Well, that didn’t take long.Joe Philbin just spoiled tomorrow’s episode of Hard Knocks because earlier this afternoon, he announced that rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill will be the Dolphins Week 1 starter. Let’s everybody go crazy with irrational expectations! FUCK YEA!Taken with the eighth overall pick of the 2012 draft, Tannehill is…
The Marlins have been so bad this season, even Showtime is giving up on them. MLB Productions, Showtime and the team have announced that Wednesday’s episode of The Franchise will be the last of the season. The Franchise, which shows the ins-and-outs of a major league baseball team, was originally slated…
Ryan Tannehill got his first NFL start on Friday, and things went exactly as you’d expect them to go when it’s the Miami Dolphins: not great.That’s not to say Tannehill was a disaster. He was sharp, made nice throws, and showed a knack for the offense. It’s just that the…
The Dolphins’ second pre-season game tonight against the Carolina Panthers should be interesting, in that the entire roster remains in flux with five weeks left to go before the season starts.Players are injured, the receiving corps is a huge question mark, and our once-reliable kicker is now just a mound…
With first-team quarterback David Garrard down four to six weeks with a knee injury suffered when playing in the pool with his kids and second-string quarterback Matt Moore being a puppet and all, the Miami Dolphins will turn to first-round rookie pick Ryan Tannehill to start tonight’s preseason game at…
Last night’s episode of Hard Knocks featured gut-wrenching moments, scrappy white receivers, Sean Smith shutting people down, David Garrard getting injured, Chad Johnson getting fired, and rookies getting cock-and-balls-shaped haircuts.It was a jam-packed episode. Here’s your recap:…
Yesterday morning, Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby went on Sid Rosenberg’s morning show on 640 AM and said that the team releasing Chad Johnson is a bigger distraction than Johnson himself. Because Dansby figured the best thing he could possibly do to help avoid distractions was to go on sports talk…
Jose Canseco has a knack for always tweeting out interesting things to his 482,520 or so followers on a daily basis. And by “interesting,” we mean “batshit nutty.” Yesterday, the steroid-drenched slugger took to Twitter and tweeted out this ominous message:”Yes time travel is possible. Will explain later.”So the world waited…
In what might be news to most people, Chad Johnson and his new wife, Evelyn Lozada, were supposed to premiere their VH1 reality show this September. But then Johnson learned the hard way that allegedly using your head to hit your wife in the face inside a Smart Car will…
A Walgreens receipt for a box of condoms and a head-butt inside a Smart Car have led the Dolphins to end the Chad Ochocinco/Johnson era in Miami. Just two months after joining his hometown team as a free agent, Johnson was released by the Miami Dolphins following his Saturday night…
Your Miami Dolphins open their 2012 season tonight when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a pre-season matchup FUCK YEA. It’s a whole new start (again!) for the Dolphins, as they unveil a new coaching regime (again!), a offensive scheme (again!), a new defensive scheme (again!) and a couple of new quarterbacks…
The 2012 Summer Olympics just got COBRADICK’D.LeBron James went into yesterday’s quarterfinal match against Australia and dropped 11 points, 14 rebounds, and 12 assists in the 119-86 beatdown of the Aussies. His 12 assists tied Olympic records held by Phil Ford, Leon Wood, and some dude named Michael Jordan. And…
HBO’s Hard Knocks featuring the Miami Dolphins debuted last night and filled us all with the inevitable feeling of false hope and overhyped enthusiasm for our shitty, shitty football team.But a reality show featuring the Fins is a nice change of pace from their old NORAD-like, supersecretive attitude from years…
Disgraced South Florida baseball player Jose Canseco is in debt — $1.69 million in debt, to be exact, most of it in taxes. But don’t worry — it’s not the former MLB all-star’s fault.”The issue is very simple: If you’ve got friends and family, the more money you make the…
Former Chicago Bulls forward, local bar hopper, and occasional wedding-dress wearer Dennis Rodman has apparently written a children’s book. The NBA Hall of Famer has teamed up with screenwriter Dustin Warburton, who penned the cinematic masterpiece Spiders 3D to write Dennis the Wild Bull, slated to be released sometime in…
La-dee-dah, Sen. Marco Rubio doesn’t think the money Olympians get paid for winning should be taxed. As our colleagues in Miami point out this morning, Rubio has proposed that the prize money ($25,000 for gold, less for silver and bronze) given to winning athletes should be exempt from taxation. It…
Your Miami Dolphins hit the practice field today for the opening of training camp for a whole new season of suck. Thus far, Matt Moore (aka THE PUPPET) has taken the first-team reps, while David Garrard is leading the second stringers.Conspicuously absent from the proceedings is first-round pick QB Ryan…
On the heels of the Miami Marlins’ trading away Hanley Ramirez to the Dodgers and Anibal Sanchez to the Tigers and working on a possible deal to send Josh Johnson to the Rangers comes a Forbes report that the Fish are on pace to set the record for drawing the…
South Florida’s favorite ‘roid-pushing, Twitter-pontificating baseball meathead has made a triumphant return to major league baseball: During the MLB All-Star Game on Monday night, the Kansas City TV market got to see Miami’s son, Jose Canseco. The first 40-40 man in history was there, right in the middle of the…
The Miami Heat has reached a settlement to recoup part of what it says was a $3 million loss from its involvement in the $1.4 billion Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, according to documents filed Tuesday.The RRA bankruptcy trust initially sued the Heat and its affiliate, Basketball Properties Ltd., to get…
Dara Torres has competed in five Olympic games since 1984, won 12 medals, and set the American record in the 50-meter freestyle first at 15 years old and then again at 40. The New York Times described her as having “the perfect swimmer’s body,” hardly marked by age, “gangly, loose…
If you couldn’t make it to today’s parade celebrating the Miami Heat’s NBA championship, we’ve got a big pile of photos from the event — there are players, there are fans, there are T-shirts that reference the “Miami zombie.”View photos from the Miami Heat 2012 Championship Parade here…
