Florida State University will appeal the part of an NCAA sanction that would take away wins in 10 sports, including as many as 14 in football. ...more

March 16, 2009

Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell will hold a news conference Tuesday to address sanctions handed down by the NCAA Committee on Infractions for academic-misconduct violations involving 61 student-athletes and three former FSU employees. Wetherell and the university took issue with one particular sanction in which FSU has been told to vacate records in 10 sports in which ineligible student-athletes participated. ...more

March 12, 2009

Bobby Bowden is an icon in Tallahassee and he remains that way forever despite the NCAA ruling, writes Joe Henderson. ...more

March 11, 2009

The girlfriend of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes stabbed him in the head with a pair of scissors and in the neck with a knife, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

March 9, 2009

Millard Shumate, former president of Tampa's Bayshore Runners Club and a nationally competitive age-group runner, died Wednesday night at Memorial Hospital following a bout with pneumonia. He was 86. ...more

March 5, 2009

Lizzy Mischo remembers seeing her friend Allyson Faulk at one of her first high school softball games during her freshman year. ...more

March 5, 2009

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush loved his Blackberry so much he had it painted into his official state portrait, but a new report shows the state's love affair with wireless devices may have gotten out of hand. ...more

March 4, 2009

Softball has been therapeutic for the senior third baseman. ...more

March 4, 2009

It has been 27 years since a Hillsborough County public school boys basketball team won a state title. In 1982, King will attempt to end that drought this week but must first go through Gainesville in the Class 5A semifinals at 7 tonight at The Lakeland Center. Clearwater, which will face Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer at 4 p.m. today in the other 5A semifinal, is making its first state tournament appearance since 2005. ...more

March 4, 2009

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer All-Pro Warrick Dunn carried his message of helping others to the students of Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High School. ...more

March 4, 2009