Bucs need to use their best weapons to beat Rams

December 16, 2015 general

Wednesday 6 a.m. Going in a game, the amount of plays a football team gets is not predetermined. It is not a matter of chance. It is not arbitrary. How many plays the Bucs get, largely, is up to the Bucs. All of which make it kind of sad to hear offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter […]

Tagged as: Buc;s, Evans, Koetter, Martin

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Rose remains outside the Hall, where he belongs

December 15, 2015 Baseball

Tuesday, 6 a.m. It would be easy to cave on Pete Rose. As a nation, we love to forgive celebrities, don’t we? And so we can remember the spunky player we cheered. We can notice the time that has passed. We can talk about a game — and other games — that has gone so […]

Tagged as: Ban, baseball, Gambling, Hall of Fame, Rose

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Bottom-line: Does Tampa Bay deserve playoffs?

December 14, 2015 general

Monday, 6 a.m. You want the playoffs. You deserve the playoffs. You need the playoffs. It has been so long now, since the 2007 season. It has been since the 2002 season that the Bucs have won a game in the post-season. And so you miss the fabric of it. The feel of it. The […]

Tagged as: Buc;s, playoffs, Saints, Winston

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Bucs lose a crucial game against Saints

December 13, 2015 general

Sunday, 6:50 p.m. In the middle of December, a football team is supposed to show how much it deserves to be in the NFL playoffs. Sadly, the Bucs did. They are supposed to show the mettle of their defense, and the efficiency of their offense, and show how they match up against the lesser teams […]

Tagged as: Buc;s, Saints, Smith, Winston

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Random thoughts: Say hi to Flash Gordon for Jose

December 13, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Hi, I’m Jose Canseco, and I think we should bomb the polar ice caps on Mars. And I think Battlestar Galactica was a documentary. – If Johnny Manziel really is a frat boy, I think he’s Neidermeyer. – If he had it to do over again, Stu Sternberg wouldn’t have to buy the Rays for […]

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Tampa Bay keeps losing games…and players

December 12, 2015 general

Saturday, 10:53 p.m. Sometimes, it’s hard to see which is happening faster — the Tampa Bay Lightning losing games or losing players. The Lightning dropped a 2-1 decision to the Washington Caps Saturday night, and their record fell to 14-13-3. The team has now lost 67 man-games to injury this year. “I’m speechless this keeps […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Caps, Kucherov, Lightning

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Ask Gary: And the champ of college football is …

December 12, 2015 general

(Each week, the readers take over GarySheltonsports.com and play Ask Gary. They send in a question, or a couple, 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, make a comment or be funny. Send the […]

Tagged as: Bucs' attendance, Champion, pitching, Rays

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Heisman has come a long way over time

December 11, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Friday, 6 a.m. They were hard men. They were tough. And they had the bent noses to show for it. Back before football was the sport you know it as today, the point of the game was to walk to the middle of the field and to push against each other. And grunt. The world […]

Tagged as: Heisman, McCafferty, Watkins

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For a night, the Lightning looks familiar

December 11, 2015 general

Friday, 12:38 a.m. Okay, no one speaks too soon. But we might have a sighting at the elusive Tampa Bay Lightning. Finally. The Lightning certainly looked enough like last year’s team in a 4-1 bashing of Ottawa Saturday night. Nikita Kucherov was scoring, and the Triplets were reunited, and Ben Bishop was on his game. […]

Tagged as: Bishop, Kucherov, Lighting, Senators

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Tampa Bay’s Koetter deserves an award

December 10, 2015 general

Thursday, 6 a.m. If there were such an award as NFL Assistant Coach of the Year, it would probably go to someone whose team has lit up the scoreboard. Arizona’s Harold Goodwin, for instance, whose team leads the league in scoring. Or maybe it would be a coach whose team is unbeaten. Carolina defensive coordinator Sean […]

Tagged as: Buc;s, Koetter, O-Line, Winston

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