TAMPA - After getting turned down by a handful of candidates during the past two weeks, University of South Florida coach Jim Leavitt finally found his defensive coordinator late Tuesday: former University of Cincinnati defensive coordinator Joe Tresey. ...more

March 3, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Zephyrhills athletic director Craig Milburn, who may be in his final year at the school, is trying to sift through applications to replace former Bulldogs football coach Tom Fisher, who ended his 20-year tenure when he resigned in December. ...more

January 30, 2009

Jim Schwartz faces the biggest challenge among the 32 NFL teams next season: turning around a team that didn't win a single game. ...more

January 17, 2009

For a magical six-day stretch that began Jan. 2, three college basketball coaching legends brought their teams to Tampa for games against the University of South Florida: Syracuse men's coach Jim Boeheim, Connecticut women's coach Geno Auriemma and Louisville men's coach Rick Pitino. ...more

January 10, 2009

Urban Meyer and Bob Stoops are examples of why many college coaches no longer must join the NFL to reach football's pinnacle. ...more

January 5, 2009

With Florida State trainers attending to a woozy Drew Weatherford and a graduate assistant yelling at Christian Ponder to get ready, offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher wasn't sure what to expect from his untested redshirt freshman quarterback on a November night in 2007 in Blacksburg, Va. ...more

October 23, 2008

FOOTBALL Veteran NFL tight end lectures Eagles on taking advantage of opportunities and taking care of business in the classroom. ...more

July 25, 2008

James Coley had ample reason to stay in South Florida. He grew up a block from the Orange Bowl and returned home to become an offensive assistant with the Miami Dolphins in 2005. His wife, Kenia, is also expecting the couple's first child next month. ...more

February 22, 2008

Rick Kouwe has been close buddies with Jim Boeheim since they were kids back in the day. They played high school basketball against each other and used to hang out in each other's houses when they were growing up around Syracuse, N.Y. They even played hoops in the summer behind the funeral home run by Boeheim's dad. ...more

February 13, 2008

A trademark of Bobby Bowden's tenure at Florida State has been stability among his coaching staff. Prior to an overhaul of the offensive staff after the 2006 season, Bowden's staff had remained largely intact through the years. ...more

February 13, 2008