Hernando County's three returning state qualifiers each come away winners at Kiwanis Invitational, while Hernando senior Ryane Ledington takes two firsts on home track. ...more

March 26, 2009

When last we heard from the Lingerie Football League, it was enmeshed in controversy during Super Bowl week, and its premier event – the Lingerie Bowl – was canceled. Now the organization and its scantily clad female athletes are back. The Tampa Bay Breeze, one of 10 teams in the league, will play a four-game schedule this fall that includes two home games at the St. Pete Times Forum, according to a news release. ...more

March 9, 2009

Faith had stopped crying by the time she reached the training room. A talented young soccer player and part of the backbone of her team, she had spent the last year rehabilitating a tear of the major stabilizing ligament of the knee. Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was torn in drills early in the season, a huge loss for us and for her. ...more

November 29, 2008

Your brain needs more of a timeout than just missing the next game to recover from a concussion. New research suggests student athletes who are too active - not just on the field, but at home and school - may hinder their recovery. ...more

August 12, 2008

The team features players from as far south in Hillsborough County as Apollo Beach and Riverview and north to Land O' Lakes in Pasco County. ...more

June 4, 2008

St. Mary's Episcopal Day School hosted its annual Saints' Sports Banquet on May 15, recognizing athletes in sixth through eighth grade. ...more

May 28, 2008

Lip gloss and sports were the primary draw to last weekend's sleepover at All People's Life Center. ...more

May 24, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - Lip gloss and sports were the primary draw to last weekend's sleepover at All People's Life Center. They both fit in with the focus of the Diva Camp, open to physically disabled female athletes who are members of BlazeSports of Tampa Bay, an outreach program offered through the Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department. The two-day affair, which included activities such as journal writing, public speaking, dancing, tennis, arts and crafts and some girl talk mixed in with a little primping, was led by Karin Korb, a two-time Paralympics wheelchair tennis champion. ...more

May 21, 2008

They're chilling, almost unthinkable statistics. But in a quest to raise awareness of the rights and needs of physically challenged individuals, Scot Hollonbeck refuses to sugarcoat the studies undertaken by such institutions as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...more

February 8, 2008

LAKE PLACID — John Komasa likes to scuba dive, ride a bike, read and just get out and take walks. Although an accountant by trade, he seems like a natural for a recreation director, and that's what he became a year and a half ago when he headed Lake Placid's parks and recreation department. "I'm not in as good as shape as I used to be, and I took this job to get from behind the desk," he said. ...more

January 14, 2008