The majority of the Tampa Bay area plows through boxes and boxes of tissues to battle the effects of that great green powder we call pollen. It's time vent your frustrations in the best way possible: haiku. Use the comments area bellow to come up with the funniest, most clever or most poetic haiku of the day. ...more

March 11, 2009

Big patches of empty seats under the Atlanta Motor Speedway press box Sunday prompted Jeff Gordon to say he was "a little baffled." ...more

March 8, 2009

Scott Wycherley of New Port Richey says the city library needs a suggestion box. He would suggest it should be quieter. ...more

February 25, 2009

Before boarding an airplane in the pouring rain Monday afternoon, the Lightning played a shell game with their goaltenders, moving players around faster than a street-corner shuffler. ...more

February 2, 2009

ANGOULÊME, FRANCE - Dave Eggers preceded his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" with a section titled "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of this Book." It's a brilliant attempt to disarm the reader and preempt criticism. Among its warnings, referring to chapter four: "The book thereafter is kind of uneven." (Disclosure: Eggers edited my work at two magazines in the 1990s.) ...more

January 28, 2009

Texas coach Mack Brown has a theory about bowl games. "If the teams are fairly even, the team that wants to be there the most and has the edge and is more motivated usually wins," Brown said. ...more

January 5, 2009

The city's Public Nuisance Abatement Board reemerged from oblivion earlier this year, vowing to crack down on the owners of blighted, crime-ridden properties. ...more

December 6, 2008

Joanne M. Tracy of Sun City Center wrote an editorial, "What Ever Happened To Our Christmas?" in the late 1970s to vent her frustrations about the commercialization of Christmas. ...more

December 3, 2008

The sense of betrayal was palpable. When a group of former NFL players gathered in a Tampa hotel ballroom last week to raise awareness for the needs of their peers, they spoke from the heart about the plight of pro football's pioneers. ...more

November 16, 2008

For more than an hour, the University of South Florida football team laid it on the line. Nothing was held back. No one saved anything for later. ...more

November 12, 2008