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A crowd of 3,421 fans turned out Monday in the Osceola Magic's season finale Monday at the Silver Spurs Arena. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

Rock the Spurs? Cheer on the Magic? You bet 'We' did!

Ken Jackson

Monday, April 14, 2025

I come from Philly, a sports mecca where we're close with our sports teams.It's a place where the fans get chided for talking in "We"s ... "we won", "we lost" when the game is over.Well, Osceola County, ya'll became "We" Monday night down at the Silver Spurs.Sure, the outcome wasn't what...

The grimace tells the story: Myron Gardner reacts to the end of the Osceola Magic's 118-110 loss to the Stockton Kings in the NBA G League Finals deciding Game 3. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

4TH QUARTER BLUES -- Stockton rallies over Osceola Magic, take G League title

Robert Pincus

Monday, April 14, 2025

The undermanned Osceola Magic lost a hard-fought battle to the Stockton Kings, 118-110, in the G League in front of a near-sellout, loud, inspired crowd of 3,421 at Silver Spurs Arena on Monday night.

Mikey Ziss’ two individual state championships gave him six for his career, tying Osceola High’s Brett Williams for the most in county history. PHOTO/ST. CLOUD HIGH SCHOOL

Ziss wins double gold at state weightlifting championships

J. Daniel Pearson

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Although he did not have the day he hoped, St. Cloud weightlifter Mikey Ziss won double gold medals at the FHSAA state Weightlifting Championships Saturday in Lakeland.Ziss hoisted 200 pounds in the snatch and 250 in the clean-and-jerk to win the 119-pound class Olympic competition.

St. Cloud celebrates its 1-0 OBC championship victory Saturday over Osceola. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

St. Cloud outlasts Osceola, 1-0, in OBC championship pitching duel

Ken Jackson

Sunday, April 13, 2025

St. Cloud won the pitching duel between Addison Felblinger and Osceola's Milanys Lopez to take the Orange Belt Conference championship Saturday, 1-0, at St. Cloud High.The game began Friday night at Tohopekaliga High, but a late start and a non-functioning bank of lights in right field that reduced...

St. Cloud's Dante Cayaban goes up over the net for a hit against the Celebration defense in Friday's Orange Belt Conference volleyball championship at Harmony High School. PHOTO/KATIE WILLIAMS

Celebration sweeps way to OBC volleyball championship

J. Daniel Pearson

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Senior captain Daniel Santiago recorded 11 kills and seven aces to lead top-seeded Celebration to a 3-0 sweep (25-22, 25-20, 26-24) in the 2025 Orange Belt Conference boys volleyball championship Friday at Harmony’s Butler Gym.In winning their fifth OBC boys volleyball championship in the last...

The Osceola Magic will be back in the Silver Spurs Arena Monday -- with the NBA G League championship on the line. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

NBA G League title comes down to Monday at Silver Spurs

Ken Jackson

Saturday, April 12, 2025

The stage is set: one game for a league championship, right here in Osceola County.The Osceola Magic will meet the Stockton Kings in the deciding Game 3 of the NBA G League Championship series on Monday at 8 p.m. at the Silver Spurs Arena.It was set up when the Kings ran, and especially shot, the...

Levi Lee won three distance events at the Orange Belt Conference championship track meet for Poinciana High School. PHOTO/TAYLOR MCFEE

St. Cloud sweeps OBC track championships

J. Daniel Pearson

Friday, April 11, 2025

It was a “Dog Day Afternoon,” as the St. Cloud Bulldogs swept the Orange Belt Conference track meet at Harmony Wednesday.The boys’ team tallied 165.5 points to outdistance Gateway (138.5).

Duke Leonardo leaves Harmony High as the winningest boys basketball coach in school history. PHOTO/KATIE WILLIAMS

The Duke rides East

J. Daniel Pearson

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Saying the time “just seemed right,” Harmony boys basketball coach Duke Leonardo announced his resignation this week to accept a similar position at Satellite High School in Brevard County.“I wasn’t particularly looking, but I received a phone call from a former assistant that was coaching over in...

St. Cloud’s T.J. Griffin and Espn Pool, with family, coaches and teammates, signed college scholarships last week.

Bulldogs’ T.J. Griffin, Espn Pool off to college athletics

J. Daniel Pearson And Ken Jackson

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

St. Cloud High athletes Terrance “T.J.” Griffin and Espn Pool now know what comes next, as a Purple Raider and Sailfish, after signing football and golf scholarships to Mount Union University and Palm Beach Atlantic respectively.Bulldogs’ football coach Mike Short said he always believed that...