Author: Martin Fennelly

TAMPA, Fla. – When did you throw up? Was it the sight of the cheater Houston Astros jumping for joy after Carlos Correa’s walk-off home run? Was it the idea that the team that everyone wants to lose is suddenly back in the American League…

TAMPA, Fla. – If this seems familiar, well, it is. The Rays 2020 baseball season comes down to exactly what the Rays’ 2019 season came down to beat Gerrit Cole in the deciding game of an ALDS. Again, there is no tomorrow for Kevin Cash…

TAMPA, Fla. – The Rays are on the clock. That Game 1 wild-card series win over the Buffalo Blue Jays was nice enough for starters. But it wasn’t a world championship. A world championship is what got off the plane Tuesday afternoon in Tampa, hoisting…

TAMPA, Fla. – The Lightning now have permission to be Stanley Cup champions, possibly as early as Saturday. It’s hard at this point to believe that the Dallas Stars can stop them. It’s hard to believe the Lightning’s past postseason troubles can stop them. It’s…

TAMPA, Fla. – You have to get to the door to kick it down. The Lightning are there. They are in the Stanley Cup Finals again, for the first time since 2015, when they were so young and the road was all ahead of them.…

TAMPA, Fla.- The first game in Bucs history occurred 43 years ago, as the NFL’s shiny new franchise opened against the Oilers inside Houston’s famed Astrodome. Dispatched by head coach John McKay, a determined Bucs bunch left the visiting locker room and headed for the…

August 28, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly TAMPA, Fla.- The Rays and Baltimore Orioles were supposed to play baseball Thursday night at Tropicana Field. They didn’t. The Lightning and Bruins are supposed to play Game 4 of their playoff series tonight. They won’t. And I couldn’t…

August 22, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly TAMPA, Fla. – How hard up are we for sports when a 10-part documentary on someone whose greatness came a quarter-century ago holds us in suspense? I don’t know about you, but it happened to me. I sat there…