Saturday night, I sat in the upper deck at Amalie Arena and reveled in a fantastic environment as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat Montreal 3-0. Owner Jeff Vinik has done what once seemed impossible. He has helped transform Tampa into a hockey town. Walking up to the arena, I saw more evidence of Vinik’s handiwork. […]
More than 700,000 people are expected to move to Hillsborough County by 2045, according to the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s estimates. That’s a 52 percent increase to the county’s current 1.35 million population. An increase in residents means an increase in traffic. The campaign backing Hillsborough County Referendum No. 2 on the November 6 […]
The somewhat improbable Tampa Bay Lightning run for a second straight appearance in the Stanley Cup ended last night around 11 p.m. when they lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals to the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2-1. The Lightning were pretty thoroughly outplayed if you go by shots-on-goal, but the last eight minutes or so […]
It’s an age-old tradition, and Bob Buckhorn and Rahm Emanuel are following suit. The respective mayors of Tampa and Chicago are betting on the results of the Stanley Cup, the National Hockey League championship. The series faces off Wednesday evening between the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning in Tampa’s Amalie Arena. Buckhorn is putting a […]
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