Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but wouldn’t it have been great if Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade had inked a $75,000 check for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Trojans? “Absolutely,” says Debbie Rabinowitz, the band president and mother of a trombone-playing sophomore named Brian. Still, she…
Florida sports history was made Saturday night, and you probably missed it. The state’s first-ever professional lacrosse game was played at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, between the Toronto Rock and the New York Titans. Rock star (heh) Blaine Manning won the game in dramatic fashion, breaking a 14-14 tie with…
A Baltimore Raven defense led by two former University of Miami stars, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, thrashed our spunky Dolphins yesterday, 27-9. I could’ve sworn the Ravens were playing with 14 men on defense, but I’ll have to go back to the tape to make sure. At any rate,…
On that weekend in October when the Baltimore Ravens were in town to play the Dolphins, purple jerseys mobbed Fort Lauderdale Beach. I encountered about 100 fans boarding buses at the Yankee Clipper the morning of that game. There was no mistaking the ruddy faces and rowdy moods: These Ravens…
If there was a rash of Dolphins-related suicides around 10:45 p.m. last night, one local TV station certainly won’t be reporting on it. That’s because Channel 7, WSVN, hates the Miami Dolphins and doesn’t care if the team’s fans kill themselves. Or maybe some intern just made a horrible mistake…
If only every town in Florida had a casino. Then our little tykes in need might have some Christmas dough to spend and sports teams to join.The lucky little ones in Hallandale Beach have Gulfstream Park, the horse racetrack and casino. Although they’re not yet old enough to play poker or…
Nope. Fact is, this team isn’t nearly as good as its record suggests. Overrated? Maybe, but you can’t really over-rate a team that spent the previous season flirting with a record for professional football futility. So let’s try this: If next week the Dolphins defeat the New York Jets, then…
Yeah Juicians, Teen Wolf is the best thing to ever happen in American cinema. That’s a given. And apparently, when Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Greg White legally changed his name to Stylez G. White as a tribute to the buddy character in the 1985 Michael J. Fox Rupert “Stiles”…
Now that Joe Paterno’s landed a brand new three-year contract, just a few days before his 82nd birthday, the pressure’s on Florida State’s dad-gum head coach Bobby Bowden to get a four-year contract.The two old coots are currently running 1-2 in career victories. JoePa has 383. Bowden has 381. The…
Howdy Ho! If the Christmas poo gets too close to the Heat this team’s gonna blow.The Miami Heat need forward Michael Beasley to light up the scoreboard if they’re to have any chance of making the NBA Playoffs, which is what makes this report on Beasley’s recent bout with the…
In this week’s New Times, Tailpipe interviews the above water-skiing octogenarian, Frances Woofenden, from West Palm Beach. Here’s a 2006 appearance she made on CBS:– Amy Guthrie…
In this week’s print edition of The Juice, I wrote about Glen Johnson, a veteran South Florida boxer who’s spent most of his 15-year career facing off against the biggest names in the sport. Because he’s not punching police officers, barking at a judge, or telling anyone he wants to eat…
There are a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers fans in South Florida. But none love the boys in black and gold as much as a 31-year-old North Miami Beach man who’s a package handler at UPS. Or by now, probably, an ex-package handler. Thanks to the Steelers’ late rally over the…
It’s no shocker that a St. Thomas Aquinas High School senior has accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Notre Dame. The Fort Lauderdale football powerhouse has two players in gold helmets already — offensive linemen Sam Young and Dan Wenger. Another, senior punter Ben Turk will be…
The people who love the Dolphins are having a pretty good year, too. At least if you judge by the recent totals in fan voting for this year’s NFL Pro Bowl. Four, that’s right, FOUR Miami Dolphins are in first place in their respective positions in on-line fan balloting. This…
In the first minute of the video below, the remarks by Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery that have earned him a six-game suspension by the National Hockey League:Hockey’s a sport that needs to generate fan interest in the worst way, a truth that’s even more apparent here in South Florida,…
