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Offers information on football player difficulties for the Miami Dolphins as of December 1999. Suspension of Cecil Collins for his arrest and charge with burglary; Release of Dimitrius Underwood after his fleeing from a Miami, Florida mental-health center; History and details of the incidents; How the two were bypassed or released by other teams; Other troubled players on the Miami team.

Details the events of the first Compaq World Putting Championship in Orlando, Florida in 1996. The difficult nature of putting; Comments about putting from golfer, Payne Stewart; Results of the contest.

Profiles University of Florida basketball player Eddie Shannon, who will play the 1998-1999 season with only one eye after he had his right eye removed in October of 1998. Why Shannon's eye was removed; How the loss of one eye is expected to impact Shannon's ability to play basketball; Comments from Shannon, who has been compensating for vision loss in the damaged eye since he was in seventh grade.

Focuses on Dan Kendra, who would have been the starting quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles football team in the 1998 season, if he had not torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during an intrasquad scrimmage in April of 1998. What the injury means for Kendra's hopes of playing professional football; Other injuries which Kendra has faced.

This is a photograph depicting several football players as they attempt to cool down after workouts. Hey, look, somebody threw away a bunch of perfectly good football players. Actually, Central Florida's Evandall Williams, Paul Carrington, Patrick Holland, Kyle Watkins and Tywin Kalandyk cooled off after two-a-days last Friday -- when the high in Orlando was a sticky 85° -- by hopping into garbage cans filled with ice water. It's the perfect setting for trash talk.

Presents the achievements of several amateur athletes in the United States. Roger Kish, a senior at Lapeer West High, set national records for career victories (252) and consecutive victories (223) and won his fourth state wrestling championship. Rosanna Delurgio, a sophomore at UC San Diego, won the 100-and 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Division II swimming championships, in 1:02.37 and 2:15.84, respectively. Austin Johnson, a sophomore guard for the Palo Duro High basketball team, averaged 23.5 points per game and was named All-District 3-4A player of the year. Katie Agey, a first-grader at St. Anthony's, won the 44-pound elementary division at the U.S. girls' wrestling championships. Nick Metakes, a senior at Spruce Creek High, became the first high school weightlifter in Florida to clear 400 pounds in the clean and jerk, winning the 238-pound division at the Class 2A championships. Jeni Boesel, a senior guard for the Brewster High basketball team, finished her high school career with 2,728 points, the third-highest total in state history. Ryan Lobban, a senior lefthander at St. Joseph Regional High, set a state record for a seven-inning game, striking out 21 in a no-hitter.

Reports on pilgrimages to a farm Interlachen, Florida by automobile racing fans to view Lil' Dale, a four-month-old Nubian goat with a marking in its right side in the shape of a number three. Distance of farm to Daytona, where Dale Earnhardt died in February 2001.

Reports legal difficulties experienced by Sebastian Janikowski, former Florida State University placekicker. How he was arrested in Tallahassee for allegedly attempting to bribe a police officer; How the arrest may jeopardize Janikowski's prospects for gaining United States citizenship and being drafted by the National Football League (NFL); Outlook.

Focuses on tennis player Rod Laver as of April 5, 1999. His recovery from a stroke in July 1998; His appearance at the Lipton Championships in Key Biscayne, Florida in 1999; Effects of his stroke; Comments from Laver.

Focuses on Duke University soccer and basketball player Jay Heaps. His recruitment by Major League Soccer (MLS) team Miami Fusion; College career highlights, including the third alltime scorer at Duke; His career with the Fusion; Details of Miami's game against the New York/New Jersey MetroStars.

Looks at how a tip from a golfer at the Miami Shores Country Club in Florida regarding the location of criminal, Denis Jesper, being pursued by police in connection with the beating and robbery of a woman at a nearby bank helped the police locate the criminal. How the criminal attempted to direct the golfer to his ball that he was searching for.

Points out that Tiger Woods beat Michael Jordan to buy three adjacent lots covering five acres in the Isleworth community of Orlando, Florida. What Woods plans to do with the land; Other athletes who reside there; The offering of Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson a five-year deal to move to Florida.

Presents a photograph of toothpick carvings done by Michael Drummond of Cocoa, Florida. Prices of the carvings.

Notes the newspaper advertisement placed in the `Florida Flambeau' by two lawyers from New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1996. The contact information provided by Dennis Dolbear and Guy Lillian in the Florida State Campus newspaper for football fans from Florida who may need legal assistance; Florida's reputation as a party school.

Comments on the sentencing of Tommy Burns in November 1996. How Burns and an accomplice crushed the leg of a show horse as part of a plan to kill it and collect insurance money in Newberry, Florida; Speculation that the sentence received by Burns reflects the judges belief that Burns has since reversed his life.

Looks at the football team at Northwestern High in Miami, Florida in 1996. The prominence of Damien Griffin; The size of Griffin and the rest of the defensive line; The success of the team in the 1996 season; Griffin's college prospects.

Announces that the stadium where the Miami Dolphins football team plays is changing its name from Pro Player Park. The new stadium to be called Pro Player Stadium; How the orignal name, Joe Robbie Stadium, honored the Dolphins' founder; The name change as an attempt to appease fans who felt Joe Robbie had been slighted.

Suggests that Florida police focus their investigation into a robbery, at Roberta's Golf Center, on less than stellar golfers. The items stolen, including 14,000 range balls.

Reports on the setting up of the I Hate U 900 telephone line by ii inc. where football fans can direct enmity at the Florida Gators, the Florida State Seminoles or the Miami Hurricanes football teams.

Reports on Florida fishermen who are finding opportunity in the rickety rafts manned by freedom-seeking Cuban refugees. Why dolphin and tuna are attracted to the rafts; Actions by Steve Hartman of Garden Cove Marina in Key Largo.

Looks at efforts to clean up Florida State University's athletic-department scandal. The sentencing of unlicensed sports agent Nate Cebrun; Paul Williams and Doug Andreaus; Suspensions for players Forrest Conoly, Patrick McNeil, Tiger McMillon and Derrick Brooks; Others.

Focuses on a statement by Benny Blades that he and five other starters on Miami's '87 championship team, received illicit cash payments from sports agent Mel Levine. Other players who were named; Prohibition of such payments by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); More.

Focuses on a lawsuit brought against the Florida Marlins baseball team and its coach, Wayne Huizenga, by radio station WQAM. Their coverage agreement as the Marlin's flagship radio station and the team's poor 1998 season; Demands of the radio station.

Presents the response of Trent Dilfer, quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, to the question of which feature he liked most in the $168 million Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida. Why Dilfer chose the showerheads.

Focuses on Charles Gitonga Maina. His performance as an African basketball star in the movie `The Air Up There'; How he was chosen for the role; How the movie led to his basketball career; His basketball record at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida; His background.

Highlights a comment made by University of Florida Gators coach Steve Spurrier on their poor special teams play during the 1997 season.

Focuses on Art Williams' ownership of the struggling Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. His disposition; How he bought the team and continued investing in it; Attendance rates for games; Williams' background; His company, A.L. Williams & Associates; How the team is doing this year; Williams' financial situation; His family.