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Photos from Sunday Pride parades across the U.S.
Rainbow flags waved at parades in Chicago, New York and San Francisco as the country celebrated the LGBTQ+ community and wrapped another Pride month. Revelers celebrated with joyful parades featuring bright colors, music and dancing. Want breaking news in your inbox?. Subscribe to our free News Alerts newsletter. You’ll receive...
Taj Bradley, Isaac Paredes lead Rays to bounceback win vs. Nationals
ST. PETERSBURG — Taj Bradley began June with the worst start of his big-league career. Sunday, he ended the month on a high note. The Rays right-hander struck out 11 and Isaac Paredes came a single shy of hitting for the cycle as the Rays shut out the Nationals 5-0 in front of an announced crowd of 18,259 at Tropicana Field.
If this is the end for Stamkos, Lightning could have handled it better
TAMPA — Somewhere between Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After, the Steven Stamkos story took an odd turn. I’m no expert in fairy tales, but I don’t recall Prince Charming ever being told to take it or leave it. Nope, didn’t see that one coming....
Lightning make a splash, acquire rights to Carolina’s Jake Guentzel
TAMPA — General manager Julien BriseBois wasn’t kidding when he said the Lightning were going to use their newly acquired salary cap space to shop elsewhere in order to improve the club for next season. A day after they traded away defensemen Mikhail Sergachev and all but said...
Hurricane Beryl forecast to become a Category 4 storm as it nears southeast Caribbean
Tropical Storm Beryl, the second named storm of the season, is headed for the Caribbean and forecast to become a Category 4 hurricane early Monday. As of 8 a.m. Sunday, Beryl was a Category 3 about 420 miles east of Barbados. The storm was moving west at about 21 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, according to forecasters with the National Hurricane Center.
Top players in Rays history? Yandy Diaz is joining the conversation
ST. PETERSBURG — Evan Longoria still is, and perhaps always will be, the best player in Rays franchise history. Carl Crawford is a strong No. 2. Discussion over who would join them on a Rays Mount Rushmore includes Kevin Kiermaier, David Price, James Shields and Ben Zobrist, and it could be a somewhat lively debate.
Dear Annie: My wife cheated with our friend. Now, she bad-mouths me.
Dear Annie: I am divorced with two teenage children. I caught my ex-wife having sex with her best friend’s husband (“Cris”). My wife and I had a long-standing friendship with this other couple, including taking many family vacations together with our children. It turns out my ex and Cris had been having a secret, torrid affair for years.
In this Pride month, listen and learn about each other | Letters
Rainbows and sizzle at St. Pete Pride parade | June 24. Many of us grow up thinking that the world is a simple place, and people fit easily into neat, tidy categories. It can take some time to appreciate the variety of differences among us. Science gradually opens wider windows on our understanding, and has revealed that many genetic variations can exist, but science cannot discern an individual person’s experience of themselves. This we can only try to understand by listening to each other. People who consider themselves to be part of the LGBTQ+ community have been under assault. We all know this.
Rays’ Taj Bradley has a specific goal for season’s second half
ST. PETERSBURG — Taj Bradley is ready for longer days at the ballpark. The Rays’ young right-hander is happy with his first half of the 2024 season. The only thing he is looking for as he starts the second Sunday — closing out this homestand against the Nationals — is more innings.
In St. Petersburg, youth music festival gives young artists the stage
Dozens of bands, all comprised of young musicians ages 14-20 brought the Summer Youth Music Festival on Saturday to the Factory, a creative artist compound in St. Petersburg. The festival, presented by Cordero Music and Project No Labels, was created to give young artists a professional stage. The public was invited to enjoy their sound and shop from small local businesses.
Rays bullpen, bats melt down in loss to Nationals
ST. PETERSBURG — The usually-reliable Shawn Armstrong gave up six runs in the seventh inning, and the Rays were held to two hits as the Nationals romped 8-1 Saturday in front of an announced crowd of 17,501 at Tropicana Field. The Rays dipped below .500 at 41-42. They’ll wrap...
USF’s Melanie Green wins elite amateur tourney, qualifies for U.S. Open
USF golfer Melanie Green, the reigning American Athletic Conference Women’s Player of the Year, made history overseas Saturday with her triumph in one of the game’s most esteemed amateur tournaments. Green defeated Lorna McClymont of Milngavie, Scotland, 2-up in the 36-hole final match to capture the R&A Women’s...
Sergachev, Jeannot trades net a draft surplus on Day 2 for Lightning
Trading up in this year’s NHL draft served as a side note to the Lightning’s big news of dealing defenseman Mikhail Sergachev on Saturday. But the team still left Las Vegas with seven draft picks, two more than they arrived with. The Lightning didn’t have a selection in...
Losing Sergachev hurts, but it’s better than status quo for Lightning
TAMPA — Beyond the stats, salary cap and scouting reports, here is the big-picture takeaway from the Lightning’s offseason maneuvering:. They ain’t messing around. That’s a good thing. That means they’re no longer counting on the ghosts of Stanley Cups past to rescue them again in 2024-25.
Tampa Bay Democrats showcase support for Biden
TEMPLE TERRACE — For a Saturday morning, the parking lot of the nondescript office park off Fletcher Avenue was packed. More than 50 volunteers and organizers, most in campaign t-shirts, had arrived early to celebrate that the office was now the Biden-Harris campaign’s outpost in Hillsborough County. Over...
Lightning trade Mikhail Sergachev, Tanner Jeannot ahead of free agency
TAMPA — Trading away an existing contract seemed inevitable if the Lightning were going to ensure that Steven Stamkos remains a Bolt for life. But the move they made Saturday was a shocking one, dealing 26-year-old budding superstar defenseman Mikhail Sergachev to the Utah Hockey Club during the second day of the NHL draft in Las Vegas.
That guy wearing No. 56 for Rays sure looks a lot like Randy Arozarena
ST. PETERSBURG — Give Brandon Lowe credit as the first to see Randy Arozarena’s improvement coming. During batting practice before the Rays’ June 4 game in Miami, Arozarena hit a ball with such force that Lowe — well-versed in the physics of hitting and amazed at the unprecedented way “it didn’t knuckle, but it moved three different ways” — knew then his talented teammate was headed for better days.
A closer look at the Lightning’s contract impasse with Steven Stamkos
TAMPA — Even though Steven Stamkos opened last season expressing his frustration that the summer came and went without the Lightning engaging him in contract extension talks, both Stamkos and general manager Julien BriseBois felt at that time that preserving the face of the franchise’s future would work itself out.
Teach for America is coming to Tampa Bay. Here’s what you need to know.
Ask Hillsborough assistant principal Demetria Geathers why her school received an F in last year’s state assessment, and she doesn’t hesitate: they need teachers. What Sheehy Elementary, a majority-Black, majority low-income school in north Tampa, desperately needs is educators willing to put in hours after school and over the weekend to pull the failing school back on track, Geathers said.
Would you swap a uniform sleeve for a bigger payroll? Rays just might
ST. PETERSBURG — Turns out, the box score did not implode. Attendance did not spiral, and Bob Costas did not weep. All in all, the introduction of advertising patches on the sleeves of Major League Baseball uniforms has gone off without a hitch. Oh, the Mets originally produced a logo in the color scheme of the rival Phillies but a team that paid Justin Verlander $64 million for 16 starts knows how to handle embarrassment.
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