TAMPA Tampa community leaders have pitched the Super Bowl as a way to celebrate the area's people, attractions and tropical quality of life in front of a worldwide audience. ...more

February 1, 2009

Tampa community leaders have pitched the Super Bowl as a way to celebrate the area's people, attractions and tropical quality of life in front of a worldwide audience. But a California-based polling company has found that the national exposure from the Super Bowl seldom translates into a meaningful boost in the image of the host community. ...more

January 31, 2009

Less than a mile from the site of Sunday's big game, a group of area businesspeople experienced their own Super Bowl moment. ...more

January 31, 2009

Steelers and Cardinals fans are beginning to arrive at Tampa International Airport for Super Bowl weekend, to the tune of about 23,000 people per day this weekend. ...more

January 30, 2009

Here, you can score Super bowl souvenirs that will help you look fabulous. ...more

January 30, 2009

Less than a mile from the site of Sunday's big game, a group of area businesspeople experienced their own Super Bowl moment. ...more

January 30, 2009

Santonio Holmes' revelation this week that he briefly sold drugs as a youth in Belle Glade has created a stir in the national media, which is exactly what he wanted. ...more

January 30, 2009

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a plane towing a "Super Bowl Champion is Jesus" banner! ...more

January 30, 2009

"I love Florida weather!" shouted Al Roker to more than 200 cheering spectators gathered in Centro Ybor this morning for a chance to meet him and get a few seconds of face time the "Today" show. Roker, in town as part of NBC's Super Bowl XLIII coverage, got a taste of Ybor City during several live reports from in front of a cigar store on Seventh Avenue. ...more

January 29, 2009

Sea life was split Tuesday on who will win the Super Bowl, as manatee Buffett picked the Pittsburgh Steelers by a nose and Shelley the sea turtle decided those same Steelers would get shelled. Today, four-legged football experts from the Tampa Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will take a crack at sniffing out a winner. ...more

January 28, 2009