The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are pretty well set across their offensive front. They spent big money to bring in Jeff Faine as an upgrade at center last year and have drafted very well in recent seasons to fill out the guard spots. ...more

February 19, 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE: Plenty of big stories broke between the lines and on the playing fields, courts and tracks of the Heartland in 2008. Wins and losses aside, certain moments transcended the games themselves and stuck out as the top stories of the year. This is Highlands Today's annual year-end run of the stories we covered that had a major impact on the local sports scene. The ranking was determined by the sports department: Sports editor Brian Gjurgevich, senior sports writer Mark Pinson and sports reporter Chris Hoffman. ...more

December 31, 2008

Warrick Dunn optimistically believed he could watch his former team play in Super Bowl XXXVII. ...more

September 7, 2008

By any yardstick, Wisconsin TE Travis Beckum is having a pretty good year. ...more

December 29, 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

Americans may dislike atheists, but for one weekend those who don't believe in God will find sanctuary here. ...more

October 14, 2007