TAMPA, Fla.- It still sits in Amalie Arena, all by its lonesome: the Governor’s Cup. The crystal vase was awarded exactly one time, to the winner of the 2013-14 season series between your Tampa Bay Lightning and the downstate Florida Panthers. How can we forget…
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TAMPA, Fla. – Home was never like this and it might never be again. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are world champions again, having closed out the deal at Raymond James Stadium on Sunday night with a dominating 31-9 over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super…
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TAMPA, Fla. – There hasn’t been much build-up to Super Bowl LV, but who needs that? Chiefs-Bucs stands alone, along with its chief protagonists, Bucs ageless quarterback Tom Brady, The GOAT, vs. The Kid, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who is out to claim Brady’s belt…
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TAMPA, Fla. – Well, here they are, along with the quarterback they rode on in, Tom Brady and the upset specials, on sport’s grandest stage, COVID notwithstanding. Who are those masked men? Ageless Bucs head coach Bruce Arians and his faithful sidekick (and boss), Bucs…
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TAMPA, Fla. – The Super Bowl has come to Tampa, and for the first time, we have an honest-to-goodness home team. This will forever be known as the Bucs Super Bowl, no matter what happens to Tom Brady and his teammates a week from Sunday…
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TAMPA, Fla. – Before we realize what just happened, then pinch ourselves for the hundredth time. But Tom Brady and the Bucs, in his first shot out of the box, are going home to Super Bowl LV. They can carpool if they want. Nearly complete…
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TAMPA, Fla. – Tom Brady and the Bucs are in the NFC championship game. Does it really matter that it’s in ice-cold Green Bay against the Packers and Aaron Rodgers? I’ll give you a hint: It doesn’t. Brady and the Bucs have done it. They…
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Life isn’t fair. And, so it is that the defending Stanley Cup champion Lightning, having finally gotten over the top, raised their championship banner Wednesday night before they unfurled a resounding 5-1 season-opening win … in front of no one. COVID concerns kept faithful Bolts fans…
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TAMPA, Fla. – Survive. Advance. We could talk and fret all day about the bear trap that Tom Brady and the Bucs just avoided, moreover how this will in no way work at all in their next playoff game, which very well might take place…
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It didn’t seem fair when it happened. It still doesn’t seem fair. The playoff-bound Bucs overwhelmed the Falcons on Sunday. They put up another 44 points. Tom Brady threw four more touchdowns for 40 on his remarkable, ageless season. The Bucs assured themselves the top…
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