While Sebring High School baseball players are relishing in advancing to the regional finals in Class 4-A for the second consecutive year, the school's soccer players – as well as those in Avon Park and Hardee County – are wondering if they will even have a season next year. There is a desperate need for referees as a result of the Central Florida Ridge Soccer Officials Association announcing that it no longer has the manpower to accommodate both Polk and Highlands counties in the next school year. The three schools could see their programs be dropped if local officials are not found. We hope that won't happen. ...more

May 3, 2008

A son shoved his father and then both scrapped with sheriff's deputies Tuesday night, disrupting the end of a hard-fought girls basketball playoff game, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

February 14, 2008

Predators coach Barry Trotz remembered closing a door at what is now called the Sommet Center on April 16, 1998, and looking over at the Renaissance Hotel a block away. ...more

February 8, 2008

Keswick Christian had something to prove to the team that handed the Crusaders their last loss - just one of three this season. And the Crusaders did just that, by way of a hard-fought 47-35 win to claim the Class 2A-District 11 girls basketball championship against Northside Christian on Saturday. ...more

February 3, 2008

For most of Friday night's Class 6A-Region 2 girls soccer final, Melbourne and Mitchell kicked, ran, pushed and pulled in a colossal effort to score. ...more

February 2, 2008

One of the great subtleties of hockey occurs when a wind-up slap shot rockets past a goaltender and hits nothing but twine and pops the water bottle up into the air. Nearly as sure as the red light flashing behind the net, the bottle jumping off the top of the net - what is often referred to as a "popper" - signifies the puck hit nothing but twine. ...more

December 3, 2007

Hillsborough High's girls soccer team needs to find a new coach by week's end for its season to continue, according to Athletic Director Bertha Baker. ...more

November 28, 2007

University of Florida WR Andre Caldwell lived out the dream ending to his home collegiate career Saturday night. ...more

November 25, 2007

Time stood frozen on ice after arms were raised in celebration and horns blared in triumph. But New Jersey coach Brent Sutter snapped his fingers and pointed to the scoreboard, wanting the referees to take a second and third look at Michel Ouellet's would-be tying goal. ...more

November 25, 2007

TAMPA RW Mathieu Darche was back with the Lightning on Wednesday and was back in the lineup after spending a productive week with the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL. ...more

November 22, 2007