Sports
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The Warrior Games are coming
News / Military In 100 days, 300 wounded, ill and injured troops and veterans will be here for a week of adaptive sports competition. By Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times / March 14, 2019 PHOTO: Army Staff Sgt. Lauren Montoya, center, participates in a wheelchair basketball game during the Department of Defense Warrior Games…
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Outback Bowl fans show colors in pre-game tailgate
The Tampa Tribune / TBO.com Sports TAMPA — In basic color theory, purple and orange are secondary colors. But they were the primary hues at Raymond James Stadium on Friday morning as purple-clad fans of the Northwestern University Wildcats and orange-clad fans of the University of Tennessee Volunteers filled the parking lots for tailgating prior to…
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Red Sox Nation, Phanatics Share The Obnoxious Gene
TAMPA – Goodbye, obnoxious Red Sox fans. Hello, obnoxious Phillies fans. Twin brats of different dysfunctional mothers, the fanatics of Boston and Philadelphia come to the same place of extreme obnoxiousity from opposite roads. This much I know from having lived in both places and having rooted against both home teams. Believe me, as a…
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Interview with the Umpire
Cover Story Eric Gregg, the legendary plump ump from Philly, opens up about the game, the fans and the prospect of losing his job. The sun is bright, and a stiff, refreshing wind is blowing in from Lake Michigan, a mile or so from the right field wall of the time tunnel ballpark at Clark…