More than 1,500 middle school students in northwestern Hillsborough County could get moved to different schools under a series of proposed boundary changes. Parents got a first look at the plans at a community meeting Wednesday night, and many were angry about what they saw. The school district needs to reassign some students to fill a new middle school opening in August in Citrus Park, and officials also want to reduce crowding at other schools. The plans, which are not final, would involve transferring 1,024 students from Davidsen and Walker middle schools into the new Smith Middle. Davidsen, then, could accept students from crowded Farnell, near Westchase, and Walker could absorb some from Martinez in Lutz. ...more

January 24, 2008

Tony Dungy spent most of last week in Tampa, his adopted hometown, deliberating about his future. Would he return for a seventh season as head coach of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts? ...more

January 22, 2008

Eric Dungy didn't know anything about Plant High School's football team until he Googled it on the Internet. ...more

January 14, 2008

This letter is to address the recent termination of "Coach" Earnest Perkins. As a parent of a student-football player at Avon Park High School, I have witnessed the influence this man has had on not only my child, but his friends also. I have had a chance to be around and listen to them talk about the coach and these guys have a lot of respect for him. ...more

December 16, 2007

"We went an hour and 15 minutes. We didn't go very long because it's finals week," Leavitt said. "We're working the young guys so hard. I mean, how much can you rep them? We did a lot of hitting Tuesday." ...more

December 12, 2007

Thomas Hafer, a sixth-grader at Coleman Middle School in South Tampa, has been named the Florida winner of the Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award. ...more

December 1, 2007

Players from Seffner Christian Academy's fall soccer team will readily admit its players are not the biggest, fastest or most aggressive, but all will talk about one thing they have in bulk - heart. ...more

November 12, 2007

When Shari Schau reflects on her high school years at Glenbard High in Wheaton, Ill., she recalls a volleyball teammate who earned a scholarship to the University of Southern California. ...more

October 16, 2007