Outdoors
Scuba class teaches kids how to take the plunge
ST. PETERSBURG -- Shelly Bristol can't remember not knowing how to scuba dive.
Snook season closes
Anglers have less than a week to catch and keep snook; the season closes at midnight Wednesday.
Feeling blue? Best angling is offshore
Tuna, wahoo, dolphin and the occasional blue marlin are just 45 to 80 miles southwest of John's Pass. If Tuna Turnpike, Dolphin Drive and Wahoo Way make you think of streets, think again. Those are areas 45 to 75 miles offshore that have produced nice catches over the past 10 years.
Motorsports
Back then, mechanics went along for the ride
At 23, after rebuilding and testing the car, Ray Stearns hopped into the mechanic's seat and raced in the 1930 Indy 500.
Atwood joins Evernham team
Ray Evernham, who groomed Jeff Gordon, will have Casey Atwood driving a Dodge Intrepid.
Contaminated grout found in speedway walkway
CONCORD, N.C. -- The pedestrian walkway that collapsed at Lowe's Motor Speedway was built with material contaminated with calcium chloride, which corroded the steel beams, investigators said Thursday. |
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Devil Rays
Roster shake-up intended to awaken last-place team. Story
[Times photo: Jonathan Newton]
Shortstop Kevin Stocker waits for his belongings with wife, Brooke, outside the Rays clubhouse.
Slumping Canseco sits
ST. PETERSBURG -- He has been taken out of lineups from Oakland to Boston to Texas to Toronto for various physical ailments.
Alvarez shifts focus to 2001
ST. PETERSBURG -- Starting pitcher Wilson Alvarez officially ended the season that never began when he had arthroscopic surgery on his throwing shoulder to repair a partially torn rotator cuff Thursday.
Rays shaken, not stirred
Despite an altered roster, Tampa Bay looks the same in 6-3 loss to A's.
Gary Shelton
The question now is this: Who's next?
ST. PETERSBURG -- The patience ran out Thursday. You could tell from the bloodstains if not the box score.
Baseball
Rickey's amazing run continues in Seattle
To say Rickey Henderson has been around is to understate the obvious. He has changed teams nine times, been traded for 13 players and played in seven post-seasons with four teams.
TV/Radio - Ernest Hooper
Fox announcers unfazed by power surge
In a smoky back room of some New York hotel, major-league baseball officials and television executives conspired about how to juice the baseball. |
