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Miami Dolphin Arrested, Tazed For Allegedly "Touching Females" At Club
Miami Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby was arrested early Saturday at a Florida nightclub for allegedly causing a disturbance. That's one way to spend a bye week. He resisted nonviolently, according to the police report, and his mugshot shows the police handled it their way....
Florida Man Allegedly Attacks Men In His Golf Group With Broken Putter
One Labor Day golf foursome in Florida turned into a nightmare when a 38-year-old man in the group lost his temper, hit another member with a putter, and threatened the others with the then-broken putter....
College Runner Older Than His Coach
Kyle Butler, a 26-year-old cross country athlete at Florida Southern College, is older than his coach. ...
U.S. Rep Mistakes American Officials For Foreigners; Awkwardness Reigns
The Cable at Foreign Policy has documented the collapse of the American government. In a congressional hearing on Thursday, Rep. Curt Clawson of the 19th District of Florida, mistook two senior American officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar, for representatives from the Indian government, and repea...
Naked Burger Thieves On The Lam In Florida Beach Town
Listen. Sometimes it's 3:06 in the morning, you and a couple of your buddies are wandering around a beach town in various states of undress, and suddenly you have need of 60 hamburgers, three pounds of bacon, three red peppers, and, uh, a paddleboard. Immediately! And the grocery stores are cl...
The Hottest LeBron Take Comes Via The Florida GOP
The fun thing about LeBron is that he is famous enough to inspire enough different varieties of strong feeling in people that he can now mean just about whatever you want him to mean. Prodigal son. A man in full. Coward. Traitor. ...
Florida Coach Suspended For "Twerking On Soccer Players" At Party
In the old days, a middle school soccer party used to mean cheap pizza, off-brand local supermarket soda, and having to leave when your mom picked you up on the way back from the mall....
The Fastest Boys In The U.S. Have No Track
"Yeah, can you tell me where the track is?"...
Reporter Captures The Fleeting Glory Of Youth In One Spring Break Photo
Some Alabama students and football players traveled to Florida for their spring break, as many college students do. While posing for a reporter's photos, this well-hydrated motley crew—from the University of Arkansas—posed with their hands, cups, and cigs. One girl in the middle of the photo took it...
Coach Fired For Playing In High School Girls' Soccer Matches
High school coaches: Even if you get that itch to relive your athletic career and make one more comeback, don't do it, because you'll probably be canned....
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 9 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....
Was Diana Nyad's Cuba-To-Florida Swim Legit? Haters Want To Know.
Proving once again that no significant achievement becomes official until it's picked apart by people on the internet, Diana Nyad's historic swim from Havana to Key West is now coming under fire....
Diana Nyad Completes Cuba-To-Florida Swim, Is Better Than Us
Diana Nyad became the first person ever to complete the swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage on Monday, because she is not human....
Charges Dropped Against Barking Florida Gator Antonio Morrison
The charges against Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison stemming from a Sunday arrest for barking at a police dog have been dropped, according to the Orlando Sentinel....
Sheriff: Officer Should Not Have Arrested Antonio Morrison
Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison was arrested late Saturday evening on charges related to barking at a dog. Today, Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell said the arresting officer should have just issued Morrison a warning....
Flo Rida's Manager Was Ejected From Game In Miami
You might think that empty seat was purchased for the sole purpose of giving Flo Rida's neck a break from the burden of that enormous Jesus piece. You would be a sensible and concerned individual, but an oh-so-very-wrong one....
Those Plucky FGCU Basketball Players Live On An Actual Beach
You may think "Hollywood Upstairs Medical College" or "Ponzi scheme" when you hear "Florida Gulf Coast University," but that's not fair: FGCU—which looks like what you see above—is very much a real place, with documented students, and classes, and dorms and stuff. Indeed, that picture, provided by C...
The Public-Funding-For-Stadiums Hustle Comes To Spring Training
Every day, it seems, another team in another sport is begging local government to pay for its stupid stadium upgrades—luxury boxes, video boards, home-run whirligigs. And seemingly every other day, more or less, municipalities give into the bullying....
Carlton Fisk's Home Robbed Of Thousands Of Dollars In Collectible Coins; Carlton Fisk Had Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Collectible Coins
Burglars broke into Carlton Fisk's home in Manatee, FL yesterday, according to a lengthy report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Despite the presence of valuable baseball memorabilia and, presumably, electronics, jewelry and other frequently pilfered items, the burglars took only one thing:...