Streamsong Resort in rural Polk County, a creation of phosphate giant Mosaic, is collecting accolades from golf's top magazine critics and players. The 2,300-acre golfing destination showcases Florida's natural environment in an outdoors sporting experience being compared favorably to St. Andrews in Scotland.
Renovations to the St. Pete Times Forum and an aggressive business strategy by Tampa Bay sports enthusiasts teaming up with the University of Alabama in Huntsville successfully landed college hockey’s championship events in downtown Tampa in April 2012.
Pro ballplayers turned investors Tim Tebow, Derrick Brooks and Chipper Jones back Drs. Kevin Scott and Chris MacLaren in building a training center in northwest Hillsborough that is expected to serve amateur as well as professional athletes.
With Auburn still riding high following its Fiesta Bowl victory, universities around the nation are already gearing up to put their football players through the heat of next summer in preparation for the 2011 season. USF in Tampa is among those leading the way for safety by sharing what coaches have learned using a special pill designed to monitor players' body temperatures.
Jacob Brockhoff's mom never imagined what her son would come up with after she urged him to draw pictures to relieve his anxiety. He did what she asked and soon also drew up a business plan to sell uniquely designed skateboards to benefit other children with heart disease.
The Vincent Lecavalier Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center occupies most of the seventh floor of All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. It includes 28 individual patient rooms and takes up more than 26,500 square feet. It also allows for accommodations for parents of patients and three Ronald McDonald houses are on site for parents who need to be near their children.
LPGA champion Golfer Brittany Lincicome vows to give back to her hometown of St. Petersburg in a big way and she's already making big tracks in that direction.
Even a visitors' center opening at the end of May at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in eastern Polk County is all about playing sports and participating in sporting competitions for residents and tourists alike.
The new Saint Stephen's Episcopal School is the first publicly registered school in the Tampa Bay region to seek a LEED Gold certification for environmental awareness. Officials aim to win the prestigious Gold certification by the end of the school year.
Most of the vision problems Veterinarian Dr. E. Dan Wolf of Tampa sees involve cataracts. He specializes in a technique that he says is simple and mostly painless to the animal. Basically, he places a lens inside the eye of the animal. It's a relatively common procedure, similar to a human putting in a contact lens; only with an animal, it's permanent.
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