The 13th annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta will be part of a three-race "Le Mans Intercontinental Cup" that will link the globe's three Le Mans-style series in 2010, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest said today. Entrants in LMP1 will be eligible for the Intercontinental Cup with the second leg set for the annual 1,000-mile classic at Road Atlanta on October 2. ...more

December 10, 2009

Zenyatta won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, running her record to 14-0 in the most impressive effort of her career. ...more

November 8, 2009

For many, Gasparilla without free-flowing alcohol is like a beach without sand. ...more

October 23, 2009

Drunken partygoers fighting, destroying property and urinating in backyards. ...more

October 21, 2009

During the past several months, Gasparilla Parade organizers have met with neighborhood groups, local business owners and city officials and have come up with a new strategy they say should curtail the bad behavior without putting a damper on the city's signature event. ...more

October 20, 2009

Mike Alstott, the former bruising Buccaneer running back, will once again serve as the honorary guest of Gulfside Regional Hospice's annual Hike for Hospice charity event for the third consecutive year. ...more

July 8, 2009

Even before Michigan State's first game of the season, Coach Tom Izzo gathered his players and spelled out their goal. ...more

March 30, 2009

Tampa officials and event sponsors are studying ways to control the drunken revelry plaguing the 105-year-old Gasparilla Parade, the city's signature event. ...more

March 13, 2009

Ideal weather might have been the hallmark of the 2009 Southwest Airlines Gasparilla Pirate Fest. After a spate of cold, winter weather, Saturday's blue skies and warm temperatures greeted thousands of revelers who lined Bayshore Boulevard and streamed into downtown Tampa to encounter a bloodthirsty band of pirates whose annual invasion is Tampa's signature event. ...more

February 8, 2009

Volunteers are putting up decorations for Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park's inaugural Holiday Nights Under the Stars on Dec. 5 and 6. ...more

November 28, 2008