Our Teams
Every newsroom has a bias. Ours is printed on the masthead. These are the clubs this desk lives with — covered hardest, known deepest, and never bet on with the heart (house rule: no homer anchors on the lead card).
Tampa Bay Rays
The home team of this entire operation. 98 wins, a fifth division title, 16 series sweeps — and a front office that out-thinks payrolls three times its size. Nobody's won more with less over the last decade. Our founding subject.
Rays coverage →Atlanta Braves
The childhood team that never left. Listened to nearly every game this season, same as the Rays — the two-radio life is real in this newsroom.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Kucherov, Point, Vasilevskiy — and now the franchise points record belongs to No. 86 alone. The Lamp desk runs through Tampa first.
Lightning coverage →Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Bucs complete the Tampa triple — and the all-Tampa parlay is a sacred, terrible tradition of this desk. Graded like everything else: honestly.
Orlando City SC
The hometown club, twenty minutes from the desk. The Beautiful Game's business is a Blueprint subject in its own right.
Orlando Solar Bears
First Solar Bears game at eight years old; a career that ran promotions in this league. The Bears get major-league coverage here because to this town, they are one.
Solar Bears coverage →Ole Miss — above all
Hotty Toddy. Football first, then baseball, then basketball — the Rebels are the alma mater and the all-time favorite, full stop. This desk's NCAA coverage starts in Oxford.
NCAA coverage →Jacksonville Jaguars
The playoffs-only AFC fling — rooted for in January, never against Tampa. Every newsroom is allowed one contradiction.