Urban Meyer was just a lad, maybe eight or nine years old, when his father took him to his first college football game. They were at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, watching the hometown UC Bearcats play Wichita State. The game didn't generate many headlines around the country, of course, but for the world stopped that day for the boy from a small Ohio town. ...more

January 7, 2009

ST. PETERSBURG We know what the Rays did last season, and it was sensational, but the challenge now is to sustain that success. It's a tricky game that involves trying to fill a need before you actually need it. ...more

December 17, 2008

I loved reading biographies and autobiographies when I was younger, but maybe I'm a little jaded now. Everyone seems to have an ax to grind, an angle to play, a story to spin and a point to make. ...more

June 22, 2008

A 5-year-old boy was killed when a car hit and pinned him against a wall at a St. Petersburg apartment complex, police said. ...more

May 29, 2008

While awake in our bed a few mornings ago, for some unexplainable reason my thoughts drifted back to a Thanksgiving when I was a scrawny, knobby-kneed lad of 6 and a first-grader at St. Monica Elementary School in Berwyn, Pa. ...more

November 21, 2007