USF has lost three straight against Rutgers, but Thursday night's ESPN game gives the Bulls another chance to restore their image, writes Joe Henderson. ...more

November 10, 2009

A charity baseball tournament will be held in honor of former University of South Florida football player Will Bleakley, who was lost at sea with two NFL players on a March 1st fishing trip. ...more

March 31, 2009

Stormlike winds were whipping up the Gulf of Mexico when it was discovered that the anchor to Marquis Cooper's boat had caught on something 138 feet under water. There was no VHF radio onboard. Also, Cooper and two of his three passengers had been drinking. ...more

March 28, 2009

Speaking over the whine of the pneumatic drills in his Citrus County auto shop, Bob Bleakley said hadn't had time to look at the report, released moments before, outlining what investigators say happened during the boating accident that took the life of his son, Will, and NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith.. ...more

March 27, 2009

Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are close to finalizing their report of the boating mishap in which two pro football players and a former University of South Florida athlete were lost at sea. ...more

March 24, 2009

It wasn't only the bad weather, the 14-foot seas and the glaring spotlight of the media that frustrated the Coast Guard as it searched for four high-profile boaters who went missing during a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 28th. ...more

March 18, 2009

It wasn't only the bad weather, the 14-foot seas and the glaring spotlight of the media that frustrated the U.S. Coast Guard as it frantically searched for four high-profile boaters who went missing during a fishing trip into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month. ...more

March 17, 2009

The four boaters set a course for the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the morning of Feb. 28 to a spot that had yielded a bounty of amberjack on past fishing trips. ...more

March 17, 2009

The four boaters set a course for the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the morning of Feb. 28, to a spot that had yielded a bounty of amberjack on past fishing trips. ...more

March 16, 2009

To Bob Bleakley, the father of one of three friends who did not survive a gulf fishing trip last week, details of a report released Monday about what happened on the boat are inconsequential ...more

March 16, 2009