Will Brit Diving Prodigy Move to Lauderdale?

Tom Daley, the 14-year-old Olympic diver from the UK, has been bullied at school in his native Plymouth, a city on the country’s western peninsula. As a result, his father says the family is considering moving… somewhere. Nowhere in that article does it say the bullying has been related to…

Live Blogging Heat Playoff Game Two

So I’m finally getting settled in the press box my living room to call a fantastic evening of live basketball television watching. Our target demographic tonight: the lost souls who somehow have access to the internet, but not a television; and the very bored. A few months ago Thomas “I…

Tonight: Live Blogging “From” Heat Playoff Game Two

As an incredibly dogged responsible still-functioning news organization, The Juice editors knew we had to dedicate a great deal of coverage to the second Miami Heat playoff game tonight in Atlanta. So they flew me up to Atlanta for the week, booked me a nice hotel room with a view of downtown, and…

The Day the World Came to Wellington

Guarding the entrance to the Lechuza Caracas estate in Wellington is a gate at least eight feet high, topped with iron spikes and emblazoned with the golden emblem of an owl. An electronic keypad out front is the only way to make the doors swing open, but for now they…

Secret to a Great Retirement: Football Fraud

John Madden, an old man who spends half the year tooling around America in an enormous, obnoxious, pimped-out house on wheels, stopping only to watch the week’s best football game while muttering semi-coherently, is retiring from that job, according to news reports.Asked for their reaction, everyone among a generation of…

Basketball Grim Reaper to Coach FIU

As rumors go, it was far too good to be true, and then it happened: Isiah Thomas is coming to South Florida, to coach Florida International’s basketball team. Oh, but this will make some good blog!Thomas, of course, is as brainless as a coach/GM as he was brilliant as a…

Weston Zip Code Teeming with Ramirezes

There’s a bona fide baseball bromance brewing between two Dominican baseball stars: home team hero Hanley Ramirez and his shortstop colleague on the New York Mets, Jose Reyes. Newsday reports that the happy couple recently shared a meal at Ramirez’s Fort Lauderdale home — though to be precise, H.R. lives…

A Florida Panther on the Brink of Extinction

I’m not talking about actual Panthers, but yeah, that too. I’m talking about the best Florida Panther hockey player — defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. Last night, after the team’s playoff hopes collapsed for the eighth, nearly record-setting year in a row, it brought into focus exactly how a franchise manages a…

Lil Wayne Knows a Lil Something About Bracketology

Around the Horn is ESPN’s fantastic game of competitive sports banter. Every day, sports columnists from large markets across the country shout at one another about men (and sometimes women) in colorful uniforms, trying to make valid arguments. Each good point gets a point. And the panelist with the most…

D-Wade “Belly-Flopped” in Heat Loss

“He belly-flopped and falled down and lost the ball. And then he complained too much.” The sweet, simple words of an adorable girl. I couldn’t have described the end of last night’s Heat overtime loss to New Orleans any better. Well, yeah, I could have. (I type pretty sometimes.) But I…

Marlins Season Projections from Opening Day

The history books will show that more than 30,000 people attended the season opener yesterday, but those of us who watched the game on TV (or saw the highlights above) saw a lot of empty seats in the background every time the Marlins scored. And they scored often. Fantasy beast…

Broward Hoops Legend Dismissed from Team

Alvin Mitchell, the Cardinal Gibbons High School star who rode national accolades to a scholarship at the University of Cincinnati, was dismissed from his team, Ohio papers are reporting. The Bearcats coach, Mick Cronin, has not said what led him to that decision — just that Mitchell had broken team…

D-Wade Misses Final Shot in Heat Loss

But really, it might have been the ref who missed an important call on that final shot of the 98-96 loss, the fourth loss in five games. As Dwyane Wade set his feet for the three that would have given the Heat the win over Dallas, the defender clearly slapped…

Magic Rain on Zo’s Retirement Parade

[jump] It wasn’t enough. And I know it’s not fair to blame the jersey, but it’s seriously bigger than the 2006 NBA Championship banner and Dwyane Wade’s Olympic banner combined. The half-time ceremony was touching though. I’m not even kidding when I say it started with a letter from Barack…

At Lauderdale Meeting, NFL Owners Consider Adding Games to Schedule

On May 18, National Football League owners will congregate at some swanky Fort Lauderdale hotel to decide, among other things, whether they should add regular season games to what is currently a 16-game schedule.The USA Today reports that one influential member of that fraternity, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, wants 18…

D-Wade and Heat Have “One of Those Nights”

Some important background on last night’s Heat game:  Before last night, Dwyane Wade had never beaten the Indiana Pacers in Conseco Fieldhouse. After last night, same deal. But it was close: 90-88. Wade had the second-worst shooting game of his career; it included missing the final shot of the game…..