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liar liar, leavitt fired

January 9, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Investigative Report Details Leavitt’s Lies: University of South Florida fired coach Jim Leavitt Friday for striking a player and repeatedly lying to investigators.

scrappers, tigers, worker bees and yellow jackets

December 4, 2009Leave your thoughts!

Tens of thousands of visitors are expected in town this weekend and next week. Ever wonder where they come from?

help bring the world cup to tampa bay

If we want to host World Cup games in the Tampa Bay area, we need to show our support.

tampa’s fantasy football team – los con leches

August 25, 2009One comment so far, add yours!

It’s fantasy football time, and Yahoo Sports has offered mayors around the country an opportunity to try their hand at fantasy football.  The winner of the Mayoral Face-Off Fantasy Football League will win $15,000, donated to a local sports program. Tampa mayor Pam Iorio’s team is called the Tampa Con Leches, and the logo includes a [...]

acc championship game all set

December 3, 2008One comment so far, add yours!

We’d like to welcome the fans of the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles!  Both teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference earned the right to play for the championship right here in Tampa! Congratulations to both teams for taking the Road To Tampa Bay!  The Dr. Pepper ACC Football Championship game will be held [...]

sunshine state college football rankings

October 1, 2008Leave your thoughts!

Few states take their college football as seriously as Florida, and almost everyone has a team they root for. So with that in mind we present rankings of all the Division 1-A teams in the sunshine state. It should be mentioned these rankings are strongly based on schedule played so far, and attempt to ignore [...]

red grange in tampa

September 27, 20082 comments - add to the conversation!

Gary A. Poole contacted us, told us he had written about Tampa’s first professional football game, and asked us to pimp his new book, The Galloping Ghost:  Red Grange, an American Football Legend.  I asked him to write something up about Grange’s time in Tampa, and so he did (I added the images, which are [...]

sunshine state college football rankings

September 24, 2008Leave your thoughts!

Few states take their college football as seriously as Florida, and almost everyone has a team they root for. So with that in mind we present rankings of all the Division 1-A teams in the sunshine state. It should be mentioned these rankings are strongly based on schedule played so far, and attempt to ignore [...]

sunshine state college football rankings

September 16, 2008Leave your thoughts!

The Sunshine State College Football Rankings according to Ski: It’s the second week of the college rankings for Florida, which means we can expect to see a good deal of shift at the top of the rankings from last week. An important note on my rankings, they are based largely on the schedule already played and [...]

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