Central grad Alex Ruoff makes his final appearance with West Virginia in the Tampa Bay area and scores a team-high 16 points in a 64-50 victory over USF. ...more

March 1, 2009

Spring break is back. After years of shunning the traditional college crowd in favor of a more affluent, tamer clientele, hotels and resort destinations are once again rolling out the welcome mat for party-hearty students. ...more

March 1, 2009

Teacher Vic Nieves surveyed the scene in his classroom at Brandon High, where a dozen students —revved up and raring to race — swarmed around a 9-foot-long electric dragster suspended on a lift. ...more

February 26, 2009

Congratulations to the Tribune and other media outlets for helping bring House Speaker Ray Sansom his just reward. He had nerve to blame the media for his downfall when he has no one but himself to blame. ...more

February 5, 2009

As sophomores, they were the faces of their respective programs. Petey Smith, Jarvis Giles, Jairus Jones. ...more

February 3, 2009

In 2006, Michael Langston and his FlaVarsity.com colleagues ranked a high school quarterback as the No. 1 player in the state of Florida and the complaints flooded in. ...more

February 1, 2009

On Sept. 5, 2008, Don Meyer, the men's basketball coach at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., was heading up a convoy of six cars toward a team preseason retreat. Apparently falling asleep at the wheel, Meyer drifted over a lane and hit a semi-truck head-on going 50 mph. ...more

January 29, 2009

As the economy sours, families are forced to make tough decisions, and many already have decided against the state's college savings plan. ...more

January 29, 2009

As the economy sours, families are forced to make tough decisions, and many already have decided against the state's college savings plan. While usually a popular option for parents, enrollment in the Florida Prepaid College Plan is down 20 percent from this time last year. ...more

January 27, 2009

For Florida schools, the inauguration gave teachers a chance to guide their students toward a particularly important event in the nation's history. ...more

January 21, 2009