SEBRING — Time to run. The boys and girls cross country teams from the Heartland compete today and Friday in the Class 3A district meets. Avon Park and Sebring run today in the District 5 meet at Lake Park in Tampa, while Lake Placid runs on Friday at the District 6 meet in Naples. Only the top six teams advance to next Saturday's regional competition in Estero, and Avon Park's boys squad has the talent and desire to be one of those teams. ...more

November 1, 2007

The HT3 Outdoors' Team Open Bass Tournament came to Lake Kissimmee Chain of lakes and launched out of Camp Mack River Resort located on the Kissimmee river canal between Lake Hatchineha and Lake Kissimmee. Thirty-eight teams participated in the event which featured a different format and option of teams using two boats instead of the usual one boat. Also, the limit was extended to six bass any size - if teams used two boats each angler's limitation was three bass to be combined with his team mate at the scales to be weighed in together. ...more

October 19, 2007

Someone has to follow Felix Soto on the Land O' Lakes High boys cross country team. ...more

October 13, 2007

Like USF, UCF's Goal Is Getting Into Top 25 It might be difficult to differentiate between the long-range goals for Central Florida coach George O'Leary and South Florida coach Jim Leavitt. ...more

October 12, 2007

LAKE WALES — The Reel'em In for Rotary Charity Bass Tournament 2007 sponsored by the Lake Wales Breakfast Rotary was held on Lake Kissimmee last Saturday. Camp Mack Resort hosted the event that launched at safelight and weighed in at 2:30 p.m. Thirty teams participated in the Bass tournament event conducted by tournament director, Nigel Hill of Lake Wales. ...more

October 6, 2007

Strange happening on the Florida A&M campus this week. Albert Chester II, the Rattlers' starting quarterback the past 2 1/2 seasons, quit the team, ostensibly because of injuries. The tone and manner in which Chester left, however, suggests there could be more to the story. ...more

October 5, 2007

Since the Full Moon was a week ago and today marks the last quarter moon phase, which occurs at 10:06 a.m., the "Very Early Morning Bite" is "On" in a huge way. The sooner you get out on the lake the sooner you'll be landing your favorite fish. However, because the oxygen levels are still somewhat low in much of the lake areas, your presentation needs to be experimented with until you determine which action the fish prefer. ...more

October 3, 2007

LAKE PLACID –– Looking for improvement. That's what Lake Placid High School volleyball coach Marilyn Jones wants to see from her talented squad with the district tournament only three weeks away. The Green Dragons have had a solid season thus far, posting an impressive 12-5 record, but Jones knows her team hasn't reached its full potential yet and has scheduled some weekend tournaments to compete in. ...more

October 2, 2007

MIAMI - The stats suggest it'll be a rout. The tape keeps the Miami Hurricanes from thinking that way. ...more

September 28, 2007

Wyatt Riled Over Ruling Formation Was Illegal It doesn't take much to get Bethune-Cookman coach Alvin Wyatt riled up, and he's still plenty riled up after last week's 38-31 loss to Norfolk State University. Wyatt claims NSU head coach Pete Adrian, defensive coordinator at B-CU for seven years under Wyatt, convinced officials before the game that B-CU was using an illegal offensive formation. ...more

September 28, 2007