Chalk tap, tap, taps on the board as Wendy Hou scrawls circles, angles and numbers in a search for the right equation. ...more

February 14, 2008

Chalk tap, tap, taps on the board as Wendy Hou scrawls circles, angles and numbers in a search for the right equation. ...more

February 14, 2008

Things To Do is a list of some of the most interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

February 13, 2008

AVON PARK — The Avon Park baseball team spent much of its preseason practice time on defense, but you wouldn't know it by the Red Devils' slug-heavy 7-6 victory over rival Sebring on the opening night of the AP First Pitch Classic at Head Field. The Devils hammered out 10 hits, including two home runs, and held off a Blue Streak rally in the top of the seventh to preserve a bit of early-season bragging rights. "I didn't expect him to pitch to me after I hit a home run off them last year," said AP's Kyle Jackson, who was 3 for 3 with a homer and two runs scored. "It's a good way to start our season off. We hit the ball pretty well in practice this week, so we figured we'd come out and pound." Three other Red Devils — Heath Barnes, Chad Marley and Terrill Conner — had two hits a piece, with Barnes sending his own shot out of the yard in the second inning. ...more

February 9, 2008

The New York Giants' thrilling win over New England was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers, a total that is second only to the "M*A*S*H" finale audience, Nielsen Media Research said Monday. ...more

February 5, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mark Cook. ...more

February 4, 2008

From a reading of or listening to our traditional media, one gets the impression that European governments are models to be emulated, and their citizens are thrilled; whereas the U.S. is hopelessly flawed. Perhaps a more accurate view is that we all have shortcomings, but the preferred media attitude - as well as that of the United Nations, a hopeless failure itself - is to find fault with the U.S. ...more

February 2, 2008

Florida Gators receiver and former Clearwater Central Catholic star Riley Cooper has some competition for bragging rights at home. His younger sister, CCC freshman Lindsey Cooper, scored with 1:15 left in the second overtime to give the Marauders a 2-1 victory against Melbourne West Shore on Friday. ...more

February 2, 2008

Scientists in Maryland on Thursday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce. ...more

January 25, 2008

NORTH TAMPA - Zach Dedenbach knows Pebble Beach like the back of his hand. He's played the course on his Sony PlayStation hundreds of times over the past five years. But his first stroke at Tampa's first Nintendo Wii tournament was ugly. He sent the virtual ball right into the trees, then miraculously recovered to shoot a birdie on the first hole. Tiger Woods gave his customary fist-pump on the 65-inch screen. ...more

January 22, 2008