En garde! In downtown Hollywood, swordplay is no longer just for transients. In two weeks, the Hollywood Sabres Fencing Club will open its doors at 2000 Harrison St., near Young Circle, to go along with the glass-blowing, jewelry-making, and sculpting that happens in the ArtsPark. But those latter three all…
Exactly one month ago, in the fifth inning of a minor-league baseball game in Birmingham, Alabama, former Broward Community College star Christian Marrero stepped into the batters box and looked to the mound, where lefty Darin Downs was getting the signals from his catcher. Downs played at Santaluces High School…
The last time we saw Kimbo Slice (aka Kevin Ferguson) he was on his knees at the BankAtlantic Center getting punched in the head by a pink-haired smoothie salesman. In 14 seconds, it seemed his mixed martial arts career – and the entire league built around him – was done. As…
Congratulations are in order for Fort Lauderdale native Mike Morse. He’s playing in the big leagues! (I realize that the Washington Nationals lineup consists mostly of players who’d be in the minors for winning teams, but technically, it’s a major-league baseball franchise.) Those opportunities have occurred only sporadically for the…
If you had to pick the county in America with the best high school football players, it would probably be Los Angeles — but that’s not fair: With 10 million people, L.A. County’s the biggest county in the nation. Now if you picked the best tricounty area, per capita, for…
That’s video from the tantrum that Serena Williams threw on Saturday to lose match point in the U.S. Open semifinals against Kim Clijsters. It was so compelling that it upstaged the feel-good story of Clijsters winning the title yesterday after two years away from competitive tennis following the birth of…
That’s the long, long highlight video from Denard Robinson’s career at Deerfield Beach High School. Impressive, but no more so than Justin Feagin’s highlight reel of a year before. Feagin played at American Heritage, but he’s also from Deerfield Beach. Both played quarterback. And both players accepted scholarships to play…
You know how you make your porn name by using your childhood pet’s name and the name of the street where you grew up? Apparently, the formula for professional wrestlers is:(First name of favorite action movie actor) + (last name of favorite movie character)And that’s how Dolph Diggler became the…
Back in May, Juice did a two-part series on Deon Thomas, the former high school phenom and University of Illinois star who, after a lengthy career playing pro ball, had retired to Pembroke Pines, where he had been coaching a junior varsity team and running clinics on the weekend. (part…
e and the Miami Heat will be without the services of an undersized, over-the-hill veteran troublemaker this season. And Heat fans more concerned with wins and good basketball are probably rejoicing right now, but South Florida bloggers and other fans of controversy and stories ripe for the advancing will shed…
As we come down the final stretch of tennis’ U.S. Open, the draws are conspicuously lacking in South Floridians. Only Serena Williams of Palm Beach Gardens has made it to the tournament’s quarterfinals.And things started so auspiciously for our local contingent. On the men’s side, Boca Raton’s adopted son Jesse…
After three years of apprenticeship under the best quarterback in West Virginia Mountaineers history, Jarrett Brown finally took the controls this weekend in the team’s opening game against Liberty University. In the Big East Conference preview, an ESPN analyst named Brown as the single player who faced the most demanding…
Less than a year after he lost his UFC heavyweight title to former NFLer Brock Lesnar, Couture had another hard loss last weekend to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in a fight MMA experts are calling one of the best of all time. But even after a string of losses, the 46-year-old…
Of course there’s a pro paintball league! And as with more traditional sports, there are hazards for those whose talent (free time?) allows them to go pro. The Palm Beach Vipers wrecked against these treacherous rocks, at least judging by a statement released yesterday by the team’s owner, Ken Bryson…
Venus and Serena Williams have been either training for tennis championships or winning them since they were old enough to walk. Nearing 30 years old, they still live with their dad in the family’s estate in Palm Beach Gardens. This makes their life stories fascinating — but it also makes…
Who to blame for the sudden crisis that has gripped the baseball hat industry, whose condition is mourned in the New York Times? Could it be the performance enhancing drugs that have cut a wide swath through All-Star Game rosters, ruining the game’s glamor? Could it be this popular website,…
Many unusual objects wash in with the tides on Delray Beach: a dirty sneaker, a mangled flip-flop, a bright-blue shampoo bottle. But last night, I noticed one that simply didn’t belong: a small sailboat, careening on its side, looking like a forgotten bath toy. It was floating close to shore…
Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley checked into a rehab facility in Houston over the weekend, just days after a photo of the number two overall draft pick with what may have been a bag of pot made waves on sports blogs across the country. Beasley posted the photo to his…
Those are highlights from Saturday’s match between two women who aren’t natives of Palm Beach County but who both now live there part time. Elena Dementieva, who has a home in Boca Raton, beat Serena Williams, of Palm Beach Gardens, in straight sets, advancing to the finals, where yesterday Dementieva…
That’s a crash from yesterday’s Championship Cup motorcycle race at the Palm Beach International Speedway in Jupiter, but I don’t think it’s the same one that caused two people to be hospitalized. The names of those two injured have not been released. The ride in the video above was racing…
Two years ago, the athletic director of Everglades High in Miramar was desperate to hang on to the school’s promising young coach, Mike Palmieri. A 2007 article in the Sun-Sentinel (sorry, I can’t find a link to a web version) details how Everglades lost Palmieri — who it paid about…
Nothing feels better than donating to a good cause, especially when such altruism rewards you with free stuff. That’s why you should become a friend of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. Over the years, New Times has shown a lot of love to this Juno Beach gem. We’ve rated…
