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Sports Central #153 on PGTV Guests: Peter Ornsby, Webber Head Track & Field Coach Sonny Tingley, Bright House Mike Cobb, The Ledger Events: Scenic Sprint Triathlon Polk County Amateur Championships Video Packages: FYSA Olympic Development Training Polk County 25th Anniversary Tourism Dinner Sunshine State Cup (Lacrosse) Original Air Date: July 15, 2011

The Polk County All Sports Awards continues its 11-year tradition of recognizing Polk County athletes for their excellence in sports at the Lakeland Center on Tuesday, June 21 at 6:15. Five new members will be honored for their achievements and will enter The Polk County Sports Hall of Fame. The 2011 Hall of Fame class includes: former Florida [...]

Central Florida Sports is happy to bring back the “This Week in Sports” weekly blog series.  Here you will find all the local sports information for Central Florida’s Polk County.  Have a question about an event?  Feel free to contact us at our HQ at 863-551-4750 or visit www.centralfloridasports.com   In the meantime, keep an eye out for [...]

More than 2,600 men and women, 50 and over, are expected to participate in 86 Olympic-style events including: Badminton, Basketball Shooting and 3 on 3, Billiards, Bocce, Bowling, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Cribbage, Ballroom & Social Dancing, Square Dancing, Darts, Euchre, Field Events, Fishing, Golf 18 Hole and Putt & Chip, Horseshoes, Lawn Bowling, Pepper, Pickleball, Powerlifting, [...]

Two-time Masters winner Ben Crenshaw is one of the designers of two golf courses coming to Polk County in the next two years. Coore & Crenshaw and Tom Doak–led Renaissance Golf Design will create two highly distinctive, yet intertwined, 18‐hole golf courses on a formerly mined phosphate site in Central Florida. The designers were intrigued [...]

2010 Duramed FUTURES Tour Qualifier – Golf Date: 11/2 – 11/5 Venues: Lake Region Yacht and County Club, Ridgewood Lakes, Huntington Hills, and Bridgewater Golf courses – The 2010 Duramed Futures Tour Qualifier will bring to Polk County Links over 300 of Women’s Golf’s top competitors. – For more info visit www.duramedfuturestour.com or www.centralfloridasports.com Bazooka [...]

There are many options on TV when it comes to watching sports, but there aren’t many when it comes to shows that cover local sports in the Central Florida area. Be sure to tune in to “Sports Central” on PGTV to catch up on the latest in the world of sports in Polk County and around [...]

As high school sports get ready to kick off for the new school year, Lakeland Regional Medical Center wants to get student athletes ready as they hold their first Sports Medicine Symposium this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall in Lakeland.  The event is free to high school [...]

High School sports fans in Polk County no longer have to wait until the Thursday edition of The Ledger to see the latest stats and standings for Polk County’s schools. The Ledger is starting a brand new site, called Polk Preps, that will serve as a one-stop source for stats, standings and other Polk County [...]

The Florida Sports Hall of Fame is coming to Polk County and it will open in grand fashion on June 22 as the building at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in Auburndale that will house memorabilia from some of the biggest stars Florida sports has ever known officially opens. The Grand Opening and ribbon cutting [...]