So what is it like to run naked, you might ask?Well, it’s lot like running with clothes on: a sweaty, dirty enterprise that is probably most fun when you’re done with a run or taking a break from a run or talking about a run but not actually on a…
Leopard leggings and neon tights. Candy-striped socks. Booty shorts and cat ears. Sparkly skull decals and paisley bandannas. Scuffed-up helmets and nappy body padding. Pouting lips swollen with plastic mouth guards. Suitcase upon suitcase filled with gummy, rubber wheels. A group of about ten chatty young women is seated alongside…
ESPN has found a way to put the Florida Panthers at the top of an NHL list — sort it by the number of prospects that could turn around a franchise in the coming years.The Panthers — who had the fewest points in the Eastern Conference last season — took…
The NFL is back, which means last night’s preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and the Atlanta Falcons came as a sober reminder that Chad Henne is still looking to go into the season as the Fins’ quarterback.Preseason football is never thought to mean much, and in spite of a…
Howard Schnellenberger had yet to coach his first game at Florida Atlantic University when he unveiled a new steak-house restaurant in 2001. Coach Schnellenberger’s the Original Steakhouse & Sports Theatre in Plantation opened as the flagship of a future chain, and two more quickly followed. The idea made some sense:…
When your NHL team draws more fans to an away game than it does to its home games, it’s time for a marketing ploy.The Florida Panthers announced yesterday afternoon that they’re starting the “Red Zone” for Cats fans, with “the promise that no visiting fans are allowed.”The Panthers are big…
We’re not sure what it says about the state of youth football in Fort Lauderdale when the cops send out reminders not to drink alcohol, do drugs, or gamble while you’re watching the youngsters duke it out on the gridiron.This reminder may have something to do with ESPN’s Outside the…
The Boca Raton-based MagicJack team of Women’s Professional Soccer has been in South Florida for just one year.Thanks to an owner who makes Mark Cuban look like a saint, WPS has announced that the league plans on ending the franchise at the end of the season, leaving 21 footballers –…
It’s a general observation that crowds like to boo at things, and Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne is no exception.The Phinsider is reporting that at last night’s “Monday Night Back to Football” event at Sun Life Stadium, around 10,000 fans were in attendance — many of them booing Henne.The consensus…
Not so long ago, LeBron James could sell anything from Vitamin Water to Nike sneakers simply by treading water in a swimming pool.Now, the Miami Heat star’s popularity has declined so drastically that he’s no longer one of the top ten most marketable players in the NBA, according to the…
For those of you who have bought EA Sports’ Madden titles year after year (after year after year), the prerelease hype is all about how accurate or inaccurate the in-game ratings of players can be.For this year’s Madden NFL 12 release, they’ve released the individual player ratings for the first…
Embattled former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is staying in the Meadowlands.Although Burress was practically begging to become a member of the Miami Dolphins, the team was quick to say it was “absolutely not” interested in having him in the aqua uniform — so he’s signed a deal…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office announced today they will not be filing charges against the wife of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall in the April stabbing incident.Michi Nogami-Marshall, 26, will also not face charges for violating the pretrial conditions of her release by showing up at her husband’s house…
Guerdwich Montimere, the former Dillard High School basketball player who moved to Texas when he was 22 and reinvented himself as a 16-year-old, came clean in the legal sense yesterday.He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a child — for having sex with a 15-year-old girl he…
Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer says the New Orleans Saints have worked out a trade to bring running back Reggie Bush to the Miami Dolphins, as long as Bush agrees to a new contract with the Fins.UPDATE: The deal has reportedly gone through, as Bush is said to have agreed to…
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was supposed to show up to a Fort Lauderdale school today — a month and a half out of prison — to teach some youngsters about his life experiences and how to make good choices.The kids learned at least one thing from…
ESPN’s broadcast of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup final between the United States and Japan garnered the network’s highest rating for a women’s sporting event in its history, apparently with some saturated viewership out of West Palm Beach.According to ESPN public relations guy Mac Nwulu, West Palm Beach had…
Using the catch phrase of Chicago Cubs/Arizona Diamondbacks legend Mark Grace, Gary Carter is “big league.”Carter, the Hall of Fame catcher who spent the majority of his career playing for the Montreal Expos and New York Mets, is returning as head coach of Palm Beach Atlantic University’s baseball club –…
Michael Irvin, the Fort Lauderdale-born NFL Hall-of-Famer, is on the cover of Out magazine this week, in a feature article on Irvin’s advocacy to eradicate homophobia.Irvin, a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys, has a notoriously troubled past, riddled by arrests for cocaine possession and allegations about sexual…
This weekend, as dusk gathered before the fireworks on July 4, a group of my friends went to play basketball in a West Palm Beach park. A lone player was shooting hoops on the court beside us. He was short, with a compact frame and reddish hair, and he wore…
It will be the closest the Stanley Cup has been to South Florida since the Florida Panthers’ extremely brief NHL championship appearance in 1996: Former Panther Nathan Horton is bringing the premier trophy won this year by the Boston Bruins to Fort Lauderdale.We know Floridians are a bit apathetic about…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz finally earned a victory against the press — at least in the charity softball game she played last night.After two consecutive losing games and suffering a broken leg at the hands of Capitol Hill reporters, Wasserman Schultz delivered a…
