DAVIE — Riley Jumper knows what it’s like to see a high school football team win a state championship. Two years ago in Orlando’s Citrus Bowl, he cheered for his cousin Andre Jumper and American Heritage as they won a state title. "It was awesome," said Riley, who, as a fifth-grader,

BRIGHTON — The Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School volleyball teams faced one of their toughest opponents of the season Oct. 5. The faces on the other side of the net in the school’s gymnasium didn’t belong to students from rival schools West Glades or Yearling, but rather from the same households,

BRIGHTON — Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School eighth-grade volleyball players concluded their varsity middle school volleyball careers Oct. 6 by receiving roses and a coach’s hug before they stamped an exclamation mark on another winning season. The Lady Seminoles rolled past Clewiston Middle School, 2-0. This season’s 8-2 record combined with last year’s

BRIGHTON — Most of the points in the junior varsity match went the way of Pemayetv Emahakv, but even those won by visiting Clewiston didn’t dampen the spirits of the young Lady Seminoles who had a blast in their 2-0 win Oct. 6. "Whether they win or lose, they always smile

BRIGHTON — Tribal rodeo riders competed in the Eastern Indian Rodeo Association (EIRA) regional finals Sept. 26 in Brighton, trying to secure their spot in the Indian National Finals Rodeo (INFR). Regionals featured the 30 competitors with the highest accumulated scores during EIRA’s six-rodeo season, which ran February to July. When

Young rodeo riders Kelton Smedley, Jobe Johns and Logan Hyatt lived the cowboy life out West this summer while competing on the rodeo circuit. Kelton traveled on his own, while Jobe and Logan traveled with Jobe’s mother, Tara Johns. A bull rider, Kelton, 18, spent about a month exploring Montana and

BRIGHTON — The end of the 2015 Eastern Indian Rodeo Association (EIRA) season was celebrated Oct. 17 at the Florida Seminole Veterans Building in Brighton with a parade of winners who collected buckles and saddles to commemorate their season. The banquet also featured the newly elected EIRA directors, who will

BIG CYPRESS — While they waited for their pasta lunches to arrive, about 25 youngsters used free time after a private basketball clinic to quiz members of the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) women’s basketball team. Questions ranged from what positions the women play on the court and what majors

HOLLYWOOD — As an undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion in the early 1990s, Riddick Bowe didn’t share the spotlight with anybody. Nearly 25 years later, as he sat at a round table at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Bowe surveyed a ballroom chock-full of heavyweight boxing champions