It might not be necessary for visitors with Super Bowl tickets that cost from $500 to $1,000 to sell some to pay their hotel bills, but it could help. Hotel rooms remain available in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties for the Feb. 1 Super Bowl weekend. But visitors can expect to pay the rack rate, the highest price a hotel lists for each room, or close to it, and book for at least three or four nights. ...more

January 20, 2009

Raymond James Stadium is shedding its Buccaneers pewter in exchange for Cardinals red and Steelers yellow. ...more

January 20, 2009

If you look closely, you'll see a wispy teenager running a ball to the officials between the coin toss and the kickoff at Super Bowl XLIII. ...more

January 19, 2009

Tampa seems to struggle to get a team in the Super Bowl, but the community sure knows how to host one. Soon, we'll see what we get in return. ...more

January 18, 2009

Raheem Morris is one of those guys people want to be around. He is smart, thoughtful, accomplished and energetic, and he is the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You like him the moment you meet him. ...more

January 17, 2009

The more they thought about it - and they spent nearly three weeks thinking about it - the more the Glazers realized their football team was no longer what they wanted it to be. ...more

January 17, 2009

Country singer Faith Hill has been selected to sing "America the Beautiful" during the Super Bowl XLIII pregame festivities at Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 1, the National Football League and NBC announced Thursday. ...more

January 16, 2009

Country singer Faith Hill has been selected to sing "America the Beautiful" during the Super Bowl XLIII pregame festivities at Raymond James Stadium on Feb.1, the National Football League and NBC announced today. ...more

January 15, 2009

PLANT CITY -- Security will be so thorough that Raymond James Stadium will be the safest place in the country on Super Bowl Sunday, an NFL security representative said today. Dan Grossi, a retired Tampa police officer who works for the National Football League's security division, said the NFL and local, state and federal officers have worked for months to come up with a plan to keep the game safe. Grossi was featured speaker at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce. ...more

January 14, 2009

three as a player, 14 as an assistant coach and 13 as a head coach - he is leaving behind a career during which he took his teams to the playoffs 10 consecutive years, had the highest-scoring team in the NFL the last six years and won the Super Bowl both as a player and a coach. ...more

January 14, 2009