When the Orlando Olympia boys basketball team learned it was playing Gainesville in the second annual McDonald's Tampa Hoops Classic semifinals on Monday night, it was hoping for a chance at redemption. ...more

December 30, 2008

The Sickles and Berkeley Prep boys basketball teams had their opportunities to upset some of the top teams in the second annual McDonald's Tampa Hoops Classic on Friday, but both teams fell short in the opening round of play. And the losses eliminated the chances of a Hillsborough County team playing for the tournament championship. ...more

December 27, 2008

Jeremiah Dominguez scored 25 points and Portland State upset No. 7 Gonzaga, 77-70, on Tuesday night for its first win against a ranked team since it reinstated its basketball program for the 1996-97 season. ...more

December 24, 2008

Italee Lucas scored 10 of her 19 points in North Carolina's 18-2 second-half run, and the second-ranked Tar Heels rallied past Illinois 68-59 on Saturday in the Carolinas Challenge. ...more

December 21, 2008

The Lakeland football team was in an unfamiliar situation Friday. In each of the program's six state title game appearances, they've walked away winners. ...more

December 20, 2008

If there was any doubt that Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas was worthy of being the nation's top-ranked team, it proved it in just two plays Friday night in the Class 5A state championship football game at the Citrus Bowl. ...more

December 19, 2008

Class 5A championship game is a matchup of two of the nation's elite teams. ...more

December 18, 2008

Lakeland football coach Bill Castle couldn't celebrate his team's 22-21 victory against Pensacola Pine Forest in the Class 5A state semifinals for long. ...more

December 14, 2008

With 39.6 seconds remaining in the Class 5A state semifinals between Pensacola Pine Forest and Lakeland, Pine Forest junior quarterback David Lawrence dropped back from his team's 30 and threw a deep pass to Dudley Bickham, who was surrounded by three Lakeland defenders. ...more

December 13, 2008

For the second consecutive year, the Largo High football team made it to the Class 5A state semifinals. And for the second straight year, it was St. Thomas Aquinas that ended the Packers' season. ...more

December 13, 2008