The Back Nine comes at you after a humid weekend where we saw train wrecks at the Open and bad breaks for the Gator baseball team. 10. It wasn’t that great a catch. It was more that when Cade Kurland hit it, you thought it might be the game-winner. But …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five: Gator Greats Deserving Of Statues
You all know about the three statues in front of the football stadium (unless you have never been west of 13th Street). Certainly, the three Heisman Trophy winners deserve statues. I just think there should be more. We know the money is there. Let me kick in the first 10-spot. …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Florida Baseball Pulls Off Stunner
The Back Nine comes at you after an incredible weekend that included a little bit of everything: golf, birdwatching and, oh yes, some baseball games. 10. No words. No words are possible to explain how Kevin O’Sullivan has taken this team to Omaha. This Florida team won what is arguably …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: O’Sullivan’s Master Class Of Handling Pitching Staff
The Back Nine comes at you after a delay waiting to see what happened in baseball. What would the postseason be without a delay? 10. This Gator baseball team might have been the most frustrating to watch in a long time, and yet, here they are, one of the final …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five: Florida’s Top Football Players
One of the last things I did for GatorsWire was a re-ranking of the top 50 Gator football players of all time. The top 5 were easy, but the rest were not. So, here on the High Five, I will give you a little of both, the top 5 and …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: No Guarantees When It Comes To NCAA Baseball Committee
The Back Nine comes at you after a really nice weekend for the mighty Gators on so many levels. 10. We will start with what happened with baseball, because after the Thursday loss I think a lot of us had the obits ready to go for this year’s team. …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five: Football Game Times To Love
It’s funny how being semi-retired makes you not care about game times being released. We used to agonize over those Mondays when we would be told the following week’s game time, peaking at the news through spread fingers. The High Five gives you what used to matter and the game …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Caglianone Best To Play Baseball At UF
The Back Nine comes at you after an eventful weekend that was some good, some not so good. Some of it was just downright sad. 10. And I will start out with sadness because we found out as we were all preparing to have our Sponsors Party Friday night that …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Former UF standout Horschel Earns Special Spot
The Back Nine comes at you on Bob Dooley Invitational Week and I am stressing so be nice to me. I’m just kidding, Gainesville has been plenty nice to me. 10. This is the 29thyear of the tournament and we are once again overwhelmed by the generosity of people. We …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: NFL Draft Shows Lack Of Talent On ’23 Gators
The Back Nine comes at you after a lazy weekend that included a lovely nine holes with my wife and a couple of sleep-deprived nights. 10. The NFL draft was everything that makes the NFL – as my friend Chris Harry likes to call it – The King. It was …
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