Compared with the 47 other football seasons he has coached, this one stands out for Chamberlain coach Billy Turner. ...more

November 22, 2007

DADE CITY — Connor Bauer said he felt "horrible" heading into Saturday's Class 2A state cross-country meet. As the lone member of the Sebring XC team competing at the event, the sophomore said it was tough for him to get excited about his first state race without his teammates at his side. Oh, what a difference less than 17 minutes makes. Bauer finished 25th in the final race of the season, burning up a slow, hilly Little Everglades Ranch course with a time of 16:58, his second-best mark of the year. ...more

November 18, 2007

With 59 races and 12,956 laps under his belt this year, Zephyrhills' David Reutimann heads into the final race of his first season competing full-time in NASCAR's top two divisions. He is fourth out of five drivers in the Nextel Cup Rookie of the Year standings - 19 points behind third-place Paul Menard and 10 ahead of fifth-place A.J. Allmendinger - and second overall in the Busch Series standings heading into Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead. In the final edition of his Tampa Tribune rookie diary, Reutimann discusses how his results have measured up against his expectations: ...more

November 16, 2007

For the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce, Georgina Wharton plays the role of the smiling face behind the numbers. Wharton, vice president of finance and human resources, has been on board going on 10 years, and she loves her job. ...more

October 22, 2007

What is the 'variable bit rate encoding' option in my music software good for? The so-called 'VBR' encoding available in most major digital-music formats lets you copy music more efficiently. ...more

October 8, 2007