NEWS AND NOTES Alonso's Bennett part of TV show Alonso quarterback C.J. Bennett is used to watching himself on the big screen when his team breaks down game film. Tonight will be an entirely different experience. ...more

November 3, 2009

Two Bloomingdale High School basketball players signed Division II athletic scholarships last week. ...more

April 22, 2009

After an atypical first half in Saturday's Class 2A-Region 3 final at the Community School of Naples, the Tampa Prep boys basketball team finally started looking like itself. ...more

February 28, 2009

Even in hard times, there are always those willing to contribute to a worthy cause, either with their checkbooks or in sweat equity. The community has come up with both. ...more

February 14, 2009

The Highlands County School Board is thinking about the possibility of terminating high school sports and extra curricular activities in local high schools. As a 15-year-old at Lake Placid High, I am very active in my schools athletic and extra curricular activities. I am in the marching season Color Guard, band during concert season, student government association and on the girl's basketball and softball teams. I know that the purpose of doing away with sports is only because of budget cuts, but having sports and extra curricular activities in our high schools is a good thing. Most of the kids in Lake Placid don't only play sports because we love it, but because of the support and help we get from our teammates and coaches. You see, we get more out of sports in schools than we do in any other activity in Highlands County. ...more

January 30, 2009

For the past 20 years, there has been one constant, holiday-time requirement Ridgewood High basketball players can count on over winter break - playing in the Ram Classic. ...more

January 3, 2009

After jumping out to a 4-0 start to begin the season, it seemed the season collapsed on Mitchell, losing three straight, all three losses coming to district foes. ...more

December 19, 2008

"We have too many people continuing to make too many self-destructive choices. If, as a young lad, Barack Obama had chosen to put himself in a place where he was forced to deal with what they call 'baby mama drama,' I guarantee you he would not be in the White House right now," said the Rev. Kenneth Stewart of Tabernacle of Hope. ...more

November 10, 2008

In the spring of 2003, Walter "Goldie" Ayers co-founded Florida Fastbreak with the goal of building basketball players "one dribble at a time." ...more

November 1, 2008

MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL Now a seven-team field, the county competition seems wide open with most of last year's top players gone. ...more

October 23, 2008