Hedo Turkoglu scored 26 points, Rashard Lewis added 25 and the Orlando Magic broke a four-game home losing streak with a 110-96 victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. ...more

December 27, 2007

Levance Fields hit a 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left in overtime to give No. 11 Pittsburgh a 65-64 victory over No. 6 Duke in a matchup of unbeatens Thursday night. ...more

December 21, 2007

Plant senior forward Chandler Flom wasn't going to sugarcoat his feelings about playing district foe Middleton for the first time this season. ...more

December 13, 2007

It was raining three's at Tarpon Springs High School as the Spongers hosted Class 5A, District 9 frontrunners Pinellas Park for a Friday evening match up. Both teams accounted for 20 total 3-pointers on the night. Unfortunately for the home team, the still-undefeated Patriots rattled in 14 of those. ...more

December 9, 2007

Middleton boys basketball coach Devin Smith set a preseason goal that the Tigers would have more than 10 wins before the new year. ...more

December 6, 2007

CAPE CORAL — The Ida Baker High School mascot is "The Bulldogs," but after Friday's romp of Lake Placid, they might as well be "The Thieves." The host school picked the pockets of the Lake Placid basketball squad so much that they should have been handcuffed in downing the Green Dragons 70-43 in the opening round of the two-day Turkey Shootout on Friday. The loss had LP head coach Levi Williams shaking his head, knowing that his team didn't play at their best. "We're still trying to find what kind of team we have here," Williams said. "I keep telling these kids that they have to compete for the whole 32 minutes. You can't take quarters or even one play off. You have to come out and compete on every play." ...more

November 25, 2007

Dwight Howard had 34 points and 17 rebounds to help the Orlando Magic overcome a poor shooting night and beat the Charlotte Bobcats 105-92 Friday. ...more

November 24, 2007

Last year, Nature Coast Technical wrestling coach Mike Lastra had a problem winning any wrestling tournaments because he generally had only five or six wrestlers out of the 14 needed to compete in any tournament. ...more

November 24, 2007

AVON PARK — The division between prep and public schools was never more evident than during the opening of the Bill Jarrett Tip-Off Classic on Friday. The transition from football to basketball is still under way for the Lake Placid boys basketball team, which looked sluggish in the first half against a very fresh Pendleton squad en route to a 71-57 defeat. ...more

November 18, 2007

Mario Chalmers had 23 points - and two of his team's four missed dunks - and a ragged No. 4 Kansas beat a plucky Missouri-Kansas City 85-62. ...more

November 12, 2007