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Fans may have thought when the South Florida women’s basketball team was left out of the NCAA Tournament that it was a snub, but the team didn’t have time to dwell on the exclusion from one tournament because they had to get ready for another one. After a 20-12 season and a third-place finish in
The USFSP Bulls’ club baseball team lost to the Kansas Jayhawks Friday night, ending their 11-game win streak. In their inaugural season, the (11-4) Bulls attempted to keep the momentum going against the Jayhawks, but were haunted by six costly errors and were defeated 7-4 at home. The Jayhawks’ junior starting pitcher, Matt Carrillo, threw
It takes four weeks to put the track up for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. It creates a pain for residents and especially for local business. But sweet relief will be here soon. The race is set to run on Sunday. Even though the race creates headaches for many residents and businesses, headaches
The helmet is brighter and the flag is bigger. The red pops more, the skull is meaner and pretty soon it will be plastered on hats, T-shirts and jerseys that will all be for sale. Thursday night the Tampa Bay Buccaneers introduced their new helmet with an updated logo design. Hall-of-Famer Warren Sapp and current
U.S. Figure Skating, the governing body of the sport in the United States, has more than 140,000 members. The chances of being among the four skaters that compete in the pairs competition at the Winter Olympics is 0.000003 percent. On Wednesday, USF St. Petersburg’s Felicia Zhang and her partner Nathan Bartholomay finished 12th in the
Willie Taggart was hired in early Dec. 2012. That gave him only a couple months to assemble his recruiting class. A year later, Taggart has had an entire season to recruit players and the extra time seems to have payed off. South Florida’s 2014 recruiting class, which was signed last Wednesday, was one of the
The 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are underway. The Tampa Bay region will be well represented at the games. Several players from the Tampa Bay Lightning will represent their countries at the games. USF St. Petersburg will have a representative in Sochi with Felicia Zhang competing in the pairs figure skating. Zhang will
What would Brian Boitano do if he were here right now? ‘Tis a question many of us have pondered since, when in 1999, Matt Stone and Trey Parker tunefully posed it to us in their film, “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.” To Mr. Stone, Mr. Parker and the viewing audience of NBC’s Olympics Opening
Allison Jolly described her entry into sailing as an “accident.” The USF women’s varsity sailing coach and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist in sailing grew up in St. Petersburg before most houses had air conditioning. To stay cool during the summers, she said there were four choices: go to the only air-conditioned department store downtown, swim,
