The Southeastern Conference officially has a new member today and that leads our stories in Monday Sports News And Notes… With little surprise, the SEC has formally announced that Texas A&M will be a new member of the league. The move will become effective next July. Tony Stewart possibly made …

The big league baseball season enters its final week this week with the wild card spots in both leagues still undecided. In the American League, Boston holds a one game lead over Tampa Bay after splitting a doubleheader with New York on Sunday while the Rays beat Toronto 5-2. Boston …

The 15th ranked Gator football team got off to a 21-0 first quarter lead and went on from there to defeat the Kentucky Wildcats 48-10 Saturday night in Lexington. Florida has now beaten the Wildcats every year since 1986 and the victory sets up a showdown next weekend in Gainesville …

The Tampa Bay Rays moved to within two games of idle Boston for the American League wild card lead after beating the New York Yankees 15-8 Thursday in New York. There are six games left in the regular season; Tampa Bay now plays Toronto while the Red Sox face New …

Both the nationally ranked Gator volleyball and soccer teams will be in SEC action this weekend. Tonight, Gator soccer is at Georgia in the SEC opener and we’ll have live coverage on WRUF Sports Radio 850 starting at 6:50pm. On Sunday, coach Becky Burleigh’s team faces a good Tennessee team …

Several local high schools will be home tonight to play high school football. Buchholz is at home against Ocala Vanguard while Newberry, coming off its first win of the year, will host Williston. Hawthorne is also at home tonight facing Hilliard while the red hot Santa Fe Raiders try to …

There is a new starting quarterback already in Jacksonville and that leads our Sports News And Notes for Thursday… The Luke McCown days as the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback are over, at least for now. He’s yanked after only two games as the Jags starter and he is replaced by rookie …

While coaches almost always use the time honored tradition of taking it “one game at a time” the Kentucky Wildcats will be starting a very difficult stretch of games starting when it hosts nationally ranked Florida Saturday. After that, the Wildcats must face nationally ranked LSU and South Carolina in …

The Tampa Bay Rays fell two and a half games behind the Boston Red Sox in the American League wild card chase after losing two games to the New York Yankees Wednesday by identical 4-2 scores. The wins also gave the Yankees the AL East title. Boston also lost, 6-4 …

Gator offensive coordinator Charlie Weis says he is a little “disappointed” about where the offense is right now. While praising many things with the offense, he said he is not very happy with the turnovers the offense has made and he is not happy with third down conversions where Florida …