As the state’s best defensive back, Matt Elam from Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer must have assumed that when he gave his verbal commitment to the University of Florida, the defending champs would stop courting other defensive backs.But Elam surely knows that four DBs are on the field at once –…
You probably didn’t see it. I only realized what it was when I watched the replays again last night. After Vontae Davis stepped in front of Lee Evans on Sunday to intercept Bills quarterback Trent Edwards and then took it into the endzone for a score he celebrated in a fashion…
[jump] He resigned (was fired) after only a few weeks for saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. To be fair to Limbaugh though, at the time he made those statements it had only been 15 years since…
It’s hard to make a celebrity marriage work. Golfing great Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert made it only 15 months before they separated last week. And this weekend, Norman’s ex, Laura Andrassy, who last year scored a $120 million settlement in the divorce, gave a wide-ranging interview to…
That’s Coral Springs ninth-grader Alexis Thompson, starring Friday at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama. Besides that interview with ESPN, Thompson took a call from one of the legends of women’s golf, Nancy Lopez.Thompson came down to Earth on Saturday, falling eight strokes behind the lead, but she still came…
Looks like the Panthers like playing in front of big crowds. In Helsinki, they won their opening game of the season against the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that’s a fashionable pick to win the Stanley Cup.David Booth overcame the Juice jinx, scoring the tying goal with less than three minutes…
The best basketball player to ever walk planet Earth is moving to Jupiter. A $7.6 million mansion? Fine. He deserves it, along with the lifetime of leisure that awaits him in the decades to come. I certainly have no regrets from buying the Bulls tickets and jerseys and countless pairs…
When it comes to South Florida athletes of Haitian descent, Jozy Altidore gets all the accolades. Strange, because by his own admission, he plays soccer. Jason Pierre-Paul, a Deerfield Beach High School graduate now playing defensive end for the University of South Florida, is grabbing some headlines of his own,…
With Chad Pennington facing what could very well be career-ending surgery tomorrow from sports surgeon extraordinaire, Birmingham-based Dr. James Andrews, he had some thoughts for the media on what he’s going through, where he goes from here, the hit that separated his shoulder, and his time so far in South…
According to a sports website, ESPN.com, there is a hockey team in South Florida. Presumably, the “Panthers” are so named because they’re a rarely seen threatened species. In fact, according to ESPN, the Panthers’ biggest star — winger David Booth — is practically invisible when he drives around Broward County…
[jump] Six-foot-one, 224-pound Tyler Thigpen – not to be confused with Tecmo Bowl go-to wide out Yancy Thigpen or the perfunctory Peanuts playboy Pigpen – went to high school in South Carolina, where he was all-state as a running back. After graduating in 2002, he attended Coastal Carolina University in…
Jozy Altidore, the teenager from Boca Raton who was one of the heroes of America’s improbable run in the FIFA Confederations Cup this past summer, will not meet many of his countrymen this season. That’s because he’s playing in Europe’s elite first division, where the best American players tend to…
An afternoon full of rain made a sloppy field, but the University of Georgia Bulldogs had faith that their young kicker, Blair Walsh, a sophomore from Boca Raton, could knock the ball through the uprights from 37 yards away. He did so with no time left on the clock. Arizona…
Since he left the NBA in 2005, we can’t give Kenny Anderson the award for the league’s Most Improved Player. But if there were an off-the-court award for players who suddenly developed their character after a sordid past, it would go to the former Georgia Tech star who now lives…
That’s Rod Beck. “Shooter,” as he was known by fans and teammates. Looks like a guy rousted from a truck stop, doesn’t he? Note the Fu Manchu, the double chin, the mullet. Below that, a massive beer gut. This is a guy who during a stint in the minors with…
Carla Borrego was a netball prodigy in Jamaica, but she left the sport and moved to Fort Lauderdale, where she tried to play a game similar to netball — except with a backboard. That is, basketball. At 6-foot-4, she dominated the opposition at Broward Community College, leading to a berth…
Used to be, the young people would flock to Fort Lauderdale and clash with the old. It was called “spring break,” and the mighty beast was slew in the ’80s, according to the carbon dating of fossil remains. Now the old flock to Fort Lauderdale for the young. We know…
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is the latest victim in the government’s campaign to lock up successful Floridians. Today the Lighthouse Point resident began serving a two-year prison sentence for shooting himself in the thigh at a New York City club. The incident occurred in November 2008,…
[jump] Scheduled guests include linebacker turned restaurateur, Kim Bokamper; legendary wide receiver Nat Moore (remember the “helicopter catch”?); another linebacker turned restaurateur, John Offerdahl (you can ask him why so many of his restaurants have gone the way of D. Wade’s); and of course the lovely Dolphins cheerleaders (you can…
En garde! In downtown Hollywood, swordplay is no longer just for transients. In two weeks, the Hollywood Sabres Fencing Club will open its doors at 2000 Harrison St., near Young Circle, to go along with the glass-blowing, jewelry-making, and sculpting that happens in the ArtsPark. But those latter three all…
Exactly one month ago, in the fifth inning of a minor-league baseball game in Birmingham, Alabama, former Broward Community College star Christian Marrero stepped into the batters box and looked to the mound, where lefty Darin Downs was getting the signals from his catcher. Downs played at Santaluces High School…
The last time we saw Kimbo Slice (aka Kevin Ferguson) he was on his knees at the BankAtlantic Center getting punched in the head by a pink-haired smoothie salesman. In 14 seconds, it seemed his mixed martial arts career – and the entire league built around him – was done. As…
