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A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late Saturday, but there was no word about who won. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery. The prize tempted many Marylanders to buy tickets for the lottery game before the 11 p.m. drawing.

These Orioles, under manager Buck Showalter, pride themselves on keeping the long baseball season in perspective, not worrying about trends and streaks and snowballing defeats. So when the club is forced to absorb what was arguably its biggest gut-punch of the season on Saturday - a 10-6 loss to the division rival Tampa Bay Rays in which All-Star closer Jim Johnson blew his second consecutive save opportunity in the ninth inning and the team's season-worst losing streak stretched to four games - Showalter and his players aren't pointing fingers of blame.

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The Tampa Bay Rays arrived at Camden Yards with the reputation of being a team that swings early, but the past two nights they've forced the Orioles to beat them by throwing strikes. A night after the Orioles won the series opener despite getting just five innings from starter Jake Arrieta, right-hander Chris Tillman wasn't as lucky. Tillman battled control problems Wednesday in the Orioles' 6-2 loss to Tampa Bay in front of an announced 13,591. Tillman constantly worked from behind in the count - throwing 17 first-pitch balls to the 22 batters his faced - and lasted just five innings after throwing 93 pitches.

Some 150,000 fans are expected to pile into Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., today for Super Bowl XLIII. It's the fourth time the city has hosted the sports spectacle, with the last time being in 2001, when the Baltimore Ravens won. And while Tampa may have the big-city skyline, it shares the big blue sky with nearby resort cities of St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Here are five things to do. 1 Get rockin' : The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has 3,300 gaming machines, 50 poker tables (blackjack and baccarat, too)

Auditions continue in Tampa, Fla. and we're off to a great start with a kiddie dance troupe called The Untouchables. They previously auditioned for the show with a bigger group, but the size proved problematic. Now they're back with fewer people and the cutbacks have payed off. I mean, not only are they super lively and precise, 8-year-olds are lifting and spinning one another above their heads! Judge Howard Stern, who has said at least three times this season that he normally fast forwards through the dance acts when he watches the show at home, calls them “captivating” and tells the cute, younger dancers that puberty is their “worst enemy.” “Shirley Temple didn't listen to me,” Howard says.

Trustees selling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- who have done everything but beg for offers -- got their wish this week in the form of a verbal bid from investors interested in keeping the team local.Team officials, citing a confidentiality agreement with the bidders, declined to say how much the bid was for, but said it was "meaningful" and hoped it would spark other offers.They also said they expected an offer from Orioles managing partner Peter Angelos this week, something Angelos declined to comment on.Angelos, who had two attorneys and an accountant in Tampa yesterday going over the details of a proposal for the team, did say he was not surprised or concerned about the rival bid.The offer came Monday during a meeting in Tampa with a group that includes Florida-based developer Tommy Shannon and Outback Steakhouse executives Chris Sullivan and Bob Basham.

The headline in yesterday's St. Petersburg Times said, "Three bids with Baltimore ties." Steve "Tell Us A" Story couldn't have written it better himself.Story is one of three trustees conducting the sale of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he's doing his best to scare up a local bid. The greater the panic, the more likely he will succeed.Oh, Story rejected one local offer this week, but that $163.3 million was small change. By forcing a bid out of Peter Angelos, Story already has driven up the price $40 million -- and the fun is just beginning.

TORONTO -- After three tumultuous seasons (and one World Series title) in Cincinnati, Lou Piniella has decided to go home.Piniella resigned as manager of the Reds yesterday, following a bittersweet season in which he won 90 games with an injury-riddled team but finished a distant second to the Atlanta Braves in the National League West. Upon tendering his resignation to Reds owner Marge Schott in a four-hour meeting Monday, Piniella drove from Cincinnati to his home in Allendale, N.J., to ponder his options.

TAMPA, Fla. -- National Football League officials, warily keeping one eye on the war in the Persian Gulf and the other on security at Tampa Stadium, said this has been their most difficult Super Bowl as they braced for the influx of fans starting today.Because most hotel reservations for Super Bowl weekend are for a minimum of four days, the majority of the fans will start arriving today, but they won't find the festive atmosphere that has been associated with the first 24 Super Bowls.Not only can't the league guarantee the game even will be played, but the emphasis also will be much more on security than on parties.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - One of the major reasons the Orioles were able to outlast the Tampa Bay Rays - a team built on a foundation of strong pitching - for a postseason berth last season was because of the strength of their bullpen. The first two games of the season opening series between these two teams at Tropicana Field have had a playoff feel to them - with dramatic swings of momentum throughout every inning. On Wednesday night, that was evident as the Orioles silently walked off the field as the Rays celebrated an 8-7 walk-off victory on Matt Joyce's solo homer off reliever Tommy Hunter.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Despite everything they accomplished last season, the Orioles realize they will spend the next six months still proving people wrong. Coming off a year in which they defied the odds and scoffed at conventionality, these Orioles continued right where they left off in Tuesday's regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Rays, a team they outlasted last season to make the playoffs. The Orioles wore down reigning American League Cy Young Award winner David Price, then battered shutdown reliever Jake McGee in a five-run seventh inning to open 2013 with a 7-4 victory at Tropicana Field over a Rays team that many predict will compete for a World Series title.

SARASOTA, Fla. - The Orioles got a preview of what they'll be seeing on Opening Day on Tuesday at Tropicana Field. And it wasn't encouraging. Sporting a fairly representative starting lineup, the Orioles faced reigning American League Cy Young Award winner David Price on Thursday night, and managed just one hit and walk in four scoreless innings against the Tampa Bay Rays' ace in a 4-4 tie. Price, who will start for the Rays on Tuesday, gave...

Miguel Gonzalez had one of the best stories of 2012 - from the Mexican League to Major League Baseball's playoffs. Now he's got a postscript for 2013 - one that all of us took for granted, except maybe him. Gonzalez, who went 9-4 with a 3.25 in 18 games (15 starts) with the Orioles and was one of their most clutch members in the late pennant run, was told today by manager Buck Showalter that he made the team. That's not a shock. It would be shocking if he didn't. But you have to understand that the 28-year-old will finally be on a major league roster on Opening Day, for the first time in his star-crossed career.

The Orioles' top position prospect, Jonathan Schoop, had been away for most of the spring while representing the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic. He finally returned Wednesday and, on Friday, he led the Orioles to a 6-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. The 21-year-old started at shortstop and had three hits in his first three at-bats, including a RBI single in the fifth and a two-run homer in the sixth against Rays starting pitcher Jeff Niemann. Steve Pearce also homered as the Orioles improved to 16-6-3 in Grapefruit League action.

For three of the four innings he pitched Friday, right-hander Steve Johnson showed why he remains in consideration to be the Orioles' fifth starter. The other inning, though, the 25-year-old St. Paul's alum would like to forget. In the Orioles' 6-3 road win against a Tampa Bay Rays split squad, Johnson retired the first eight batters he faced before temporarily losing control and walking the bases loaded in the third inning. Rays third baseman Evan Longoria followed with a sinking liner that left fielder Trayvon Robinson couldn't handle, resulting in a three-run double.

For sheer heartbreak, nothing can match the trauma of a team packing up and leaving in the middle of the night. It's different for baseball fans in Tampa-St. Petersburg. The moving vans keep approaching -- and always get turned around.Which is the greater anguish, losing a team or never getting one? Civic leaders in Baltimore and Tampa-St. Pete could stage a lively debate on that topic. The prize would be anything the winner desired -- so long as it wasn't an expansion team.Die-hard Colts fans might disagree, but Tampa-St.

TAMPA, Fla. -- War and football usually don't mix, but they were intermingled in two of the most poignant stories of the Super Bowl this year.They involve an 8-year-old girl, Heidi Hill, and a 23-year-old mechanic, Barry Small, who are both from Tampa.Hill, a 4-foot-2 blonde, has been studying dance for four years and won a spot dancing in the Disney-sponsored halftime show at the Super Bowl.You would expect her mother to be beaming, but she won't be in Tampa to share the experience.Her mother, Spec.

SARASOTA, Fla -- Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen will make his first Grapefruit League start today against the Tampa Bay Rays down in Port Charlotte. Expect Chen to go two innings, unless his pitch count gets too high. Left-hander Brian Matusz, who is also in the rotation mix, is scheduled to follow Chen. He will be followed by Tommy Hunter, Troy Patton and Daniel McCutchen. Here are the lineups for today's game: Orioles Alexi Casilla 2B Ryan Flaherty SS Manny Machado 3B Jason Pridie RF Chris Dickerson CF Trayvon Robinson DH Travis Ishikawa 1B Luis Exposito C Xavier Avery LF Wei-Yin Chen LHP Rays Ben Zobrist RF Kelly Johnson LF Evan Longoria 3B Yunel Escobar SS Ryan Roberts 2B Jose Molina C Shelley Duncan DH James Loney 1B Sean Rodriguez CF Alex Cobb RHP

Shortstop Yunel Escobar and second baseman Ryan Roberts hit back-to-back home runs off Orioles left-hander Brian Matusz in the fourth inning on Saturday as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Orioles, 4-1, at Charlotte Sports Park. Those were the only hits Matusz surrendered over two innings after coming on in relief of starting pitcher Wei-Yin Chen, who needed just 23 pitches to complete two scoreless innings in his 2013 Grapefruit League debut. "[For my] spring debut this year, I feel pretty satisfied for today," Chen said through interpreter Tim Lin. The Orioles scored their only run of the game in the sixth inning when third baseman Manny Machado tripled off Rays pitcher Josh Lueke and outfielder Jason Pridie drove him home with a sharp single up the middle.