The NFL Experience, the interactive exhibit that lets football fans play like the pros, was supposed to be a bonding opportunity for me and my 13-year-old son, Brian. There we were, lined up Saturday morning across from each other at the Training Camp exhibit in a three-point stance, ready to race. We had to push a sled, run through two orange pylons, tip-toe across a rope ladder, duck under a cross-bar, scale a hurdle and then blast through two heavy bags to make a tackle in the padded end zone. All while being timed. ...more

January 25, 2009

The NFL Experience, the interactive exhibit that lets football fans play like the pros, was supposed to be a bonding opportunity for me and my 13-year-old son, Brian. ...more

January 25, 2009

The 23 harbor pilots who serve the Port of Tampa were responsible for terminals that handled 43 million tons of cargo and 767,000-plus cruise passengers in fiscal year 2008. ...more

January 17, 2009

A quick look at harbor pilots in Tampa Bay. ...more

January 16, 2009

It was 18 years ago that I last saw then-Cmdr. Kevin Cosgriff. I was climbing (actually hanging on for dear life) down a rope ladder over the side of the USS Robert G. Bradley into a pilot boat that would haul me back to Egmont Key as the guided missile frigate moved slowly in the dawn light just beyond the Sunshine Skyway. ...more

October 22, 2008

Big deal. The plan is this: Wednesday night, on cable television broadcast around the world, someone by the name of Criss Angel is going to attempt to escape an abandoned Clearwater Beach hotel before it blows up. ...more

July 27, 2008