Rowdies fall to Cincinnati in preseason game

February 11, 2018 general

Sunday, 1 a.m. It was as close as one team having a disallowed goal and the opposition following it with one of their own. It added up to a 1-0 loss to FC Cincinnati by the Tampa Bay Rowdies Saturday afternoon at IMG Academy. The Rowdies , who had just eight training sessions before the […]

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Lightning holds on after another shaky third period

February 10, 2018 general

Saturday, 3 a.m. The Tampa Bay Lightning need to shore up their bullpen. Once again, the Bolts saw a comfortable lead dwindle to a nail-biter Saturday night. The Los Angeles Kings scored two goals, and got off 20 shots, in a wild third-period before the Bolts earned a 4-3 victory. It followed a disturbing trend […]

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Ask Gary: Recent Bolts’ play raises concerns

February 10, 2018 general

Each week, the readers take over GarySheltonsports.com and play Ask Gary. They send in a question, or a couple, on Thursday night or Friday morning and we all talk about the world of sports. Think of it as a radio show where you don’t have to be on hold. Join us and ask a question, […]

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Ask the Experts: Tim & Jerry

February 9, 2018 general

Here at GarySheltonsports.com, we have doubled our experts with the addition of former Bucs’ personnel director and former Seahawks general manager Tim Ruskell. He joins his old friend and co-worker Jerry Angelo, a former personnel director for the Bucs and former general manager of the Bears. Each week, Angelo and Ruskell answer your questions regarding […]

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Kucherov, Stamkos score in Lightning victory

February 9, 2018 general

Friday, 3 a.m. Oh. So this is what they mean by many happy returns. The Tampa Bay Lightning returned to Amalie Arena Thursday night after an eight-game road trip and knocked off the Vancouver Canucks 5-2. And Nikita Kucherov — remember him? — scored a goal for the first time in 12 games. And Steven […]

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Remembering one’s first Olympics

February 8, 2018 general

Friday, 4:30 p.m. White. It was white all over, with white at the edges. I stepped off the plane to Norway, and I was snow-blind. It was white, like a wedding dress in a snowstorm. White, like an eggshell on a bedsheet. White, like milk poured over a polar bear. I left the plane, and […]

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FSU, Florida fans need to believe in new coaches

February 8, 2018 College football

Thursday, 3 a.m. Their names do not matter. Not yet, anyway. Most of the fan bases have never heard of them. Their times don’t matter. Their awards don’t matter. Nor their height or their weight or their stats. To be blunt, not even the stars by their names matter. What matters, in college recruiting, is […]

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Once again, USF women roll at home

February 8, 2018 general

Thursday, 2 a.m. “This is how a team warms up for a big game. Now, we just have to see how the USF women perform Saturday against  13th-ranked Ohio State. The Bulls won their ninth of 10 home games Wednesday night, beating East Carolina, 88-47. On the night, USF hit 14 three-pointers. Kitija Laksa had […]

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The Greatest

February 7, 2018 College Sports in Florida

Here is where arguments start. One man’s ever-changing list: 1. Michael Jordan 2. Wayne Gretzky 3. Muhammad Ali 4. Babe Ruth 5. Jim Brown  Content beyond this point is for members only.

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Other backups have been at front of victories

February 6, 2018 general

Tuesday, 3 a.m. The story was so great, so inspiring, so delicious that the temptation is to think it has never happened before. It has. Nick Foles charged so far from nowhere, so impossibly, so triumphantly, that the urge is to believe it was a once-in-a-lifetime effort. It isn’t.  Content beyond this point is for […]

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