The Bucs, The Bolts, And Now The Rays?

Just as a few years back we had a professional football team that could do no wrong and who went to (and won) the Super Bowl.

Just as we had that selfless Lightning hockey team win the Stanley Cup in Tampa.

The Epicenter of Professional Wrestling — That’s Us

Good day for this. Perfect, in fact. For, this Fourth of July piece is, in part, about one of our genuine patriots: Pop Keirn, gone now from this world for almost a decade now, on to that special place for war heroes.

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So Long, Sapp, It’s Been A Great Ride

Warren Sapp made it official here the other night. Affirmed that he was hanging up his football pads after a wonderful time in the sport, at Apopka High, with the Bucs and the final curtains at Oakland, just right for goodbye-playing years. Sapp…

Time is Ripe To Ready For Baseball Park

General columnist to the world, the Tribune’s Dan Ruth, who’s also a keen sports observer, wrote a piece for the Saturday paper I wish to echo.

In his words, Tropicana Field may be a dump, but it is our dump. He said it is what we have now and…

Full Circle For The Lightning

When it all began for us hereabouts with the arrival of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992 to take a place in the National Hockey League, pitchman Phil Esposito riled up a field house full of patrons in the dolled up Florida Fairgrounds…

The Tight End Who Can Putt

Andy Bean didn’t play golf a stroke the end of last year and early this year. Couldn’t. Couldn’t swing a club, couldn’t putt a stroke.

His good wife Debbie had crushed a heel falling from a tall ladder and was in a wheel chair recovering. Bean, a big, strapping…

Waterfront Stadium—Their Call

There is plenty of activity on the St. Petersburg side of our bay recently on a move for a new, dandy baseball stadium downtown there in the vicinity of the landmark Al Lang Field, that neat ballpark who gave Florida the idea of being home to spring training.

The…

Dubai and Abu Dhabi: You Can’t Pronounce Them But You Will Love Them

A week ago, wife Linda, and I flew from Today to Tomorrow.

We explored it, then came back from Tomorrow to Today.

The United Arabic Emirates, also known as the Arabian Gulf States, are Tomorrow. We, in America, Tampa, surely are Today, by some comparisons.

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Derby Days Make Special Memories

Millions will watch the Kentucky Derby on television, this first Saturday in May, listen by radio or read of it Sunday, the most traditional thoroughbred horse race in the world; the most significant, the biggest deal in the sport, one of the best-known…

Hodge Coming Home To Palma Ceia

Once, as but a kid, he swept up around the pro shop, then parked carts, which was kinda fun since he didn’t have a driving license.

He did more and more work, then for pro Henry Castillo, who gave him some lessons, and he began to play the game.…

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