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Ask Gary: Talking about Tiger, Rays Stadium, Lovie

February 27, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Gary, I don’t know if you had to cover the PGA tour in your sportswriting career – I’m betting you did, though. That being said, and with the PGA Tour headed our way in Tampa Bay, Tiger Woods seems to have hit rock bottom with his golf game.  He seems to have developed something called […]

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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

February 24, 2015 general

Tuesday, noon Jerry Angelo is a former personnel director for the Bucs and former general manager of the Bears. Each week, Angelo answers your questions regarding the NFL. Send your questions to GarySheltonsports@gmail.com with “ask the expert” in the subject line. The most interesting question will be selected. Do you think Lovie Smith is convinced […]

Tagged as: Bucs, Combine, Deflate gate, Draft, Lynch, Manning, Winston

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Random thoughts: $600 is a lot for a sack

February 22, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Sunday, 6 a.m. — Hi, I’m Jamies Winston, and I’m here to tell you not to worry about the reports about my shoulder. Turns out, it’s just an old B.B. gun wound. — So the problem isn’t that the Seahawks are talking to Marshawn Lynch. The problem is that he is expected to talk back. […]

Tagged as: Jenner, Manning, McCown, Sapp, Simpson, Winston

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Ask Gary: What do you ask Winston?

February 21, 2015 Florida State University

Saturday, 6:15 p.m. Mr. Licht and Coach Smith have invited you to be in the room when interviewing Jameis Winston at this week’s NFL Combine. Please provide five questions that you feel need to be asked and what would be the appropriate answers you’d like to hear to sway you to choose Jameis Winston as […]

Tagged as: Licht, Smith, Sternbrerg, Winston

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To All Fields: Smith praises Winston!

February 21, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Saturday, 6 a.m. At the Combine.. The beauty contest judge likes the contender from Florida State. That doesn’t mean he’s ready to give up the crown, though. It was amazing this week when Bucs’ coach Lovie Smith had a few nice things to say about FSU quarterback Jamies Winston. All over the Twitterverse, fans seemed […]

Tagged as: Bucs, draft. Lovie Smith, Lightning, Mariota, playoffs, Rays, Winston

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Looking back, Kif never should have left

February 19, 2015 general

SEEKING EMPLOYMENT: Super Bowl winning football coach. Led his team to one of the best defensive eras in the history of the game. Perfected Tampa Two. Has coached Hall of Famers. In all, worked for five college teams and seven pro teams. Alas, I’m 75 next week, although I’m going on 27. * * * […]

Tagged as: Brooks, Bucs, Dungy, Gruden, Kiffin, Lynch, Sapp

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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

February 17, 2015 general

Tuesday, 11:08 a.m. Jerry Angelo is a former personnel director for the Bucs and former general manager of the Bears. Each week, Angelo answers your questions regarding the NFL. Send your questions to GarySheltonsports@gmail.com with “ask the expert” in the subject line. The most interesting question will be selected. Josh McCown seems to be on […]

Tagged as: Dunn, Lynch, McCown, NFL, Rice, Sabol, Tebow

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A life in sports means lessons learned

February 17, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Tuesday, 1:52 p.m. My speech to the St. Petersburg Kiwanis Club: All my life, my classroom has always been a pressbox. My classmates were the other writers, all in a row with notebooks and pens and laptops. My teachers were the athletes and coaches of the day. My field trips were to the athletic stadiums. […]

Tagged as: Armstrong, Bowden, Montana, O.J. Booker, Sapp, Shula, Van Dycken

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Remembering Worst, Best Bucs’ Free Agents

February 16, 2015 general

Monday, 8 a.m. In this market, the shelves are usually empty. The prices are ridiculous. The pickings are slim. The production is awful. And yet, in the search for hope, teams keep grabbing a cart going down the aisles. There has to be hope somewhere, doesn’t there? There has to be a short cut. There […]

Tagged as: Collins, Harper, Johnson, Nickserson, Rice, Ward

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To all fields: Lovie admits his mistake

February 14, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Saturday, 6 a.m. TAMPA In the NFL, cutting your quarterback means never having to say you’re sorry. With Lovie Smith, however, it is implied. When the Bucs gave up on their failure with Josh McCown this week, Lovie Smith made an admission that he was wrong. He was wrong when he signed McCown. He was […]

Tagged as: Bucs, Florida, FSU, Leavitt, Lightning, McCown, Rays, Stamkos, USF

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