Lightning/NHL
Ramsay gets acquainted
Lightning's new associate coach makes the rounds at the Ice Palace.

Primeau: Redden’s hit not clean
TAMPA -- Wayne Primeau believes his first suspension as an NHL player is justified.

Dudley: Anticipate a player acquisition
General manager Rick Dudley has put the players on notice: Shape up, or some could be shipped out.

NHL roundup
BOSTON -- The Florida Panthers squandered a lead for the second straight game, but the team with the NHL's fewest wins escaped time with a victory this.

NBA
‘Youth is served’
High-flying cousins Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter could becoming the NBA's next big rivalry. They meet tonight.

Cavs rout Blazers, fans get on Kemp
CLEVELAND -- While a few Cavaliers fans threw food in Shawn Kemp's direction, the Portland Trail Blazers couldn't toss anything into the basket.

College football
College football recruiting: Florida schools

Baseball
’69 Series star Agee dies at 58
NEW YORK -- Tommie Agee, the centerfielder who made two of the greatest catches in World Series history to help the New York Mets win their unexpected title in 1969, died Monday of a heart attack. He was 58.

College basketball
College basketball digest
NEW YORK -- Rick Pitino is headed back to work in college basketball -- not on the sideline, though.

College Basketball roundup
Pitino takes TV job for tourney

Outdoors
Captain’s Corner
Before this cold front, the wind and seas allowed me to go offshore with some friends for bottom fishing. We headed out through the morning fog at John's Pass to an area of broken hard bottom about 55 feet deep. This depth has been just on the inside fringes of the deeper offshore action.

NFL
NFL digest
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Mark Chmura goes to trial today, charged with sexually assaulting his children's former babysitter at a high school party.

Preps
Pinellas all-stars ready to tackle the world
Local football standouts will battle teams from Canada, Europe and Japan in a four-team tournament.

Global Championships V
WHEN: Wednesday and Saturday

Robinson star eyes Syracuse, USF
Robinson linebacker/running back Clark Green had a standout senior season, rushing for 1,182 yards (6.9 average) and 10 touchdowns in 172 carries and lifting himself into the recruiting cross hairs of several Division I schools.

Bears don’t allow Pirates to clinch
BROOKSVILLE -- Crystal River had everything going its way Monday night: A one-goal lead, a perfect record and the inside track for the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference title. However, the Pirates could not forecast what would happen next.