If you think football is a violent sport, try reasoning with two youth leagues fighting over the same field. ...more

March 25, 2009

Month after month, he was the king of the road. Win after win, he ruled over NASCAR, no matter what he was driving. If they'd put him on a unicycle he might have come in first. ...more

February 8, 2009

Tampa Bay Buccaneers owners sent a reassuring message to fans when they fired Jon Gruden: They care about winning. No coach deserves a lifetime pass for capturing a Super Bowl title, as Gruden did in his first season with the Bucs in 2002. ...more

January 20, 2009

Need A Miracle Dear Santa: My name isn't Virginia, but I would like to believe in you one more time in my life. I'm 61 years old and just lost my job at USF. I have four years to retirement. I have been working in research for 22 years, but I guess they thought a younger mind and body could do a better job. ...more

December 25, 2008

Resilience has been a buzzword for the Rays all season, but that trait has never been tested like this. The Rays need a three-game winning streak to win the World Series. ...more

October 27, 2008

U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite is choosing grandmotherly duties over the county's largest candidate forum. ...more

October 18, 2008

Citrus Park Little League starting pitcher Kevin Merrell may have overstated it when he said his team's 7-0 win in its opening game of the Southeast Regional Tournament was the biggest game of the tournament, but maybe he knows how important being 1-0 instead of 0-1 can be in a four-team round-robin tournament. ...more

August 3, 2008

Barb Glisson of New Port Richey endorses ideas for change the nation's public policy offered by Alan Waishkey in letter to the editor. ...more

June 21, 2008

The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday that it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Palestinian rocket attacks that rained hundreds of rockets on Israel in the past year and Israeli reprisals that have killed hundreds of Palestinians. ...more

June 18, 2008

They never quit. Despite facing a huge whole early against a state powerhouse program, the Cambridge Christian baseball team refused to roll over. The Lancers fought. They clawed. And, eventually, they put a scare into the Jacksonville Eagle's View Academy Warriors. ...more

May 21, 2008