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…
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…
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…
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…
Just as all good Sunni Muslims make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca, all good Fort Lauderdale Catholic boys go to Notre Dame. So maybe it was inevitable that two of the most well-regarded players on next year’s defending state champion St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders football team have named the…
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…
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…
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…
If your Easter, Passover, Ostara (or whatever other religious holiday you may celebrate in Sspring) was filled with candy, it still wasn’t as sweet as the South Florida sports scene recently. Yesterday, Dwyane Wade dropped a career-high 55 on the Knicks en route to securing the fifth seed on the…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
