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Gator Baseball Starts Play In NCAA Regionals

The University of Florida baseball team tries for its third straight trip to the College World Series as it begins play today in an NCAA Regional being hosted by the Gators. At 1pm, two seed Georgia Tech faces three seed College of Charleston while at 7pm top seed and overall …

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SEC Schedules In Football And Basketball Set To Be Adopted

Expansion, playoffs, conference re-alignment and scheduling dominated the Thursday agenda at the SEC meetings going on in Destin, Florida. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive is on record as saying that while other leagues might be looking to re-align or expand, the SEC is happy with 14 teams at this time. It …

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Heat Beats Celtics To Go Up 2-0 In NBA Playoffs

The Miami Heat withstood a 44 point barrage from Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo and beat the Celtics in overtime 115-111 Wednesday in Miami to go up 2-0 in their best of seven NBA Eastern Conference Final series. LeBron James scored 34 points and grabbed 10 boards for the …

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SEC Meetings: Playoff Should Be Top Four Teams

The annual SEC meetings continue today in Destin, Florida but one thing that definitely came out the first day was consensus that any college football playoff should include the top four teams in the country, regardless if they won league titles or divisions…or not. There has been much talk about …

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Spurs Go Up 2-0 On Thunder In NBA Playoffs

The San Antonio Spurs go up 2-0 in their NBA Western Conference Finals series with the Oklahoma City Thunder with a 120-111 win last night in San Antonio. The Spurs led by over 20 points in the contest and watched the Thunder cut the lead to six points in the …

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Gator Baseball Players Receive SEC Honors

As the Florida Gator baseball team readies for an NCAA regional at home this weekend, the SEC has announced several awards. Several Gators are named to the All-SEC first team, including catcher Mike Zunino, outfielder Preston Tucker, pitcher/DH Brian Johnson and relief pitcher Steven Rodriguez.  Nolan Fontana makes All-SEC second …

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