Better days ahead for Wiregrass Ranch football team

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Alquonne Brown hands off to fellow sophomore Jacob Hill at a recent Wiregrass Ranch football practice.

One starting running back went down for the season with an injury during the summer, while the other scored three touchdowns against Wesley Chapel and got hurt the next week. Then, the quarterback, two offensive lineman, two defensive ends, one wide receiver, and a linebacker soon were hobbling off as well.

By the time the third week of the season was over for the District 7A-8 Wiregrass Ranch High (WRH) football team, head coach Mark Kantorā€™s depth chart was seemingly held together by scotch tape and glue and a batch of young sophomores who were called on to mature quickly.

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ā€˜Trickā€™s Kicksā€™ To Hold Golf Tournament Saturday

trickskicks2In memory of Hunterā€™s Green resident Patrick Strom, the second annual ā€œTrickā€™s Kicks Golf Tournamentā€ will again be held at Heritage Isles Country Club (located at 10630 Plantation Bay Dr. off Cross Creek Blvd.) on Saturday, October 17. The tournament is working to raise money to purchase and donate quality sneakers (ā€œkicksā€) to less-fortunate kids in the Tampa Bay area.Ā Continue reading

Former New Tampa Students Start Unique Business: Bucket Tees

If you had a T-shirt with a giant pocket, like Bucket Tees co-founders and former New Tampa sudents Jake Kehlenbeck (center) and Alex Alfaro (right) have designed, what would you put in it?
If you had a T-shirt with a giant pocket, like Bucket Tees co-founders and former New Tampa sudents Jake Kehlenbeck (center) and Alex Alfaro (right) have designed, what would you put in it?

By Matt Wiley

Imagine a T-shirt that could hold all of your stuff that youā€™d usually stuff into a purse or pants pockets. Now, imagine that same T-shirt covered in bacon, or at least pictures of bacon.Ā Continue reading

Ninth Annual Tampa Fisher House Golf Classic Returns Oct. 30

For the ninth consecutive year, Arbor Greene resident and New Tampa Noon Rotary Club president Valerie Casey is putting on a charity golf tournament to benefit the Tampa Fisher House, the residence on the campus of the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. (south of E. Fletcher Ave.) which houses (for no charge) the families and significant others of the wounded veterans being treatedĀ  at the hospital.Continue reading