Rick Porcello has a bright future for the Detroit Tigers. ...more

March 21, 2009

The high-profile college basketball analyst waxes poetic _ and offers some picks! _ during lunch in Lakewood Ranch. ...more

March 18, 2009

The reviews for Verizon's BlackBerry Storm have been as mixed as the results of the company's fourth-quarter sales figures. ...more

January 30, 2009

There are many reasons to follow college football, but tradition is one of the most compelling. The faces and players change from year to year, but they all share memories that endure, whether they are Gators, Sooners, or from any other school you want to name. ...more

January 8, 2009

Urban Meyer was just a lad, maybe eight or nine years old, when his father took him to his first college football game. They were at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, watching the hometown UC Bearcats play Wichita State. The game didn't generate many headlines around the country, of course, but for the world stopped that day for the boy from a small Ohio town. ...more

January 7, 2009

Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn broke his right index finger in the first half of Monday night's win over Buffalo, but he will try to play Sunday against the Houston Texans. ...more

November 21, 2008

Forget rain, sleet or snow: The bite of a venomous snake didn't keep mail carrier Efrain Arango from his appointed rounds. ...more

October 11, 2008

Forget rain, sleet or snow: The bite of a venomous snake didn't keep mail carrier Efrain Arango from his appointed rounds. What authorities think was a diamondback rattlesnake latched onto the 66-year-old's left index finger Friday after Arango surprised it in a New Tampa mailbox. Arango said he shook his arm and thwacked the snake against his car door to break its grip. ...more

October 10, 2008

This one was for Ted and Jeanne Sachs in Section 305. Ted, 78, and his 74-year-old wife moved from Lake Charles, La., to Largo six years ago, but they didn't truly arrive until Saturday at Tropicana Field, where the Rays clinched an improbable postseason berth with a 7-2 triumph against the Twins. ...more

September 21, 2008

Billy Wagner is out for the rest of this season and likely all of next. ...more

September 9, 2008