"22 Dreams" plays more like one long one, winding and twisting, shifting from sharp focus to artful blurring, skirting logic to create a mood that's as undeniable as it is hard to nail down. ...more

July 24, 2008

"I Lost My Love In Baghdad," by Michael Hastings (Scribner, $24) ...more

July 20, 2008

The Lake Placid All-Stars found a way to win on Tuesday when the game was on the line. ...more

July 10, 2008

The moniker seemed appropriate at the time. J.P. Howell had just done it again last week, pitching a couple of spotless innings in relief of Andy Sonnanstine to maintain a Rays lead before handing it off to the late-inning relievers, when his manager referred to him as a "bridge" in Tampa Bay's bullpen. ...more

June 24, 2008

Video released last week of a detention deputy dumping a quadriplegic man from his wheelchair at Orient Road Jail made national news, but the quadriplegic man says that wasn't the only time deputies failed to properly handle his disabilities. ...more

February 23, 2008

4A-8 BOYS BASKETBALL Orgass slam puts the exclamation point on a strong night for the Sharks ...more

January 29, 2008

Preparation; role playing; adjustments. These terms can be so cliche in sports and yet winners will tell you that it's the basics that got them where they are. So it went for the Nature Coast boys' basketball team Tuesday night when they ventured to Wiregrass Ranch and beat the Bulls, 67-55. ...more

January 29, 2008

The cause-and-effect cliche is well known. As for exorbitant gasoline and related prices, we should reverse to effect, cause, who? Effect: Incredibly costly gasoline and thousands of other things directly and indirectly related to the cost of petroleum products, and hostage to foreign oil, which is the primary supporter of global terrorism. Cause: Legislation which forbids drilling for oil in Alaska, off shore, and many other areas of our country; establishing impossible hurdles to building oil refineries, (none in about the last 30 years,) nearly impossible hurdles to building nuclear and coal fueled power plants. Blasted powdered coal emits little pollution. Trees and other vegetation need carbons to survive and emit oxygen, which all animals need. ...more

January 21, 2008

Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran. ...more

January 20, 2008

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Brad Richards was convinced of that late last week. ...more

January 14, 2008