You knew it was going to be a different kind of night when one of the assistant coaches for the other team ran through the Armwood pregame drills talking smack. ...more

December 8, 2007

Bucs CB Phillip Buchanon should have the phrase "I'm just playing football" etched on sheets of construction paper so he can hand them out like pamphlets and stop repeating himself. ...more

December 7, 2007

Kimberly Lindsey marvels that her 3-year-old son, Merrick, doesn't need his 10 medications anymore and she can let him frolic on the playground among the germs that lurk there. ...more

December 3, 2007

Officials from Coral Gables and Orlando have avoided a potentially ugly fight over the right to the nickname "The City Beautiful." ...more

December 3, 2007

Sean Taylor's locker has been sealed in Plexiglas. The contents haven't been disturbed, and the stool with his name on it still sits in front. ...more

November 30, 2007

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. ...more

November 16, 2007

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. Mexican authorities who arrested a top financier for the Sinaloa drug cartel uncovered the connection between the cartel and the purchase of two jets that took off from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport on separate dates. One jet was seized, and the other crashed in Mexico. A total of nearly 10 tons of cocaine was found onboard the jets, according to Mexican authorities. ...more

November 15, 2007

Every day, about 3,700 families in four countries play out a ritual orchestrated by a nondescript office in Tampa: Whatever their children eat, whenever they sneeze and sniffle, they are recording the evidence and waiting for the day a doctor may tell them their child has diabetes. ...more

November 11, 2007

When it mattered most, Kirby Freeman came up big. The University of Miami quarterback had been 1-for-8 passing after replacing Kyle Wright, who sustained an ankle and knee injury in the second quarter. But Freeman guided Miami down the field late in the fourth quarter and threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Dedrick Epps with 1:15 remaining, giving UM a lead it would not relinquish in its 37-29 win Saturday against Florida State. ...more

October 21, 2007

Randy Shannon had a very, very strong message to his team after Tuesday's practice. ...more

October 9, 2007