If the love story between Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant were an ’80s romance movie, Dwyane Wade would be the suave, successful rebound guy who dates one of the leads briefly in the second act–right before the big reunion moment.Last night’s NBA All-Star game gave us that moment. Playing on the same team for the first…
If baseball players like South Florida homeboy ARod can use banned substances to gain supernatural powers, it seems only fair that I should be able to call upon supernatural powers to reincarnate a group of the 20th Century’s best: players who managed to post their sensational statistics in an era…
Of all the golfers at this weekend’s Allianz Championship in Boca Raton, Jim Thorpe is going to lug around the most baggage. The 60-year-old who won three PGA Tour tournaments and four since he’s joined the Champions Tour, for golfers over 50, was charged Wednesday with cheating on his taxes…
You don’t really have to beat the Chicago Bulls. Just let them stand at the perimeter and launch low-percentage shots or make impossible passes. If that doesn’t work, just wait. Eventually, their imbecile coach — named Vinny of the Black — will summon from the bench an Argentine madman named…
Pop quiz sports fans: What do Bengals’ receiver Chad Ocho Cinco (formerly Chad Johnson), Cardinals’ receiver Anquan Boldin, and Giants’ receiver Plaxico Burress have in common? They all have histories of insubordination (and one shot himself in the leg in a nightclub). They all have homes in South Florida. They’re all…
I think it’s “pretty accurate” to say the Miami Heat can no longer beat the Denver Nuggets. Last night the Heat dropped its 8th straight to Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets. By 17. At home. And it’s pretty accurate to say it was never close. Was that an American flag…
Last night was the one-year anniversary of the night in Buffalo when Panthers winger Richard Zednik almost died after Olli Jokinen’s skate slashed his carotid artery and sent five pints of blood onto the ice. A few days in the hospital and a blood transfusion later, Zednik was eying a…
This past weekend, the Los Angeles Times landed the first interview with All-Star slugger Manny Ramirez, currently enjoying his status as the most sought-after free agent in baseball. Ramirez is training in Pensacola Beach while his superagent Scott Boras handles the negotiations with the Giants and Dodgers. In the meantime,…
It was the weekend of positives, including a positive story about a plane crash. The most stimulating revelation came from a Sports Illustrated report that longtime Miami resident Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two different banned steroids during his 2003 MVP season with the Texas Rangers. A-Rod remains silent on the issue.A few…
As of just six weeks ago, the 44th annual Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament wasn’t going to happen. Event planner East Coast Eventz told the Marine Industries Association of South Florida in December that it simply couldn’t secure any sponsors. Kitty McGowan, who sits on the board of the association, responded:…
So first Nu’Keese Richardson said he would play for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida. Then on national signing day the speed-demon wide receiver from Pahokee decided he would rather play for University of Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin (a UF rival). Then at a press conference yesterday morning, Kiffin told reporters he…
As the clock struck zero last night, alas, Dwyane Wade was not a hero. Judging by the expression on his face right after his three-pointer bounced off the rim to end the 93-90 loss to Detroit, D-Wade knew he let a close one get away (or a piece of ice just slipped into…
Yeah, all the Florida football teams are done for the year, and when you watch the big game this weekend you’ll probably care more about the commercials than either team (unless you’re a gambler, like me, and the commercials just delay the inevitable sobbing and cursing and swearing never to…
Barabaro’s brother, Nicanor (above), will make his racing debut tomorrow at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, exactly two years after the death of the horse that won the hearts of a nation. Or at least the sentimental half.It’s a good thing horses can’t understand the pressure of expectations… Can they?After the…
OK, I’m exaggerating a little. But are you telling me this team couldn’t have scored a couple touchdowns against the Detroit Lions? Next Wednesday is National Signing Day, which is to college football fans what Christmas is to 8-year-olds. It’s the day when high school seniors sign a letter of…
Last night the National Hockey League staged its All-Star Game in Montreal, and by tomorrow everyone will have forgotten that East beat West — or was it the other way around? All-Star games are remembered by individual performances, not final scores. A big winner: Florida Panthers defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, who…
Including this one, courtesy of Jarret Johnson of Anderson University in Indiana:…
I wish I could say that today’s appointment of Kerry Collins as Brett Favre’s replacement in the NFL Pro Bowl was the fatal blow to this game’s credibility. But that credibility left long ago. So let’s just call this a signal that the powers that be don’t believe that Chad…
Charter boat captain Mark “the Shark” Quartiano is (in)famous for catching and killing sharks off our South Florida shores. He loves to post bloody pictures of his kill, like the hammerhead on the right. And, if anyone famous ever gets on his boat, Striker-1, he’s bound to get the word…
For an encore, Tim Tebow will rescue a kitten from the top floor of a burning skyscraper.Judging by the large number of blue and orange-adorned ticket holders puking in the parking lot, it was great to be a Gator last night. The Super Bowl of college football featured jets and…
As any blog reader knows, live blogs are the current way of the future. And any journalist who wants to keep his job embraces the latest way of the future. So…welcome to the first ever LIVE BLOG in Juice history. I secured my spot in the press booth months ago, when it looked like…
If you happen to have an extra grand or so to blow on a football game, you probably won’t need to come here for my bitter blog posts, live from the BCS Championship. But if you live in the same country as the rest of us non-yacht owners, you can…
