Believe it or not, whether you want to be a journalist or a construction worker, all professionals from every company known to man will tell you the same thing. Writing is one of the biggest keys to success. I didn't write for The Minaret in my senior year due to internships and fraternity obligations.

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There is a secret success at the University of Tampa that is not named the school of business, the nursing program or any other of the usual suspects. It is a field that is not an official major but probably should be considered to become one as students are soaring beyond the usual textbook rhetoric by going out into the real world and landing pretty impressive jobs.

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To all the fine men and women that have decided to make University of Tampa their home for the next four years, there is something important you should know. The athletic program at UT is burning hotter than the Florida sun in August, and you have the chance to be a part of it from the start of your college journey.

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From the glory of the final out of a back-to-back championship, to getting the phone calls of their dreams, the University of Tampa Spartan players drafted by Major League Baseball teams have had their lives changed in the span of only a month. There were six players in all, the largest class of players to go pro in UT history.

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The image of last season's wild championship celebration on a baseball field in Montgomery Alabama seems like it happened a long time ago. UT baseball won the national championship thanks to dominant offensive power and steady pitching that other teams couldn't overcome.

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Will he stay or will he go? That is now the question facing University of Tampa men's basketball coach Richard Schmidt. After 24 seasons and over 500 wins at UT, Schmidt ranks this past season as the biggest frustration he's ever had as a coach.

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At the University of Tampa there is a growing identity crisis. There are over 5,000 students coming from all over the globe, but it seems all the school has to show for it is some nice landscaping equipped with pretty palm trees and gardens, a pool and clubs and bars everywhere.

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A starter at the beginning of the season, Matt Pezzullo has fought injuries to come off the bench and win games.

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Sometimes all a fan knows are statistics. Die-hard sports fans know who the impact players on their favorite teams are and they follow those players' box scores throughout the season as if they are right there with them. This can be said of University of Tampa basketball fans who follow team captain Jeremy Black.

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aseball is back, as the defending National Champion and top-ranked Spartans (3-1) came back from a seven run deficit to beat the second-ranked Georgia College and State University Bulldogs (1-2) 16-8 Friday night. Tampa won two out of three games in the weekend series and proved they are not easy to beat no matter what the scoreboard says.

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In their second series of the year, the Spartans will face a Tribe out for revenge. The defending National Champions will play North Carolina's Catawba College Indians on Feb. 9-11. It was the Spartans who ended the Tribes' record-breaking season, defeating them 15-5 in the 2006 South Region Tournament Championship Game to advance to the College World Series they would later win.

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As University of Tampa sports continue to grow and win, so does its sports information website. TampaSpartans.com is the new site for UT athletics, and it looks drastically different than UT's old sports page. "The website we had before has been around for years, and it was time for a change," said Sports Information Director Tom Kolbe.

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On a fateful night in Alabama, the Spartans varsity baseball team mobbed the field after winning the fourth national baseball championship in school history. Six months later, the celebration lingers in the hearts and minds of the team. As the team inches closer to the start of the season, it is now back to work, and head coach Joe Urso has his team on a one-track path.

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The time has come, and the wait for NBA fans is over. The 2006-2007 season starts this week with the Miami Heat returning as the defending champions. Each team has a clean slate. Here is team-by-team preview, divisional standing predictions and playoff predictions.

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