After a two-year hiatus, the Governor’s Baseball Dinner returns to throw out the first pitch of the 2023 Florida Grapefruit League season. The 2023 Governor’s Baseball Dinner will be held, Thursday, February 16, at TD Ballpark, in Dunedin, the hometown of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The newly-renovated TD Ballpark is also the site where DeSantis […]
The Florida Sports Foundation announced its recently commissioned study found the total economic impact of the sports industry on Florida’s economy amounted to $146.5 billion in Fiscal Years 2019-20 and 2020-21. CLICK HERE for the direct link to the full $146.5 Billion Economic Impact Study. The report, conducted by the independent research firm Tourism Economics, […]
Photo Gallery | Results CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. — The 2018 Sunshine State Games (SSG) International Beach Games came to a close on Sunday at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort with the final day consisting of Beach Tennis and Highland Games events. Kevin Dupuis, of Palm Harbor, repeated as a Highland Games gold medalist in the […]
Let the countdown begin! It’s only 146 days until the beginning of the 2019 Florida Spring Training season. The 2019 Major League Baseball Spring Training schedule was announced on Wednesday afternoon, and the first game of the 2019 season will be played on Friday, February 22 as the Tampa Bay Rays will host the Philadelphia […]
While dodging the August thunderstorms that began early in the day, nine Florida Senior Games women’s softball teams hit the diamonds at the Sleepy Hollow Sports Complex to qualify for the 2019 National Senior Games. The 50+ Kryptonite team (pictured at left), from Winter Springs, was the only team to go undefeated. Kryptonite scored 43 […]
Time for a look ahead and a glance behind as the 2018 Sunshine State Games finish up the month of June with an event for the fifth consecutive weekend. The look ahead sees the Sunshine State Games Badminton Championships beginning Saturday, June 30 and concluding on Sunday, July 1 at Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami […]
Talk about a warm welcome to the 25th Annual Sunshine State Games (SSG) Water Polo Championships. The Trinidad and Tobago 16 and Under Women’s National Team (pictured below) traveled 1,630 miles from their home 60 miles off the coast of Venezuela and landed in Fort Lauderdale Thursday at 6:30 p.m. After dinner and settling in […]
Since 2000, over 170,000 athletes have participated in the Sunshine State Games (SSG), the State of Florida’s only Olympic-style Sports Festival. At the 2018 SSG Track and Field Championships, in Port Charlotte, Dr. Brian Hickey, a professor in the Florida A&M Department of Health and Physical Education, joined an elite group of amateur athletes when […]
Charlotte County will host a Sunshine State Games (SSG) Summer Games Festival for the first time in the 39-year history of the Games when judo, taekwondo, and track & field are held in the area this weekend. Over 1,000 athletes are expected to compete in the three sports on Saturday and Sunday at Charlotte High […]
More than 700 Sunshine State Games athletes will be in the water and on the archery range this weekend in Gainesville and Lakeland with competitions in Swimming, Synchronized Swimming and Archery. The Games continue through the remainder of the month of June with nine upcoming sports being held in six different Florida communities. The three […]