Drivers crossing the Gandy Bridge into South Tampa this week will have to be mindful of the "snooper truck." ...more

February 24, 2008

Our experts offer tips on how to play the 5th hole at Avila Country Club. ...more

February 20, 2008

The forecast looks very good for the next four days, with the full moon happening on Thursday morning at 3:30 am, a Lunar Eclipse occurring just four to five hours before that, and the weather warming up slightly with light winds shifting from east to south at five to 10 mph. ...more

February 19, 2008

Our experts offer tips on how to play the 18th hole at the TPC of Tampa Bay. ...more

February 5, 2008

Tiger Woods made short work of the easier North course Friday at Torrey Pines, leaving everyone else long odds of catching him at the Buick Invitational. ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA - Investigators have resumed their search for Sandra Prince, who has been missing for two years. ...more

January 14, 2008

This column should come with a warning. It is about Rays baseball and it does not focus on how good things are going to be three or four years from now. We won't speculate about how bad things are going to be this season, which has been an annual rite of spring for more than a decade. ...more

January 13, 2008

This is always Job One for the defense anyway, but it bears an underscore here because of the way the Texans attack. They want to run a balanced offense, primarily to set up play-action passes to Andre Johnson. To keep defenses off balance, they often run out of one-back sets using three and sometimes four receivers spread wide. That forces defenses into nickel and dime packages that are easier to run against. The key for the Bucs is to bottle up the Texans rush while playing in those nickel and dime schemes. With a player like Ronde Barber, that shouldn't be a problem. But the Bucs cannot take Ron Dayne for granted if he's the primary ball carrier today. Dayne has run well in Ahman Green's absence and could be the go-to guy in the red zone. The Bucs have to respect his ability to slow that Texans rush. ...more

December 9, 2007

Gunshots rang out at a Gibsonton trailer park Saturday night. Nobody was injured, but when the smoke cleared, two men had shot their neighbor's trailer and her brother's car, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 30, 2007

Lorena Ochoa could only see the top half of her golf ball that was buried in Bermuda rough. Even more daunting was the water that separated the 161 yards between her and the 18th hole. ...more

November 19, 2007