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Chronicled a variety of sports stories and personalities, while providing event-coverage leadership for the Super Bowl, World Series, Final Four, Stanley Cup Finals and BCS Championship Game. Versatile assignments included hard news, feature writing and columns. Initiated special online projects for website (TBO.com), including popular blogs, regular podcasts and video reports. Frequent television appearances as expert source for local NBC affiliate, WFLA-Ch. 8.
105, 2020

USF Bulls faced a young Michael Jordan

By |May 1st, 2020|Categories: Basketball, Sports, University of North Carolina, USF|Tags: , , |

By Joey Johnston (c) Special to USF Athletics. Originally published May 1, 2020. There’s intense interest in basketball all-time great Michael Jordan — the man, the myth, the legend — reflected in ESPN’s highly rated [...]

1812, 2019

Mayor Jane was Hall of Fame athlete at UT

By |December 18th, 2019|Categories: Basketball, Sports, University of Tampa|Tags: |

By Joey Johnston Special to University of Tampa Athletics (c) UT Athletics. Originally published Dec. 18, 2019. Jane Castor, the City of Tampa’s 59th mayor, knows how to back into a crowded lane, establish her [...]

107, 2019

Austin Meadows: Big Catch For The Rays

By |July 1st, 2019|Categories: Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sports, Tampa Bay Rays|Tags: , , |

By Joey Johnston (c) Tampa Bay Rays. Originally published July 1, 2019. Whenever possible, Rays rookie outfielder Austin Meadows likes to fish. That’s his happy place. Since he was small, if not at a ballpark, [...]

305, 2017

The Kiermaier Way: He’s Always Hustling

By |May 3rd, 2017|Categories: Baseball, Sports, Tampa Bay Rays|Tags: , , , |

By JOEY JOHNSTON Inside Pitch (c) Tampa Bay Rays. Originally published May 3, 2017. Just before Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier agreed to a six-year, $53.5-million contract that surpassed his greatest baseball fantasy, he called [...]

2409, 2016

Kayla Cox: From Model Pitcher To … Model

By |September 24th, 2016|Categories: East Bay High School, Softball, Sports, University of Tampa|Tags: |

By JOEY JOHNSTON Times Correspondent (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published Sept. 24, 2016. TAMPA — Kayla Cox once was a softball star, leading East Bay High School to the school’s only state title in [...]

305, 2016

When Striker changed the world

By |May 3rd, 2016|Categories: Football, Sports, University of Oklahoma|Tags: |

Former Armwood player honored for diffusing racial tensions at Oklahoma. By JOEY JOHNSTON Tribune Staff Writer (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published May 3, 2016. Eric Striker, football player, never wanted to be solely categorized [...]

1304, 2016

Hockey improves with age

By |April 13th, 2016|Categories: Hockey, Sports, Tampa Bay Lightning|Tags: , |

Lightning's Callahan has centenarian 'Gram' who's a huge fan. By JOEY JOHNSTON Tribune Staff Writer (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published April 13, 2016. TAMPA — The Tampa Bay Lightning have legions of rabid followers, [...]

108, 2014

Pensacola’s Favorite Son

By |August 1st, 2014|Categories: Football, FSU Football, Sports, Tampa Bay Bucs|Tags: |

Before his days with the Bucs, Derrick Brooks was a leader and competitor in his hometown. By JOEY JOHNSTON Tribune Staff Writer (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published Aug. 1, 2014. TAMPA — Very quickly, [...]

601, 2014

Taking Center Stage

By |January 6th, 2014|Categories: BCS Championship Game, Football, FSU Football|Tags: , , |

Charismatic beyond his years, FSU’s Jameis Winston is centerpiece of college football’s main event By JOEY JOHNSTON The Tampa Tribune (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published Jan. 6, 2014. PASADENA, Calif. — Five months ago, [...]

312, 2012

For USF, Holtz ‘just didn’t work out’

By |December 3rd, 2012|Categories: Football, Sports, USF|Tags: , , |

University fires football coach after dismal 3-9 season By JOEY JOHNSTON The Tampa Tribune (c) Tampa Bay Times. Originally published Dec. 3, 2012. TAMPA -- The Skip Holtz era, which included three seasons of largely [...]

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