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Rays conclude spring training, ready for Sunday’s opener

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The regular season can’t get here quickly enough for the Tampa Bay Rays. Not after the way that Spring Training concluded. The Rays didn’t win either half of a split squad doubleheader Friday, falling 9-4 (in a game they led 3-0) to Detroit and tying Atlanta 2-2. Tampa Bay finished the spring 12-13. It has Saturday off before opening against Toronto on Sunday afternoon. In its defeat on Friday, the Rays got three innings out of Matt Moore, who left…

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Bucs’ Lovie Smith stops short of saying his team wasn’t ready

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Lovie Smith wouldn’t say his team wasn’t ready to play. Vote, anyone? The Bucs were squashed from the opening kickoff in their 42-14 loss to Tennessee. They had a penalty on the first play, got beat for a touchdown on the first drive and quarterback Jameis Winston had his first pass intercepted and returned for a touchdown. The Titans, a 2-14 team a year ago, same as the Bucs, scored on five of their first six possessions. “I wouldn’t say…

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Florida, like many teams, faces another easy day in its season opener

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And now, for a quick scouting report on New Mexico State: Baa-aa. New Mexico State is Eastern Michigan, which was Toledo, which was Charleston Southern which was UAB which was Louisiana Lafayette which was any number of sacrificial lambs that the Gators – and to be fair, a great many of the major football teams of America – line up as opening day patsies so the program can make a muscle. Hey, it is college tradition. If heaven did not…

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Gary Shelton: Bucs’ schedule hints the team has a chance to be better

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If it is indeed Jameis Winston whom the Bucs covet, he’ll come into the league with a lot to measure up against. More than anything else, that struck you at first glance of next year’s Tampa Bay Bucs schedule. Boy, does Winston (or whichever quarterback the Bucs draft) need to be good. And fast. It’s no surprise, of course, that the schedule seems to focus on the Bucs’ passer. It’s a quarterback’s league. And, throughout its history, the Bucs have…

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Gary Shelton: Rowdies coach went a long way to find growth

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There are new seats behind him. There is fresh paint in front of him. The slogans of a team are around him. The sound of an earthmover beeps as it hurries through the day. For Thomas Rongen, it seems as good a spot as any to talk about growth. Of a sport. Of a team. Of a man. Rongen, 58, sits on a bench at Al Lang Field, and the sailboats drift past. The Tampa Bay Rowdies team he coaches has…

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