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Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball, has died. He was 83.

Florida Gulf Coast University men’s golf team powered their way into first place at the Kapolei Invitational in Hawaii that began Tuesday, Oct. 31, shooting a 20-under-par as a team to do so.

The Florida Gulf Coast University women’s soccer team scored three second-half goals on Sunday, to advance to the ASUN Championship semifinal round, defeating the seventh-seed Austin Peay Governors to do so.

A group that spearheaded a 2018 ballot measure to make it harder to expand gambling hopes to help sway the Florida Supreme Court to reject a deal that would give the Seminole Tribe control over sports betting throughout the state.

Estero's Gianna Clemente, the number-one ranked junior female by Golfweek and the third by the American Junior Golf Association, shot a 68 final round Friday to win the PGC Junior Championships at the Hot Springs Country Club in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The NFL suspended three players indefinitely Thursday for violating the league’s gambling policy and a fourth was sidelined for six games.Cornerback Isaiah Rodgers Sr., a projected starter for the Indianapolis Colts, and his new teammate Rashod Berry, a backup defensive end, both received indefinite suspensions and were subsequently waived by the team.Rodgers, Berry and free agent Demetrius Taylor, who also received an indefinite suspension, cannot seek reinstatement until after the 2023 season. Taylor bet on NFL games in 2022 and Rodgers faced the same accusation.

A bill that would exempt minor-league baseball players such as those on the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels from the state’s voter-approved minimum wage was delivered Monday to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The proposal (SB 892) would incorporate into the state minimum-wage law a carve-out for minor-league baseball players that is in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Fifteen-year-old part-time Estero resident Gianna Clemente won her first United States Golf Association tournament this week. Clemente, and her playing partner Avery Zweig, won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Tournament outside of Seattle.

The world’s largest pickleball event is happening this week in southwest Florida.

Estero’s Gianna Clemente turned 15 last week and is the youngest player in the field. She qualified by being one of the top 30 ranked amateurs in the United States based on 2022’s Women’s World Amateur Golf rankings.