The Clearwater girls basketball team has been one of the state's elite programs since Coach Tom Shaneyfelt took over in 1993. Only once has he fielded a team that had fewer than 20 wins. Eight times his teams have advanced to the state semifinals. ...more

February 8, 2008

Predators coach Barry Trotz remembered closing a door at what is now called the Sommet Center on April 16, 1998, and looking over at the Renaissance Hotel a block away. ...more

February 8, 2008

They knew they couldn't set this little country community right in a day - the storms had been too brutal for that. But at least, they figured, they could clean it up. ...more

February 8, 2008

With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in a bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 8, 2008

TAMPA - With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in the cramped bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 7, 2008

A day after tornadoes in five states killed dozens of people, Hillsborough County students crouched in hallways, heads tucked to their knees, practicing what to do should a twister threaten here. ...more

February 7, 2008

AVON PARK — Missy Lander thinks the 2008 Avon Park softball team has a chance to make history. If Tuesday's throttling of Booker was any indication, she might be on to something. ...more

February 7, 2008

SARASOTA – When you're in a tight game on the road, you don't expect to get the close calls. That was the case in Saturday night's Class 4A-District 10 championship game between Sarasota Booker and Sebring. Booker's Brittani Williams made two free throws with 1.6 second remaining in overtime to give the Tornadoes a 39-37 win over the Blue Streaks. Williams, who finished with 10 points and six rebounds, drove to the basket along the baseline as the final seconds ticked down in overtime and threw up a prayer. ...more

February 4, 2008

Brittani Williams made two free throws with 1.6 seconds left in overtime to give the Booker girls basketball team a 39-37 victory over Sebring in the Class 4A-District 10 tournament final on Saturday night. ...more

February 3, 2008

SARASOTA — No championship is just handed to a team, and the Sebring girls basketball team seemingly tried to rest on its laurels of past tournament wins and almost saw their chance at a third-straight district championship slip away. Hannah Shoop's basket on a beautiful no-look pass by senior Whitney Lee with 1:07 to play ended a Blue-Streak scoring drought — which saw a 15-point lead dwindle to just four points — and lifted the Blue Streaks past the No. 4 seed Palmetto Tigers 52-44 in the semifinals of the Class 4A-District 10 tournament on Friday. ...more

February 3, 2008