Super Bowl visitors heading downtown next week will be greeted by this grammatically correct message: "Welcome to Downtown Tampa … so many reasons to love it." ...more

January 23, 2009

Super Bowl visitors entering the city's downtown next week will be greeted by this message: "Welcome to Downtown Tampa: There's so many reasons to love it." Sounds like a nice message, but there's a problem. The banner, at Franklin and Platt streets near Channelside Drive, contains an error: The subject and verb in the second part don't match. Grammatically speaking, "There's" (for "there is") should be "There are." ...more

January 22, 2009

Super Bowl visitors entering the city's downtown next week will be greeted by this message: "Welcome to Downtown Tampa: There's so many reasons to love it." ...more

January 21, 2009

Florida State's Bobby Bowden, USC's Pete Carroll and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier all make stops in Tampa to meet with prospects. ...more

January 20, 2009

Three games - all wins, incidentally - into the University of Florida's Southeastern Conference basketball season, it is not a well-kept secret that the Gators go where sophomore guard Nick Calathes takes them. ...more

January 18, 2009

TAMPA -- Master of ceremonies Jack Harris was in the middle of Plant High School's championship celebration today when he spotted a familiar face in the crowd. "I see Coach Tony Dungy," Harris said. "It's great to have you back where you belong." ...more

January 16, 2009

Jim Schwartz insisted he loves challenges. Well, he's got one. The Detroit Lions, the NFL's first 0-16 team, agreed Thursday on a four-year deal with Schwartz to make him their next coach. The former Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator will be introduced at a Friday news conference at Ford Field, where Detroit lost its home games last year by an average of 21.4 points to break another dubious league record. The 42-year-old Schwartz just finished his eighth season as the Titans' defensive coordinator and his 10th on their staff. He interviewed for a second time with the Lions on Monday. ...more

January 16, 2009

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow added the exclamation point to the Gators' national championship celebration Sunday, announcing he will return next year to play his senior year. ...more

January 12, 2009

Put on your orange and blue and let the celebrations continue. Gators fans are expected to pile into Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville on Sunday for a celebration with the University of Florida's national championship football team. ...more

January 10, 2009

Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so. ...more

January 7, 2009