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Osceola knocks off host Gibbs for summer league title

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By Bob Putnam Verified
| Tampa Bay Beacons
Not long ago, a winning season at Osceola would have qualified as a surprise. The Warriors went two straight seasons without a victory, in 2007-08 and 2008-09, and went nearly two decades without a winning record. This summer, they beat one of the best teams in the area on its home floor. Osceola knocked off host Gibbs 77-69 on June 24 to win the Gibbs Summer League, building a 46-23 lead and holding off a late rally. The win meant something.
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After 53 years, Capogna’s Dugout in Clearwater bids its final farewell Original

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By Bob Putnam Verified
| Tampa Bay Times Verified
At Capogna’s Dugout, the regulars didn’t need menus. Melinda Sue Riddle’s late husband always ordered extra meatballs. Her late mother-in-law went for the pizza burger. Year after year, in the same booths under the same crowded walls of sports memorabilia, whole families ran the same routine. They ordered the wings, or the garlic toast with cheese, or the pizza some swore was the best in town. After 53 years, the routine is over.
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New high school transfer rules arrive. Enforcement is the open question.

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By Bob Putnam Verified
| Tampa Bay Beacons
Auggie Sanchez had about 25 players on the field for spring practice at Northeast High. By June, eight were gone. Most of them were starters, picked off by other programs. Florida says it has a fix for the kind of roster raiding that hollowed out the Vikings. Sanchez doubts it will work. “The FHSAA still has to enforce it,” said Sanchez, a former University of South Florida linebacker who is in his second season coaching his alma mater.
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