Seventy-one-year-old George Pringle still loves to play sports and he is not planning on slowing down anytime soon. He played football in Connecticut at a time when players wore leather helmets without a face mask. Pringle also was a star on the diamond, tennis and basketball courts, and was elected to the Miami-Dade Softball Hall of Fame. The sports made him famous and now he wants to make an unheralded sport widely known in South...

  The 40th annual William “B” Graham Memorial Golf Tournament for the benefit of the Boy Scouts of America has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 23, at Shula’s Golf Club, 7601 Miami Lakes Drive. The event is sponsored by The Graham Companies and Publix Super Markets Charities. Check-in is at 7 a.m. with a shotgun start set for 8 a.m. Tournament sponsorships are available ranging from the Golden Eagle ($5,000), and...

  Cassandra Lemieux, a senior at Pace High School, and Shadelly “Chachi” Guzman, a Pace High School alumna class of 2012, recently garnered recognition in women’s sports. Lemieux has signed with St. Thomas University’s women’s tennis team. As a future Bobcat, she will excel on the court the same way she has excelled as a student at Pace. Not only is Lemieux heavily involved in her academic life, earning a...

  The Lady Warriors 5v5 soccer team advanced to the National Copa Coca-Cola Tournament in Los Angeles after recently winning the Miami regional tournament. Led by Miami Lakes resident Madison Precht, the Lady Warriors soccer team was crowned champions of the Miami Copa Coca-Cola tournament last month, and will join 400 national teams for boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 15 in March on the west coast to battle for the national...

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding its summer basketball registration for boys and girls on consecutive Saturdays, April 12, 19 and 26, from 9:30 to noon at Miami Lakes Middle School. Registration cost is $145 for each player from ages 11-18. The season starts Monday, June 9. Games will be played at Barbara Goleman High School and Hialeah Gardens Senior High School. Parents must bring their kids to the registration along...