Earl Maucker is taking applications!…

Ah, the circuitous route a good article can take to finally make its way into the lackadaisical dailies. In this case, the story concerns the possible connection between dead cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and the Adam Walsh murder and it was published in the Daily Business Review a couple of months…

The Palm Beach Post’s Mark Schwed has the same pick as the Pulp for top commercial. This yahoo didn’t get a laugh out of it, though. So what about the big headlines? Well, the Post went with “Unbridled Joy.” We get it, real colts sometimes have bridals and … okay,…

The Super Bowl just ended and, unfortunately, my losing streak continues (and I’m poorer for it, in the most literal sense of the term). Yes, Rex Grossman was awful. Yes, Peyton Manning played a good game. But don’t put the win or loss solely on either one of their heads…

I’ll admit, I’ve been a little worried about the Bears (I’m not a Chi fan, this is about vague affinities and cold cash). Would Manning slice up the Bears’ D, making the field seem twice as wide as normal (at his best, PM gives the gridiron an almost infinite quality)?…

The front-page Super Bowl coverage sweepstakes go like this: The Sun-Sentinel is the big loser with a huge dud of a story leading its newspaper and website. The story starts with this thud: “The Super Bowl has become a major American ritual,” and doesn’t get any better. Third sentence: “An…

Comes via one of those Ebay auctions…

Rochelle E.B. Gilken gets the skinny on the new buyer’s market for Super Bowl tickets. You had to know those $4,000 and $5,000 a seat prices couldn’t last. Right now they’re going for about $1,600 to $2,00o each on EBay That price should go down some over the next 24…

The Miami Herald’s Salguero reports that sports reporter Jeff Darlington is being punished by the poo-bahs at 1 Herald Plaza for playing a role in the distribution of the tape of Nick Saban’s “coon-ass” comment. Saban told the joke containing the “slur” — which isn’t really a slur from my…

Stuck on the Palmetto dices up and serves Carl Hiaasen’s appearance this morning on the CBS Early Show, where the novelist and Miami Herald columnist continued his never-ending “Dang, Florida Is Weird” tour. How many times you think Hiaasen has said a variation of, “Florida is a magnet for all…

You think it’s bad at the Sun-Sentinel or Miami Herald? Check this out. One of the saddest things I’ve seen. Also a couple of blog posts I’ve been meaning to link. One is from Critical Miami regarding Category305, the online pub started by New Times alums Celeste Fraser Delgado and…

Edwin Pope, that is. The guy has been writing sports copy for the Miami Herald for a half an m-fing century. Covered 41 Super Bowls, 40 Kentucky Derbys, 18 Wimbledons, a total of eight Olympics (including summer and winter), and wrote 12,564 stories containing about 10,051,200 words. At least that’s…

Dave Barry is a millionaire who writes best-selling books and has Hollywood up his ass. Does he really want to write this daily dreck any more? And do we want to read it? I revere the guy and consider him the greatest humorist of his generation, but the newspaper gig…

Sun-Sentinel sports reporter Dave Heeren is retiring after 45 years in the business, 41 of them with the Sun-Sentinel. In his poignant final Sentinel piece, Hereen, who has covered high school sports for years, goes down memory road about his career, Mickey Mantle, George Steinbrenner, the Dolphins, et al. Here’s…

Now If We Can Only Clone Him Editor & Publisher just announced that Earl Maucker has been named its Editor of the Year. Maucker was named, according to an E&P press release, “for his leadership role in growing the newspaper’s readership and integrating marketing efforts — while nurturing aggressive watchdog…

I was going to give you some staid and measured commentary on Jeff Ostrowski’s story in the Palm Beach Post on the dubious economics of Super Bowl hosting, but when I got to the bottom of the article I noticed … The Palm Beach Post is pimping porn!! Yes, that’s…

The numbers are in and the state of the State of the South Florida Housing Market is … sputtering along. It’s interesting how the Big Three handled the data released yesterday by the Florida Association of Realtors. The Herald’s Mathew Haggman led with the bad news: sales are at historic…

I just don’t know about the decency in running this article on the Sun-Sentinel website. I mean, the guy died in his house, what the hell does it matter to the public at large that he was naked at his computer at the time? It doesn’t and that means it’s…

Out Of The Frying Pan Mayor Oliver Parker can breath easy for a while. A Broward Circuit judge has thrown a recall effort to remove the much-reviled-at-the-moment Lauderdale-By-The-Sea honcho out of office, Melissa Hoyos reports in today’s Sun-Sentinel. I’ve been paying attention to the turmoil in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea and have to…

The North Broward Hospital District for years has tried to build a world-class heart surgery unit. What it never had was a heart. The district, with its budget pushing $1 billion, was corrupt and cold, playing with tax dollars like it came from a Monopoly game. It hid its actions…

It’s Black Male Mugshot Day at the Miami Herald, apparently. Dominating the web site are mugshots of two youths accused of committing armed robberies. They are immortalized in short Web article by Natalie P. McNeal. They are accused of, first, committing a “string” of robberies, then later in the article…

Who killed the Birdman? David Ovalle writes a great story in the Miami Herald this morning about a true South Florida character … who was beaten to death in the daylight on a matress he slept on behind a gas station…