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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Highway to the football zone
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Highway to the football zone
Football University's Top Gun Showcase is set for Friday-Sunday at Paradise Coast Sports Complex in Naples. The event is an annual three-day showcase designed to highlight the best middle and high school FBU student-athletes in an intense, positionspecific test of technical skill and ability.
Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
28 June 2024
On March 3, 1969, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top 1% of its pilots. I...

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Team leadership, soccer fans christen FC Naples
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Team leadership, soccer fans christen FC Naples
By Andrew Sodergren andrew.sodergren@naplespress.com 
21 June 2024
In the months since the January announcement that Naples would have a professional soccer team, the ...
SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Athletics’ runaway money train
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Athletics’ runaway money train
College or pro, and now even in high schools in Florida, money talks. What have you done for me lately? Unless you can put a financial figure on it, well, what are we really doing?
Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
21 June 2024
The money is getting out of control, even by the inflationary standards we find ourselves in these d...
Mouratoglou Tennis Center coming to Naples
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Mouratoglou Tennis Center coming to Naples
By Andrew Sodergren andrew.sodergren@naplespress.com 
14 June 2024
A top-notch tennis academy by a world-renowned coach is coming to Naples this summer. Patrick Mourat...
SPEAKING OF SPORTS: SWFL’s blades of glory
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: SWFL’s blades of glory
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Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
7 June 2024
Ask any reasonably knowledgeable group of people what is the best trophy in all of sports, and it is...
Boca Co gives pickleball paddles perky personality
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Boca Co gives pickleball paddles perky personality
These paddles aren't just aesthetically pleasing-they offer high performance, as well. The paddle face is made of carbon fiber, while the core consists of polypropylene honeycomb to provide outstanding impact distribution.
By Andrew Sodergren andrew.sodergren@naplespress.com 
31 May 2024
Kelsey Peterson loved the sport of pickleball, but wasn’t a fan of the paddles. “I had all these col...
SPEAKING OF SPORTS: R.I.P. to amateurism in college athletics
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: R.I.P. to amateurism in college athletics
The NCAA reportedly will pay more than $2.7 billion in damages over 10 years to past and current athletes through a revenue-sharing plan that allows each Power Five school from the
Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
31 May 2024
There was a death last week, and it went by with barely anyone noticing. This passing was more than ...
SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Football program is not in FGCU’s game plan
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: Football program is not in FGCU’s game plan
“That to me is where the opportunity sits right now: focusing on how to best support the student-athletes we have, supporting the 15 programs we have, and how we grow this athletic department within this university.”
Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
24 May 2024
Football is king in America, there’s no secret about that— not anymore. A century ago, baseball rule...
Futsal fever comes to Village School of Naples
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Futsal fever comes to Village School of Naples
The name futsal comes from the Portuguese phrase futeball de salao and from the Spanish futbal sala; both translatable to indoor football.
By Andrew Sodergren andrew.sodergren@naplespress.com 
17 May 2024
When Piotr Novak took over the Village School soccer program last fall, the former professional play...
Barron Collier battles to gold in state tennis championship
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Barron Collier battles to gold in state tennis championship
After cruising to the district championship, the Cougars defeated Parrish 4-0 in the regional quarterfinals and rival Gulf Coast 4-2 in the regional semifinals. Barron
By Andrew Sodergren andrew.sodergren@naplespress.com 
17 May 2024
Mark Taviloglu wasn’t feeling his best early in his singles battle with St. Thomas Aquinas’ Lucas Fr...
SPEAKING OF SPORTS: FGCU softball flying high with thrilling ASUN tournament win
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SPEAKING OF SPORTS: FGCU softball flying high with thrilling ASUN tournament win
“We were constantly knocking on the door, making the championship game in 2016 and 2017, earning an RPI of 33 in 2018, etc. It’s the beauty of sports: There’s always a chance but it’s hard to win it all.”
Speaking of Sports David Wasson 
17 May 2024
David Deiros had to be starting to wonder if it was ever going to happen again, right? The Florida G...

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