The Glades Day championship team of 2006 wore a uniform with a UF-looking logo on the right shoulder.Glades Day School has a pretty amazing football team, considering. The kindergarten-through-12th-grade private school has just 400 students on a tiny campus north of Belle Glade. Yet it has won six class 1B…
C. StilesMitchell and his wife at home in 2007.The video game champion framed as the dark-headed villain in the epic battle for Donkey Kong supremacy has been dethroned again. At least temporarily.Billy Mitchell, the veteran videogamer and owner of Rickey’s Restaurants in Hollywood and Pembroke Pines (and a brand of…
What would it take for a Florida Marlins game to overshadow a Dolphins victory on a Sunday in September? An act of God? No, just a freak accident in which a shattered bat impales itself in the chest of a Chicago Cubs outfielder. Tyler Colvin is in stable condition and expected…
Tara NieuwesteegPat Bertoletti put down nearly six pounds of pickles for the win.On Sunday morning, the world record for pickle eating was 2.99 pounds in six minutes. By about 11:30 a.m., that record had been demolished. Held at the Isle of Capri at Pompano Park, the event was part of…
He had a big game last week against UConn, but Michigan Wolverine (and Deerfield Beach native) Denard Robinson needed to wax Notre Dame this past weekend to establish himself as a Heisman Trophy candidate. How about 502 yards total offense and three touchdowns? Yep, that’ll do.Robinson wasn’t on anyone’s Heisman…
flickr.comThis week brought news that Bill Parcells is leaving his post as vice president of football operations for the Dolphins. Upon closer inspection, it sure seems like the Tuna was given the hook. And though he’s nothing short of a football legend — and it might sound almost sacrilegious to…
Nick O’Leary’s middle finger also helped him make this sensational catch.Dwyer Palm Beach Gardens lost this past weekend’s nationally televised game because of a bullshit call. And now Florida’s high school athletic association has added insult to that injury, suspending star tight end Nick O’Leary for two games because he…
Back in 2008, when Dale Tallon was still general manager of the Chicago Blackhawks, he might have been able to sell tickets to the team’s first practice of the year. But now he’s the GM for our Florida Panthers. A completely different hockey market and completely different story.Today the Blackhawks…
There has never been an individual sports rivalry like the one between Chris Evert, from Fort Lauderdale, and Martina Navratilova. Ali and Frasier fought three times. Borg and McEnroe played 14 times. Evert and Navratilova played 80 times, including 60 tournament finals and 14 grand slam finals. Next Tuesday, ESPN…
The Miami Dolphins just issued a statement to the media saying that Jeff Ireland will “assume full control over all aspects and decisions in regard to the Miami Dolphin football team and support staff.”Ireland, who had some trouble this offseason, was always slotted to take over for Parcells, according to…
The referees completely worked over Dwyer High School in what may be their biggest game of the year this Labor Day weekend.The varsity football team from the Palm Beach Gardens-based high school traveled to Ohio to play Cleveland Glenville, coached by Ted Ginn Sr. The game was hyped for months…
The Summer of LeBron just got weirder.In July, a group of guys in Northeast Ohio launched a campaign to collect LeBron James’ old Cleveland Cavaliers jerseys and send them to homeless people in Miami. It seemed like a wholesome idea. Clevelanders were so pissed off at the King’s betrayal of…
Earlier this week, as the Dolphins were getting ready to play the Cowboys in last night’s exhibition game, starting QB Chad Henne described to the media what he hoped to do.Well, I mean, I definitely want to come out with a lot of pluses. I mean, I have a really…
After LeBron James announced he was taking his talents from the south beach of Lake Erie to the South Beach of Miami, it was just a matter of time before Cleveland’s comedy laureate, Mike Polk, exacted his revenge.I know Polk from my time in Cleveland. You may know him as…
If TMZ is correct and LeBron James paid Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto to sit in on a business meeting yesterday, then the Heat star is officially courting South Florida mogul status.What better way to ingratiate himself to his new hometown than meet with a celeb rabbi known for providing business…
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has a lot of life experience and a lot of wisdom to bestow. On top of teaching yoga classes and studying to be a doctor, Williams – who has said this will be his last year, but has also said he’s reconsidering – generally…
The South Florida-based manager for Dennis Rodman said this morning that his client is “fine” after a car Rodman was riding in flipped at least three times on I-95 in Broward County this weekend.”He called me right after it happened,” the manager said. “He was going to the hospital, but…
Last year, the Juice brought you a feel-good story about Harriette “Hattie” Gubel celebrating her 95th birthday. The Fort Lauderdale lady is a big baseball fan, as it turns out, an even bigger fan of the Philadelphia Phillies, and an even bigger fan of Phillies Manager Charlie Manual.Although it would…
Last night brought news that Marlins starting left fielder, Chris Coghlan, could miss the rest of the season after he injured his knee–that’s right–smashing a shaving cream pie into his teammate’s face in a victory celebration.The world is going to laugh at this one for a long time, but Coghlan…
The homeless people of Cleveland don’t want them, and average citizens are tempted to burn them. So boatloads of LeBron James’ former Cleveland Cavaliers jerseys will soon be shipped to unsuspecting homeless shelters in Miami.This presents a number of issues. First, what self-respecting man would wear such an outdated piece…
No more burning jerseys. The good people of Cleveland are packing garbage bags full of those tainted LeBron James relics — No. 23 jerseys, shoes, homemade T-shirts that proclaimed the King’s name in puffy paint — and donating them to a worthy cause.A group of ad designers and other creative…
Brad Banks was a star at Belle Glades Central, where he led the team to the state championship his senior year. He was a two-time All-State selection and three-time captain of the varsity team. After one season at Central Florida University and another at a community college, Banks transferred to…
