The Franchise: A Season With the Miami Marlins, which will chronicle the travails of baseball’s version of a court jester. There’s a scene near the start of the show where loudmouth manager Ozzie Guillen is addressing his new players for…
The Miami Marlins’ new shortstop is missed by his former team. Jose Reyes spent the first nine seasons of his career with the New York Mets, leading the National League in stolen bases three years in a row (2005-2007), hitting for 99 triples and winning the NL batting title last…
Well, the Marlins have suspended Manager Ozzie Guillen for getting quoted in Time magazine saying “I love Fidel Castro.” Looks like we found out pretty early in the season how the Marlins front office feels about its new skipper.This is not Guillen’s first off-the-wall statement. Before he landed in Miami,…
You may have heard all the hubbub about the NFL’s new lineup of jerseys, but don’t go grasping for that Modell’s member card yet.NBC’s Darren Rovell was tweeting all kinds of pictures from the Nike unveiling yesterday, including a picture of the Dolphins’ new home jersey, which bears a striking resemblance to…..
This week’s cover story in New Times is about Chae Haile, an adoptee from Korea who went on a hunt two years ago for her birth family. Along for the ride was husband Greg, who had many reasons to fear that Chae’s family may dislike him. First was the fact…
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 those things…
It’s not a secret that Jose Canseco, South Florida’s most infamous meathead slugger turned reality-show washout, has a wildly popular Twitter account — well over 400,000 followers eagerly awaiting the next 140 characters of weird, deluded complaining about how terrible and unjust it is that someone who writes two books…
A 1997 study found that one in 255 high-school athletes had a “serious or potentially serious” heart defect that had the potential to preclude them from athletic participation. Although awareness of the issue has grown over the years, there are no mandatory tests for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is the technical…
The NFL Network’s Jeff Darlington tweeted this morning that “Peyton Manning personally contacted Dolphins on Thursday to advise them he wouldn’t be signing with Miami,” according to “multiple sources.”As is the case with so many breaking sports stories, we have no idea who these sources are or if their information…
The new Miami Marlins stadium has a backstop that could only have originated in South Florida — rather than have a normal-people brick wall or those nice green pads, the stadium will have 40 feet of aquariums separating the area behind home plate from the first row of fans.Though Marlins…
Who the hell knows where former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is going to end up. With sports reporters wildly repeating whatever their perpetually unnamed sources are telling them, we’ve heard the Miami Dolphins’ hopes of landing the star are “losing steam,” that it’s a two-horse race between the Arizona Cardinals…
(EDIT, 2:20 p.m.: Jose Lambiet is reporting Faulk doesn’t even own the condo anymore because the condo association bought it from him after a deal in 2010.)PNC Bank filed a foreclosure complaint late last month on the Pompano Beach condo of Marshall Faulk, the former St. Louis Rams running back…
