Visitors entering the East Lake High School gymnasium are greeted with an extensive array of banners recognizing the school's athletic prowess over the past 21-plus years. ...more

December 27, 2008

MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS TENNIS MVP PROFILE Next season begins now for the Challenger K-8 squad that's attempting to extend its 19-match win skein behind the County's Player of the Year, sixth-grader Garrett Napolitano. ...more

June 10, 2008

ALL-COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS This year's Challenger K-8 sets the bar at 9-0 in matches and finishes an amazing 63-0 run in combined singles, doubles action. P.S. SIX NAVIGATORS NAMED ALL-COUNTY ...more

June 5, 2008

Give credit to the folks who loved gill nets in 1994. They never gave up. Today, 14 years after a majority of Florida's citizens passed a constitutional amendment to get rid of entangling nets, the die-hard netters are still trying to find a way around the ruling. ...more

June 4, 2008

All-COUNTY BOYS TENNIS County and district champion Hernando High paces local circuit with five all-stars selections, including repeat picks Chris Nyholm and Erik Lawson. ...more

May 25, 2008

The two netters reported caught in the Manatee River on Thursday before daylight with 700 yards of gill net, 500 pounds of fish and 100 pounds of egg on their faces made use of a classic evasion tactic to save their boat, motor and trailer. When arrested, the netters were fishing from a "borrowed" boat, and since the owner of the vessel was not involved in the infraction, the boat could not be seized, as it would have been if the owners were the perpetrators. ...more

February 17, 2008

Commercial mullet netters, who saw their catches cut more than 60 percent by the 1995 net-ban amendment, have requested that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ease harvest regulations now that the fish have recovered to healthy levels statewide. ...more

January 27, 2008