The Back Nine comes at you after a warm and wonderful weekend here in America’s City, and now we start working on excuses not to go to work Friday when the Madness really begins. 10. Apparently, Florida’s game against Tennessee in the SEC Tournament didn’t mean anything. In fact, I’m …
Read More »Pat Dooley: SEC Memories
As Florida prepares for another SEC Tournament, Pat Dooley of The Tailgate radio show takes a look at a half-dozen (plus one) moments he will never forget. They are not all good times, but they were certainly interesting. 1.Grown men cried. The first one is always the most emotional. I …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine March 8
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend where I still somehow managed to avoid long pants. Of course, I also watched a lot of basketball, which is an indoor sport for me. 10. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room and, to be honest with you, I’m …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Front Nine March 5th
The Front Nine comes at you after a bad Wednesday and what we all hope will be a good weekend. 1.We also hope that everything continues going well in spring football practice. It seems to be fine despite this strange story that keeps being recirculated that there is friction between …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: March 1
The Back Nine comes at you after a pretty incredible weekend in Gator sports. Don’t ever take these kinds of weekends for granted, peeps. 10. I could literally spend this entire column writing about Florida’s basketball win over Kentucky on Saturday. But that would be a disservice to the other …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Front Nine: February 26
The Front Nine comes at you on the precipice of another special weekend of Gator sports and they are going to all be that way for a while. Sit back and enjoy. 1. If this is Friday, there must be another mock draft available on one of the websites. Try …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: February 22
The Back Nine comes at you after a visit to St. Augustine to see Dad, my first visit to the new ballpark to see a Gator game and a visit mentally to see the revival of blueblood basketball teams. 10. It was a wild weekend around Gainesville and we saw …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Front Nine: February 19
The Front Nine comes at you hoping you have fastened your seat belts because the ride is about to get really interesting around here. 1. You know what really just sunk in the other day (and I’m sorry if I am the last person to realize this)? Florida is doing …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: February 15
The Back Nine comes at you after a busy sports weekend and I hope you carved out some time for your Valentines. The heart-shaped pancakes were the best part of it for yours truly. 10. There was a lot going on over the weekend (and it continues tonight with a …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Front Nine: February 12
The Front Nine comes at you with another Saturday devoid of Gator basketball. Thank goodness we are about to have multiple choices of sports to pay attention to. 1.We’ll get to the drought of Florida basketball games, but since we have officially entered “Talking Season” with football finished for another …
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