that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre downplaying Nidal Hasan's religious beliefs. ...more

November 15, 2009

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden today becomes the fifth college football coach who was still coaching at the age of 80. ...more

November 8, 2009

Florida coach Urban Meyer said there's a chance TB Chris Rainey could play against Vanderbilt on Saturday after being sidelined in the win against Georgia with a separated shoulder. ...more

November 4, 2009

Land O' Lakes' boys and girls won the team titles Tuesday in the Class 2A-District 5 swimming championships at the New Tampa YMCA. ...more

October 28, 2009

The NCAA is making a final push to take its open-records appeal to the Florida Supreme Court even as Florida State University officials released the documents. ...more

October 14, 2009

Florida State players walked arm-in-arm in a show of unity with Coach Bobby Bowden in the middle of the front row as they came onto the field for Saturday night's weather-delayed game against No. 22 Georgia Tech. ...more

October 11, 2009

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will have to wait a little longer to find out if he'll lose up to 14 victories. The NCAA gave its Committee on Infractions another week until June 2 to respond to Florida State's appeal of sanctions resulting from an academic cheating scandal. ...more

May 26, 2009

A feisty and confident T.K. Wetherell promised a vigorous appeal of an NCAA sanction requiring Florida State to vacate wins because of academic misconduct. ...more

March 18, 2009

Florida State is appealing part of an NCAA punishment that would strip the school of victories in 10 sports, including as many as 14 in football. The university president called the penalty "excessive and inappropriate." ...more

March 17, 2009

The plan all along was to appeal. That was unless Florida State officials found a solution through conversation with the NCAA over sanctions that require the school to vacate victories over its academic-misconduct case. ...more

March 17, 2009