BIG CYPRESS — Rodeo barrel racers lined up to win bucks Aug. 16 and to kick off the new 5-D Barrel Series at Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena in Big Cypress. "I’m here for the fun, money and excitement," said Monica McGoey, of Davie, who rode two runs on her horses Cool

PLANTATION — American Heritage School’s Mike Rumph wouldn’t mind coaching more Seminole Tribe football players from Big Cypress. Thanks to the Jumper brothers – Andre and Blevyns – the coach of the defending Class 5A state champions likes the caliber of player that comes from the reservation. "Both of them are

HOLLYWOOD — The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino brought more than just the beach to its front yard. With non-stop rock ‘n’ roll music blaring, national television cameras rolling and passionate fans cheering, the national beach soccer teams from the U.S. and Brazil entertained about 1,000 spectators Aug. 14 in

ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon’s face broke out in a wide smile when Seminoles Bobby Henry and daughter Barbara Cypress approached him outside the baseball team’s clubhouse Aug. 15. Barbara had a gift for Joe: an authentic handmade Seminole doll. It was 30 minutes before game time and

REGINA, Saskatchewan — Getting to western Canada turned out to be only part of the challenge that Team Florida’s medal winners had to tackle in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). Similar to others from the Seminole Tribe of Florida contingent that competed as Team Florida, Samuel Micco Sanchez and his

PHOENIX — Seminole basketball players had a memorable trip to the Valley of the Sun earlier this month. J.U.S. Nation, whose intertribal roster includes a half-dozen Seminoles from Florida, won the Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI) in Phoenix, Ariz. July 5 while using the name Rez Runners. The Rez Runners blazed

PHOENIX — The tallest player on the Rez Runners made a big impression at the Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI). After scoring 22 points in the championship game, Trewston Pierce was named the tournament’s most valuable player July 5 in Phoenix, Ariz. The 6-foot-5 forward/center from Hollywood received the award at

BOCA RATON — Growing up with three fellow lacrosse-playing siblings practically made Miles Thompson an expert in sharing. Equipment, headlines and even college lacrosse’s top individual honor have been shared in some manner in the Thompson household. Now, at 23 and in the infancy of his professional career, the Native

JUPITER — A California youth baseball team won two major tournaments on the East Coast in July, and Seminole Sean Osceola was in the middle of it all. Osceola’s teammates on Team Phenom don’t live a couple houses or streets or towns from his family’s home on the Brighton Reservation. Try several