American tennis fans sick of getting whipped in international tournaments may depend on South Florida — and Broward County in particular — for a new generation of stars. This weekend in San Antonio, Jake Albo from Plantation entered that derby by beating Californian Greg Goway in the finals of the…
Cletis Mays hasn’t been quite the same since he shipped off to Vietnam. The adventure left him with some memories he won’t revisit, and it cost him his legs. But Mays, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, survived. He then had a son. And now Corey Mays is a linebacker for…
Brandon Knight, the 6-foot-3 point guard from Pine Crest Academy in Fort Lauderdale, is ranked by recruiting service Rivals.com as the top high school senior in the nation. And you can bet he noticed how last week, a player who was neck-and-neck with Knight for that honor, Jeremy Tyler, broke…
Kevin Bryant, a hulking offensive lineman who played for Anderson High School in Hollywood, has been kicked off the University of North Carolina football team following misdemeanor charges of assaulting a woman in Durham County, according to the News-Observer.Standing 6-foot-7 and weighting 350 pounds, Bryant was named by national recruiting…
Fourteen-year-old Sachia Vickery and 13-year-old Victoria Duval, from Miramar and Delray Beach, respectively, spent this past weekend in the Czech Republic, giving that nation’s tennis fans a show they won’t soon forget. The ITF World Junior Tennis Championships is a match-up of national teams, based on single matches, but the…
Alexis Thompson, the 14-year-old golfer from Coral Springs advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur tournament this past weekend in St. Louis, and though that made her the youngest golfer in the field by two years, it wasn’t nearly a record.The record was set in 2007, when Thompson…
Ever since Jesse Levine’s improbable run into Wimbledon’s third round, Canadians have been trying to claim the promising 21-year-old as their standard-bearer in tennis. But Levine and his family moved to Boca Raton when he was 13. That gave the Ottawa native a chance to enjoy the patronage of the…
Fab Melo, the seven-foot tall Brazilian exchange student who will make his American basketball debut this year at Sagemont High School in Weston, has made hoops fans in upstate New York awfully happy. He just committed to play his college ball at Syracuse.Known simply as “Melo,” he’s already drawing comparisons…
I know we’re supposed to hate all things connected with the New York Jets, but it’ll be hard not to pull for Kareem Brown. He’s a native South Floridian who suited up for the U. and then — through no fault of his own — was drafted by the odious…
South Florida football players are a weird obsession for University of Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin. In the last recruiting campaign, he sparked controversy — then the kind of back-pedaling you’d prize in an All-America cornerback — after he accused Florida Coach Urban Meyer of breaking NCAA rules with a prospect…
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By now, everybody knows about Alexis Thompson, the Coral Springs girl who at 14 is among the most promising female golfers in the game. To no one’s surprise, she dominated this past weekend’s Junior PGA Championship in Mainville, Ohio, winning by 12 strokes, just one off the tournament record.But T.J…
At 9 p.m. tonight, ESPN2 is kicking off an edition of Friday Night Fights with a feature about 20 kids from western Palm Beach County who participate in the Police Athletic League’s boxing program. The youngsters, all from Pahokee and Belle Glade, taped the segment yesterday at the Seminole Hard…
Today the Juice directs your attention to an oldie but goodie: Los Angeles area blogger/smartass extraordinaire/ former New Times correspondent Tim Hammill, AKA Tim Hammer, has launched a podcast (and entertaining blog full of chuckly boy humor). In episode two, Hammer describes an alleged encounter between the Miami Heat’s Jermaine…
Let’s not panic, Hanley Ramirez admirers. Your star shortstop is healthy, and he’s helped your team to three straight wins and to within two games of the Wild Card. Best of all, he’s not related to Manny Ramirez, who apparently has been frosting his Wheaties since at least 2003. I…
That’s a trailer from a UPS-sponsored documentary about last year’s Truck Driving Championships. This year, Hollywood is sending Florida’s finest big-rig pilot: Patrick Condon, who prevailed in the recent statewide competition in Tampa.Sadly, these championships are sanctioned by the American Trucking Associations, which means they reward safety rather than dare-devilry…
It’s the city where the three best American men at Wimbledon perfected their games, as well as the fourth-ranked woman in the women’s circuit. It’s home to the tennis academy of one of the best female players in history. It has a sparkling city court, one of the nation’s best…
That’s a video from the Paralympic Games of wheelchair tennis, which has its own league within the United States Tennis Association. Last weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jan Proctor of Delray Beach won her first tournament after four years on the circuit. She’s 56 years old and beat a 38-year-old…
That’s a few points from a match this past weekend between two international youth volleyball squads, with the USA White Youth team in the foreground and a team from the Dominican Republic in the far court. Volleyball players, most of whom were girls, absolutely swarmed SE 17th Street last weekend…
Justin Feagin inherited the athletic brilliance of his uncle Steven Feagin, but the star quarterback at American Heritage High School in Delray Beach was also saddled with the challenge of trying to focus on schoolwork and football practice while back home in Deerfield Beach his uncle awaited trial on rape…
It’s hard to understand how Maikon Bonani, star kicker for the University of South Florida, could have possibly forgotten to lock the door of the gondola on the Skyride at Busch Gardens in Tampa. After all, that was his job. It’s doubly perplexing that after realizing his error, in a…
That’s the view from within the cockpit of Steve David’s hydroplane. And that flying yellow thing at the three-second mark is a near-death experience: another hydroplane that flipped right over him. That happened at a race on Washington state’s Columbia River in 2006, which is the fastest hydroplane track –…
