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ESPN is reporting that the Miami Heat is one of the few teams who have stayed on the phone past today’s 3 p.m. NBA trade deadline. The team is working feverishly to try to land Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer in hopes his arrival will convince Dwyane Wade the team’s…

Nail school students aspire to paint the fingernails of international celebrities. But at the Palm Beach Nail School, those students are liable to spot a celebrity in the next desk. Serena Williams, who lives with her family in Palm Beach Gardens, is devoting part of her tennis offseason to studying…

Hold your dead horses, South Florida. Joey Porter isn’t gone yet. Hours after announcing that the team is releasing the controversial (some might say over-rated) linebacker, the Dolphins just sent out this message: “The release of Joey Porter was determined to be an invalid termination. Therefore at this time, Porter…

He coached the Miami Hurricanes. He coached the Miami Dolphins. Now Jimmy Johnson is coaching men to buy ExtenZe, a “male enhancement tablet” that promises to “really make a difference.”In television commercials, the company is very sly, never making specific claims about what “difference” the product makes. But on the…

The Miami Dolphins just announced the release of pass-rushing specialist Joey Porter. Signed in March 2007 to a five-year, $32-million contract, Porter played in 14 games last year, posting 41 tackles and nine sacks. But after a disappointing Dolphin debut, followed by a sterling all-pro season in 2008, those 2009…

Scott Rothstein neighbor, cartoon cameo-maker, and victim of midget violence Scottie Pippen is close to earning induction into the Hall of Fame for that other thing he did: play basketball.According to an ESPN report, Pip is one of 19 finalists for the Naismith Hall of Fame — a group that…

Ursula O’Donnell was arrested in 2002 for helping to kill more than 2,000 greyhounds. Last month we learned she was still working as a trainer in the state of Florida, where her alleged crimes took place. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigated O’Donnell, a member of the…

While most of South Florida was obsessed with that little “Super Bowl” business this weekend, Wellington resident Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) was at a basketball game. In Canada.For the chilled Toronto crowd, Ice played his cover of “Play That Funky Music,” then asked, “How ’bout a little old-school for…

Having had our own favorite teams eliminated from the NFL Playoffs, my friends and I were dispassionate observers of yesterday’s Super Bowl. We had a slight preference for a Saints victory, if only because it’s easy to empathize with New Orleans’ hurricane misfortunes and for the franchise’s four decades of…

The first time the Miami Caliente played the Chicago Bliss at the Sears Centre Arena in September, the Bliss won 29-19. For last night’s rematch in the Eastern Conference championship game, Chicago had to travel to South Florida. The result, however, was the same. The Bliss won 20-7.But the game…

In what was thought to be a recruiting coup, the Michigan Wolverines landed a highly sought-after local football star: Boyd Anderson High defensive back Demar Dorsey who on Wednesday signed a letter of intent to play football at the Big Ten university. That’s his hip-hop scored highlight reel above.But the…

A prominent hotel industry blog has declared the Indianapolis Colts the Super Bowl champions in their pre-game hotel match-up against the New Orleans Saints. Credit goes to Fort Lauderdale’s Harbor Beach Marriott Resort, which in a side-by-side comparison was found to have rooms and amenities superior to the Intercontinental Miami.But…

There are high school students who are older than the Florida Panthers franchise, but it seems team owners couldn’t wait any longer to start working on a hall of fame. That’s a virtual tour above. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s in the trophy cases — was that a Pavel…

Photo by Tim Elfrink The world’s sweatiest Canadian TV reporter gets funky with the Saints.To the unitiated, Super Bowl Media Day must sound like some outrageous backstage fantasy. Media and players partying together! Celebrities around every corner! Free buffet lunch! Well not to worry, ignorant and uninvited masses. Riptide is…

As the host of this year’s Super Bowl, some South Florida blog owes America the chance to see the commercials that were deemed too hot for the big game. Or to put it another way, these are commercials that were ditched in the same year that Tim Tebow and his…

That’s a video from Saturday of Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary student who became world-famous during his 2008 quest to interview Barack Obama. The kid landed that interview this past summer. Judging by this more recent video at Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium, Weaver has followed the traditional journalism career…

The Pro Bowl is inarguably the worst event in professional sports. The game of football, replete with epic playbooks, chemistry that takes years to build, and bone-crushing hits, simply doesn’t lend itself to an all-star game. The sport does produce great athletes, though, and perhaps nobody in the history of…

Dolphins fans don’t need another reason to hate the Jets, but New York’s head coach sure gave us one more on Saturday. That’s when Rex Ryan flipped off Dolphins Fans at a mixed martial arts bout in Sunrise. An astute spectator snapped a camera phone image, above, of Ryan’s expression…

The NFL Network has lots of time to kill before this weekend’s Pro Bowl festivities, and it could do worse than letting Chad Ochocinco run his mouth for a few minutes. Around 1:40, he describes his plans to perform as both a punter and a kicker at Sunday’s game in…

Ah, you fair-weather LeBron James fans. I saw you drooling over the King last night as he mesmerized the crowd at American Airlines Arena with his warrior layups and toe-to-toe combat with Dwyane Wade.You held those signs — “Come to Miami, LeBron. Work on your tan!” — and you wore…