Dazmond Patterson never searched for a reason why. Despite being a freshman and first-year varsity player for Plant City in 2008, Patterson never thought twice when Raiders coaches thrust him into one of the most prominent positions in high school football as the team's starting tailback. ...more

November 8, 2009

Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. ...more

June 10, 2009

Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. ...more

June 9, 2009

Rays left-hander Scott Kazmir has been Tampa Bay's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Kaz. Columnist Martin Fennelly ponders who will show up this year. ...more

March 9, 2009

Lightning interim coach Rick Tocchet took a page out of Scotty Bowman's playbook, splitting practice Monday into two sessions - morning and afternoon. ...more

December 16, 2008

Evgeny Artyukhin spoke to his brother Sergei, who lives in Moscow, early Saturday morning to wish his sibling a happy 32nd birthday. As a present, Sergei asked his brother to score a goal for him. ...more

November 2, 2008

PLAYER OF THE GAME The Bucs usually try to pick their spots with Warrick Dunn. He is 33, after all. He didn't look much like a 33-year-old back on Sunday, though. ...more

October 13, 2008

Sierra Weaver had 10 kills and Kaneisha Hamilton added three more on Monday to lead the Lake Placid volleyball team to a quick three-set victory over Hardee in preseason action. ...more

September 10, 2008

Quarterbacks, running backs and receivers get the bulk of the publicity and most of the credit for their teams' success. But we wanted to highlight the players we think are the top defensive players - the hard hitters, madmen, headhunters, whatever you want to call them - in Hillsborough County. ...more

November 9, 2007

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy was half-flattered, half-annoyed when his band won the best new artist trophy at the MTV Video Music Awards last month. ...more

October 26, 2007