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TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are NFL Champions for the second time in franchise history after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9 in Super Bowl LV, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Sunday. The Buccaneers became the first team to win, or play…
Read More Champa Bay: ‘We Did It At Home’ Buccaneers Defeat Chiefs 31-9
Seattle Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson has been selected as the 2020 WALTER PAYTON NFL MAN OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY NATIONWIDE, the NFL announced Saturday. The League’s most prestigious honor, the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, recognizes an NFL player for outstanding community service activities…
Read More Super Bowl LV: Russell Wilson 2020 NFL Man of the Year
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…
Read More Super Bowl LV: Here’s How the Bucs Win, or Lose, the Big Game
LAKELAND, Fla. – This year will be the Tigers’ 85th season for Spring Training at TigerTown, extending the longest-standing relationship between a Major League team and a current Spring Training host city. The 2021 spring season will be the club’s 56th consecutive season of playing…
Read More Play Ball! Grapefruit League Given Green Light, Detroit Tigers 85th Spring Training Season in Lakeland
TAMPA, Fla. – Fans can relive Super Bowl LV with this year’s LIVE VISUAL ALBUM. Available on February 7, the visual album will feature each performance from Super Bowl LV, including the National Anthem (Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church), America the Beautiful (H.E.R.), and the…
Read More NFL Announces LIVE Visual Album, Super Bowl LV LIVE
TAMPA, Fla. – With their Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers set to face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl, Jean Peters Baker and Andrew Warren—the elected prosecutors serving the two cities—have challenged each other on social media to a friendly wager. “Because both leaders…
Read More Super Bowl Wager Between Tampa & KC Prosecutors Spotlights Social Justice
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…
Read More Super Bowl LV: Arians, Licht Risked it and Brought Home the Biscuit
TAMPA, Fla. – Nothing about the 2021 Super Bowl will be business-as-usual, but that offers opportunity for doing things that have never been done before, especially as all eyes focus on the Tampa Bay area. Local radio station WWBA AM 820/FM 98.3/ FM 96.7, owned…
Read More Local Pre-Game Broadcast Goes Global from Live Stage at Sparkman Wharf
According to a new survey, plans have changed for many on game day, in the COVID-19 era of the NFL’s Super Bowl, and the way consumers consume content. Adtaxi—one of the nation’s fastest-growing digital marketing agencies—today announced the results of its annual Super Bowl Viewership…
Read More Party’s Over for Super Bowl LV: 68% of Viewers Plan to Stay Home for the Big Game
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…
Read More Super Bowl 2021: Who Ya Gonna Call? Tampa