Sometime during his team's Class 5A District 8 basketball game against Plant City on Dec. 16, Durant first-year coach Trent Tice looked across the court and asked his senior point guard Jeffrey Thomas for some advice. ...more

December 23, 2009

Fresh off its third state title in four seasons, Plant High's football team made a big leap in the national prep rankings. ...more

December 22, 2009

Some of the very best high school senior football players in the Sunshine State get a final chance to sparkle in tonight's Florida Athletic Coaches Association North-South All-Star Football Classic at Firemen's Field. ...more

December 22, 2009

For the third time in four years, Plant High's campus became celebration central. ...more

December 20, 2009

We interrupt this James Wilder Jr. for King of the World highlight video with this story: Once upon a time, in 2006, Plant High was making a run to a first state football title, and a few area coaches hated it. Plant, the school with everything, was muscling in on football. One coach complained that all he saw in the newspaper was "Plant, Plant, Plant." ...more

December 19, 2009

It may have been a non-district game, but the Sebring girls basketball team played with a lot of enthusiasm and intensity in rolling to a 56-21 win over Frostproof on Thursday night in the Blue Streaks gym. ...more

December 19, 2009

If Manatee High (13-1) defeats Plant High (12-1) in tonight's Class 5A state football championship game in Orlando, Hurricanes senior wide receiver Ace Sanders will continue a family tradition. In 1983, his father, Tracy Sanders, was quarterback on Manatee's first state championship team, a 14-0 squad that defeated Miami Southridge for the title. ...more

December 18, 2009

Plant High football coach Robert Weiner has been a Tampa Bay Bucs fan since the team's inception, when his family became original season-ticket holders. ...more

December 18, 2009

Plant coach Robert Weiner was in the early stages of celebrating his team's first state championship in 2006 when the armchair quarterbacks began peppering him with suggestions. ...more

December 17, 2009

PLANT CITY - Durant junior forward Andre Nation brought a capacity crowd to its feet. Nation dazzled with alley oops and two-handed dunks en route to a career-high 31 points, along with 12 rebounds, three blocks and three steals, leading the Cougars past Plant City 63-49 in a Class 5A-District 8 boys basketball game Wednesday. ...more

December 17, 2009