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I was in the whirlpool at the gym recently when a former UF player asked me this question: Why do they hate Billy Napier? My response was it is the lunatic fringe who hates the Florida football coach. There are a lot of people who believe in him and there …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weird weekend. I know we have them all the time, but when Gator sports are over for the academic year, I feel a little lost.   10. Hey, we do have the Olympics, although, if they are as boring as the Trials …

It’s not only a long way to college football season, but also a long way to SEC Media Days. Now that college sports at Florida are done until August, we are looking for answers to questions that have not really been asked. Seriously, what has changed in the last few …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …