Hillsborough running back Lindsey Lamar rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns, and the Terriers' defense turned back Jefferson's last rally attempt to lead Hillsborough to a 30-23 win at Sam Horton Field on Friday. ...more

September 6, 2008

At Stake The No. 19 Bulls have their first preseason ranking. To earn their first ranking entering Week 2, the Bulls can't lose. Actually, they probably need a fairly comfortable win to keep from dropping in the rankings. ...more

August 30, 2008

SEBRING — Last week when Clell Ford and Erin McCarta measured the width, length and depth of a dredge hole at City Pier Beach, where a drowning took place June 7, they realized it was a whole lot bigger than originally estimated. In fact, it's about 10 times bigger, and it's going to take twice as much sand to fill it as can be easily found in Lake Jackson: 10.000 cubic feet, 6,800 cubic yards. So the bottom line, said Ford, who is Highlands County's lakes manager, is that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection won't be able to grant an emergency permit to fill the football-field sized hole a few feet off the beach. ...more

June 18, 2008

SEBRING — When Bobby Clark, 23, drowned at 3 p.m. Saturday, he stepped from shallow water into a 12-foot deep dredge hole, diver Preston Colby told city, county and state officials in a meeting Tuesday morning at city hall. Fire Chief Brad Batz, who was asked to investigate the Lake Jackson incident, said the hole used to be in a no-swim zone several hundred feet from City Pier Beach. The lake has lost so much water from two years of drought, however, the hole is now a few dozen feet from the beach. The hole was probably dredged in the 1960s to fill a park area behind the Civic Center park, City Manager Bob Hoffman said. "I think it's a man-made hole." Batz said Clark knew the hole existed. ...more

June 10, 2008

SEBRING — Preston Colby, local public watchdog, was recently in court seeking public records. Colby seeks a release of public records from meetings of the Florida Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative (FHREDI) committee. Colby maintains the the committee held visioning sessions with volunteers in 2006 that violated the Florida Sunshine Law. ...more

May 11, 2008

TAMPA – University of South Florida junior wide receiver Colby Erskin knows all about following dreams. Without any scholarship offers, he walked on to USF in 2005 to prove he could play. And, despite two torn ACLs, he expects to be ready for this fall. ...more

May 7, 2008

LAKE PLACID –– For the first time in many a moon, Lake Placid head coach Dan Coomes has a smile on his face when talking about his baseball squad. "I'm really excited to see how this team is going to perform," said the LP head coach. "We've got a good mixture of youth and experience and for the first time we have depth at every position. We haven't had this kind of depth in a long while." You would think that by the Green Dragons showing in last week's Bill Jarrett Early Bird Tournament — losing 9-2 to Lake Region and 16-0 to cross-county rival Sebring — that they've regressed somehow, but Coomes has a definite method to his madness. "You only get better by playing the high-caliber teams," Coomes said. "We have to learn to close out games and not let our mistakes cost us the game. You can't make mistakes against teams like that because that's all they need to beat you. ...more

February 25, 2008

Things are certainly going to get more difficult for Travis Vollick this weekend. ...more

February 9, 2008

It's usually hard for a freshman to crack the lineup, but for the Plant City High wrestling team, they're everywhere. ...more

December 15, 2007

University of South Florida sophomore WR Colby Erskin, who had won a starting position before the season before suffering a torn ACL, has opted not to try to return for the Sun Bowl. ...more

December 8, 2007