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Football: Robinson 31, Jesuit 10
photo gallery TAMPA — Moments before Friday night’s kickoff, Robinson coach Mike DePue wrapped an arm around senior Demetrius Page and walked him to a corner of Alumni Field. There, DePue pointed out the bleachers, the bands, the billows of smoke rising from the concession stand grill. “I said, 'This ...
Read moreSat. Sept. 15, 2012 at 12:59 a.m. | Joey Knight
Jesuit vs. Robinson: Game of the year in Hillsborough County?
TAMPA — We admit it, when the season’s still young and our adrenaline’s splashing against our sense of reason, we’ll tout a local game more than it probably merits. Hype, after all, is what keeps the bulletin-board industry solvent and Twitter-verse spinning. But some contests, such as Robinson-Jesuit, need nary ...
Read moreThu. Sept. 13, 2012 at 4:26 p.m. | Joey Knight
Midweek Grab Bag: Upset special to end all upset specials, and more
The Grab Bag is getting bigger and bigger, and you don't need to do any panning to find the nuggets here. The're everywhere. And do not EVER forget, people: Big bank take 'lil bank. P.S. Coaches, players, fans, parents, to reach the Grab Bag, and you should, email cotey@tampabay.com or ...
Read moreWed. Sept. 12, 2012 at 12:46 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Hillsborough: Week 2 Sunday Morning QB
Times' Super 7 1. Armwood (1-1): It's gut-check time for a program that never really has required that many. 2. Plant (1-1): The Panthers have been drubbed early in the past, and then gone on to greatness. 3. Robinson (2-0): The Knights must be the favorite entering Jesuit's Corral Memorial Stadium next week. ...
Read moreSat. Sept. 08, 2012 at 7:34 p.m. | Joey Knight
Football: Jesuit 16, Middleton 0
TAMPA — With first-and-goal at the 1. Middleton couldn't get it — capped by a fourth-down stop by senior defensive tackle Robby Garcia on quarterback Todd Sims — as Jesuit won 16-0 Friday night.Trailing 9-0 with 10 minutes left, Middleton recovered a fumble at the Jesuit 1. Middleton failed to ...
Read moreFri. Sept. 07, 2012 at 8:22 p.m. | Don Jensen
Saturday Night Rewind? Sure, why not.
Well, we weren't going to let the Republican National Convention stop us from seeing Hillsborough County, now were we? John C. Cotey went to Freedom-Durant and Wharton-King, and even stopped off at Armwood to see Alvin Bailey committ to Florida, while Joey Knight waded through the masses at Plant-Jesuit. Reverting ...
Read moreSun. Sept. 02, 2012 at 5:42 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Football: Plant 18, Jesuit 0
TAMPA — The fact that Jesuit High School’s spring and preseason games were wiped out by bad weather might explain part of its offensive anemia in Saturday night’s season opener in front of a standing room-only home throng. The other 99 percent, according to Plant coach Robert Weiner, can be ...
Read moreSun. Sept. 02, 2012 at 12:42 a.m. | Joey Knight
Big-game breakdown: Plant at Jesuit
We conclude our four-part football series — something old, something new, something borrowed — with something blue. The regular season kicks off with three big matchups in our coverage area — and all three just happen to boast at least one team that’ll be clad in blue. Plant at Jesuit ...
Read moreThu. Aug. 30, 2012 at 2:51 p.m. | Joey Knight
Familiar feel to Plant, Jesuit coaching staffs
It’s one game that needs more subplots like downtown Tampa needs more gridlock. Yet with each day, another Plant-Jesuit story line seems to surface. The latest is borne of blood ties. The rivalry for Himes Avenue supremacy is evolving into the Harrell Bowl. A James Harrell will occupy each sideline ...
Read moreWed. Aug. 29, 2012 at 8:07 p.m. | Joey Knight
Midweek Grab Bag: It's back and better than ever
If I got asked one thing more than anything elsethis offseason, it was this: when is the Grab Bag coming back? My answer was always the same: I know, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight? So here it is, Season 2, Episode I of your predictions, projections and for many of you excited to be ...
Read moreWed. Aug. 29, 2012 at 1:12 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Cotey: Preseason top 25
The teams have changed. Some coaches, too. Players have come, transferred or graduated. But no matter how you break it down, how many practices you watch, how many stats you grind, the argument for the top high school football team in Tampa Bay is the same as every year since ...
Read moreMon. Aug. 20, 2012 at 5:53 p.m. | John C. Cotey
HomeTeam 100: Spotlight on Vincent Jackson
Jesuit TE/DL/LB Vincent Jackson, No. 17 in our HomeTeam 100 (see Nos. 11-20 here), has coaches and recruiters excited about his future. 2011 stats: 62 tackles, eight sacks, both second on team The breakdown: If the Commodores were a female group, and wrote the smash hit Brick House, it would ...
Read moreFri. Aug. 17, 2012 at 6:40 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Several locals earn 'All-Madden' recognition
Nine local prep football players have earned their own distinctive version of All-Madden immortality. The contingent was among 40 players chosen for the 2012 IMG All-Madden Team as a result of its peformance at last month's invitation-only All-Madden Mini-Camp on the IMG campus in Bradenton. The team was chosen from ...
Read moreMon. Aug. 13, 2012 at 7:16 p.m. | Joey Knight
Former pros pack Jesuit's coaching ranks
TAMPA — Five minutes into Jesuit’s first formal preseason practice of 2012, lightning sent the Tigers scurrying for cover. As he assessed the flickering gray sky beneath a breezeway, third-year coach James Harrell insisted his staff’s offensive play-calling system won’t be as turbulent as the recent afternoon weather pattern. For ...
Read moreMon. Aug. 06, 2012 at 8:01 p.m. | Joey Knight
Fall football: Teams, players to focus on when practice starts
Summer vacation is over for Tampa Bay football players. You do remember the time off, right? I think it was June 15-June 16. Am I right? Good times. While the time between the end of the 2011 season and the start of the 2012 season isn’t filled with a lot ...
Read moreFri. Aug. 03, 2012 at 6:54 p.m. | John C. Cotey