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TEEN DRIVE SAFE CHALLENGE COMING TO AMALIE ARENA

Bolts, Mercury Insurance Team up to Teach Safe Driving Habits to Lightning High School Hockey Teens   WHEN: Mon., January 15, 2018 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.   WHO: The Tampa Bay Lightning and Mercury Insurance have teamed up to impart safe driving habits to local Tampa Bay Lightning High School Hockey League players. WHAT: […]

Fluffymania Hits Tampa

  Gabriel Iglesias’s tour seems less like a stand-up show and more like a ‘Celebrity Encounter Experience’. His audience, which he’s built up largely online, certainly adore the California comic who calls himself ‘Fluffy’ and exudes an easy likeability. They give him rapturous applause and enjoy his every word. This might be his first time […]

Gamecocks Come Back To Win the 2018 Outback Bowl

All Photos by Travis Failey Tampa –The Outback Bowl has seen this matchup before between Michigan and South Carolina and the result still remains the same as the Gamecocks got the best of the Wolverines on a chilly cold Monday afternoon by beating them 26-19. It didn’t start that way in fact it looked like […]

Stamkos Spoils Drouins Return to the Oil Can

All Photos by Travis Failey Tampa – The story coming into Thursday night’s game was the trade that brought Mikhail Sergachev to the Lightning for Jonathan Drouin but the story quickly became the Steven Stamkos Show as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Thursday night at Amalie Arena. Stamkos had two […]

Helping the Kids Post 275 Women

  DUNEDIN, FLA.–The staff of American Legion Post 275 in Dunedin gathered on Sunday December 17th at the post home for their group photo.  These ladies for a number of years have been giving of themselves helping numerous young children in need around the holiday season.  Front row (L-R) Amy Kressevich, Ilona Wells, Nicole Niles, […]

Huffman working with Tulowitzki

Nikki Huffman became the second female to become a major league trainer on Friday.  Huffman was promoted  from the Toronto Blue Jays minor league ranks to fill the position created last month when former trainer George Poulis went to the Atlanta Braves.  Huffman worked miracles with Devon Travis. Now she is working with Troy Tulowitzki.  […]

Thirty-seven Years, Suncoast Brotherhood leads Toy Run

The Suncoast Brotherhood Motorcycle Club conducted their 37th Annual Toy Run on Sunday the 17th in Dunedin, Florida.  The club secures donations of toys for those children in need in the area.  There was between 2-3 thousand bikes participating in the run.

UCF Takes the 2017 War on I-4 Battle

All Photos by Travis Failey In front of a national audience, the war on I4 didn’t disappoint as UCF won a thrilling game 49-42 over USF at Spectrum Stadium. Both teams had everything to lose, especially the Knights who came into the game undefeated at 10-0 with a possibility of not only going to the […]

THANK YOU EDDIE MICHELS

On behalf of the whole Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network organization, I would like to extend a big THANK YOU to Eddie Michels and wish him along with all Veterans and Active Duty USA military a Happy Veterans Day.  THANK YOU for what You do so I can write and say what I want! I […]

2018 Threshers Schedule

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The Clearwater Threshers, Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, have announced their 2018 Florida State League game schedule. The summer slate features 70 home openings at Spectrum Field. Opening Night for the Threshers in Clearwater is on Thursday, April 5, with the Dunedin Blue Jays and the season wraps up on […]