College football
Grand opportunity awaits FSU recruits
With 25 seniors gone, newcomers may see considerable playing time.
NFL Pro Bowl
Gannon fire rips NFC
The Raiders QB is as perfect as the Bucs players are quiet in an AFC victory in the Pro Bowl.
Heads-up gets Lynch piece of history
HONOLULU -- Bucs safety John Lynch walked off Aloha Stadium on Sunday with a helmet belonging to Bengals running back Corey Dillon.
Motorsports
No close call this time for Fellows' team
The winning Corvette crew can forget last year's 24 Hours of Daytona defeat.
Rain washes away all illusions
DAYTONA BEACH -- There is talk about drivers seeing things in the early morning of 24-hour races that aren't there. Turns that don't exist pop up, lights that are there go away. It is the price of being awake and concentrating for long periods of time.
Shorts
College sports briefs
Read, Cole power FSU baseball team
College basketball
Weary Duke embarrasses FSU 100-58
DURHAM, N.C. -- No. 2 Duke seemed a little tired Sunday, but it didn't matter.
Gators defense saves 62-57 win over Vanderbilt
GAINESVILLE -- No. 9 Florida relied on its its defense for a 62-57 victory over struggling No. 19 Vanderbilt on Sunday night.
Shorts
Sports briefs
Pole vault champion retires
NFL
Apologetic Chmura heads to Disney
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- One day after being acquitted of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old, Mark Chmura cried as he apologized for his conduct and hoped to resume his NFL career.
Devil Rays
Rays strike deals with Yan, Guillen
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Devil Rays reached one-year deals Sunday with pitcher Esteban Yan and outfielder Jose Guillen but may be headed to arbitration hearings with pitchers Albie Lopez and Bryan Rekar.
Mutiny
Mutiny gets more payback for Diaz Arce deal
Tampa Bay has the second and sixth picks in the first round of today's MLS SuperDraft.
NBA
Knicks nip Heat amid usual chaos
MIAMI -- New York guard Latrell Sprewell leaned back, and with a smile he summed up Sunday's Knicks-Heat game in one sentence: "This was about the way it was supposed to go."
Outdoors
Captain's corner
It's no secret grouper fishing has been outstanding in the Middlegrounds. Last week we went to the south end of the Middlegrounds, 70 miles from land. We caught lots of big grouper and some of the biggest mangrove snapper I have seen.
Horse racing
Ortiz wins on a 22-1 long shot
Before Saturday's $50,000 Gasparilla Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, the lone filly in the nine-horse field to have competed in three stakes races was Frozen Dinner, owned by Tampa doctor Dan Frazier's Pyrite Stables.
