Florida State's Toney Douglas scored 22 points, including a tie-breaking runner with 6 seconds remaining, and then had to suffer through the game's final sequence. ...more

February 22, 2009

Anybody looking for Lightning defenseman Matt Smaby these days needs to keep their ears open. ...more

February 22, 2009

Drew Taylor walked into Blue Streak gym in a buttoned-down shirt and tie and a woefully shorthanded squad, just two minutes before the scheduled tip-off on Thursday night. ...more

February 21, 2009

University of South Florida's All-American DE George Selvie expected to be coached by defensive coordinator Wally Burnham this fall for his senior season. However, that all changed when Burnham accepted the defensive coordinator's job at Iowa State Tuesday. ...more

February 17, 2009

Joining any other team after spending his entire professional career in the Philadelphia Phillies organization would have been a bit strange for Pat Burrell. But the fact that the locker room he now calls home is filled mostly with players he helped beat in the World Series last fall adds a bit of a twist to the whole situation. ...more

February 16, 2009

For the first time, the Lightning this week will hold a father/mentor trip, which has become a staple of many teams around the league. Many of the clubs, such as Washington and the New York Islanders last week, hold the trip during a two-game swing through the Sunshine State. ...more

February 16, 2009

Members of the Sebring girls basketball team looked a bit shocked as they exited the locker room to the sounds of cheers. ...more

February 14, 2009

TAMPA When Rick Tocchet was promoted — I guess we'd call it that — to head coach of the Lightning on Nov. 14, we can all agree he was handed a basically impossible job. The circus stunt experiment with Barry Melrose had been a disaster. The roster was an incompatible mess of ill-matched players, and no one was sure what could be done to fix it. ...more

February 8, 2009

Mike Lee put his hands up in the air and smiled while the No. 6-seeded Sebring girls basketball team celebrated yet again after sidestepping DeSoto with a 49-39 victory in the semifinals of the Class 4A-Distrcit 10 tournament on Friday night. ...more

February 8, 2009

Two days after all 29 teams passed on LW Jussi Jokinen, the Lightning dealt the 25-year-old forward to Carolina on Saturday. ...more

February 8, 2009