Published on: 2nd January, 2010
The University of South Carolina should make Steve Spurrier spend the next week delivering pizza. His first stop should be at Randy Edsall's home. Spurrier, the old ball coach, watched Saturday as Edsall's UConn Huskies beat the game out of the South Carolina Gamecocks. The Gamecocks got cold-cocked by Edsall's guys and in ...Published on: 2nd January, 2010
Call it a setup if you will. The University of South Florida was set up for success Saturday in something called the International Bowl, so far to the north it was out of the country, in Toronto, Canada. Teams from the MAC had lost 13 straight postseason bowl games going into this ...Published on: 2nd January, 2010
Owe him a world of thanks. Thanks Bobby Bowden, you were a great coach for a young sportswriter. Thanks Bobby, for giving a 20-something sportswriter an inside look at big-time college football. Thanks for letting that young writer go just about anywhere he asked. Thanks for allowing him inside the locker room before ...Published on: 30th December, 2009
It was the treat of the year to see the underdog Tampa Bay Buccaneers take down the high and mighty New Orleans Saints last Sunday. It was an even bigger treat to see the face of one of our nation's finest react to his team's great victory. Meet Major Earl Bedford, 172nd ...Published on: 27th December, 2009
It was a pure French Quarter fantasy. It was a miracle of Mardi Gras proportions. In a matchup of the meek against the mighty it was the meek who inherited the Super Dome in New Orleans on Sunday. It was the meek of the NFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who stunned the mighty, ...Published on: 21st December, 2009
Merry Christmas, Tampa Bay Buccaneer faithful. Merry 24-7 Christmas. Just when you thought the Grinch would steal your Tampa Christmas, the Seattle Seahawks played Santa with a three-hour production of Clueless In Seattle on Sunday. Those clueless Seahawks got splattered by your Buccaneers, who won their first road game of the Raheem Morris ...Published on: 18th December, 2009
Rutgers will play the University of Central Florida in the St. Petersburg Bowl on Saturday, and this one is not burning up the sports discussions in the Tampa Bay area. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano pulled no punches about playing over in the Fruit Dome (aka Tropicana Field). He wasn't happy with the date and ...Published on: 16th December, 2009
The University of South Florida has always aspired to be the talk of the town in Tampa. Forget Watergate, we have "Leavitt-gate." Today USF and Jim Leavitt continue to be the talk of Tampa for all the wrong reasons. The firestorm that began with the AOL Fanhouse story on Monday, has taken over the airwaves and ...Published on: 15th December, 2009
The University of South Florida and its head football coach, Jim Leavitt, are all over the national sports headlines and this time, it's not because the Bulls are losing their games in November. AOL Fanhouse put out a story on Monday that Leavitt allegedly struck one of his players during halftime ...Published on: 14th December, 2009
Mark Mangino did it and today he's no longer the football coach at Kansas. Brett McMurphy, former USF beat writer for the Tampa Tribune who covered the University of South Florida football program since its inception, says Jim Leavitt did it and has eyewitness accounts of the incident. On Monday, McMurphy, who ...