Dan Rooney is in town this week, along with what might be the most successful professional football franchise in recent years. ...more

January 30, 2009

A Tampa-based steel company commissioned a series of pro football-oriented sculptures using material recycled from Miami's Orange Bowl for an interactive Super Bowl display and online charity auction. ...more

January 30, 2009

There are about 1,500 active players in the National Football League. According to the organization Gridiron Greats, approximately 15 of them responded with money late in the regular season during a fundraising day for retired players battling medical and financial issues. The retirees took their case to the public Thursday at a news conference in the Super Bowl media center. ...more

January 30, 2009

Fans of the National Football League remember Harry Carson as a ferocious linebacker for the New York Giants ...more

January 29, 2009

Although most of the nation's attention is on the players who will participate in Sunday's Super Bowl, the red carpet was rolled out Wednesday night for NFL athletes from years past. ...more

January 29, 2009

More than 1,000 Tampa Bay area elementary school children got a lesson Wednesday in the importance of exercise from about a dozen current and retired National Football League players and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. ...more

January 29, 2009

Fate has rarely been kind to the Arizona Cardinals and those who follow the team. Phoenix is known as the Valley of the Sun, but around the National Football League it was simply a valley. It was a deep, dark, seemingly inescapable land where losing was a way of life and pride went to die. ...more

January 29, 2009

Thursday-Sunday LIGHTS ON TAMPA: engaging art installations at various locations in downtown Tampa including the Tampa Convention Center, Fort Brooke Parking Garage, Cotanchobee Park and Channelside; 6 p.m. to midnight; free; (813) 274-8531 or www.lightsontampa.org ...more

January 29, 2009

Authorities today said that counterfeit Super Bowl merchandise with a retail value of $500,000 was being sold from a city flea market. ...more

January 28, 2009

Tampa has quite literally rolled out the red carpet for celebrities this weekend. ...more

January 28, 2009