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Two FIU Football Players Shot In Drive-By Shooting
Two Florida International Panthers football players were shot this afternoon, according to Opa-locka (Florida) Police Chief James Dobson, via the Miami Herald. Neither player’s injuries are believed to be life-threatening....
UTEP-FIU Men's, Women's Basketball Games End 88-87 After Overtime Buzzer-Beaters<em></em>
UTEP and FIU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams achieved some incredible synchronicity tonight as both games ended 88-87, on buzzer beaters, after multiple overtimes....
Captain Of FIU Women's Basketball Team Says Coach Spent Season Sexually Harassing Her
Junior guard Destini Feagin, who is the captain of the Florida International University women’s basketball team, tells the Miami Herald that head coach Marlin Chinn sexual harassed her several times this season, and suspended her when she refused to have a sexual relationship with him....
FIU Changes Mind, Will Credential <i>Miami Herald</i> Beat Writer
The Miami Herald reports today that FIU will credential the paper's beat writer, David J. Neal, for the rest of the season—less than a week after the same university refused to credential Neal for the team's home opener. ...
FIU Refuses To Credential Miami Herald Beat Writer For Season Opener
FIU is one of the most poorly run athletic departments in the country, so any of their fuckbaggery should come as no surprise. In this latest installment, the school is refusing to credential Miami Herald veteran David J. Neal for the football team's home opener. ...
FIU's Beach Towel Court Is A Reality
We knew this was coming, and we had originally anticipated that the final design of FIU's beach-themed court would be a bit more traditional than the proposed designs that were tweeted out by then-coach Richard Pitino. Not so. FIU has gone full Margaritaville on us. ...
Miami TV Station Congratulates The Florida International University Panthers On Their Stanley Cup Playoff Win
The Florida Panthers took a 2-1 series lead over the New Jersey Devils with an astonishing 4-3 win that came after falling behind 3-0 in the first period. It's understandable, then, that the story led off the 10:00 news on Miami's WSVN; perhaps unaccustomed to hockey success, they got a few details...
Florida International University's Own Commercial Shows Students Drinking Wine In Class
Your morning roundup for Dec. 21, the day we learned dick jokes don't always fly in Wisconsin. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Good Lord, These FIU Fans Are Drunk
ESPN has a Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl crowd mic in the middle of a section of enthusiastic FIU fans. Here's that audio channel isolated during a controversial spot in the second half of a tied football game. Eventually the fans stop using language entirely and start communicating in grunts. [ESPN]...
Florida International University Hires Noted Sociologist Rick Sanchez
The AP reported — and a tanned portrait, complete with dapper summer hat, on the Florida International University sports site confirms — that former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has been hired to be the radio voice of the FIU Golden Panthers football team. Sanchez has two sons at FIU....
FIU Baseball Phenom Arrested On Rape Charges In Bahamas
2010 ESPY Award nominee, Garrett Wittels, owner of the second-longest hit streak in college baseball, has been arrested along with several of his friends after some shenanigans with teenage girls apparently took a wrong turn. Messy. [Miami Herald]...
Wayne Gretzky Leads Florida International Football To Victory
While the Greatest Hockey Player To Ever Live Not Named Ron Flockhart's name won't appear on the stat sheet for Florida International's 42-35 win over Louisiana Monroe [Miami Herald], he was clearly responsible for keeping them under 36 points....
Sportswriter Fired For Being A Homer Takes Job With Favorite Team
Remember Pete Pelegrin, the Miami Herald's FIU beat writer (and "FIU evangelist," in the words of a coworker) who publicly and spectacularly quit the paper because they were giving Miami more coverage? He's now working for FIU. Synergy!...
Sportswriter Publicly Quits, Salts The Earth In His Wake
The Miami Herald's FIU beat writer figured out that his paper and his city (to say nothing of the world) care a hell of a lot more about The U than they do FIU. His scathing letter of resignation pulled no punches....
How Is The Isiah Thomas Era Working Out For Florida International?
Not well: The Golden Panthers are 7-19 and "have sold a total of 1,075 individual tickets for nine home games." At least freshman Steven Miro—who turned down Columbia and Harvard to play for Thomas (seriously!)—is happy....
Isiah Thomas Can't Even Lose Properly
You'd think that someone with as rich and variegated a history of failure as Isiah Thomas would have the etiquette of losing down pat. But we are speaking of Isiah Thomas here. The man is a failure even at failure....
Isiah Thomas Continues His Formula For Success
Florida International begins its march to the upper echelon of D-I basketball by playing its first exhibition game under their new head coach....and losing to an NAIA school coached by Rollie Massimino. Exactly as planned. [AP/SB/RTC]...
FIU To Boycott Cancer Benefit Unless They Don't Have To Play Mean Old UNC
I believe Oddjack would have set the odds of Isiah Thomas causing controversy at Florida International at 0.5 games into his college coaching career. If you took the under, you are a winner....
Isiah Thomas Gets Right To Work Crushing Young Men's Dreams
High school forward Chris Rozier was set to sign up with Florida International's basketball program until a change came in the coaching staff. That new coach's first order of business? Withdrawing Rozier scholarship offer....
Isiah Thomas Promises No More Sex Harassing, Suicide Attempts, Personal Salaries
In the latest installment of the Isiah Thomas career makeover, our hero magnanimously told the assembled press corps that his first year's salary as coach of FIU will be given back to the school....