Things To Do is a list of some of the most interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

March 4, 2009

Good luck getting Gator football tickets on the 50-yard line. Ditto for Florida State. ...more

August 30, 2008

As college sports tickets go, the bargains don't get much better than the ones offered for Gators football. ...more

August 29, 2008

Imagine a time when all sports and extracurricular activities have been eliminated altogether. Kids across Highlands County are sitting after school with ball in hand, but no place to play. With budget concerns hitting nearly every school system in the country, many sports programs are being cut or an increasing trend has emerged — pay-to-play sports. The shrinking education budgets in this country have festered this new wave of subsidy, without the total dismissal of sports and other programs that were once a free privilege to the masses, but now has many students across the country on the outside of the stadium looking in. "I would never agree to a system like that for our schools," said newly elected Avon Park city councilman Al Hinson. "[Pay-to-play] would ween certain kids out, and that goes against the grain of what high school sports is all about. ...more

November 23, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - School district officials are trying to make sure bookkeeping policies are being followed in the wake of $20,000 reported missing at Pasco High School and problems at other high schools. ...more

November 11, 2007

After Halloween, college football's conference races turn serious. Sure enough, in the SEC, the storylines are scary good. ...more

October 29, 2007