Monday was a steampunk tumbleweed rolling in ominous silence through an abandoned cowboy theme park without the help of a breeze.
The USF women's basketball team found out they'll start their potential trip to a Tampa Final Four slot at Amalie Arena in ... Tampa, at the Sun Dome. I don't know a whole lot about sports, but I do know something like that can easily go either way in the "superstitious omens" category.
Multiple skimmers— devices used to steal credit and debit card numbers and information —were found attached to gas pumps in Hillsborough County. Consumers in some neighborhoods are actually happy they're here, calling them an improvement over being hit in the face by a shaky kid with the butt of a gun that just misfired.
And finally, Tampa was the only Florida city to make Travel+Leisure magazine's list of the 20 "quirkiest cities" in the U.S. Thanks, Travel+Leisure, for bestowing upon Tampa the kind of adjective that, even when meant as a compliment, often sends young human beings on the brink of attaining a confident adolescence careening instead into years of substance abuse and therapy. Nice work, there.