BELLEAIR — Excitement is building in the town of Belleair as time winds down towards the Pelican Women’s Championship in May.
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BELLEAIR — Excitement is building in the town of Belleair as time winds down towards the Pelican Women’s Championship in May.
Clarence Faucett grew up playing baseball and softball, a passion that continued into adulthood. He played competitively even into his 70s and 80s as part of St. Petersburg’s Kids & Kubs senior program.
PALM HARBOR — Irish eyes will be smiling at an upcoming tournament at the Innisbrook Golf Club.
LARGO — The economy has not been kind to the game of golf the past 20 years. Fewer golfers are hitting the links and several courses in Pinellas County have closed.
BELLEAIR — The planners for the local LPGA tournament knew it would be a handful; now, how much of a handful is beginning to become clear.
Jack Nicklaus visited Clearwater recently to help rededicate the Nicklaus Family Center at pal Chi Chi Rodriguez’s Golf Academy, a school born of a unique public-private partnership that utilizes golf to teach life lessons.
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SEMINOLE — As the Seminole High School Warhawks soccer program gears up for its 2019-2020 season, the program will host a fundraiser at Mickey Quinn’s Pub, 13071 Park Blvd. N., Friday, Nov. 22.
It was a pretty brutal start to the postseason for Pinellas County football programs. The peninsula began with 13. The number of survivors now stands at six, with Largo, Clearwater and CCC among the survivors.
TREASURE ISLAND — This year’s Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl and Beach Invasion events will be packed into one big day of island revelry, as the city joins ESPN Sports for beach games, cheerleader competition and marching bands.
After years of planning, the Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch in Pinellas Park is poised to enter its final phase of construction next year. The WWAR is designed to help rehabilitate veterans wounded during military service.
The numbers are crunched and the brackets are set. In Pinellas County, 13 programs will keep their seasons going Friday night, including Largo, Countryside, Clearwater, Boca Ciega and East Lake.
This past summer, the Seminole High School football program was dealt a tragic blow when one of its young players died before the start of the season.
Local fans of the Toronto Blue Jays and visitors from Canada have a lot to look forward to this spring. The team will be playing in a stadium and training facility that have been renovated to the tune of $102 million, a project that has the team’s director of Florida operations “extremely excited” about the team’s future here.
DUNEDIN — It’s been two years since hitting rock bottom — Sept. 28, 2017.
Area high school football teams have shown who they are and what they’re capable of heading into Week 5, but that doesn’t mean all questions have answers.
Q: Is Week 4 too early for must-win matchups?
The 2019 high school football season got off to an uneven start last week.
Mother Nature may not be ready to cooperate, but football is back whether she likes it or not. Annual Fall Classic preseason high school games had a tough time getting completed last Friday night. Some were able to push through the dreary, wet weather while others were suspended or outright canceled. But that was then and this is now. Week 1 is here and these games count.
CLEARWATER — Of the 43,316 attendees to Phillies spring training games this spring, 16,946 stayed at a hotel or condo. That’s not counting the players and team staff, 183 of whom stayed overnight in hotels, usually for lengthy stays.
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Seminole High School junior Austin Bybee has won a world and a state title in kickboxing. Now, he’s an Olympic hopeful hoping to join Team USA at the next global competition.
BELLEAIR — A world-class sporting event is about to come to Belleair. The LPGA has announced that in 2020 a new tournament will be added to the tour and will be held at the newly refurbished Pelican Golf Club.
EAST LAKE — Former LPGA star Jan Stephenson, who now owns a golf course in Palm Harbor, was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame during a ceremony in California that took place during the week of the 119th U.S. Open, at the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Before he could even walk, Logan Hofstetter was in the water.
The Largo native grew up just a short drive from Indian Rocks Beach, where his family, avid beachgoers, spent much of their time.
His father and uncle, professional triathletes, were both surfers as well. So Logan’s natural affinity for the water is in his blood, he said.
It’s been a phenomenal few weeks for the Calvary Christian baseball program. The Warriors captured their second state championship in three years May 25, and this past week two of the team's senior stars — shortstop Christian Cairo, son of 17-year MLB veteran Miguel, and pitcher Braden Halladay, son of the late MLB star Roy Halladay — were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.
In the ninja world, Jason and Kathy Bergstrom and their family – nine kids, five of them adopted – are known as the Bergstrom Bunch. The Seminole family operates the Jungle Gym, an obstacle-based facility in Pinellas Park, but three members of the family have taken their passion for competition to another level, excelling on the NBC show "American Ninja Warrior."
Calvary Christian made Pinellas County high school baseball history by winning its Class 4A semifinal May 24 in Fort Myers.
After 92 days, and 29 regular and post season games, the Seminole High School Warhawks baseball team finished their 2019 season with a 14-15 record.
With the team’s .248 batting average, 86 RBIs, 26 stolen bases and 169 strikeouts, the Warhawks defied the odds and won the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 8A District 7 championship and became the Class 8A Region 2 championship runner-up.
LARGO — Bobby Roundtree, a former Largo High School football star and University of Illinois junior defensive lineman who suffered a severe spinal injury during a swimming accident on May 18, remains hospitalized at Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, according to the university.
Jayion McCluster has plenty to look forward to in the coming years. The soon-to-be Largo senior is one of the most highly rated inside linebackers in the entire country and announced his commitment to continue his football and academic careers at Florida State University on May 1.
CLEARWATER — For the second time in three years and seventh in program history, Dunedin baseball is heading to states.
The Seminole Warhawks varsity baseball team is this season’s underdog that no one expected to make a playoff run.
The Warhawks, with a 14-14 record, defied the odds and even defeated their district rival, the East Lake Eagles, in the Florida High School Athletic Association district and regional playoffs.
Registration is open for the 14th annual Tri If You Dare Youth Triathlon, which will take place Sunday, June 30, at the Seminole Recreation Center, 9100 113th St. N.
Richard Khan, a Seminole resident, participates in the Great Cycle Challenge each June to raise money for childhood cancer research. He rides in the memory of his sister, Natalie, who died at 27 from lymphoma.
It felt like winning the World Series for city officials and the Toronto Blue Jays as they broke ground on an extensive modernization project for Dunedin Stadium and put plans into motion to transform the Vanech Sports Complex into a state-of-the-art baseball training center.
Both Rick Masi and his son, Ryan, helped lead their respective teams — SHS boys soccer and Indian Rocks Christian School’s girls — to the state tournament. “I’m pretty sure this is the first time you’ve had a father and son coaching two different teams in state competition,” Rick said. “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
CLEARWATER — Juan Antonio “Chi Chi” Rodriguez is one of the greatest professional golfers of all time, an eight-time PGA Tour winner with 22 additional victories on the senior circuit renowned for his flamboyant style both on and off the course.
CLEARWATER — Bags were already packed and buses were ready to roll before the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-2, on Monday, March 25 in the final Grapefruit League game of 2019.
CLEARWATER – Palm Harbor University entered Saturday night’s championship game swinging the hottest bats of the weekend.
Less than a week after top PGA Tour players depart Innisbrook, the resort will play host to professionals from another sport. The inaugural Innisbrook Tennis Open starting Sunday will feature several top-100 players as well an Invesco Series senior match play event featuring tennis legends Jim Courier, James Blake, Mardy Fish and one of the greatest players of all time, John McEnroe.
CLEARWATER — Spectrum Field is typically awash in red, but during the Philadelphia Phillies’ annual Spring Training St. Patrick’s Day game, green is always the predominant color at the stadium.
It’s hard to somehow top a state championship season, but Countryside senior Anthony Burburija managed to do just that.
Registration is open for the 26th annual Seminole Stampede 5K Race and 1-mile Fun Run, set for Saturday, March 23 at Walsingham Park, 12620 102nd Ave. Participants must arrive before 7:30 a.m.
CLEARWATER — Newly minted outfielder Bryce Harper made his much-anticipated Grapefruit League debut for the Phillies when they hosted the Toronto Blue Jays on March 9, and judging by the sellout crowd, the sea of red and white No. 3 shirts in the stadium and the throng of national and intern…
The 2019 Valspar Championship is scheduled for March 18-24 at Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor, and during the kickoff luncheon, there was one question on everyone’s mind. Will Tiger Woods return? According to tournament officials, the answer is maybe.
The day after the news broke that free agent outfielder Bryce Harper had agreed to a record-breaking 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, there was a palpable buzz in the air at Spectrum Field, the team’s spring training home.
The day after the news broke that free agent outfielder Bryce Harper had agreed to a record-breaking 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, there was a palpable buzz in the air at Spectrum Field, the team’s spring training home.
The optimism that accompanies spring training was on full display when the Philadelphia Phillies kicked off their campaign in Clearwater on Feb. 23.
Blue skies, white, puffy clouds and unseasonably warm temperatures greeted the 7,279 fans that steadily streamed through the Spectrum Field turnstiles for the Philadelphia Phillies 2019 spring training home opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Feb. 23. While the Phillies organization and its fanbase anxiously await word on whether 2015 NL MVP Bryce Harper will sign a mega free-agent contract with the team, the anticipation took a backseat on Opening Day.
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