Power boat racing returns to Lake Hollingsworth Saturday and Sunday as 100+ racers participate in the 83rd annual Orange Cup Regatta. This year’s event was postponed from its traditional March date because of COVID concerns, LALtoday reports. Races are scheduled from 10 a.m. to sunset and are free for spectators to watch from the lakeshore. […]
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LHS’ Brownlow-Dindy, a Top National Recruit, Chooses Oklahoma
Lakeland High School defensive end Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, ESPN’s No. 5 football recruit nationally, has chosen the Oklahoma Sooners. The deciding factor was head coach Lincoln Riley’s personal touch. “When I first started talking to them, they were like, we’re not going to be talking football with you, we’re just going to get to know you […]
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High School Football Scores
Check results from Friday night’s high school football games. ALSO: Week 2 roundup in The Ledger ESPN Video: Lake Gibson-Lowndes highlights
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High School Football Scores
Check results of Friday night’s high school football action:
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Detroit Tigers Announce 2022 Spring Training Schedule
Returning to Lakeland for an 86th season, the Detroit Tigers will lead off Spring Training 2022 at Joker Marchant Stadium with an exhibition game against Southeastern University on Feb. 25 followed the next day by a home game against the Washington Nationals.
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Lakeland Teen Will Compete in World Tumbling Competition
Nastia Katchalova, 16, of Lakeland, was recently named to USA Gymnastics’ 2021 Junior National Tumbling Team and will compete in the world competition in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November. “This year at three of my competitions I have hit first place at each of the three qualifying competitions,” she told Bay News 9.
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LHS’ Gabriel Dindy: Top College Prospect and Entrepreneur
Gabriel Dindy, a senior Lakeland High School defensive lineman, is more than a hot prospect being recruited by the nation’s top college football programs, Fox 13 News reports. He’s also an entrepreneur; he co-founded Beyond Our Best, which he describes as a “fitness movement,” with his sister, Destiny, a personal trainer. | Rivals.com profile | […]
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Golfer, 90, Scores Her Second Hole-in-One
Jean Kettern, who has been playing golf 74 of her 90 years, scored her second-ever hole-in-one Friday at Big Cypress Golf Club, where she has lived for 30 years and plays three times a week, ABC Action News reports. Source: ABC Action News
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Lakeland Magic Head Coach Stan Heath Departs for Alma Mater
After guiding the Lakeland Magic to the NBA G-League championship last month in his fourth year as coach, Stan Heath is returning to his alma mater as head men’s basketball coach at East Michigan University, The Detroit News reports. Financial terms of his five-year contract are yet to be disclosed. Source: The Detroit News
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Lakeland Magic Capture NBA G-League Championship
The Lakeland Magic capped a one-month “bubble” season at Walt Disney World Thursday by defeating the Delaware Blue Coats 97-78 to capture the NBA G-League championship.Devin Cannady was named the G-League Finals MVP, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Source: Orlando Sentinel