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While the Tampa Bay Lightning opened the 2021-22 season by raising another Stanley Cup banner, the team has been busy tending to partnerships and agreements that are visible to fans attending games at Amalie Arena and throughout the community. What many in the sellout crowd — back to the usual 19,092 — likely noticed during

It’s a New Year’s tradition of football—frolicking and fierce competition. The Outback Bowl, tracing its roots in the Tampa Bay area over 30 years, matches up the Southeastern Conference vs. the Big Ten, a single event to kick off the year with sport. But it’s really in the behind-the-scenes impact, for local charities, where the

Tampa has a rich baseball history and, thanks to the effort of several individuals within the community, the Tampa Baseball Museum at the Al Lopez House in Ybor City will tell the story of that history. In fact, if the walls of the museum itself could talk they would likely reveal many of the game’s

University of South Florida sophomore defensive end Le’Vontae Camiel tweeted on the morning of July 1 that he profited from joining Yoke, a gaming company that allows fans to play video games against athletes. Late that afternoon, fellow defensive lineman Thad Mangum announced that he partnered with a company to produce shirts dedicated to his

Are you ready for some football? If not, you will be—that’s a promise—by the time Raymond James Stadium rocks and rolls over the course of 48 hours in early September. The fun starts when the Buccaneers open the NFL season with a primetime game against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, Sept. 9. Two days later,

The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated winning their second Stanley Cup Final, in a row, with custom Cuesta-Rey Aristocrat cigars. Imprinted with the Tampa Bay Lightning logo, these commemorative cigars were specially rolled for J.C. Newman Cigar Co., by Tabacalera A. Fuente, in the Dominican Republic. “For 145 years, Tampa has been known as ‘Cigar City,’”

Look for the Louis Vuitton, at International Plaza and Bay Street, in Tampa to dazzle with a new line that marries high fashion and mass appeal, with the unveiling of LV x NBA Men’s Capsule Collection II. Timed to debut before the fall season, the wide range of pieces (shoes, luggage, jewelry, casual wear) marks the

As Michael Kelly spoke to the media last week about the state of affairs with the University of South Florida athletics and the collegiate athletic landscape in general, he did so among several trophies on either side of him. The collection of hardware highlighted the fact no less than 10 American Athletic Conference team and

When the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated their Stanley Cup win last summer, they did so 2,800 miles away from home in Edmonton’s empty Rogers Place. The way the Lightning have been going about their business so far, in this year’s playoffs, they may get a chance to celebrate a Cup win in a packed Amalie

A group of Atlanta Braves fans, sporting the team’s jerseys and caps, were walking along Dunedin’s Douglas Avenue about two hours before their team played the Toronto Blue Jays. One of the fans was overheard saying that he arrived from North Port, home of the Braves’ spring training complex, and was looking forward to spending

After a year of canceled events, golf tournaments are back in full swing with The PGA TOUR’s Valspar Championship kicking off this week and St. Pete Fools Charity Club holding its first annual golf tournament on Sunday, May 2. Both tournaments will raise money for philanthropic causes. In 2019, the Valspar Championship, held at the

It wasn’t the best timing for Matt Joyce when his first F45 Training location originally was planned to open. As his team prepared to hit the ground running, gyms went into lockdown, along with everyone else.  It wasn’t the first time in his career he had to shift gears. Matt Joyce has made a 12-year