When she was hired to coach Florida College's inaugural women's volleyball team in 1999, Donna Parimore didn't know what to expect. ...more

October 28, 2009

An amazing young woman. ...more

March 13, 2009

The local publishers of a national running magazine have won the right to host the city's first women-only half marathon. ...more

February 6, 2009

The way Rafael Nadal sees it, one good thing will come from the first all-Spanish semifinal in a hotly contested Australian Open. ...more

January 29, 2009

Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week. ...more

August 15, 2008

Roni Fiolek always knew her daughter, Ashley, would be special. At age 7, Ashley became intrigued with motorbikes and practiced religiously. By the time she was 13, she was one of the top female amateur motocross riders in the country. ...more

July 29, 2008

GOLF On the next tee: the final of the three World Golf Championship events, the second of three consecutive majors on the Champions Tour and the final LPGA major of the season. And that doesn't even take into account Michelle Wie's appearance at the PGA Tour's Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, which features on the year's weakest fields since it is played opposite a WGC event. ...more

July 28, 2008

Barack Obama is a dedicated feminist who "lives surrounded by women," his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, told a mostly female crowd at a Women For Obama event in downtown Tampa on Thursday. ...more

July 18, 2008

Billie Jean King is far from slowing down. The 64-year-old tennis great recently presided over the grand opening of her Women's Sports Center in the new Sports Museum of America in lower Manhattan. Her coed World Team Tennis league started its 33rd season this month with a new franchise in Washington featuring Wimbledon runner-up Serena Williams. And King's new book, "Pressure is a Privilege, Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes," will be released in August to commemorate the 35th anniversary of her match against Bobby Riggs. ...more

July 12, 2008

If you have a mother, you have an issue. Most people deal with it through psychiatry or talking it out with friends or siblings. Dudley Clendinen chose a different approach: He spent 400 days living with his mother in a retirement home in Tampa. Then, he wrote a book about it. ...more

May 4, 2008