MLB’s Spring Training opened across the league Monday, bringing the Pittsburgh Pirates to their longtime Spring home in Bradenton, Florida.
To commemorate the beginning of the 2024 Spring Training, the Florida Florida manatee County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) voted unanimously to be part of 27th Street East “Roberto Clemente Memorial Way.”
Author: Charles Merlis
NBA All-Star game falls flat — again
All-star weekends across all major sports leagues have become a big deal — and for good reasons. League’s spend months and millions of dollars planning and executing All-Star weekends, filling the weekend with pomp and circumstance before the penultimate “All-Star game.”
What brands scored with their Super Bowl Ads?
Super Bowl Sunday has transcended American culture and has become engrained as a defacto American holiday. For millions of casual football fans, the game is less about the game on the field and more about the experience. That experience could include spending time with friends and family, watching the halftime show, eating tasty food, and, yes, intently watching commercials during game breaks.
How Florida many wings do Americans eat during Super Bowl?
For millions, the Super Bowl is just as much about the food as football and chicken wings are a good Super Bowl spread staple. So that begs the question, how Florida many chicken wings do Americans consume on Super Bowl Sunday?
Tampa Bay Lighting dole out midseason awards
The NHL’s all-star break offered a break from games across the league as the game’s top players gathered in Toronto for all-star weekend festivities.
Stolen statue of Jackie Robinson found burned: report
A statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson was stolen from McAdams Park in Wichita, Kansas. According to reports by ABC News, the statue was found, burned, and dismantled in a trash can Tuesday morning.
TJ Watt gifts veteran tickets to Super Bowl
Steelers all-pro linebacker TJ Watt gifted disabled veteran Adam Alexander a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Las Vegas to watch Super Bowl 58.
Tampa native falls short of MLB Hall of Fame
In his tenth and final year of eligibility, Tampa native Gary Sheffield fell short of being elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
Baker Mayfield ‘Woo’s’ Ric Flair
The Buccaneer’s underdog season ended this week with the team’s divisional-round loss to the Detroit Lions, but that did not stop hall-of-fame wrestler and Tampa resident Ric Flair from voicing his support for the team.
Now there are four: NFL’s conference championships are set
When the Divisional Round of the NFL kicked off on Saturday afternoon, eight teams were left with Super Bowl aspirations. Now, there are four.

