Category Around Florida

T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup around the corner; Broward County played host to the trophy last week

The 2024 ICC T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup is around the corner. The Broward County host site, Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill will host four matches in June and is undergoing renovations at the moment to be ready for the World Cup.

Florida Derby (Miami 2-5 Tampa Bay) video recap

Last Thursday, Tampa Bay defeated Miami 5-2 at FIU Soccer Stadium in the latest edition of the Florida Derby in USL Championship. I give my thoughts below and for regular coverage of non-MLS Florida Soccer please subscribe to Beyond the 90′ where we host both the Florida Soccer Report (with multiple writers including a few […]

US Open Cup kicks off tonight with Miami United visiting Chattanooga FC – a rivalry renewed

In 2015 and 2016 Miami United and Chattanooga FC played two classic matches in the NPSL Playoffs in Regional Finals. Matches that Chattanooga won on route to making the NPSL National Championship game both seasons. The two clubs, both of whom were slated to be founding members of NISA in 2017 but have taken different […]

Tallahassee SC unveils Centennial jersey

As someone who has recently written a trilogy of books on Florida History, I can appreciate this kit more than most. Tallahassee SC last week unveiled a Centennial kit to celebrate Tallahassee’s 200th birthday. You can preorder the kit here. Tallahasssee SC will compete in 2024 in the newly reconfigured Gulf Coast Sunshine Conference of NPSL.

US Open Cup returns to Florida this month

Despite extensive efforts by Major League Soccer (MLS) to kill men’s soccer’s national cup competition that features amateur, semipro and (prior to this year) all US professional clubs against one another, the Cup lives on. MLS’ two Florida sides, in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale will not participate in this years competition, but five other sides […]

T20 Cricket World Cup to have matches in Florida

The US is co-hosting the 2024 T20 Cricket World Cup this summer with the West Indies. Four US cities will host matches- Dallas, New York City and Fort Lauderdale (really Lauderhill). The Florida matches are as follows and will be played at Central Broward Stadium. June 11: Sri Lanka vs Nepal June 14: USA vs […]

Why Florida is becoming wildly overpopulated

Thoughtful video here to consider the points in.

USL Super League heading to Fort Lauderdale

The USL Super League announced the awarding of a new Super League franchise to Fort Lauderdale in late November. It’s a standalone club for now with no men’s entry. Super League Fort Lauderdale is founded by Tommy Smith. The club has plans for a modernized stadium and on-site training facilities in partnership with Nova Southeastern […]

FSU wins a 4th women’s soccer national title

Florida State beat Stanford 5-1 in Cary, NC in early December to win a championship capping an unbeaten season. It is Florida State’s 4th title in 10 seasons (and I’d argue two of best FSU teams in that run didn’t win the title) and demonstrated once again FSU not the University of North Carolina (which […]

The Tampa Bay area has a new women’s pro team kicking off in 2024

The Tampa Bay Sun will kick off USL Super League play in August of 2024. Childhood friends and local business leaders Darryl Shaw, David Laxer (who co-owned FC Tampa Bay/Tampa Bay Rowdies from 2008-2014), and Jeff Fox serve as owners of the team. Long-term the club plans to play at a purpose-built stadium on the […]