Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category

The golden shovels in the dirt today at the future site of the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex could only mean one thing: Groundbreaking! With about 100 people looking on, County Commissioners, officials from the City of Auburndale and Polk County Tourism & Sports Marketing officially broke ground to begin construction on the massive sports complex [...]

As the Florida Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony gets closer (just one week away now), a lot has been made about the big names that will be inducted on August 16. One of the great stories of the new Hall of Fame class is the story of Otis Birdsong. He started his legendary career [...]

I know this story doesn’t directly involve Polk County, but since Charles Barkley comes to Lakeland every year to give his time and money to help the First Tee Program for Barkley, Bean, Bryant & Friends, it fits here. Plus, it is just a great story and another example of how Barkley is such a [...]

We haven’t talked a lot here about the new Lake Myrtle Sports Complex, but don’t worry, there will be a lot of details here in the coming months as things take shape and construction begins on what will be the largest sports complex in Polk County history. This past weekend, Bay News 9 did an [...]

In case you haven’t been to a restaurant and seen large groups of basketball players and their families eating or driven down the road and spotted a van with writing all over it, this is your official notice that the Youth Basketball of America (YBOA) National Championships are taking place at gyms throughout Polk County all [...]

For the sake of this post, it really isn’t a question because it is the name of the event Auburndale native and NBA superstar Tracy McGrady started 9 years ago. McGrady will return to his childhood home of Auburndale this weekend where the “What Does it Take to Be #1″ street ball tournament will take [...]

You heard it here first: The 2008 Class of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame was just announced and the ceremony will be held on Saturday, August 16 at Cypress Gardens. Stay tuned right here for more information as the event gets closer. This year’s induction ceremony will be extra special as the 2007 and [...]

The countdown is now over and the 2008 Florida Sunshine State Games is now underway in Polk County. Florida’s only Olympic-style Sports Festival began last weekend with Flag Football and  the games continue this weekend all over Polk County.  More than 5,000 of Florida’s finest amateur athletes, between the ages of 4 and 88, will compete in over 20 sports [...]

Play ball, gentlemen start your engines, time for kickoff….the list of clichés could go on and on, but that wouldn’t be a good way to kick off (just one more time doesn’t hurt) the first entry for Polk County’s newest sports blog. We host more than 200 sporting events each year in Polk County and [...]