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I have been told all my life "learn your limitations". Well now that I am 71 years old I think I have l earned. Today I got the bright idea to mow and weed eat my yard. This was at 1 pm when you should be in the house cooling it. It normally takes me about 1 hour to do that much work, today it took 2 hrs. I would work until the heat got me, I would take a break and the go back. Finally after 2 hrs I was done, but that's OK I learned my limitations. Last night we had our weekly Manatee HS football radio show. We meet every Tuesday at LeRoy Selmons on cortez road at 6 pm. Coach Kinnan and his staff go over the game from Friday night. We have people call in and ask the coaches questions. We also have some of the players come and we feed them and have interviews with them. It is a lot of fun and everyone seems to enjoy it very much. The pictures that you see are of Coach Kinnan and the radio staff during the live broadcast. One shot is of Coach Rod Frazier and player of the w...

BRADENTON — Marquis Green sprinted through the humid air filling Hawkins Stadium on Friday, through Manatee’s defense and into the end zone. It was midway through the third quarter and Green, along with the rest of the Palmetto Tigers, were hanging with the highly touted Hurricanes. Less than five minutes later, however, they were not. Manatee’s explosiveness was enough to get the Canes past Palmetto 56-36 in a performance that earned high praise from Tigers coach Dave Marino . The picture on the left is running back Mike Blakely and on the right is OB Cord Sandburg. They are game breakers for Manatee, Mike is a senior and Cord is a Sophomore . It looks to be an exciting year for the Canes, we will see as they play Southeast next week. Southeast has always been a spoiler for Manatee. The No. 8 Florida Gators' first meeting with in-state opponent the University of South Florida Bulls resulted in a 38-14 victory for the Gators in front of a crowd of 90,612. The win extended the Ga...