Tampa Bay's most beloved football coach? Surely Tony Dungy would get a lot of votes. But it would be hard to find anybody who goes back to the mid-1980s who wouldn't put Steve Spurrier in the top two. ...more

December 31, 2008

Ever the competitor, Steve Spurrier won't let sentiment get in the way of preparing his 7-5 South Carolina Gamecocks for Thursday's Outback Bowl against the 8-4 Iowa Hawkeyes. ...more

December 31, 2008

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier figures he has been there, done that, so today's second return to Florida Field, where his No. 24-ranked Gamecocks meet the title-chasing No. 4 Gators, is a non-story. ...more

November 15, 2008

John Rauch, the Oakland Raiders head coach in Super Bowl II and a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Bandits assistant coach, died in his sleep Tuesday at his Oldsmar home. ...more

June 12, 2008

Susie Gardner needed an assistant coach in 1997, so she inquired about a young assistant who grew up in Gardner's tiny hometown of Mount Juliet, Tenn. Gardner, then coach at Austin Peay in Clarksville, Tenn., placed a call to University of Florida coach Carol Ross to ask about the former Gators guard then serving as Ross' third assistant. ...more

November 6, 2007

We're going to do a little experiment using Chaos Theory this week. You remember Chaos Theory, don't you? It's the idea that if a butterfly in Japan flaps its wings in April, the flap may set off a chain of events that causes a thunderstorm in Boise in June. ...more

November 6, 2007