MVP PROFILE Nature Coast's Travis Murray leads county in hitting at .531, repeats as Player of the Year.   ...more

June 1, 2008

Stephanie Ragusa knew her relationship with a teenage student could come back to haunt her. No one, she told the boy, would understand. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA - Before being charged with having sex with two underage students, teacher Stephanie Ragusa told one of the boys during a 17-minute phone conversation that she knew what they had done was illegal. ...more

May 8, 2008

Lightning general manager Jay Feaster left three days of meetings with his fellow GMs in Naples on Wednesday confident he will be busy in the days leading up to Tuesday's 3 p.m. trade deadline. ...more

February 21, 2008

Just as interesting as new technology are the years following its introduction and finally seeing how we use it. Sometimes it's exciting, and sometimes it's little depressing. The Internet is both. Never in the history of humankind have people had the ability to communicate so quickly and access more information. It's nearly impossible to find bad in that – except we have. It's true that information is only a mouse click away, but the quality of information is the real question. Too many people gravitate to places on the Internet telling them what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. So that makes a lot of us believe we're intelligent on issues when, in fact, we've just bought into someone else's point of view and call it fact. Political websites are the worst. Someone with a flair for writing can spew garbage about any candidate and get a lot of people believing it. Our country is all about free speech, and there's nothing wrong with stating opinions. In fact, it's healthy. The problem occurs when people are mentally lazy and don't check out the facts. ...more

February 19, 2008

The Bucs' new running backs coach apparently will come from within the organization after all. ...more

February 14, 2008

As an adult, talking to your parents about their finances can be as hard for you as it was for them to talk to you many years ago about sex. ...more

January 13, 2008

With one eye on the clock and the other on keeping the team moving ever forward in sync, a boss is a little like a quarterback, although he or she is unlikely to celebrate an achievement by, say, spiking a computer. So what does a good boss do when employees are chatting about the Big Game Du Jour or the presidential races? ...more

January 10, 2008

That the placing of G Marc Denis on waivers has been a difficult transaction for everyone involved was echoed by Lightning GM Jay Feaster following Tampa Bay's 4-2 loss to Philadelphia. ...more

December 29, 2007

At around 6 p.m. Sunday, Florida State coach Bobby Bowden waited by his home telephone, wanting to know like the rest of Seminole Nation. Was FSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, the man anointed to someday replace the iconic Bowden, staying at FSU or leaving to become the head coach at West Virginia? ...more

December 24, 2007