A suspension bridge over the Santa Fe River at O’Leno State Park in Columbia County.
Blackwater River State Park is in Santa Rosa County and features a boardwalk area through a Cypress Swamp which is fairly typical of the West Florida and the Gulf Coast. It is one of multiple Cypress Swamps in the park.
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 […]
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 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 […]
Merry Christmas everyone! This week, I’m going to be pushing out some articles related to the growth of women’s soccer in Florida (Florida State just won its fourth NCAA women’s title). Each of these articles first appeared on The Florida Soccer Report. Today we start with the announcement of Sporting JAX from two weeks ago. […]
SR AIA runs right through Little Talbot Island en route from Jacksonville to Amelia Island.
We look around the Theodore Roosevelt Area of the Timucuan National Ecological and Historic Preserve in Duval County.
This is an excerpt from my book Florida and the American Revolution In December 1775, Continental Army General George Washington was informed that the British had been stockpiling weaponry, ammunition and other materials in St Augustine. At this point Washington began to prepare defensive actions in the event that the British launched an invasion of […]
The Florida Squeeze 