by JGuthrie | Mar 2, 2022 | Features, In Memoriam
By Jarrett Guthrie Editor TAMPA – Few people learn how much they truly impact others’ lives. Often, it’s in passing that people earn the praise that should have been heaped upon them in life. Corey Thomas Jr. knew his father’s impact on his own life, and also...
by JGuthrie | Feb 10, 2021 | Alonso, Features, Gaither, In Memoriam, King, Preseason Baseball, Wharton
Column: Gaither Coach Nelson North honors former Cowboys skipper with Frank Permuy Preseason Classic By Jarrett Guthrie Editor TAMPA – Expectations and excitement – that’s what the preseason is all about. But these are unique times and it has been clear across the...
by JGuthrie | Dec 14, 2020 | Community Stories, Hillsborough, In Memoriam, Jefferson, Plant, Tampa Bay Tech, Tampa Catholic
By Jarrett Guthrie Editor TAMPA – A conversation nearly 20 years ago between a father and his two sons resonates loudest for brothers Casey and Spencer Nunez today. The two remembered clearly watching with their father, Pat Nunez, on a Monday in December 2003 as Pat’s...
by JGuthrie | Apr 19, 2020 | Features, Gaither, In Memoriam
By Jarrett Guthrie TAMPA – His was a love affair with the game of baseball that took root on the fields of Ybor City and West Tampa, stretched to South Tampa’s Plant High, continued to grow at the University of Tampa then in semi-pro baseball. It turned into a career...
by JGuthrie | Jan 31, 2018 | Community Stories, In Memoriam, Jesuit
John Canfield, who spent more than 30 years as a high school baseball coach in Tampa and a mentor and advisor to generations of players and coaches, passed away Monday, January 29, 2018. (Photo provided. By Jarrett Guthrie TAMPA – For more than 30 years, John Canfield...
by JGuthrie | Dec 31, 2017 | Community Stories, Hillsborough, In Memoriam
Longtime Tampa-area baseball coach Billy Reed, a Middleton High alum and member of the Florida A&M athletics Hall of Fame, died Saturday. (file photo J. Guthrie, 2015) By Jarrett Guthrie TAMPA – He liked being thought of as a teacher more than a coach, after all...
