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Football And Fans Will Fill Bay Area Over The Next Week
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BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor
Starting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, January 1, 2017, football and fans will fill the Bay Area for the next week.
Local fans are excited about the events and some plan on attending all 3 football games.
After the Bucs take on the Carolina Pan- thers, the Outback Bowl will be held here in Tampa. The 1 p. m. game at Raymond James Stadium on Monday, January 2, 2017, will fea- ture the Florida Gators against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Then, 1 week later, the Championship Game of College Football will be held at Raymond James Stadium on January 9, 2017.
Two games on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2016 (3 p. m. and 7 p. m.) — Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl — will decide who will be play- ing in the Championship Game in Tampa on Monday, January 9th.
Some fans and players have already come into the area, drawn by the warm weather – sunshine and all.
TYRONE EVANS Real Estate Agent/ Director, Skillz and
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“Tampa Bay is home of the Stanley Cup Champions, Tampa Bay Lightning and home to the Super Bowl Champs, Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers. Tampa is a vibrant city with a great at- mosphere and has a lot to offer tourists!!! That means the game will be great for the city.”
JAMES HARRELL Former NFL Player, High School Defensive Coach, H. B. Plant
While vacationing in California over the holidays, Plant High School defensive coach, James Har-
rell, planned to cut the vacation short so he’d be back in Tampa for all 3 games. “Yes, I’ll be
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attending all three games. I’m excited that Tampa is hosting the Championship Game, but disappointed that the Gators won’t be there.” The Florida Gators will be at the Outback Bowl.
“We’re going to have a week of a lot of good football,” Harrell said, “and I can’t wait.
“The game will have a tremendous impact on the City economically and that’s great. There’s an opportunity to create additional jobs for some people as well.”
Harrell would love to see Clemson make it to the Championship Game because of all the local ties on Clemson’s team.
TYRONE KEYS ...Former NFL player
“This is a ‘GREAT OPPORTUNITY’ to show the country that Tampa is a big time city. On a personal note, I am pulling for the Clemson Tigers and Deon
Cain (Tampa Tech) and Ray-Ray McCloud (Sickles HS) of Tampa.”
RICKY SAILOR 2 of the Clemson Tigers went through his program, Unsigned Prep
But so would Ricky Sailor, who had Ray-Ray Mc- Cloud and Deon Cain to come through his program,
Unsigned Prep. In order for that to happen, they’d have to defeat Ohio State in the 7 p. m. game.
“(The Championship Game) It’s great for the area to have such a huge event in Tampa. It would be even greater if Clemson makes it to the championship. So many of the fellows on that team would have an opportunity to come home and play before their community. It would be amazing for them and for kids in the area playing youth football,” Sailor said.
Other than McCloud and Cain, other play- ers from the area on the Clemson team are: Artavis Scott, Clearwater; T. J. Chase, Plant City and Jake Fruhmorgen, Tampa.
Foundation Has Christmas Shoe Giveaway
The Get It Straight Foundation held its annual Christmas Shoe Giveaway for the youths in East Tampa and abroad. The shoes are given to single family households each year at Christmas and at the beginning of the school year. This year the foundation dis- tributed 68 pairs of shoes.
Founder and president, Rechi Butler (above) understands how sometimes kids struggle in this area and “we want to get rid of all distractions so they can be successful in school without this little worry,” Butler said.
Debbie Reynolds, Actress And Mother Of Carrie Fisher, Dies At 84
“She’s gone to be with Carrie,” Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, said. “She loved taking care of her and now she’s gone to be with her.”
Reynolds was rushed to a hospital from a Beverly Hills home at around 1 p.m. PT, law enforcement officials said. Todd Fisher confirmed she had died Wednesday evening.
Reynolds catapulted to fame after her first leading role in 1952 at age 19, playing Kathy Selden in “Singin’ in the Rain,” which also starred Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor.
Born April 1, 1932,
Actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, left, and actress Car- rie Fisher.
Reynolds worked the beauty pageant circuit before she made her film debut in 1950 in the musical “The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady.”
In the late 1960s, the ac- tress starred in the “The Debbie Reynolds Show,”
a short-lived sitcom on NBC. Reynolds then turned her attention to the stage, per- forming on Broadway and in Las Vegas over the next 20
years.
She continued to appear in
films throughout the 1990s. In all, Reynolds appeared in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions, and was nominated for multi- ple Golden Globes and Acad- emy and Emmy Awards.
Reynolds’ career spanned nearly seven decades, and she appeared in some of the most iconic films of the 20th cen- tury.
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