The new Miami Marlins stadium has a backstop that could only have originated in South Florida — rather than have a normal-people brick wall or those nice green pads, the stadium will have 40 feet of aquariums separating the area behind home plate from the first row of fans.Though Marlins…
Who the hell knows where former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is going to end up. With sports reporters wildly repeating whatever their perpetually unnamed sources are telling them, we’ve heard the Miami Dolphins’ hopes of landing the star are “losing steam,” that it’s a two-horse race between the Arizona Cardinals…
(EDIT, 2:20 p.m.: Jose Lambiet is reporting Faulk doesn’t even own the condo anymore because the condo association bought it from him after a deal in 2010.)PNC Bank filed a foreclosure complaint late last month on the Pompano Beach condo of Marshall Faulk, the former St. Louis Rams running back…
The man in right field for the Miami Marlins has “Stanton” written on the back of his jersey, but the name on his baseball cards will be changing, according to the Associated Press.The Home Run Artist Formerly Known as Mike Stanton would like it to be known that he wishes…
Louis did not have an average childhood. An orphan, he was taken in by kindly nuns, but now he’s 30 years old and the nuns finally convinced him to move out. He was raised to be a kind and forgiving gentleman, but his experience in the orphanage had one blind…
Here’s an audit Florida’s professional sports franchises may not have expected — records of housing the homeless at their facilities over the years.The chances of that audit happening depend on a bill that’s working its way through the Legislature, and if the Florida Panthers haven’t been housing the homeless, the…
The New York Rangers haven’t been a hip hockey team since Bill Clinton was president.That said, his appearance last night at Madison Square Garden to watch the Rangers take on the Florida Panthers actually makes sense.The Rangers are on a hot streak right now, and beating the Panthers last night…
New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire bought a new house in Southwest Ranches, which made headlines a few weeks ago largely due to the fact that his new pad is enormous and expensive — $3.7 million for 14,555 square feet.Is it obnoxiously large with a huge swimming pool, movie theater,…
Growing up in southern New Hampshire as I did, kids knew there was one way to curse around parents and teachers. You put Bucky before the four-letter word and then Dent afterward. As in, Bucky F-ing Dent. As in the Yankees shortstop who seemed to draw upon the powers of…
There are three things Tony Sparano is really good at — chewing gum, wearing a mustache, and sending in the field-goal unit.Apparently none of those helps the Miami Dolphins win football games, so he’s out at head coach.Assistant head coach/secondary coach Todd Bowles was named as the interim head coach…
Rep. Allen West is still talking about President Obama’s speech in Kansas last week, this time explaining that reputable institutions such as the NFL are based on the “American principle of equal opportunity,” not the president’s idea of “fairness.”Apparently, if Obama were the NFL commissioner, West thinks that Obama might…
Tim Tebow is quite possibly more popular than God himself — at least, he may be in Florida.The former Florida Gator, Heisman Trophy winner, two-time BCS national champion, and current Denver Broncos quarterback is viewed favorably by 59 percent of Floridians, according to survey results released this afternoon by Public…
Carl Pelini — the former defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Nebraska — is officially the new head coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls.Replacing the retiring Howard Schnellenberger, Pelini signed a five-year contract that starts with a $450,000 base salary.Pelini becomes the second coach in the history of…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall had to have another awkward conversation with deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office a couple of weeks ago.This time, Marshall was involved in what one deputy called an “apparent misunderstanding” that led to his being handcuffed and detained in the back of a patrol…
A cub reporter at the Sun-Sentinel landed a major headline back in mid-November. Writer Dieter Kurtenbach claimed he had uncovered documents and found sources that showed a star high school quarterback may have transferred schools in violation of state policies. His big story landed on the Sentinel’s homepage November 17…
After ten straight failed attempts at winning a football game (13 if you include last season), the Florida Atlantic University Owls finally figured out how to score more points than the other team.FAU, the only team in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision that went into this weekend without a win,…
We understand it’s been a tough stretch for athletics at Florida Atlantic University over the past few months (like the whole football thing), so we won’t blame any Owls fans for getting a little excited on Saturday night.See, George Mason University’s basketball team — ranked 63rd in the nation in…
The Florida Atlantic University Owls managed to remain the only team without a win in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision after getting steamrolled 34-7 at Troy this weekend.Today is the 374th day since FAU last won a game, beating the Ragin’ Cajuns of the University at Louisiana at Lafayette by…
The Florida Atlantic University Owls are now the worst team in college football, as FAU remains the only team without a win in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.The New Mexico Lobos were consistently rated as worse than FAU, but after a 21-14 win over UNLV on Saturday, FAU takes over…
When something wacky happens somewhere across the country, a gamblin’ man would probably bet that it came out of South Florida.So when the Harlem Globetrotters announced they were hosting a nationwide H-O-R-S-E contest, we weren’t extremely surprised that South Florida provided an actual basketball-playing horse.The Globetrotters are hosting an online…
Despite the fact that just over half of our readers predicted the Florida Atlantic University Owls would win a game this year before the Miami Dolphins, the nearly 27 percent who thought both teams would go without a win this year may be on the right track.FAU didn’t lose this…
Florida is a death trap for football this year — there are no college football teams in the state in the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll for the first time in almost 30 years, and the three NFL teams have a combined record of 5-12.Two of those teams, the Florida…
