The Ballast Point Elementary School Dads Club hosted a Bulldog Bash fundraiser on April 18 to raise money for a covered basketball pavilion. The event kicked off a three-year campaign to raise $75,000. ...more

May 13, 2009

Tampa has been invited to submit bids to host World Cup soccer tournament matches in 2018 or in 2022. Tampa also has been invited to submit bids for WrestleMania between 2011 and 2014. ...more

April 24, 2009

An 11-year-old boy was hit by a car this afternoon while getting his tennis ball out of the street. ...more

April 12, 2009

Moo Moo Evans from the Harlem Globetrotters gave Dave and Cyndi a lesson in some fancy basketball moves. Moo Moo and the Globetrotters have begun there 2009 world tour. ...more

April 7, 2009

A new mural in Lake Placid is going to be dedicated at 11 a.m. today at Rhodes Law Firm, located at 307 E. Interlake Blvd., Lake Placid, to show the beginning of basketball at Lake Placid High School in 1939-1940. ...more

March 28, 2009

Michael Sarver, latest castoff from "American Idol," isn't ready to go back to the oil rig. ...more

March 27, 2009

TONIGHT'S WNIT GAME Ole Miss at South Florida TIP-OFF: 7 p.m.; Sun Dome, Tampa ...more

March 26, 2009

Looking at the thicket of bodies clogging the middle of the floor, Oklahoma State's Byron Eaton wasn't sure how he'd create his final shot. So, he kept dribbling. ...more

March 21, 2009

See how one professional athlete is giving back ...more

March 10, 2009

The King of Pop is lightening his load. At an April auction featuring more than 2,000 personal items, Michael Jackson is set to sell his American Music Award for "Thriller," a velvet cape given to him by his children for Father's Day in 1998, a pair of rhinestone-trimmed socks from 1981, a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and his own original artwork. ...more

February 17, 2009