Drive south on U.S. 27. Just three miles east of S.R. 70, the country begins to change. The Lake Wales Ridge drops dozens of feet in elevation, and the hilly land becomes flat. ...more

February 22, 2009

Tony "Fatso" Siciliano waxes poetic about the mystique and flavor of chili. ...more

January 22, 2009

Florida is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. Utah is perfect at No. 2, though not perfectly happy. Texas and Southern California also claimed to be the best - but media voters didn't think so. ...more

January 9, 2009

Thanks to the Tampa entrepreneur who last year sold thousands of "He15man" T-shirts labeling University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow as college football's best player, we now know that Oklahoma Sooners head football coach Bob Stoops wears T-Bow pajamas. ...more

December 10, 2008

Thanks to the Tampa entrepreneur who last year sold thousands of "He15man" T-shirts labeling University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow as college football's best player, we now know that Oklahoma Sooners head football coach Bob Stoops wears T-Bow pajamas. ...more

December 9, 2008

Make way for a Sooners surge. San Bradford and Oklahoma are on their way up in the national championship race, and Texas Tech sure came down with a mighty fall. ...more

November 23, 2008

In this tiny reservation town a hundred miles from the Canadian border where temperatures once hit 60-below zero, a Southern twang is sometimes heard over the din at the local diner and there is talk of Texas tea beneath the streets. ...more

November 10, 2008

Everyone is talking about the weather as we wait for Game 3 of the World Series to begin. It almost certainly won't start until at least a half-hour past its scheduled first pitch. ...more

October 25, 2008

Wal-Mart is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Tampa man who accuses the company of benefiting from life insurance policies it took out on his late wife and thousands of other rank-and-file employees. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Wal-Mart is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Tampa man who accuses the company of benefiting from life insurance policies it took out on his late wife and thousands of other rank-and-file employees. ...more

December 5, 2007