Youthful ambition is a wonderful thing. And so, at the risk of coming off as a cynical old coot dashing the hopes and dreams of two freshly scrubbed chaps, Andre Nestor and Hinds Howard, I gently pass along a rather prescient joke I heard the other day. ...more

June 24, 2008

Eight years after the Tampa Bay Mutiny folded and 16 years from the final demise of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, professional soccer is expected to return to Tampa next spring with the arrival of a United Soccer Leagues First Division club. ...more

June 19, 2008

TAMPA - Eight years after the Tampa Bay Mutiny folded and 16 years on from the final demise of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, professional soccer is expected to return to Tampa next spring with the arrival of a United Soccer Leagues First Division club. ...more

June 18, 2008

At age 17, Preston Zimmerman decided to make a leap of faith. He turned down a full soccer scholarship to Duke University and the elite education that came with it and, with the approval of his parents, accepted a contract to play with German Bundesliga giant Hamburg SV. ...more

January 27, 2008