Sports

Despite the annual Daytona 500 event taking place during Florida’s dry season, around a third of all races have been impacted by rainfall. The 68th running is set to take place on Sunday, Feb. 15.

One young entrepreneur, Dillon Rosenthal, 22, has come to a solution for the ignored plastic waste issue from pickleball. Rosenthal’s newly started business, BounceBack Pickle, is a recyclable pickleball company that is designing the first fully recycled pickleball.

Over the decades, baseball and Southwest Florida have had a rich partnership, with the region hosting two teams in The City of Palms every spring.

According to the NIH, playing team sports reduces stress and builds self-esteem. At FGCU, student volunteers welcome a coalition of athletes with disabilities as part of Adaptive Sports Day.

It might be time to rename Fort Myers, “Hockey Town”. For the fourth consecutive year, The Florida Everblades find themselves competing for a spot in the Kelly Cup Championships.

A negotiated settlement in an NCAA infractions case has been made with Florida Gulf Coast University.The negotiated resolution, announced Friday, stems from an infractions case from July 2023 to May 2024 within the university's men's tennis program. The penalties levied by the NCAA against FGCU in the case include a $25,000 fine; the men's tennis program was prohibited from recruitment efforts January 6-21, 2025; the issuance of a 2-year probation; and vacation of selected team contests.

17-year-old Gianna Clemente throwing out first pitch at the April 14 Yankee game highlights a busy year

The sport of croquet deals in blobs, crushes, death rolls and ducks. And it is playing out once again at the Sarasota County Croquet Club in Venice via the Under 21 world championship.

WGCU reporters and videographers were awarded recently by the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists for entries dealing with the environment and sports.