ESPN secured the South American broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics on Thursday in a deal worth about $10 million. ...more

November 12, 2009

Members of the Pinellas and Hillsborough County visitors bureaus are headed to South America today for a joint sales mission in a collaborative step that proponents of more cooperative efforts are likely to applaud. ...more

October 15, 2008

Tiger Woods, Olympian? Golf's major governing bodies stepped up its campaign to get the sport added to the Olympic program in 2016, naming former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw to lead the effort. Votaw, now an executive vice president of the PGA Tour, will be loaned out from that post during the next 15 months to represent seven of the bigger hitters in the game: both the American and European tours, Royal & Ancient, LPGA, U.S. Golf Association, PGA of America and Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters. ...more

July 20, 2008

Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. ...more

July 19, 2008

After a marathon session that lasted through the night, Argentina's lower house of Congress on Saturday narrowly approved agricultural export tax increases that the government imposed four months ago. ...more

July 6, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - Basketball star Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets must pay a Bradenton woman $54,156 a year in child support for their daughter, plus insurance and tuition, a circuit judge ruled. ...more

June 20, 2008

Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday. ...more

May 31, 2008

As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes - but scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life. ...more

February 12, 2008

The frenzy of parading started Saturday night and didn't end until dawn Monday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the annual Carnival. Dancers dressed as slaves push a huge float representing the ship that brought the Portuguese royal family to Brazil two centuries ago. Hundreds of drummers in golden conquistador outfits propelled the 4,500-member group from Mocidade de Independente down the parading lane of Rio's "Sambadrome," an 85,000-seat venue built for the annual samba "school" competition. ...more

February 5, 2008

A Jewish organization is threatening a lawsuit to stop a carnival group from parading Sunday with a float that invokes the Holocaust with a mound of mannequins as an example of something that "gives you goose bumps." ...more

January 30, 2008