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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

August 11, 2016 general

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. Thursday, 6 a.m. It’s the first week of preseason […]

Tagged as: Griffin, Packers, Preseason, Williams

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Do you still believe in professional tennis?

February 11, 2016 general

Thursday, 6 a.m. I swung by the tennis courts the other day. Almost no one was home. There was one court being used. A guy who looked like he was trying to beat his mule was playing a guy looked like he had last played in the Crimean War. I’m not sure, but I think […]

Tagged as: Connors, Sampras, Tennis, Williams

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Recruiting: Lies, falsehoods and prevarications

February 2, 2016 College Sports in Florida

Tuesday, 6 a.m. Coaches lie. They peer over the table at a young athlete, and they talk of the world as if the player is the golden child he has been waiting for. They swear they will love no other. They flirt with the mommas and exchange firm handshakes with the papas. And as soon […]

Tagged as: Coaches, Jackson, Recruiting, Williams

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USF’s Williams scores 30 in easy win over Penn State

December 6, 2015 general

Sunday, 7 p.m. Courtney Williams is beginning her basketball season as if no one can guard her. Williams, the No. 2 scorer in the nation, scored 30 points to lead the 24th-ranked women’s basketball team to an easy 101-79 victory over Penn State on Sunday. Alisia Jenkins added 21 points and 14 rebounds for the […]

Tagged as: Basketball, USF, Williams, Women

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Williams helped pave the road for Bucs’ Winston

December 3, 2015 general

Thursday, 6 a.m He heard the insults, mean and hateful, that fell out of  out of the stands like barbed wire. In some ways, perhaps, that has something to do with the cheers that Jameis Winston hears. His team fought him for every nickel, even while he was the lowest paid starting quarterback in the […]

Tagged as: Buc;s, Culverhouse, Williams, Winston

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Could McCown be the latest Tampa Bay regret?

May 27, 2015 general

Wednesday, 11:35 p.m. It could not happen. Not again. Not here. You close your eyes, and you remember Josh McCown, running for his life, heaving the ball in whatever direction. You remember him losing. You remember cobwebs on the offense. No way that he will succeed. Not in this career. Not with the Browns. And […]

Tagged as: Bucs, Chandler, Dilfer, McCown, quarterbacks, Testaverde, Williams, Young

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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

May 19, 2015 NFL

Wednesday, 6 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. We haven’t talked since the draft. […]

Tagged as: Alstott, Angelo, Bradford, Expert, Top Coaches, Williams, Winston

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Bucs to induct Alstott, Williams into Ring of Honor

May 13, 2015 general

Wednesday, 6:08 p.m. Even now, the memory has not faded. The stands might as well be passionate again. They might as well be filled again. The anticipation that something good might happen was there again. And so it was that Mike Alstott took the football, and he turned into a bumper car. Content beyond this […]

Tagged as: Alstott, Brooks, Bucs, Giles, Gruber, McKay, Ring of Honor, Sapp, Selmon, Williams

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Can the Bucs really develop Winston?

May 4, 2015 general

Now that the Bucs have him, do you trust the franchise to do the right thing with him? Jameis Winston is young, even for a rookie. He is immature. He will be surrounded by a lot of ordinary. He is coming off a season when he didn’t take enough care of the ball. He has […]

Tagged as: Bucs, Dilfer, Freeman, quarterback, Testaverde, Williams, Winston, Young

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Smith isn’t the first Bucs’ coach to love a QB

April 1, 2015 general

Wednesday, 6:30 a.m. At this rate, the Bucs might not just draft Jameis Winston. At this rate, they might adopt him. The Bucs appear to be completely into Winston, lock, stock and cannons. They might put his face on stadium bucks. They might put it on the Content beyond this point is for members only.

Tagged as: Bucs, Chandler, Coach, Dilfer, Erickson, Freeman, Gradkowski, quarterback, Testaverde, Williams, Young

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