PAGE 1 QUIZ ANSWERS 1. B: Vonzell Solomon. The aspiring singer is from a few hours down the road in Fort Myers. Jessica Sierra and Melissa McGhee are both from Tampa. Syesha Mercado grew up in nearby Sarasota. ...more

January 31, 2009

The state has issued new specialty plates for the Bucs and Rays. ...more

December 4, 2008

New Rays and Buccaneers specialty license plates are on sale today through some Hillsborough County tax collector's offices and will be available statewide by next week. ...more

December 4, 2008

No one can call Howard Stapf a bandwagon jumper. He and his late wife, Marguerite, attended the very first game in Tampa Bay (Devil) Ray history back in 1998. ...more

November 23, 2008

SEBRING Toronto native Ray Walker would generally be cheering for the likes of Dustin McGowan, Shaun Marcum and the rest of the Toronto Blue Jays. ...more

October 21, 2008

It would have been easy to lose faith. The losses piled up year after year and baseball in Tampa Bay had become a metaphor for failure. ...more

October 19, 2008

Kenny Kelly, a volunteer assistant football coach at Plant City High School and former professional baseball player, was among about 70 people arrested Wednesday on drug charges as part of a three-county, five-month investigation. Kelly, who was a three-sport athlete at Tampa Catholic High in the mid-1990s and is recognized as one of the top prep athletes to come out of Hillsborough County, was charged with solicitation to deliver, possess and purchase marijuana. He was being held today at Orient Road Jail with bail set at $45,000. ...more

July 24, 2008

NOT-SO-GREAT MOMENTS IN CUBS HISTORY THE CURSE OF THE BILLY GOAT (1945): In 1945, tavern owner Billy Sianis bought box seat tickets for Game 4 of the World Series and brought his pet goat to Wrigley Field. When it began to rain, the odor of wet goat prompted Cubs officials to eject Sianis and his pet. Enraged, Sianis purportedly placed a curse upon the franchise; no Cubs team would appear in the World Series until the franchise demonstrated the proper respect to all goat-kind. The Cubs haven't been to the World Series since, despite many attempts by fans and even Sianis' descendents to break the curse. ...more

June 17, 2008

Sure, Doug Waechter wonders occasionally about what might have been. So do Jorge Cantu and Mark Hendrickson. ...more

June 13, 2008

The new Raider head football coach may be from out of the area, but he is surrounding himself with some of Plant City's finest in the sport. ...more

May 31, 2008