Lakeland has a new professional indoor football team. I was excited (and still kind of am) about their arrival, but that was before the team name and logo were announced on Thursday. The result: the Lakeland...

Editor’s Note: Tim Bedgood was again on the scene as another race wound through Lakeland. This time he captured the Mayfaire 5K top finishers (and many others) as they traveled through...

Editor’s Note: Lakeland photographer Tim Bedgood stationed himself near Florida Southern College to watch Saturday’s Child of the Sun Urban Triathlon. He captured the top finishers in both gender categories...

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Lakeland is still home for the state basketball finals. The Florida High School Athletics Association on Tuesday selected The Lakeland Center as the site for the boys and girls state tournaments for the next three years....

Ed. Note: Bookmark this page and come back after each day’s games. We’ll simply post the latest results at the top of the page. Final Day 8 Day 7 Day 6 ...

The recent transfer of standout quarterback Jadrian Clark from George Jenkins to Lakeland has once again set off the hot topic of recruiting in Polk County. But do high school coaches REALLY recruit athletes from other...

Perennial minor league manager Dave Huppert was announced today as the new manager of the Lakeland Flying Tigers. Huppert replaced Andy Barkett who left the Flying Tigers earlier this month to manage the AA Jacksonville...

photo credit: Tom Hagerty for Lakeland...

Yesterday, the Florida State League, a Class A division of Major League Baseball, named Zach Burek Executive of the Year for 2010. Burek led the team to a new single-season attendance record for the Flying Tigers. 64,010...

When Kerri Koesel walked through the Joker Marchant gate last night she helped the Lakeland Flying Tigers achieve a milestone. As fan number 61,256, Koesel pushed the club past the mark set August 26th, 1987. The team game...

A player sure to make his way through the Gulf Coast League Tigers and the Lakeland Flying Tigers is Nick Castellanos. Drafted yesterday by the Detroit Tigers, Castellanos received a $3.45 million dollar signing bonus. The...

The Lakeland Flying Tigers aren’t the only professional team playing summers at Tigertown. Detroit Tiger rookies play a 60-game schedule for the Gulf Coast League Tigers. The games usually start at Noon in the heat and...

In yesterday’s Major Leage Baseball draft the Tigers used their top selection on Nick Castellanos, a right-handed hitting high-school shortstop from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He’s 6′ 3″, 190 pounds, and...