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Displaying all 134 articles.| Withdrawal From Hockey Tough On Lightning Fans
| Sunday, May 7, 2006
| TAMPA—Miss it. Miss it already. Don’t you? | Lightning hockey, I mean. And, in truth, it shouldn’t be so. The Lightning ought to...
| THE TAMPA BULLIES and BALLET TROUPE
| Monday, April 24, 2006
| TAMPA—It was last week suggested here consideration be given renaming these resilient, reborn Lighting the Cinderella Men, after the as the...
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| THE CINDERELLA MEN ON ICE
| Tuesday, April 18, 2006
| TAMPA—Call them The Cinderella Men. | Why? Because repeatedly, they did not turn into pumpkins at midnight. Because they rose to the zenith...
| THE DAY TAMPA GOT FOOTBALL
| Saturday, April 15, 2006
| TAMPA--This is an anniversary time little remembered by many. | But it is certainly worthy of a toast by those affected and those of us who...
| Super Bowl XL the Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly
| Monday, February 6, 2006
| TAMPA—Emerging as self-evident from the announced 21-10 Pittsburgh Super Bowl XL win over frazzled Seattle Sunday at Detroit were several truths: | A. The...
| Reputation Alone Just Won’t Hack It
| Monday, January 30, 2006
| TAMPA—Virtually, all individual champions and championship teams go through it—even this fine Tampa Bay Lightning team—that reputation will be enough...
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| Breakfast Bonus
| Monday, January 23, 2006
| Over your chilled bowl of Florida grapefruit sections, two over very easy fried in butter eggs placed atop a small pile of hot, cheese grits. Two strips...
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| An Administrative Hat Trick, This Was
| Monday, January 16, 2006
| TAMPA—It was textbook. It was by the numbers. And it worked. | There were no losers. All involved and all affected won, including, the fans....
| Jon Gruden, All Pro on the Podium
| Wednesday, January 11, 2006
| TAMPA—Tampa Bay Buccaneer Coach Jon Gruden the other day held the last season summary press conference he will ever hold in the conference room of Number...
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| They Are Dangerfields No More, These Surprising Bucs
| Sunday, December 11, 2005
| TAMPA—I wrote here a week ago that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the Rodney Dangerfields of the NFL—that they “get no respect,” as the great late...
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| The Tampa Bay Dangerfields
| Monday, December 5, 2005
| TAMPA--Like Rodney Dangerfield, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get no respect. They were picked in the pre-season to be rotten, to finish last in their southern...
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| Tony Dungy, The Coach and The Fisherman
| Tuesday, November 29, 2005
| TAMPA__A Tampa fishing friend sent Tony Dungy an e-mail Tuesday after his Indianapolis Colts stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers 26-7 on Monday Night Football...
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| This Too Will Pass
| Saturday, November 26, 2005
| TAMPA—The precious old French adage. “This Too Will Pass,” after the Tampa Bay Lightning reality spanking by the New Jersey Islanders, before the Tampa...
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| Muchos Gracias, Senor and Adios Mi Amigo
| Sunday, October 30, 2005
| TAMPA-- | The telephone call came at 10ish yesterday morning to my home. “Tom, this is Al Lopez Junior.’’ “Oh, oh, no, Al.’’ “Yes,...
| A Sure-Enough Field of Dreams
| Thursday, October 27, 2005
| TAMPA, FL—It was epic Americana in sports down here in Tampa on Florida’s West Coast the other night—epic, classic, so important. | And it happened in...
| Lightning and Sabres Put on a New Kind of a NHL Show
| Friday, October 14, 2005
| TAMPA—Now that was generally what the decision-makers of the National Hockey League had in mind when they changed the rules prior to this season....
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| Tampa Bay: Sports Country, USA
| Monday, October 10, 2005
| TAMPA—Here in the News Center that is Florida the flurry of passionate sports times, of predictable and unpredictable developments has been compelling,...
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| Heeeerrrrrrrrrrr’s Johnnnny!
| Tuesday, October 4, 2005
| TAMPA—It’s showtime for John Gillies Mark Grahame. | And in so many ways. The wait is over. Shadows time is over. Next best is over. Waiting for the...
| Can Lightning Strike Twice in Tampa? Maybe.
| Thursday, September 29, 2005
| TAMPA—These are the headiest of times for the fan-friendly Tampa Bay Lightning, the champions of the National Hockey League. | Indulge this,...
| South Florida Takes Giant Step in College Football
| Tuesday, September 27, 2005
| TAMPA—Maybe they should have torn the goalposts down this weekend past. | No, not the Tampa Bay Bucs, who also claim homestead tax...
| The Home of The Blues Was Never So Blue
| Saturday, September 10, 2005
| TAMPA--New Orleans, in my times, has always been magical, alluring, tempting, nice and naughty, so very musical, tempting and sneaky, foreign, fun, free,...
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| DON`T FORGET; ON ANY GIVEN . . . . . . .
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005
| This latest Tampa Bay Buccaneer team is now 1-1 and so many who have watched covered these two games suggest these Bucs `05 are no better...
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| Sometimes It Is Better To Be Lucky
| Thursday, May 26, 2005
| TAMPA—The Tampa delegation won the 2009 Super Bowl at the National Football League show-and-tell competition in Washington this week to pull off a major...
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| ANOTHER COUP FOR TAMPA TOWN
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005
| TAMPA--So isn’t it about time now to get off the backs of the Glazers? | Malcolm Glazer and sons Joel, Bryan, and Ed, Ed to a lesser degree for he hasn’t...
| The Perfessor Explains The Larsen, Which Is To Say, the No-Wind-up Pitch
| Tuesday, March 1, 2005
| TAMPA—Go back with me in time, in memory or prompted imagination, 48 years ago to this week and let’s learn a baseball history lesson, with some facts...
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| Surprise! Winners Are Saluted On This Night
| Sunday, February 20, 2005
| TAMPA—The Tampa Sports Club of this city, where sports has meant so much through this half century, assembled its athletes and athletic teams the other...
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| Lou Piniella Leaving for Another Job? Phooey!
| Sunday, February 13, 2005
| TAMPA—There was a story making the rounds of baseball the other day that Lou Piniella was considering taking another big league baseball managing job....
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| Who Said Jacksonville is not a Super City?
| Monday, February 7, 2005
| TAMPA—Isn’t about time we got off Jacksonville’s back? | Many questioned the selection of the Gateway City—the biggest around in land mass but perhaps...
| Wade Boggs—From Marmora to Cooperstown
| Wednesday, January 5, 2005
| Tampa—I never had a neighbor of mine voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Or, a former neighbor, when he was growing up and a kid star....
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| Nothing Funny, Nothing Cute About a 5-11 Season—Nothing
| Sunday, January 2, 2005
| TAMPA—There was absolutely nothing amusing, nothing satisfying, nothing promising, nothing rewarding, nothing encouraging for the Buccaneers about that...
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| The State of The Gator—Maybe, at the Start, Anyway
| Sunday, January 2, 2005
| TAMPA—Some years ago I wrote here that this was not the State of Florida hereabouts, but the State of Football. | It was an easy conclusion. Three...
| Wisconsin Practices Where Champions Played-Grange, Nagurski
| Wednesday, December 29, 2004
| TAMPA—The Wisconsin Badgers are preparing for the Outback Bowl against the University of Georgia on a marvelous practice facility that is far more historic,...
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| Had a Jon, Now Got an Urban—Ohioans Both
| Friday, December 3, 2004
| TAMPA—So now we have an Urban joining a Jon in one more great adventure in Florida, or, in the State of Football. | So now we have another young...
| SOS Made The Call That Suits Him Just Fine
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004
| TAMPA—Steve Spurrier returned to as the head man at the University of South Carolina because it was the job he was offered, under solid conditions, because...
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| A Win Is A Win, Is a Win. . .
| Sunday, November 7, 2004
| TAMPA—They played an unexpectedly wild one at Raymond James Stadium Sunday, the kind of NFL game most want to see—but not to lose, of course, least of...
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| You Can Go Home, But Spurrier Won’t
| Thursday, November 4, 2004
| TAMPA—Steve Spurrier did not return to the Florida of his great successes and passion because he chose not to do that. | Best guess here is he chose...
| First Came the Hurricanes, Now This
| Sunday, October 31, 2004
| TAMPA—First came the hurricanes, a record four of them, that struck Florida—from Charlie to Ivan. | Now it has been Bulldogs, Terrapins and Tar Heels....
| Embarrassment at Starkville
| Sunday, October 24, 2004
| TAMPA—Okay, the phone calls began early—minutes after the Florida Gators of these black Saturdays sank to an even lower level—a 38-31 defeat embarrassment...
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| Gators Need a Coach to Protect Leads
| Monday, October 11, 2004
| TAMPA—It grows more clear with virtually every game that Ron Zook has the desperate need for another key assistant—or co-head coach, as you see it. | ...
| Gator Nightmare in Knoxville
| Sunday, September 19, 2004
| TAMPA—So the proud and vast Gator Nation awoke late Saturday night to a familiar Fall football nightmare, Tennessee ahead at the final whistle, once...
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| No Real Decision Yet On Bucs, Dolphins
| Sunday, August 29, 2004
| TAMPA—The Tampa Bay Bucs looked a tad better than their in-state rivals from South Florida, the Miami Dolphins, Saturday night in the second pre-2004...
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| Jags: Okay, Bucs: Oh, My, After 14-6 Jax Win
| Saturday, August 21, 2004
| TAMPA—The Tampa Bay Bucs played lousy (or, is it lousily) in their two 14-6 beating by Jacksonville in the Jaguar Stadium Friday night. All...
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| Jim Steeg Wins the Gold
| Saturday, August 21, 2004
| TAMPA—The National Football League, football in general, the Super Bowl, Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers, Florida, you and I took a big hit this weekend. | ...
| A Storm Story—A Good Storm Story
| Sunday, August 15, 2004
| TAMPA—Wife Linda, 11-year-old grandson, Tommy, and I returned to our bayside home on Davis Islands in Downtown Tampa Saturday just before noon and were...
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| Buccaneer Fans Got To Like This
| Friday, July 23, 2004
| TAMPA—O.K., away we go—into the 2004-2005 Tampa Bay Buccaneer season, one of wonder, hope and no guarantees. | Buc fans, who have had the worst of...
| No John Ziegler, Then No Lightning, Or Cup
| Saturday, June 26, 2004
| TAMPA—This should not get out, but John Ziegler is a Tampa Bay Lightning fan. Indeed, bet here is he gave a fist pump or two as he watched the Lightning...
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| IT’S NOT THE OPEN, BUT. . .
| Thursday, June 17, 2004
| TAMPA—The U.S. Open it wasn’t. Shinnecock Hills it wasn’t. | Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson it wasn’t. But it was the nearest thing...
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| What Winning Really Means
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004
| TAMPA—Brad Richards invited a bunch of his close buddies to share his early assigned time with The Stanley Cup. | The buddies are kids fighting cancer,...
| Lord Stanley Takes A Little Detour
| Saturday, June 12, 2004
| TAMPA--There was a brief downtime on the travel schedule of the Stanley Cup, the world wide symbol of supremacy in hockey Monday. | It had been in Tampa...
| This Battered Band of Brothers Become Kids Again
| Tuesday, June 8, 2004
| TAMPA—So there they were, kids again on a rink made by man, on which they earlier had earned the right as men to become kids again. | There they were,...
| Against All Odds
| Sunday, June 6, 2004
| TAMPA—Aside from the over-riding wonder whether the Tampa Bay Lighting could win that pivotal sixth game of the Stanley Cup Finals Saturday in the intimidating...
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| That Little Bit Extra Once More Was Too Much
| Saturday, June 5, 2004
| TAMPA— My goodness, the Smarty Jones people were apologizing for losing and the Birdstone people were apologizing for winning. | But, after those apologizes,...
| The Great Lightning Talent Show
| Friday, May 28, 2004
| TAMPA—Daren Puppa explains this Tampa Bay Lightning success that has carried into the dramatic Stanley Cup finals simply: | One word, he said, ``TALENT!’’...
| Blood, Sweat and Tears
| Sunday, May 23, 2004
| TAMPA—Most sports patrons of serious affection for their teams | quickly weary of two explanations for losing. One is that, well, we lost but we will...
| Hold Those Victory Parties—For Now
| Friday, May 21, 2004
| TAMPA—Hold those orders for Stanley Cup souvenirs! | Hold those Stanley Cup final caps for Lightning, and the official party. I mean hold their distribution...
| AFWESPAC POW #1 Base X Manila
| Monday, May 17, 2004
| TAMPA—The unsettling reports involving imprisoned detainees in Iraq and their conditions of imprisonment by our American units so assigned beg for a counter...
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| Some Perfecta—The Stanley Cup and Lombardi Trophy
| Sunday, May 9, 2004
| TAMPA—Owner Bill Davidson not only saw the entire gripping 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers live Saturday afternoon, along with a St. Pete Times...
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| Made-Over Bucs Not Done Yet
| Saturday, May 1, 2004
| TAMPA—Surely no team has worked the 2004 free agent market and made more moves in the off-season than the 2003 Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers....
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| This Lightning Strike Should Be No Surprise
| Saturday, May 1, 2004
| TAMPA—It wasn’t so long ago that hockey to Florida kids meant a game played on roller skates between the curbs on a wide asphalt street with bent orange...
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| First Vince Lombardi, Can Lord Stanley Be Next?
| Sunday, April 18, 2004
| TAMPA—It was such a short time ago hereabouts that icing was only on a cake. That was when we thought of the Stanley Cup as perhaps a reward for the...
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| No Cheeseburger In This Paradise
| Monday, April 12, 2004
| THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS—This is simply the most beautiful place in the world, Carol Barnett said the other late afternoon. She was looking all about...
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| Come With Me Down Masters Memory Lane
| Tuesday, April 6, 2004
| TAMPA—Won’t see and/or report live this Masters-2004, but will instead, like most of you, see it on television from the magnificent Augusta National...
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| Football Gators-04? Some Thoughts
| Saturday, April 3, 2004
| TAMPA—Visited with Florida Football Coach Ron Zook and a key associate as spring work continues in brilliant weather and here are some of the conclusions,...
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| A Band of Brothers on Ice
| Friday, April 2, 2004
| TAMPA—Monsieur Vincent Lecavalier has a birthday coming up—only his 24th, on April 21, but my, what a life this gifted young athlete has led, and how much...
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| Surprise? What’s a Surprise About These Bolts?
| Friday, March 26, 2004
| TAMPA—On Oct. 8, 1992, a piece I wrote for the Tampa Tribune’s Morning After the next day wondering in print what was really surprising about the new...
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| Dear John: Don’t Let The Door Hit. . .
| Thursday, March 11, 2004
| TAMPA—I guess I have had it wrong for a long time. | I had thought an ideal professional athlete would be one who would immediately set up home in the...
| Another Good Man Gone
| Wednesday, March 10, 2004
| TAMPA—Years ago, when my late great brother, Red McEwen, died, on his behalf, I quoted the eulogy for another blessed man: | “If all for whom he did...
| In the Spring, a Young Man’s . . .
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004
| TAMPA—This longtime epicenter of the marvel of sports that is baseball spring training was again the focus of media attention—heck, and maybe fan attention...
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| The Prophets and the New Man from Zimbabwe
| Monday, February 23, 2004
| TAMPA—On the practice tee a day before the start of the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am Golf Tournament at the TPA of Tampa Bay, veteran tour player Jim Colbert,...
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| The Homecoming of Doug Williams
| Friday, February 13, 2004
| TAMPA—In another time, when it was okay to be sentimental, emotional, to say thank you, we’d have hung a banner over Franklin Street today that blare:...
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| Flash! Winning Rewards
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004
| TAMPA—Bad publicity is not always a bad thing. | The Tampa Bay Lightning which taught us a new version of off-sides, taught so many of...
| Rose In Final Hustle for Hall of Fame Spot
| Tuesday, January 6, 2004
| TAMPA—At a Tampa Sports Awards Banquet during the prime of Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine, who then spring trained in Tampa, as emcee in the Downtown...
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| Here We Go Again, Ron Zook
| Thursday, January 1, 2004
| TAMPA—Here we will go again? | Sure to surface these days ahead will be the continuing question of whether or not Ron Zook is the right man to be the...
| So Long, Again, Steve Spurrier
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003
| TAMPA—The soldout luncheon, sponsored by the Ed DeBartolo | Corporation, preliminary to the Outback Bowl –matching the Big Ten’s Iowa and the Southeastern...
| The Buccaneer News Is Good, Bad and a Little Sad These Days
| Sunday, December 14, 2003
| TAMPA—This weekend past a year ago, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 10-3 and a surprise of the National Football League went to a cold Detroit and on a 38...
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| Jim Courier, Champion of Tennis for Everyone
| Saturday, December 13, 2003
| TAMPA—This is about Jim Courier and a part of his thank-you for all the good things that have happened to him, the world class tennis player from Dade...
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| Down and Out in Tampa Bay
| Monday, December 1, 2003
| TAMPA—Dial 813 870-2700 and you’ll get this greeting: | “Home of the World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers,’’ from the pleasant ladies answering the...
| The Great Game Robbery, Great Win, Or Both?
| Sunday, November 30, 2003
| TAMPA—Thousands—no, tens of thousands—who saw it live at the University of Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium up 100-plus miles north on I-75 from here...
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| The Pack Is Back But the Bucs Are Out
| Sunday, November 16, 2003
| TAM PA—Okay, let’s get this straight, and on paper, so we can mull over it. | The Green Bay Packers came to Tampa late Sunday afternoon (Nov. 16. Fox...
| Where Did The Proud Buccaneer Defense Go?
| Sunday, November 9, 2003
| TAMPA—Only weeks ago the buzz in the Tampa Bay area was speculation where this Super Bowl defending champion Buccaneer team stands among the greatest defensive...
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| The State of Florida Football Still Very Strong
| Monday, November 3, 2003
| TAM PA—Yes, Virginia, there is a football team named the Hokies that spoiled Christmas of 2003 for the great University of Miami by blowing the undefeated,...
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| Bucs Return To Defensive Form, and Winning
| Monday, October 27, 2003
| TAMPA—When San Francisco embarrassed the \"world champion\" Tampa Bay Buccaneers a week ago at Frisco, Buc Coach Jon Gruden said pointedly that “this...
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| Life In The Lightning Locker Room
| Thursday, October 23, 2003
| TAMPA—Tim Taylor is the first out of the locker room for the pre-game warm-ups. Brad Richards the last, Pavel Kubina second, or third, from the last. That’s...
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| Just Not The Same Buccaneers
| Tuesday, October 21, 2003
| TAMPA—Coach Jon Gruden of the Tampa Bay Bucs, an honest man always, acknowledged this 2003 Tampa Bay Buc team is not the same that won the last Super Bowl,...
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| All ‘s Well That Ends Well, Isn’t It?
| Sunday, October 19, 2003
| TAMPA—That declaration of a few weeks ago here that synonymous with the State of Florida collegiately—hey, perhaps professionally well—is the State of...
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| One Swing of The Bat—From Outhouse to Penthouse
| Friday, October 18, 2003
| TAMPA—You could almost see the horns breaking through his black hair and scalp. | He was surely well on his way to become the goat of the American League...
| Wrong Again, And Glad To Be
| Tuesday, October 14, 2003
| TAMPA—When Jon Gruden arrived in Tampa a winter ago as Tampa as the surprise new head coach of the Buccaneers, we had a little meeting and went over...
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| Stirring the College Football Pot Again
| Sunday, October 12, 2003
| TAMPA—College football shook out in some surprising fashions on Separation Saturday, the weekend of Oct. 11 dubbed by hucksters as just that—Shakeout and...
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| A Special Bolt Fan At A Special Game
| Saturday, October 11, 2003
| TAMPA—Rinkside, on the fifty, first row behind the glass on the penalty box side, and so glad to be there and involved in the compelling Lightning opening...
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| The Lightning Readies To Strike
| Thursday, October 9, 2003
| TAMPA—It was a mid-March Saturday night in 1990 when Malio Iavarone, proprietor of Malio’s fine digs restaurant in Tampa known for its sports celebrity...
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| Won By Dungy, Beaten by Dungy. What?
| Tuesday, October 7, 2003
| TAMPA--All eyes of Football in America were on Tampa Monday Night and well they should have been. | They saw an all-time and wondrous late game...
| Gators Lost in Own Swamp
| Sunday, January 1,
| TAMPA—It is such a mess, football at the University of Florida, up I-75 at Gainesville. | Such a mess. And, in no time, from repeated Southeastern...
| A Stretch Run in the Bluegrass
| Saturday, September 27, 2003
| TAMPA—For a half, indeed, for almost all of three quarters Saturday in Lexington, despite an oversized Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen playing like...
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| Zookish—A Language of His Own
| Thursday, September 25, 2003
| TAMPA—We all remember and appreciate the Stengelese language former Yankee and Mets Manager Casey Stengel originated. | It was wonderfully rambling,...
| Just Win the Rest, Baby, That’s All
| Sunday, September 21, 2003
| TAMPA--It is quite simple, the formula for Ron Zook to remove the bullseye from his back and remain as definitely as the Florida Gator football leader...
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| Tampa Bay Loses a Game and a Friend
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003
| TAMPA—That compelling 12-9 overtime Carolina field goal win Sunday over the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers on their first appearance before their faithful...
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| State of the Football Union Is Just Dandy
| Sunday, September 14, 2003
| TAMPA-- The State of Football in America—Florida—still has its three big time college teams in the running of those medals which they pursue each season,...
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| Bucs KO Rocky Stallone’s Eagles
| Tuesday, September 9, 2003
| TAMPA—A wiseguy Buccaneer would have been excused if he’d painted a big ole smiling pirate on the nose of the charter that returned the Tampa champs from...
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| Only at Florida
| Sunday, September 7, 2003
| TAMPA - Telephoned six Florida alumni Sunday after Miami got up off the Orange floor and wiped it clean with Gator hides by with a 38-33 tanning after...
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| Welcome to the NFL, Steve Spurrier
| Friday, September 5, 2003
| TAMPA—Steve Spurrier this week officially became a member of the National Football League Coaches Fraternity. | Unable to impose his fun-and-gun,...
| Florida College Football Is Off Running., Passing and Winning
| Monday, September 1, 2003
| TAMPA—Here were the consensus predictions of those interested in the opening football games this past weekend of yet another Florida college football...
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| Bucs the Pick to Repeat
| Saturday, August 30, 2003
| TAMPA—The Buccaneers of Tampa Bay are favored, chosen by those who do such things, to repeat as champions of the National Football League, to win it again...
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| Ever Catch a 100-Pound Snapper?
| Thursday, August 28, 2003
| TAMPA—They are called The Middlegrounds, a favored deep water fishing treasure 70-90 miles West of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico. | But, you don’t...
| Wind Down, Winding Up
| Sunday, August 24, 2003
| TAMPA—The Tampa Bay Bucs made their first appearance at their own Raymond James Stadium Saturday night since their victory lap before a full house last...
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| For Pete’s Sake, One More Goodbye
| Friday, August 22, 2003
| TAMPA—So, now, those of us who feel it a need to write about the who’s, the how’s and why’s of sports, and for those who enjoy reading them, having a critique...
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| Champs Were Lousy, 03-04 Hopes Solid
| Tuesday, August 19, 2003
| TAMPA—Let’s see, now. Have the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay and Super Bowl championship fame changed uniforms to gold and blue, exchanging their red and white...
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| Happy 95th, Senor Al Lopez
| Saturday, August 16, 2003
| TAMPA—About noon the other day, a dozen of the tuxedoed waiters at The Columbia Restaurant gathered around a table of four senior men who were having...
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| Florida—The NFL’s Foremost Breeding Ground
| Thursday, August 14, 2003
| TAMPA—This past spring, I wrote the claim that the State of Florida could very well change its name to the State of Football. | Many reasons were...
| Seabiscuit a Winner, on the Track, on the Screen, in Print
| Monday, August 11, 2003
| TAMPA—Seabiscuit, the new book by the irrepressible Laura Hillenbrand, is not for everyone. And, neither is the Universal movie adaptation,...
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| Buc Defense In Early Good Stride
| Saturday, August 9, 2003
| TAMPA—Both the Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers found out some more things about their teams, found there remain some more things they still...
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| Always a Happy Camper, Bowden Is Not Now
| Thursday, August 7, 2003
| TAMPA—Florida State has summoned its football soldiers to training for the 28th season under Bobby Bowden under circumstances unlike any in...
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| Time and Tide Wait Not
| Thursday, August 7, 2003
| MPA—The second largest university in the State of Florida—no, not | Florida State—started its work for the 2003 college football season ahead regretting...
| Zook Can’t Wait
| Monday, August 4, 2003
| TAMPA—O.K., this is indeed start-over time for football at the University of Florida. | And, the man on the spot loves it. Ron Zook says he can’t...
| The Famer Who Wanted To Be A Buc
| Sunday, August 3, 2003
| TAMPA—Hank Stram so badly wanted to be the first head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | This is the Hank Stram who Saturday entered the Pro Football...
| Bucs Score TKO in Tokyo
| Saturday, August 2, 2003
| TAMPA—Conclusions of fans of the reigning world champion Tampa Bay Buccaneer and of New York Jets hardliners supportive enough to their clubs to awake...
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| Breakfast Bonus
| Friday, August 1, 2003
| Over your slices of chilled mango, chilled slices of cantaloupe, three stewed | prunes, four chilled slices of papaya, with pre-oven toasted and buttered...
| Doyle Carlton, Honesty and Charity Are Legacies
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| TAMPA - Surely among us there are those of comparable honesty, charity, Christian faith and fellowship, business acumen and success, and the civic spirit,...
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| Yes, The Better Team Won, But...
| Saturday, May 03, 2003
| TAMPA—The experienced New Jersey Devils beat the inexperienced Tampa Bay Lightning four games to one to eliminate the upstart Bolts from the Stanley Cup...
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| Devils Just Too Devilish
| Thursday, May 01, 2003
| TAMPA—For the Tampa Bay Lightning this past Wednesday night in the NHL Playoffs, it was: | Great opportunity, down 1-2 but playing...
| Ships Away, Bernie
| Monday, April 28, 2003
| TAMPA—Consummate salesman. Consummate Budman. Consummate friend. Consummate Horatio Alger story....
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| Get A Mad On, Lightning
| Sunday, April 27, 2003
| TAMPA—The last time the Tampa Bay Lightning took such heat as this from the media and their fans was when they last deserved it. | ...
| Hey, Cutman, Over Here!
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003
| TAMPA - The Lightning Cutman, particularly busy these days, is Charlie Slonim. | Formally, that’s Dr. Charles Slonim, ophthalmologist...
| Making Whoopee and Making History
| Saturday, April 19, 2003
| TAMPA—For the moment, forget the great, great individual play of the scoring stars and the defensive stars in that frenetic Tampa Bay 2-1 win over Washington...
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| Wonderful, Just Bloody Wonderful
| Thursday, April 17, 2003
| TAMPA—After the Washington Capitols had shut down this versatile youngish Tampa Bay Lightning team 3-0 and 6-3 in those first two horror shows on the Bolts’...
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| Breakfast Bonus
| Monday, April 14, 2003
| Monday, April 14, 2003 | Over your chilled half Lakeland pink grapefruit, slices of fresh mango and papaya(try it, you.ll love it), two over very light...
| Sometimes It Is Better To Be Lucky Sometime It\'s Better To Be Lucky
| Thursday, May 26, 2005
| TAMPA—The Tampa delegation won the 2009 Super Bowl at the National Football League show-and-tell competition in Washington this week to pull off a major...
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| Heeeerrrrrrrrrrr’s Johnnnny!
| Tuesday, October 4, 2005
| ![](\"/articles/308/image.jpg\") TAMPA—It’s showtime for John Gillies Mark Grahame.And in so many ways. The wait is over. Shadows time is over....
| What Winning Really Means
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004
| TAMPA—Brad Richards invited a bunch of his close buddies to share his early assigned time with The Stanley Cup. | The buddies are kids fighting cancer,...
| SOS Made The Call That Suits Jim Just Fine
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004
| TAMPA—Steve Spurrier returned to as the head man at the University of South Carolina because it was the job he was offered, under solid conditions, because...
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| Nothing Funny, Nothing Cute About a 5-11 Season—Nothing
| Sunday, January 2, 2005
| TAMPA—There was absolutely nothing amusing, nothing satisfying, nothing promising, nothing rewarding, nothing encouraging for the Buccaneers about that...
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| Jim Steeg’s Wins the Gold
| Saturday, August 21, 2004
| TAMPA—The National Football League, football in general, the Super Bowl, Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers, Florida, you and I took a big hit this weekend. | ...
| The Tampa Bay Dangerfields
| Monday, December 5, 2005
| TAMPA—Like Rodney Dangerfield, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get no respect. | They were picked in the pre-season to be rotten, to finish...
| Heeeerrrrrrrrrrr’s Johnnnny!
| Tuesday, October 4, 2005
| TAMPA—It’s showtime for John Gillies Mark Grahame. | And in so many ways. The wait is over. Shadows time is over. Next best is...
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