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Larry Thornberry

Larry Thornberry

Larry Thornberry is a writer in Tampa.
by | Jul 21, 2016

How does ESPN muck up the televising of baseball games? Let me count the ways. Not only does ESPN disfigure…

by | Jul 19, 2016

The Tampa Bay Times — formerly the St. Petersburg Times — bills itself as FLORIDA’S BEST NEWSPAPER. You can’t miss it. It’s…

by | Jul 17, 2016

Watching on Fox the tragic news out of Baton Rouge. More cops ambushed and killed — seven shot, three dead at the…

by | Jul 15, 2016

This column is for baseball addicts. Readers who do not suffer from BWS — baseball withdrawal syndrome — during the doleful…

by | Jul 14, 2016

Some states you can put in the bank every fourth November. California for the Democrats, various states in Dixie for…

by | Jul 12, 2016

OK, perhaps the ageless wonder Tim Duncan isn’t ageless after all. Though one easily could have concluded he was ageless…

by | Jul 12, 2016

Early in this century a good friend, that rarity of a professor who in neither boring nor leftist, took his…

by | Jul 12, 2016

Before their Saturday night WNBA game at the Target Center in Minneapolis between the Minneapolis Lynx and the Dallas Wings,…

by | Jul 8, 2016

These civilian warriors, trained in the U.S. Army, Navy, or Marines before resigning their commissions to go to China, were members neither of the American nor Chinese air force, making them outlaw pilots. Outlaw or no, they seriously slowed the ongoing annexation of China by military forces of Japan, and provided some of the few things Americans could cheer about in the early days of the Pacific war.

by | Jul 7, 2016

Tampa The only thing that keeps the race for Marco Rubio’s Florida U.S. Senate from being really contentious is that…

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