On the one-year anniversary of Florida State coach Bobby Bowden's induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, multiple sources confirmed Wednesday that FSU is close to finalizing a plan for offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to replace Bowden when the iconic FSU coach retires. ...more

December 6, 2007

During a booster function in Jacksonville on Tuesday night, Florida State president T.K. Wetherell confirmed the worst-kept secret in FSU history. Wetherell told a Jacksonville TV reporter who contributes stories regularly to a popular FSU fan Web site, warchant.com, that "there's a plan in place'' for FSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to replace FSU coach Bobby Bowden when the 78-year-old Bowden finally retires. Multiple sources confirmed this to The Tribune on Wednesday. ...more

December 5, 2007

Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden says that before he retires, he is determined to return the program he built into a national power in the late 1980s back to the top. Bowden, 78, will have at least one more season to make his goal a reality. ...more

December 1, 2007

The honeymoon officially ended with Saturday's 33-point loss to archrival Florida. Florida State never had a chance. It was too much Tim Tebow and too much Percy Harvin. And it was disturbing to a fan base that hoped for more this season, the first since FSU coach Bobby Bowden revamped his coaching staff last offseason. ...more

November 28, 2007

On-campus, Joseph O'Shea is a leader among his peers as student body president of Florida State University. Off-campus, he already is a leader in the fight to reform America's health care system. ...more

November 20, 2007

TALLAHASSEE - Joseph O'Shea of Dunedin, student body president of Florida State University, is already a leader in the area of health care reform. Now he is heading to Oxford University in England as Florida's new recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. ...more

November 19, 2007

Florida State QB Drew Weatherford said that by Tuesday, three days after suffering a concussion from a helmet-to-helmet hit by Virginia Tech's Brandon Flowers, all the symptoms from his first career concussion had subsided. ...more

November 18, 2007

Here's an effective way to quiet speculation about the future of a coach: Give him a two-year contract extension on the eve of the season opener. That's what Florida State president T.K. Wetherell did Thursday, announcing that FSU basketball coach Leonard Hamilton's contract was extended through the 2011-12 season. ...more

November 9, 2007

If you were there that day, you couldn't help but notice the divide between the two men. An aisle and a few church pews separated them physically, but in reality, the distance between Florida State president T.K. Wetherell and athletic director Dave Hart had grown much larger. ...more

November 1, 2007

Inside the cover of his daily planner, outgoing Florida State athletic director Dave Hart has a doctrine taped above his business card that he has followed since the early days of his career. ...more

October 31, 2007