Brothers and sisters often grow up playing each others' sport. Anyone will tell you that it is not unusual to spot identical surnames while scanning high school rosters. If the family genome is athletics-friendly, neither is it rare to see some sibling pairings excel in unison. When it comes to West Pasco girls basketball this year, though, there's a little bit of an added twist. In an area spanning roughly 200 square miles and containing five separate public high schools, three - Hudson, Ridgewood and Mitchell - have varsity-level sisters on roster. ...more

January 17, 2009

Few ingredients we work with inspire such joy and giddiness as wild mushrooms. ...more

January 14, 2009

The year 1991 will always be impressed upon my memory. ...more

January 11, 2009

Even in the days leading up to the Wildcats' home game against Mitchell on Friday, Wesley Chapel coach Karim Nohra expressed amazement that his team was still undefeated despite losing the services of post player Janelle Mills and her double-digit scoring and rebounding average. ...more

January 10, 2009

The Blake boys basketball team's game plan was simple - limit Sheldon Cooley as best it could and shut down his teammates. ...more

January 10, 2009

With 4:29 remaining, Connecticut's Lorin Dixon was leveled by a screen set by a University of South Florida player. When she returned to the bench, Huskies coach Geno Auriemma held up two fingers, like an old fight doctor checking on a punch-drunk boxer. ...more

January 7, 2009

They can avoid a slow start. This has been a problem for the Bucs all year, and though they have shown the ability to bounce back and often do, they don't want to give up an early lead to the Raiders. If Oakland jumps to a lead, it will keep the ball on the ground and attack the middle of the Bucs' defense. That has proved to be a winning formula for rival teams the past few weeks, so the Bucs want to take an early lead and force the Raiders to lean on QB JaMarcus Russell and not on their running game. ...more

December 28, 2008

Treating every game like an elimination game is something Sebring boys basketball head coach Princeton Harris has been trying to instill in his Blue Streaks from day one, and Friday was no exception. ...more

December 21, 2008

The Bucs know precisely who they want their starting quarterback to be for Sunday's critical game against the Chargers. They just don't know with any certainty if Jeff Garcia will be able to play. ...more

December 18, 2008

Change isn't always a good thing, but for Sebring's Efrain Chavis, it was the best of things. ...more

December 18, 2008