Andrew Yogan entered this week’s Ontario Hockey League All-Star festivities rated as North America’s No. 65 prospect for the NHL Entry Draft on June 25 — putting him uncomfortably on the fringes, needing a standout performance this week to increase his fortunes.He got it. The 18-year-old Boca Raton native advanced…
Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you’re here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you’ll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete…
Every championship team needs overachievers — players who are performing far better than anyone could have expected. Players like Fort Lauderdale native Benny Sapp, who helped the Minnesota Vikings stomp the Dallas Cowboys this past weekend.Sapp, who was profiled this past week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (story’s available only to…
With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee native Nu’keese Richardson says he isn’t part of the investigation,…
It’s liable to get lost in the avalanche of pregame media coverage, but on January 30, Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium will host the first-ever Junior World Championship, pitting 45 of America’s best football players against 45 of the best who play the sport outside the U.S.For the age 19-and-under foreign…
Fort Lauderdale’s retired basketball great, Scottie Pippen, is all over the net these days. Last week we told you how the former Chicago Bulls stars was ambushed by extremely aggressive midgets. This week, Pippin has a supporting role in a segment from Fox’s The Cleveland Show that’s sure to be…
Thanks to Richard, the friend of Juice who located the video that is the basis for the Scottie Pippen statement below, about whether he’s a midge maimer. This appears to be footage of the scene in which Pippen — who didn’t know what he’d signed up for — was ambushed…
Before you start accusing basketball great (and Fort Lauderdale retiree) Scottie Pippen of being an abuser of midgets, you should hear him out. What? You never suspected him of beating midgets? Well, he did, but he was performing in a film he thought would be called A Tribute to Big…
A cast of celebrities who are now minority owners in our Miami Dolphins aren’t ready to let Land Shark Stadium lose its cachet as a Super Bowl destination. Yesterday, team management made a pitch to the South Florida media in hopes of convincing local governments to subsidize $250 million in…
Technically, Andre Dawson is the first Florida Marlin to be inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. But that’s merely a trivia question: Dawson retired as a Marlin in 1996 after having arrived here the previous year. We’re still waiting for the first player to be inducted into…
There are dozens of reasons South Floridians should be cheering for the University of Texas in tonight’s BCS National Championship game. Now, I’ll admit I’m not completely objective on the subject, but I want to convince you, South Florida, that you should be rooting for Texas tonight and not the…
Since Bucknell beat Miami in 1935, the annual Orange Bowl has provided some of the best moments of every college football season. Starting in the ’90s, the game also provided a few national championships. Though the game hasn’t been held in the physical Orange Bowl in Miami since 1999 (it’s…
Sunday morning was full of hope for plenty of South Florida football fans. For Dolphins fans, already jaded by an up-and-down season, that hope was dashed early in the day. For another brand of football fan, however, the day was a nail-biting, runaway mine train of emotions. Aside from the…
It’s been quite an exciting year for South Florida sports fans. There hasn’t been a large number of successes (no teams got out of the first round of the playoffs), but we have had veterans looking young again, one unbelievably talented basketball player, a few sex scandals, at least one…
Without a doubt, this has been the worst decade on record for one of the winning-est franchises in league history. It started with Jimmy Johnson retiring and Dan Marino following suit not long after. Then it went down hill from there. The Dolphins have had (count ’em) one, two, three,…
Anyone who has seen the documentary Lost Boys of Sudan (and everyone should) can appreciate the story of Thon Luony and Mathiang Muo. Both are Sudanese refugees who possess the height and athletic ability that is prized by basketball scouts who troll through those communities and pluck out a few…
As the gossip pages buzz with rumors that Tiger Woods was partying with his alleged mistress, Rachel Uchitel, this weekend at the Everglades Club on Palm Beach, it’s time for a reality check.First, Palm Beach’s oldest and most exclusive club is a gray-haired joint. According to one longtime member, the…
As the paparazzi continue to hunt for Tiger Woods (and I do mean hunt — tabloids have offered at least one New Times reporter hundreds of dollars for news tips about the golf star, and hundreds of thousands for photos), his alleged mistress, Rachel Uchitel has been venturing out near…
The hottest ticket in high school hoops this weekend was in Coral Springs, site of the Hawk Kreul Classic. The event’s main attraction: Pine Crest School senior point guard Brandon Knight.But in front of a national audience of hoops gurus, there was nothing Knight could do to elevate his status…
While working on this profile of Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, people kept swearing that the guy had a great sense of humor. It was hard to see, considering his normal grumpy demeanor in press conferences and most public appearances in general. But then I watched the clip above of Sparano…
UPDATE: A University of Tennessee sports web site is reporting that Richardson says he is not participating in the NCAA investigation of the school’s recruiting practices. He’s quoted saying: “I’m not involved in that.” These are Richardson’s first public comments after being arrested for armed robbery. He also says he…
Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players — we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see here. But now the question for NCAA investigators is whether he and his staff encourage the university’s female students to show a…
