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Gasparilla: 5 Best Video Clips From This Year's Pirate Festival

Shiver me timbers! Roughly 350,000 pirates and wenches invaded Tampa Bay, Fla., over the weekend for the annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Since 1904, local and distant "krewes" have gathered in Tampa Bay for what has become a Mardi Gras-style celebration complete with a parade, boating, fireworks, food and drink --...

Spring Dugz: Tampa Bay Rays

From guest writer Mike Westfall of Progressive Boink:This is my first spring living in Florida, and accepting the Rays as my new home team would be a lot easier if the local news didn't report so rosily about it. I'm used to the gloom and doom of Philadelphia, so I'm still trying to figure out whether they mean it in a...

Roy Removes Dunce Cap, Back with Bolts

After Andre Roy went bat-poop crazy during a game against the Flyers earlier this month, Tampa Bay general manager Jay Feaster announced the 33-year-old enforcer would be sent home for a week as the team's "internal discussions and overall review continues" regarding that incident and others involving Roy this season....

NY Times Declares War on Sun Belt Hockey

For some, "balanced reporting" and "The New York Times" are mutually exclusive terms. Last weekend's notebook item titled "Enthusiasm Cools for Hockey's Foray Into the South" did little to dispel that notion; here was a doom and gloom report on the NHL in non-traditional markets -- an indictment of Tampa Bay, Phoenix,...

The Ice Sheet: Lightning in a Bottleneck

Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.St. Pete Times reporter Damian Cristodero dropped a bomb the other day, quoting Tampa Bay GM Jay Feaster that huge changes could hit the Lightning if the team hasn't...