Owner-trainer Thomas McCarthy didn't expect General Quarters to be in position to make a run at the Kentucky Derby when he claimed him for $20,000 last May at Churchill Downs. ...more

March 14, 2009

Early in 2008, shortly after the Florida Gators' annual spring game, junior linebacker Brandon Spikes and Coach Urban Meyer sat down together inside Florida Field, just the two of them and 90,000 empty seats. ...more

January 5, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Djuke vom Vilstaler Land lounges in his parlor, half submerged in the indoor pool. He digs for something unseen and ducks his basketball-size, black and tan head under the surface. Water swells and breaches the rim. ...more

October 25, 2008

Djuke, all 117 pounds of toned muscle, is just getting over the jet lag of a flight to Buenos Aires over the weekend. There, he strutted, ran, sat still and stared, raking in the top three prizes in a contest among more than 300 other Rottweilers. ...more

October 23, 2008

For 15 years, Sharon Kearney O'Loughlin traveled into Manhattan every day from her Long Island, N.Y., home. The commute, door to door, was 21/2 hours each way. ...more

June 21, 2008

At age 77, Edward "Ned" Johnson III can't keep this pace up forever. But it sometimes seems the Fidelity Investments chief hopes to. Johnson's tenure running the nation's largest mutual fund company has spanned three decades. The only other change of leadership in 61 years at Fidelity was when Johnson took over for his father. ...more

January 4, 2008

SEBRING — David Poteat is proud of his family's Southern heritage, and he and other local people have formed a group to research and tell stories of their Confederate roots. He also understands that some people have preconceived notions about his group that are far from the truth. Poteat is quick to point out that a new Highlands County chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is "in no way a hate organization." In fact, the group has fought alleged hate groups in court who have used Confederate themes to spread their agenda, he adds. ...more

December 13, 2007