The Back Nine comes at you after a really nice weekend that included actually going to a movie in person and (hopefully) making my wife realize what a great mother she is to Kelsey. 10. We have to be honest. Midway through this baseball season, most Gator fans were …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (May 5th )
Florida only had three players taken in the recent NFL Draft, but five others signed free agent deals. For those players, there are plenty of examples of undrafted players who made it in the NFL. The High Five brings you the top five undrafted players who had very nice NFL …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (May 2nd)
The Back Nine comes at you after about as good a weather Saturday you could ask for … unless you were covering the Florida baseball game that started in April and ended in May. Me? I was zonked out after The Bob. Sorry beat writers. The NFL Draft is …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 25th)
The Back Nine comes at you with mixed feelings. It’s Bob Dooley XXVII week and I alternate between fist pumps and nausea. Which means it is like the previous 26 of them. 10. Let us start not with the Massacre on Hull Road, but with another SEC title for UF. …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 21st)
It’s not too early, is it? I mean, college football is still more than four months away, but all these spring games and the USFL and Billy Napier’s speaking tour kind of gets you going. Or is that just me? It forced me, held me down and made me look …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 18th)
The Back Nine comes at you after a great Easter weekend that included a little bit of everything and a lot of delicious food. Nobody makes holidays more special than my wonderful wife. Sometimes, you just have to tip your cap. You just have to say, “We did the …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Grades: Orange & Blue Game
Pat Dooley grades the Gators’ spring game Offense B- First half: Anthony Richardson kind of showed us why he is QB1 on this team, especially on the first two drives. He threw the ball with accuracy and ran the team with pose. Jack Miller was OK at time, but his …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 11th)
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend of baseball and baseball and a lot of watching golf. And some real tragedy that didn’t involve winning or losing games. 10. I can’t start without talking about the terrible news of the death of Dwayne Haskins at 24, hit by …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 7th)
Earlier this week, I wrote a story for GatorsWire on Brenton Cox and Alex Brown. Cox wants to break Brown’s single-season sack record of 13 set in 1999. Brown wants him to get it because that will mean good things for the Gators. All Florida fans should hope for the …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 4th)
The Back Nine returns after an unscheduled Monday off because of an evil stomach virus, but everybody is OK now and our pipes are new and we keep doing a heck of a job dealing with adversity. Good times are coming. 10. Just when you think the Florida gymnastics …
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