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November 8, 2008

What a way to celebrate Homecoming. In a Class 4A-District 8 rivalry game with serious win-or-go-home playoff implications, Tarpon Springs quarterback Danny Reyes sent the home crowd into a frenzy by scooting 10 yards to the end zone on the Spongers' first play of overtime during Friday night's scintillating 23-20 victory over Springstead. ...more

November 8, 2008

The Tampa Prep volleyball team sailed into the Class 2A region semifinals on Tuesday with a 25-9, 25-9, 25-7 win against visiting Fort Meade in the quarterfinals. ...more

November 5, 2008

Once again, the Rays responded. They didn't have to win Thursday to stay alive in the World Series, but heading to Philadelphia needing to win two out of three just to bring it back home would not have been an ideal formula for success. ...more

October 24, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG – It didn't take the Phillies long to tire of the cowbells clanging all around Tropicana Field on Wednesday night. And it wasn't long before they shut them up, either. ...more

October 23, 2008

Apologize to the Florida Gators now and you can avoid the rush. Struggling? Vulnerable? Uninspired? Those were only some of the things being suggested recently about a team with high hopes but heretofore little foundation to build them on. That was until Saturday night. ...more

October 12, 2008

Your sports page may have recently induced an unpleasant sense of deja vu. A pro football star, by all accounts, seemed caught in a spiral of depression. Friends and advisers were worried enough about suicide to call the police. After an ensuing public-relations fracas, the player and the team assured us that it was all a grand misunderstanding. ...more

September 28, 2008

FOOTBALL LEOPARDS LOOK TO SNAP 2-GAME LOSING STREAK ...more

September 26, 2008

Football's most cherished fundamental also is the simplest to understand. Turnovers, bad. ...more

September 23, 2008

The hits just keep on coming, steadily and sadistically, and all the Tennessee Volunteers can do is bite their lips and absorb the blows. ...more

September 21, 2008