Sports
Naples mom wins race, sets example for young sons
28 February 2025
It takes a special person to run a marathon. At least I assume so, as I haven’t run more than from h...
Sports
FC Naples coach strives for ‘team culture’ with 12 nationalities on roster
21 February 2025
The members of FC Naples, the city’s first professional soccer team, are all highly proficient in th...
Sports
21 February 2025
For those truly in the know, every college basketball season is actually made up of three distinctly...
Local News, Sports
14 February 2025
Father Time is undefeated. No matter how gifted you are in the sports world, you ultimately fall vic...
Sports
FUNDRAISING EVENT
14 February 2025
Pelican Marsh provided a way for 52 members to apply their enthusiasm for tennis, pickleball and boc...
Sports
History repeats itself, you see, and the Miami Heat have been learning that the painful way over the past few weeks.
7 February 2025
It is hard to get past the money. Yes, before you get all worked up … I am all too aware that contra...
Sports
7 February 2025
Invented by Native Americans, it’s considered to be North America’s first sport. Jim Brown earned Al...
Sports
31 January 2025
There is a Major League Baseball problem just up the road. And it isn’t going away anytime soon. It ...
Sports
New fitness program aimed at seniors
31 January 2025
Many of us had new year’s resolutions to lose weight and improve fitness levels by working out more....
Sports
OUTDOORS
24 January 2025
The silver anniversary of an area organization affords a golden opportunity for experiencing the dis...
Sports
Indoor offerings alleviate some weather, injury concerns
24 January 2025
Pock, pock, pock, pock… Pickleball is having a moment. Pock, pock, pock, pock … Maybe even more than...
Sports
In a time that seems to be trending more exclusive in many ways, it is refreshing to see the growth of Unified Sports through the Special Olympics.
17 January 2025
Champions walk among us — especially when we are in Immokalee. This shouldn’t come as a huge surpris...
Sports
Offense isn’t everything in college football, no matter how dominant that offense is.
10 January 2025
Expectations in sports are always a tricky thing. On one hand, a college football team contending al...
Sports
3 January 2025
Man, what a year. We hope your 2024 was safe, healthy and prosperous — or at least that you hit two ...
Sports
The croquet scene in Naples is growing
3 January 2025
Move over, pickleball: There’s another hybrid social and recreational pursuit that’s catching on in ...
Sports
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Naples High falls in semifinal round of Class 4A football state playoffs
13 December 2024
ORLANDO — Naples High saw its high school football season end in disappointment Dec. 6, falling 18-7...
Sports
13 December 2024
How do you measure greatness? In the sports world, we tend to do it with statistics. Raw numbers oft...
Sports
I’ve covered thousands of sporting events featuring what seems like hundreds of different sports over the years — everything from Pee Wee football on a chilly morning to the Final Four, going from riding in a bus while watching marathoners over 26.2 miles to catching powerboat racing off our Southwest Florida coastline.
6 December 2024
I have a cool job. It’s actually a set of cool jobs; this one for The Naples Press, calling football...
Food & Flavor
25 July 2025
The Tamiami Trail between Tampa and Miami never stopped being a major thoroughfare after Interstate ...
B: Arts & Living
31 July 2025
Here at The Naples Press , we never get tired of Southwest Florida’s sunsets, and we know you don’t ...
Main, ...
8 August 2025
Q: What happened to The Bevy? Went there in early June for their “Summer Dining Deals” and the place...
B: Arts & Living
8 August 2025
A Facebook memory popped into Charles Mereday’s feed this spring, reminding the chef of the special ...
Main, ...
18 July 2025
The Gate Golf Club, anticipated to open to the public in late spring 2026, is taking shape on part o...
Sports
A particularly unique aspect of home here is that nearly all of us come from somewhere else — a facet of life we have talked about in this space recently. The Collier County melting pot has sports ingredients from all over the country, and that makes it really cool to experience.
29 November 2024
There is so much to be thankful for here in the paradise we call home. Between the gorgeous weather ...
Sports
TENNIS
29 November 2024
Johann Saurbier first met George Spiska when he taught Spiska’s daughter in a junior clinic in 2011....
Sports
22 November 2024
There were piles of dirt and double-wide trailers scattered about when Karl Smesko set foot on what ...
Sports
TENNIS
22 November 2024
Given that pro stars Serena Williams, Coco Gauff, Holger Rune and Stefanos Tsitsipas are proteges, t...
Sports
What we do seem to know about football and head injuries is this: They happen. Other than that? Yeah, lots of burgeoning science and correlation effect and post-life analysis allow us to hypothesize that a violent contact sport like football seems to hurt the ol' melon.
8 November 2024
In contact sports like football, injuries are bound to happen. By its very nature, football is a vio...
Sports
1 November 2024
We wrote here, in this very space, that defense wins championships. That axiom has stood the test of...
Sports
1 November 2024
Construction of 20 new pickleball courts, refurbished tennis courts and other upgrades to Pelican Ba...
Sports
18 October 2024
We live in the tropics. Perhaps you’ve noticed. Which means this time of year, more often than not, ...