Post Regatta News - Stewards Varsity Men First!
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:09AM TAMPA --
It's not often that city officials have anything good to say about graffiti, but standing along the west bank of the Hillsborough River on Saturday morning, Mayor Bob Buckhorn didn't slam the guerrilla art.
He praised it — at least the college logos painted on seawalls along this stretch of the river by rowing crews that come here every winter to train.
"The only problem?" the mayor asked. He pointed to a graffito on the wall on the Riverwalk by Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. "The Penn State logo isn't big enough," he said.
No worries.
Buckhorn said that rowing wasn't huge at his alma mater.
But it has been in Tampa for more than a century. And that is what brought the mayor, his entourage and scores of rowers, their families, friends, and curious onlookers to Plant Park at the University of Tampa.
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