It was a candidate cattle call, complete with a cowbell. ...more

October 24, 2008

It was a candidate cattle call, complete with a cowbell. More than two dozen candidates for seats ranging from school board to Congress each got a few minutes of air time Thursday at the Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce's annual forum at the County Government Center. ...more

October 24, 2008

Are you raving over the Rays? Well, here's the place to show it. On this opening day of the 2008 World Series, our search is on for the top Tampa Bay Rays fan of all. And to start the process, we present the "Cowbell Queen," aka Kathy Plank. ...more

October 22, 2008

For the sake of decorum we should probably act like we've been here before except, well, we haven't. Game 1 of the World Series is at Tropicana Field tonight and some people will try to tell you it's just a baseball game, but they're wrong. ...more

October 22, 2008

There it was, a brightly wrapped moment for the Can't Miss Kid named Evan Longoria. ...more

October 11, 2008

Let's go Rays! Attending four games in a week and clanking my cowbell during the final, playoff-clinching home stand, I felt briefly seduced into feeling "at home" myself, 35 years after leaving Tampa. Not to the point of getting a mohawk, though. ...more

October 5, 2008

My guess is that Steven Spielberg and Jimmy Carter have so many plaques on their walls they are personally responsible for felling an entire forest. Another guess is they don't have an official proclamation from the city of Tampa claiming it's their own day. ...more

September 22, 2008

The question, the only one left it sometimes seems, is just which catwalk the World Series-winning homer will hit. ...more

September 18, 2008