HOLLYWOOD — As he sat at the scorer’s table in the gymnasium named in memory of his dad, Mike Tiger smiled while he watched a group of boys pick up a basketball and freely play, sprinting from one end of the court to the other. No refs, no coaches, no scorekeeping;

BRIGHTON — Before their seasons ended, the Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School girls and boys basketball teams recognized their 8th-grade players and their families during a ceremony before the start of games Feb. 1.

BRIGHTON — Quality won out over quantity this season for rising star bull rider Dyami Nelson, but the end result was the same. For the second year in a row, Nelson is the Southern States Bull Riding Tour champion. “I didn’t ride as much as last year, but I did ride better,”

MIAMI GARDENS — One of the world’s premier tennis events is about to get a lot closer to tennis fans from the Tribe in South Florida. After spending the last 31 years in Key Biscayne – including one last hurrah this March – the Miami Open is headed to Hard Rock

CLEWISTON — The Big Cypress Recreation Department’s Seminole Lightning youth softball team hoped to build on its victory from the previous night, but Mother Nature didn’t cooperate March 20. After winning their first game 10-5, the Lightning were poised to add to their victory total, but lightning and rain halted the

OKEECHOBEE — Jacoby Johns, of the Brighton Reservation, won the bareback riding title at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Okeechobee Florida Cowtown Rodeo held March 9 to 11. Johns’ score of 82.5 points on Painted Pony Championship Rodeo’s George’s Bad Cat earned him $1,247. Johns edged runner-up Wyatt Ortega, who

IMMOKALEE — For what seems like forever, Naples High School softball has ruled Collier County. For many years Naples was the state’s most dominant team, something Immokalee painfully knew first-hand. No softball program in Florida has won more state championships than Naples (10), which used to pound its county competition –

FORT LAUDERDALE — Ahfachkee School’s young track and field team lacks numbers, but not heart. This year’s squad features three high school runners and one middle school runner. Coach and Athletic Director Matthew Beckham wanted to see more kids on the team as it embarked on its second year of competition. “I