Twenty five former Gators were active week three of the NFL season. Of those 25, 17 started for their respective teams including Carlos Dunlap, who made his first career NFL start. Washington Redskins’ QB Rex Grossman was the only former Gator to score a touchdown during week four, but that …

The Tampa Bay Bucs overcame two long touchdown passes by Curtis Painter to beat the Indianapolis Colts 24-17 in Tampa on Monday Night Football. Tampa Bay is 3-1 while the Colts fall to 0-4. Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman threw for nearly 300 yards and running back LeGarrette Blount ran for …

Justin Verlander wasn’t his best but it was good enough. The dominant Detroit Tiger righthander gave up four runs but his teammates made it stand up as Detroit beat the New York Yankees 5-4 Monday to go up 2-1 in their American League Divisional Series. Verlander pitched eight innings and …

The St.Louis Cardinals spotted Cliff Lee an early 4-0 lead but chased him later on their way to 5-4 win over Philadelphia to even their divisional series at a game apiece. The Cardinal bullpen also held the Phillies scoreless for six innings after starter Chris Carpenter was ineffective early. Game …

Gator football coach Will Muschamp said Monday that starting quarterback John Brantley is out for this week’s LSU game with what he is describing as a lower leg injury. Muschamp would not elaborate on the injury at all. Brantley went down with a leg injury at the end of the …

The Miami Dolphins are now 0-4 on the season after losing at the San Diego Chargers 26-16 on Sunday. To make matters worse, Dolphins starting quarterback Chad Henne left the game with an injury and did not return and his status for this week is unclear. Jacksonville falls to 1-3 …

The 13th ranked Gator volleyball team improves to 11-3 on the season with a sweep of SEC rival Georgia on Sunday. Florida is now 4-1 in SEC play while the Bulldogs fall to 6-10 overall and to 2-4 in the SEC. The 12th ranked Gator soccer team survives Kentucky at …

The third ranked Alabama football team got a career day from running back Trent Richardson to help the Tide beat Florida 38-10 in Gainesville Saturday night. Florida is now 4-1 on the year and will play second ranked LSU next week in Baton Rouge while Alabama improves to 5-0 with …

Former Gator quarterback Chris Leak has signed on to play in the Arena League with the Jacksonville Sharks. Leak, appearing on WRUF’s Sportscene program on Wednesday, told host Steve Russell that he was going to sign “with a team in the Arena League very close to Gainesville” during the show …

Down 7-0 in the seventh inning, it looked like the best hope for the Tampa Bay Rays was for a Boston Red Sox loss that would force a one game playoff for the American League wild card spot. It got even better than that. Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon could not …