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June 20, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA Fla. – According to ESPN. three members of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers have tested positive for COVID-19 at the team’s training facility. The Buccaneers have closed areas of the building and will sanitize those affected areas before…
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June 20, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly TAMPA Fla. – Somebody say something. Can we bring the noise back? These days, the sound of sports is the sound of silence. And that’s not the music I want or need to hear. Sports is kicking back in,…
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June 19, 2020 By: Joe Henderson PLANT CITY Fla.- After seven years at Strawberry Crest HS, where he coached cross country and track, Ben Henderson is moving to the Raiders, where he succeeds Caleb Roberts. Those are big shoes to fill. Roberts was the 2018…
Read More Plant City High School Boys Soccer Team Has a New Coach
June 19, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA – Twitter is on ‘sticks of fire’ that the Tampa Bay Lightning had to temporarily close camp due to positive testing for COVID-19 on the team. Bob McKenzie, from TSN says, “I believe it’s three players and two…
Read More Tampa Bay Lightning Reportedly Close Camp Due to COVID-19
June 19, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly Is nothing sacred? In a word, No. In three more words: not even close. The University of Florida is ending its “Gator Bait” cheer at football games and other sports events because of perceived racial connotations. This might be…
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June 20, 2020 By: Tiffany Razzano PORT RICHEY – Al Schaefer will turn the parking lot of his shop, Vape Supply Plus in Port Richey, into a wrestling ring for Father’s Day. “I figured nobody else has done it before, so why not see what…
Read More Pasco County – Port Richey Free Father’s Day Wrestling Event
June 12, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly TAMPA — They’re back. For the first time in nearly three months, they’re back. And their demons are right behind them. The Lightning hit the ice Tuesday at Amalie Arena, or at least some of them did, to pass…
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June 10, 2020 By: Tiffany Razzano TAMPA – After a May 16 fire at Tampa’s Blake High School destroyed a storage shed and nearly all of the football program’s equipment, NFL player Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski and his new team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, have stepped…
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June 9, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly The upcoming year in sports, or what is left of it, will be One for the Knee. They might play the entire NBA season on one knee. They will be practicing taking a knee in NFL training camps. We…
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June 5, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly Sometimes, it can be so simple. Even with tension everywhere, a nation boiling over, even with news events swirling, with right and wrong colliding, with everyone ready to shout at the top of their lungs, it can be quiet…
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