College football The rapid development of the football program at the University of South Florida has come at an expensive cost. The athletic department has been operating in the red and has had to borrow $2.6-million. With the football team now in I-A, USF will be in debt for a while. Story Show the money Under the state's student athletic fee assessment, a full-time student at South Florida at the Tampa campus taking 15 hours paid $117.40 per semester, which included a $10 flat fee, during the 2000-01 school year. All students are required to pay the fee, and it entitles them to free entry into every sporting event. Kelly gives USF's marketing a boost Michael Kelly has had big jobs before. Now he has the task of marketing USF's athletic program.

Darrell Fry

Hubert Mizell
Rutgers coach took challenge too far
You wonder, would public/media outcries have been different on "strip basketball" at Rutgers University had the abused jaybirds been women?

Bucs/NFL
Bucs focus on signing draft picks
The team expects to nail down contract details with a majority of their nine rookies this week.

Kickers raise money to help quake victims
TAMPA -- Bucs kicker Martin Gramatica, his brother Bill, a rookie kicker for the Arizona Cardinals and younger brother Santiago, a freshman kicker for the University of South Florida, have been thinking about the victims of the devastating earthquake in Peru in late June.

Bucs key dates
The Bucs open training camp July 29 at the University of Tampa. All 26 practices will be at Pepin/Rood Stadium and are free to the public. Workouts at One Buc Place, after the team breaks camp, are not open:

NFL briefs
Kicker charged with DUI

NFL Training camp report dates
National Football Conference (Team, site,location, rookies, veterans)

British Open
Garcia getting a grip on his game
Young Spaniard appears to be rounding into shape for this week's British Open.

Devil Rays
A happy face on this? McRae's trying
After the Expos' 10-2 rout drops the Rays to 1-2 in the second half, Tampa Bay's manager tries to look at the bright side: "One game and we're .500."

Cubs reportedly want an answer by Monday
MONTREAL -- Finally, time may be running out on Fred McGriff's decision whether to approve a trade from the Rays to the Cubs.

Expos show how it could be worse
MONTREAL -- The Rays have not drawn as many fans as they'd like to home games, averaging an American League-low 15,307. But their problems aren't nearly as bad as those in Montreal.

Now they're younger; will that mean better?
MONTREAL -- If the Rays can keep playing as they've been playing for much of the past couple weeks, manager Hal McRae is sure they'll win more games in the second half than they did in the first. "That's a certainty," McRae said.

Rays tales
BALL FORE?: Rays right-hander Tanyon Sturtze, if you ask most hitters, has pretty decent stuff on the mound. If you go by what the editors of T&L Golf magazine say, he can be pretty good on the links, too.

Up next: Braves
1:05 p.m. today, 7:35 p.m. Monday, 7:35 p.m. Tuesday

Baseball
Baseball this week on TV

Astros profit by Alou's obstinacy
At least three times last season, Houston team officials approached outfielder Moises Alou about waiving a no-trade clause so they could send him to the Yankees, Red Sox or Pirates.

Top that, Miss Cleo
They say the All-Star Game is a meaningless exhibition, but in recent years it has proven a steady predictor of post-season success. Leagues that have won the game have produced eight of the past 11 World Series winners, not counting '94 when there was no Series:

The Mo Factor
The Angels knew the loss of Mo Vaughn for the season because of biceps tendon surgery would hurt their offense significantly. And by the midseason break we saw how valuable the first baseman, who hit .272 with 36 homers and 117 RBI last season, was to the lineup.

Ex-Gibbs star shines for Giants' farm team
Boof Bonser has made a successful transition from high school to the minor leagues.

Letters
Forget McGriff; Rays should trade LaMar
The only player on the Devil Rays who has excelled on the field, at bat and off the field is being offered to the Cubs for two minor-leaguers? Chuck LaMar's legacy will long be his policy of spending millions on high school kids who never will play in the major leagues, much less for the Rays.

Et cetera
Week in sports

Highs and lows

Outdoors
Daily fishing report
One of the most productive ways to find fish in the afternoon is to work jigs along dropoffs or under structure. Jigs come in all shapes, sizes and colors. This gives anglers a wide choice of presentations. When the fish are hanging outside the structure you can use bigger jigs. If the fish stack up under structure, switch to a small jig that can skip across the water.

Outdoors calendar

Coyotes tough to track down
The alarm rang at 3:30 in the morning.

WNBA
WNBA at critical juncture
Declining attendance, faltering television ratings and a looming labor dispute cloud the league's future.

Preps
Around Hillsborough
FOOTBALL: Hillsborough High offensive lineman Tavaris Thomas has signed a scholarship with Edward Waters College in Jacksonville.

Crystal River blanks Sebring
William Bunch pitched a one-hit shutout and went 2-for-3 with an RBI double to lead the Crystal River Buccaneers to a 3-0 victory over Sebring in the first round of the Dixie League Pre-Majors (15-16) state tournament at Holmes County High.