The Billy Pulpit

Going head-to-head is nothing new for Miami quarterbacks Stephen Morris and Ryan Williams...

US financial regulators said they plan to review allegations that Morgan Stanley shared negative news about Facebook with institutional investors before the social-networking giant's IPO...

Via Miami Herald's David Smiley on twitter: Miami Beach police union president says there's a Memorial Day weekend arrest quota of 2,000. Miami Beach police chief denies this.

Miami husband-and-wife John Ricone and Francys Tolon-Ricone were apparently wielding a hot blotter when they played bingo at the Miccosukee Resort & Gaming Indian casino in 2008. In two trips that year, they won just under $5,500. When the tribe paid them their winnings, they remitted $1,500 for taxes, just like an employer does.

But the Ricones claim they got a nasty surprise two years after filing their 2008 return. The IRS says the tribe never paid the taxes from their bingo winnings -- and now the couple owes back taxes with interest. They filed suit against the tribe this month...

Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile long cable between the island and Venezuela, paid for by Hugo Chavez.

Eight months later, those dreams are dead. The fast Internet has never materialized and now the government refuses to talk about the cable. Did it break? Was the project botched in a corruption scandal? Or is Castro too worried about the freedom-inducing effects of widespread Internet access?...

A month after the Secret Service was rocked by allegations that agents brought prostitutes to a Colombia hotel where they were preparing for a visit by President Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that at least three of its agents are also under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena...

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday shows that public sentiment is still leaning more toward Zimmerman: 40% surveyed think he acted in self-defense, up from 24% last month.

Meanwhile, 24% agree that Zimmerman is guilty, down from 30% in early April.

The remaining 36% surveyed are undecided.

Amid all the ballyhoo over what a bold visionary Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is, let's pause for a moment to appreciate the work of Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control, who has died at age 96...

The Miami Heat owe Miami taxpayers millions in cost overruns to capital improvement projects on the American Airlines Arena...

Does Facebook Wreck Marriages?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” Saturday and received over one million “likes” from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups...

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico...

Junior Seau's suicide is troubling NFL players.

No one knows precisely why the 43-year-old Seau shot himself in the chest at his oceanfront home May 2, less than 2 1/2 years after the end of his Pro Bowl career as a linebacker. What is clear - and cause for concern among other players - is that he reached some serious depths of despair...