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Are Questions Answered In A Spring Game?

Now that the Orange and Blue football game is over, Gator football fans will have a few months to debate how well their team will do when the 2008 season rolls around.   more...

Cheering A Few Good Sports Stories

Too often in the sports world, for that matter in the world in general, the media focuses on the negative. Sometimes, I get tired of seeing what athlete is suspended, arrested, accused, blamed, or convicted of something.   more...

Gator Basketball Season Didn't End As Expected

As the regular season began to wind down and it became apparent that the Gator basketball team was destined for the NIT, many people called our "Sportscene" sports talk show on WRUF and expressed the opinion that they weren't surprised at where Florida ended up because of its youth and inexperience and that the season went about as they expected.   more...

Gator Baseball's New Attitude

Many times when a team wins some sort of championship, it can look back on one signature moment, or one signature play or one signature event that sort of was the catalyst for its success.   more...

Can't Wait For Next Year For Gator Hoops

Even though the current basketball season is not over for the Billy Donovan's Gators, I can't wait to see what happens with this team next year, given what has transpired over the course of this season.   more...

Florida Women's Basketball Will Get Better

The first year of the Amanda Butler Era in Florida women's basketball is winding down, and while many of you might not care very much about women's college basketball in general, I do believe this program is headed in the right direction under her leadership.  more...

Gator Baseball Program Seeks Consistency

Let's start out with a quick quiz...what do Joe Arnold, Andy Lopez, and Pat McMahon all have in common?   more...

SEC: Assessing Men's Hoops At The Halfway Mark

The regular season in the Southeastern Conference men's basketball race is now half over and it seems as good a time as any to evaluate the teams in the league and assess how many teams might get an invite to the NCAA Tournament in a few weeks.   more...

The Better Team Won The Super Bowl

The New York Giants pulled off one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets ever when they knocked off the previously unbeaten New England Patriots 17-14 to win Super Bowl 42.   more...

Resilient Gators Just Keep Winning

Sometimes you wonder how they do it.   more...

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Jimmie Johnson Wins NASCAR Race

Jimmie Johnson picks up his first NASCAR win of 2008 after winning over the weekend at the Phoenix International Raceway. Johnson, the two time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, took a gamble and did not pit for gas toward the end of the race as most of the other leaders did. The gamble paid off and he beat Clint Bowyer to win the race.   more...

Immelman Wins Masters

Trevor Immelman held on to win the Green Jacket and the Masters golf tournament despite shooting a final round 75 on Sunday. Immelman held on to beat Tiger Woods by three shots; Woods shot an even par 72 on Sunday.   more...

Baseball Drops Series To Arkansas; Softball Sweeps

The University of Florida baseball team loses two of three games at home to the Arkansas Razorbacks this weekend after losing 10-4 on Sunday. The two teams had split the previous two contests. Florida (24-12, 9-6 SEC) trailed 3-0 and could never take a lead in the game after the Razorbacks scored those runs in the third inning. It didn't help the Florida made six errors on the day, resulting in four unearned runs being scored by Arkansas. With the win the Razorbacks improve to 19-15 overall and to 5-9 in SEC play.   more...

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