Call it the tale of two teams. Once the very definition of ineptitude, the Buccaneers have been good for a while and now there are none better. Once the very essence of awful, the Lightning have been good for a season and now have earned credibility with a playoff run. The Bucs, who played hardball [...]
Amid the miasma that is the Florida Legislature, it’s obviously easy to lose sight of basic priorities — let alone a given bill. But here’s one that even the fiscally challenged House could sign off on. Florida Senate Bill 2562 won’t cost anything. The bill would merely designate the Port of Tampa-based SS American Victory [...]
Mayor Pam Iorio’s well-honed communications skills have served her handsomely on the County Commission, in her Supervisor of Elections capacity and on the mayoral hustings. But that was then — and this was Tallahassee. She was in the capital last week to lobby for Tampa. By virtue of her two decades in public service, she [...]
Athletic Director Lee Roy Selmon, a gentleman and a football icon with an expressway named after him, is now putting his own stamp on sports at the University of South Florida. With the departure of head basketball coach Seth Greenberg to Virginia Tech, Selmon will be judged by the success of the program under his [...]
Athletic Director Lee Roy Selmon, a gentleman and a football icon with an expressway named after him, is now putting his own stamp on sports at the University of South Florida. With the departure of head basketball coach Seth Greenberg to Virginia Tech, Selmon will be judged by the success of the program under his [...]
For those looking for a little different way to honor mom this Mother’s Day, consider the annual Mother’s Day Picnic at Ybor City’s historic Circulo Cubano, the Cuban Club. Doors of the Cuban Club at Palm Avenue and 14th Street open at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 11. Lunch, catered by Sabor de Tampa, will [...]
For those looking for a little different way to honor mom this Mother’s Day, consider the annual Mother’s Day Picnic at Ybor City’s historic Circulo Cubano, the Cuban Club. Doors of the Cuban Club at Palm Avenue and 14th Street open at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 11. Lunch, catered by Sabor de Tampa, will [...]
In a previous incarnation I taught secondary school here in Tampa and in Philadelphia. They were inner city schools with all the usual connotations and euphemisms for tough neighborhoods and challenging students. Mordant references to “combat pay” — as in, “How about some?” — were hardly infrequent among the faculty. Now I see where the [...]
It won’t be the first time this has happened at Florida State University. In fact, it happens every year in Tallahassee. In the fall FSU will welcome fewer scholarship students than it had expected. But in this case it won’t be a baseball player who forsook FSU for Major League Baseball bonus money. And it [...]
It won’t be the first time this has happened at Florida State University. In fact, it happens every year in Tallahassee. In the fall FSU will welcome fewer scholarship students than it had expected. But in this case it won’t be a baseball player who forsook FSU for Major League Baseball bonus money. And it [...]
