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Fort Lauderdale–Tampa Bay rivalry

Several of the derby's players from previous eras, such as Ray Hudson, Thomas Rongen, Perry Van der Beck, Eddie Austin, Farrukh Quarishi, Ivan McKinley and Nick Sakiewicz, ultimately found themselves employed by these MLS clubs.


Amani Walker

In March 2009, Walker made an appearance for the Jamaica U-20 national team versus Canada in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Cannonball Adderley

His educational career was long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101

On December 19, 2005, Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

Citizen Mavzik

The movie first premiered at the Cinema Paradiso, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Delta Sigma Chi

The founding fathers include Harold Hughes of Medicine Hat, Canada; J.D. Hills of Detroit, Michigan; John Reardon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harry Cummings of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and S.E. Julander of Des Moines Iowa.

Diane Bish

Beginning in the 1970s, Bish served for more than 20 years as organist and artist-in-residence at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she designed the 117 rank Ruffatti organ in the sanctuary.

Elaine Viets

By the time she had written the last of these, Viets had relocated to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1997, which became the locale for her next novels, the Dead-End Jobs series.

Farris Hassan

Farris Hassan (born July 30, 1989) is an American who at 16 years old, while a junior at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took an unaccompanied trip to Iraq.

Fight OUT Loud

In 2007 Fight OUT Loud became a leader in the effort to address Fort Lauderdale, Florida Mayor Jim Naugle's comments about the gay community.

Fort Lauderdale Police Department

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department or FLPD is the police department of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a city of about 170,000 inhabitants.

Hiroaki Aoki

He was an offshore powerboat racer along with the 1986 APBA world champion Powerboat throttleman Errol Lanier, a former Fort Lauderdale fireman who saved his life in a near fatal powerboat crash in 1979 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Indo-Caribbean American

Additionally, the Indo-Caribbean population has grown rapidly in the Floridian cities of Tampa, Orlando (a large concentration of Guyanese from New York have migrated here), Fort Lauderdale, Port Saint Lucie, Coral Springs, Margate, North Lauderdale (more than 1% of residents in the city were born in Trinidad & Tobago), Sunrise, Plantation, Pompano Beach and Pembroke Pines.

Leo Goodwin, Jr.

He filed for personal bankruptcy in 1976, and he died at the age of 63 on January 15, 1978, of cancer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, following a two-month hospital stay.

Marshall Bridges

During 1963 spring training in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, bar, a disagreement between Bridges and a female patron resulted in her shooting him in the leg.

MLS Combine

The Major League Soccer Player Combine is a four-day annual showcase, occurring every January in Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Central Broward Regional Park, where future Major League Soccer players perform physical and mental tests in front of coaches, general managers, and scouts.

MS Queen Elizabeth

The ship made several European cruises until she departed on her first world cruise, leaving Southampton on 5 January 2011 and calling at New York, Fort Lauderdale, Aruba and Limon before transiting the Panama Canal.

NFL Global Junior Championship XI

NFL Global Junior Championship XI was the final NFL Global Junior Championship held, in 2007, at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706

Flight 706 began its day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was scheduled to stop at Chicago before travelling to Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami, Florida.

Oscar Fraley

Oscar Fraley died on Thursday, January 6, 1994 in Fort Lauderdale’s in Broward General Hospital.

Paige Zemina

She attended Fort Lauderdale High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where her mother was an English teacher, and she swam for coach Jack Nelson's Fort Lauderdale Flying L's high school swim team.

Phil Wellington

Phil Wellington (born September 25, 1972 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired U.S. soccer goalkeeper who played collegiately for Georgetown University and professionally in the USISL.

Satam al-Suqami

On May 19, Suqami and Waleed al-Shehri took a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport, Bahamas where they had reservations at the Princess Resort.

Tirumakudal Narsipur

Dr N.V.Ramanuja Iyengar - Cardiologist - Miami, USA - Actively associated with building the Shiva Vishnu Temple of South Florida as Chairman of the temple trust in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Troy Stradford

Stradford currently works as a Sports talk show host on WFTL 640 Sports radio weekdays from 10AM-12PM and as the host of the Gameday Insiders heard weekends on WFTL 640 and WFTL 850 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Twan Russell

Twan Sanchez Russell (born April 25, 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Miami Dolphins, and the Atlanta Falcons.

Wooden Ships

It was written in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a boat owned by Crosby, who composed the music, while Kantner and Stills wrote most of the lyrics.

Zeina Shaban

At the tender age of ten, she made her inaugural international appearance at the U.S. Open Table Tennis Tournament in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she displayed her exquisite talent and performance to obtain the tournament title in the women's under-10 category.

Zip to Zap

Stroup could not afford to attend the more traditional spring break festivities held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.


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