Former Boca Raton resident Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified to race in Sunday’s Indy 500 — now he just needs to pass every single one of the Formula One cars who will start in front of him.Last Sunday, in the last ten minutes of a drama-filled “Bump Day,” Hunter-Reay managed to snag…
LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Allen Iverson, and Dwight Howard: Before they were NBA stars each was merely the top-ranked player in their national class of high school basketball recruits. So that gives young Brandon Knight something to shoot for. The 6-foot-3 junior at Pine Crest in Fort Lauderdale…
Fifteen years and a thousand miles stand between Deon Thomas and his all-too-brief memories of basketball stardom. Or at least, the memories based in America, which are all from college. Thomas’ professional basketball success took place across the Atlantic. One of the greatest players to ever wear the orange jersey…
Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois’ all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now he’s a JV coach in the Broward ‘burbs.Specifically, Thomas is the absurdly overqualified coach of the junior…
There’s still no word on when the Broward County Commission will discuss the fate of the Blazing Paddles dragon boat team in West Lake Park. But for those who have been following the boaters’ saga–they were nearly evicted from the park, after one kayaker complained that the team’s boat storage…
They got Jason Taylor back, and they got two big corners, filling the biggest needs from last year. But still, when NFL.com came out with the latest power rankings earlier this week, the division-champion Miami Dolphins were right in the middle of the league: number 17. Surely this is because…
Former dancer with stars turned JuiceBlendz investor turned still a football player, Jason Taylor will be coming back to South Florida soon. Get your popcorn smoothies ready. And he really wanted to be back here, as evidenced by the $7 million paycut he took to return to the Dolphins. He’ll…
At the Aquatic Complex on Fort Lauderdale Beach Saturday, 14-year-old British diving star Tom Daley performed a “back 3 and 1/2 somersaults tucked” that was, in the estimation of the judges, flawless: Perfect tens from all seven. The dive helped propel Daley to victory in the 10-meter platform portion of…
The Miami Dolphins announced today that Dolphins Satdium will henceforth be known as LandShark Stadium. We won’t even get into the fact that the Marlins and the Dolphins play in that stadium, and Sharks eat both of those animals. (I bet if the Dolphins are 0-7 at home, they’ll change…
Tom Daley, the 14-year-old British diving star turned bully target, may not be moving to Fort Lauderdale, as some irresponsible area blogs would have you believe, but he is currently in Fort Lauderdale for the USA Diving Grand Prix. But yesterday he and his synchronized diving partner Max Brick finished…
I met Carroll during the 2008 spring training. While watching Albert Pujols and eating hot dogs, we sat in the sun and discussed how Judy Garland recruited him to Munchkinland, how his voice was the one screaming “Doorothee!” during the twister scene, and how much he enjoyed coming to Florida…
Florida is utterly besotted with Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow. The latest demonstration is Tebow’s being appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to co-chair the Council on Physical Fitness. It’s gotten so bad, that I defy you to get a perfect score on the True-False test below. Click on the link…
Manny Ramirez, who slugs homers in the West when he’s not home in Weston, will get to spend some unexpected time enjoying his local digs. He’s reportedly tested positive for a banned substance and Major League Baseball is expected to announce his 50-game suspension today.The L.A. Dodger outfielder is rumored…
“It was like a plane crash, but with horses instead of people.” That’s the first quote in the fantastic E:60 segment on the polo horse deaths in Wellington last month. It started with two mares sick at the barn. Soon there were dead horses all over the place. The Palm…
The Blazing Paddles dragon boat team won a temporary reprieve this morning in its quest to keep storing its boats and holding weekend practices at West Lake Park. The Broward County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted to recommend that the team stay in the park, at least until the…
An investment fund chaired by longtime Republican Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp emerged last week as a potential buyer of the Florida Panthers and their handsome revenue-sharing lease at the BankAtlantic Center. Then this weekend, Kemp died of cancer.So does this mean the deal is dead too?…
When I heard that there would be a lingerie football franchise in South Florida, the Miami Caliente, who would be playing their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, my first thought was of the terrifying possibility of a game marred by a wardrobe malfunction. My second thought (well, third…
What a wretched weekend in South Florida sports. You’ve heard about the Heat, but what’s happened to the Marlins? One month into the baseball season, this team can’t decide whether it belongs at the top of the league or at the bottom. A seven-game win streak in mid-April was followed…
Out like the fat kid in dodgeball. It was a good series, conceptually. It’s not like any of the individual games were any good or even competitive. This is only the second time in NBA history that all seven games in a series were decided by at least ten points…
If you’re anything like me, you turned off last night’s playoff game at halftime. The Hawks already had a 23-point lead and Dwyane Wade probably had a concussion. Plus, Lost was on. I didn’t even want to see the results. I figured if John Locke can somehow summon the…
Don’t you love it when your local government acts swiftly and efficiently to protect the health of its citizens? Especially when those citizens are being threatened by evil boaters? Behold the tale of Broward County’s latest brilliance: Most Saturday mornings, members of the Blazing Paddles draw a small crowd to…
The last time the Atlanta Hawks had won a playoff game on the road, Dwyane Wade was 15 years old. He hadn’t thought about Marquette, the Final Four, the NBA Finals, MVPs, or STDs. But last night, Miami was about as intimidating as Jeff Goldblum was in the 1997 smash…
