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Hillsborough County Parks & Recreation has received the National Innovation in Social Equity Award for its 1-year-old wheelchair football team. The Innovation in Social Equity Award recognizes an innovative project or program that creates more equitable communities by improving access to local parks and recreation…
Read More Hillsborough County Buccaneers Wheelchair Football Team Earns National Award
TAMPA, Fla. – For the third time in four rounds during this playoff year, the Lightning have lost the series opener. Andre Burakovsky’s goal at 1:23 of overtime gave the host Avalanche a 4-3 win and an early lead in this Stanley Cup final. Game…
Read More Lightning Battle Back Before Falling In Overtime
TAMPA, Fla. – It was during one of his five first-period shifts in Game 3 of the 2020 Stanley Cup final in the Edmonton bubble that Steven Stamkos scored a highlight-reel goal. It was a must-see moment, not because it was quite a shot, but…
Read More Spotlight Shining On Stamkos As Lightning Seek Third Straight Stanley Cup
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Rays open a three-game series at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. It is their first of three visits to the Bronx this season. The Rays, who are 35-25 and in third place, nine games behind the Yankees in the American…
Read More Rays Notebook: Three-Game Bronx Series; Springs Sparkling In Rotation
TAMPA, Fla. – Yes the Tampa Bay Lightning will get to work on a game plan to stop the high-powered Colorado Avalanche, but they need a minute to realize what they’ve accomplished. Captain Steven Stamkos scored 2 goals on the way to a clinching Game…
Read More Bolts Cooper: A Dream Stamkos, We Deserved To Win
TAMPA, Fla. – They did it in the Edmonton bubble with no fans. They did it following a shortened season in a reconfigured league. Now, they have done it following a typical regular season and with a familiar playoff format. Not since the Edmonton Oilers…
Read More Tampa Bay Lightning Headed To Third Straight Stanley Cup Final
TAMPA, Fla. – Do you have any fingernails remaining? Perhaps the edge of your seat is worn because it was next to impossible to sit back, especially as the clock melted away in the third period. Then Mikhail Sergachev put a wrister on net that…
Read More Lightning Bend, But Refuse To Break, Putting Rangers On The Brink
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Shane McClanahan said he had never thrown eight innings. Not in the minors and not even during his sparkling career with USF. On Thursday afternoon at Tropicana Field, the 25-year-old lefthander flummoxed the Cardinals for eight innings of a 2-1 win…
Read More McClanahan Goes Career-High Eight Innings As Rays Sweep St. Louis
TAMPA, Fla. – It’s the 8th year the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did Cut and Color for a Cure. It’s where players, coaches, and staff get their heads shaved or colored orange to benefit the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. But this year was special. Because of…
Read More Tom Brady, Buccaneers Get “Cuts And Color” For National Pediatric Cancer Foundation
TAMPA, Fla. – Zach Bogosian’s rush down the right wing to set up Pat Maroon’s goal less than three minutes in. Anthony Cirelli’s diligence in the defensive zone at the end of the opening period. Blocked shots by Erik Cernak and Mikhail Sergachev in aiding…
Read More Lightning’s Game 4 Effort Should Be Blueprint For Game 5