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How The City Of Fort Myers Is Exploiting Florida Gulf Coast's NCAA Tournament Success

By Darren Heitner, Contributor

There is currently an unprecedented amount of attention being paid to the city of Fort Myers, Florida after Florida Gulf Coast University (based in Fort Myers), a school with a basketball program that has less than two full years of Division I status, knocked off Georgetown and San Diego State University to become the first ever No. 15 seed to make the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16.  The city is also home to two professional baseball teams (the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox) during Major League Baseball’s Spring Training, but never receives the national attention that it has experienced over the past few days. …read more
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