FOOTBALL Huang heads to Huntingdon College ...more

May 6, 2008

AVON PARK — Whistles were blaring and helmets were shinning in the afternoon sun on Thursday, as new Avon Park head football coach Andy Bonjokian hit the field with his players for the first time since taking the post in mid-March. ...more

May 2, 2008

FOOTBALL First-year football coach Rodney Byrd will guide Leopard fortunes at least through Classic Game against Ocala-West Port. ...more

May 2, 2008

AVON PARK — Bill Jarrett sat on the sidelines waiting for his turn to play in the first and probably only practice for the newly formed Highlands Hoppers at the South Florida Community College gym. "I keep thinking to myself that this is for a good cause," Jarrett laughed as he jogged onto the court and nearly came up with a block. The Highlands Hoppers are a menagerie of local hoopsters that have been assembled by local businesses to play the Harlem Ambassadors on Tuesday. The Ambassadors are much like their famous counterparts — the Harlem Globetrotters — with a bit of a twist. "They all must be either college graduates or working toward a college degree to be on the team," said Avon Park Noon Rotary Club president Alice Oldham. "They also have a very strong stay-in-school and anti-drug message for today's youth. That impressed me." ...more

February 21, 2008

The man who has guided the University of South Florida Bulls football team to national prominence in the past 12 years will be the guest speaker Thursday at a fundraising luncheon for local Boy Scouts. ...more

February 16, 2008

This is one of those celebrity deals that practically requires a scorecard. ...more

February 16, 2008

PLANT CITY - The man who has guided the University of South Florida Bulls football team to national prominence during the past 12 years will be the guest speaker Feb. 21 at a fundraising luncheon for local Boy Scouts. ...more

February 14, 2008

The University of South Florida has reined in the control its Athletic Department has long held over the scholastic lives of student-athletes. ...more

February 5, 2008

Hillsborough County high school athletes can transfer to just about any school they want in a system coaches say has come to mirror the NFL or NBA. ...more

February 1, 2008

AVON PARK — Andy Bonjokian was so excited, he just had to stand up. "I'm sorry," he said to a group of reporters gathered in Avon Park principal Stu Guthrie's office. "I'm a wreck here." The Avon Park alumnus (Class of 1986) was introduced as the Red Devils' new head football coach on Tuesday, standing tall among the candidates after a two-month search brought on by the firing of former skipper Earnest Perkins. ...more

January 29, 2008