For the second time within a week, a Tampa Catholic girls basketball player reached a significant milestone. ...more

December 6, 2009

complete with a necklace of Gasparilla beads - Andy Nash of Sun City Center held nothing back when he prepared for the combined costume party and pumpkin carving contest at Freedom Plaza. ...more

November 11, 2009

Theo Smalling, a Hampton University basketball player who attended Bloomingdale High School, died Monday night after being accidentally shot over the weekend in Virginia. Prosecutors in Hampton will have to determine whether to file manslaughter charges in the accidental shooting, the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., reported. ...more

October 27, 2009

Theo Smalling, a Hampton University basketball player who attended Bloomingdale High School, remained in critical condition this morning after being accidentally shot over the weekend in Virginia. "I talked to his mom [Sunday] and its not looking good," said Josh Chapin, who was Smalling's coach at Bloomingdale and is now assistant principal for student affairs at Brandon High School. ...more

October 26, 2009

SATIRE: The president's bracket has taken a major hit at just the wrong time, driving him way down in his World Leader NCAA pool. He's 24th. Here's how columnist Martin Fennelly hears some other guys are doing. ...more

March 31, 2009

NEWS AND NOTES Henson Earns National Honor Sickles senior basketball player John Henson has been named a first-team PARADE All-American. ...more

March 31, 2009

Fred Cooper, Ray Heissenberg and Dusty Hensley each had home runs as the Michelle Yates Insurance team pulled off a 14-13 victory over Lake Placid Marine in Lake Placid Senior Softball league play on Wednesday at the Lake June ball fields. ...more

February 27, 2009

PROJECTED REGIONAL SEEDS Staff writer Joey Johnston takes an early look at the landscape for this season's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: ...more

January 17, 2009

Ankle sprains - an extremely common joint injury - are not always minor injuries. ...more

January 14, 2009

A pitcher sits on the mound ready to hurl his 85 mph curve ball to an unsuspecting batter. ...more

January 4, 2009