You could have been walking into the Bucs' locker room. There was Michael Pittman over here, and Matt Bryant over there, and Dexter Jackson, and Paris Warren, and Frank Murphy, and Anthony Davis and ... ...more

October 30, 2009

TAMPA - After nine seasons at the University of South Florida, defensive coordinator Wally Burnham said he left to become defensive coordinator at Iowa State because "it was the right move at the right time." ...more

February 17, 2009

Joe Maddon was pleased to discover nothing has changed in the Rays clubhouse prior to tonight's opening game of the World Series. That's just how he wants it. ...more

October 22, 2008

A new political advertisement aired on Channel 8 shows how misleading these ads can be. This ad tells how Sarah Palin voted to allow shooting of wolves from airplanes. It is very graphic. And it is true. But Alaska is a different world. In an area of 1,000 miles (equal to Orlando to Detroit), are many Native American villages. The people of these villages are allowed to live a subsistence life. That being, they may kill caribou to provide meat for the winter months. One caribou will sustain a family for the whole winter. But when the wolf population increases, the caribou herd is in danger. Wolves will kill for the sport. If the caribou herd declines, or moves away, the families of these small villages have no food for the winter. ...more

September 22, 2008

"You've got to play the best to be the best." That's what East Lake High boy's golf coach Terry O'Reilly says of his team's many forays away from the Suncoast to walk the links with some of Florida's top prep programs. ...more

September 20, 2008

FOOTBALL LIONS FACE MUCH TOUGHER OPPONENT IN CFC ...more

September 12, 2008

Today's students can be divided into two categories: Those who remember the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and those who don't. ...more

September 11, 2008

You turn around one day and they're gone. In a city like Tampa where permanence is sometimes measured in seasons instead of years, change is a part of our lives. The landmarks that we gauge the timelines of our lives by - old schools, favorite restaurants, family stores - don't seem to have the value they used to. ...more

June 13, 2008

Hillsborough County high school students want to turn their cell phones on during lunch, take more online classes and paint classroom walls more scintillating colors. ...more

January 30, 2008

The School Board of Highlands County will vote this week on developing a policy for testing student athletes for anabolic steroids. We endorse this policy but want to see it include all sports and student athletes. The board is following the directions of the Florida High School Athletic Association's mandate from the state to implement this policy. It would require the testing of a percentage of student athletes in grades nine through 12. Only about 1 percent of athletes – boys and girls – participating in football, baseball, softball and weightlifting would be tested. Terry Quarles, athletic director for Sebring High School, supports the policy, but wonders why sports such as wrestling are not included. We agree, and what about golf, tennis, volleyball and any other sanctioned sport? Steroid abuse isn't limited to just three or four sports. ...more

January 20, 2008