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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…
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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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June 2, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly Our country is on its knees, and not in a Colin Kaepernick kind of way. We are already reeling from a pandemic. Now our cities are burning from rioting and violence. America is off its game. An extra round…
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May 29, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly It is still hard to believe that the great pandemic of our lifetime has brought life, and with it sports, to a screeching halt. The only thing harder to believe is that it will return to normal anytime soon.…
Read More Fennelly- Sports, We Will Be Counting Empty Seats For a Long, Long Time
May 26, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly At first, I thought it was only because that as a citizen of one sports-starved nation, under God, anything will work at this point, up to and including exhibition golf. I mean, over the past couple of months, I…
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May 22, 2020 By: Martin Fennelly It’s a new day in Tampa Bay. Super Bowl, here we come! Move over, Pound the Rock! Make way for Dry the Cheeks! We knew Tom Brady was going to change the Bucs, put them back on the road to greatness, revamping…
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