Larry Thornberry

TAMPA — The Florida 2012 election cycle is at an awkward stage — 13 months out from the primaries, 16…

TAMPA – The Tampa Smokers won another baseball game Saturday after a long dry spell. The Smokers hadn’t picked up…

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game By Dan Barry (Harper, 259 pages, $26.99) Part of the…

TAMPA — The candidates for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Florida clearly believe red-meat conservatism will be the favored…

Although Stan Musial played his last baseball game nearly a decade before I was born, I have long been fond…

TAMPA — In presidential politics, Florida is very big medicine. Florida’s 27 electoral votes in 2008, ten percent of what…

Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic…

Memorial Day is an emotionally complex holiday, mixing sadness at the loss and suffering of so many Americans, appreciation for…

Sixkill, by Robert B. Parker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 293 pages, $26.95) Sixkill, a very readable Spenser novel, is Bob Parker’s…

On the web, movie-goers can find lists of movie remakes the list-makers believe to be better than the originals. I’ve…