The Florida Gators football team held its sixth spring practice open to the media Tuesday. After practice, Mike Peterson, Florida’s assistant coach in charge of the Edge position, was made available to the media for questions. Here are the highlights: Young Guys Stepping Up One player Florida fans expect to …
Read More »Gators QB Mertz Returns For ‘Unfinished Business’
Florida quarterback Graham Mertz joined Steve Russell on Sport Scene Tuesday to discuss Gators football and talk spring practice. Unfinished Business For the first time since 2020, the Gators will welcome back a returning quarterback in Mertz who will enter his sixth and final year of eligibility. There is a …
Read More »Florida State Baseball routs Florida, 14-3
The No. 6 Florida Gators baseball team has been up-and-down coming into Tuesday’s game against No. 17 Florida State. The Gators in recent weeks lost in their midweek games, but would end up winning the weekend series. This trend continued against their state rivals. The Seminoles defeated the Gators 14-3 …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Sure, ‘I had Yale beating Auburn’ In My Bracket
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that pretty much had every emotion possible. 10. Let’s start with what happened Friday evening and the depression that fell over Gainesville with the end of another basketball season. There was anger, there was pain, there was the stinging realization that …
Read More »Gators Knock Out Six Homers, Run-Rule LSU En Route To Series Victory
From trash talk to moon shots, the Florida Gators and LSU Tigers exchanged plenty of blows in their rubber game Sunday. But in the end, after plenty of verbal jabs from both squads, the Gators got the last laugh. No. 6 Florida came away with a 12-2 victory to secure …
Read More »Rothrock Completes Florida’s Series Sweep Against Kentucky
The No. 10 Florida Gators softball team defeated the No. 23 Kentucky Wildcats 7-1 on Sunday to sweep the SEC series at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. Keagan Rothrock (14-3) pitched all seven innings for the Gators (29-4, 5-1 SEC) to earn her second win of the series. https://twitter.com/GatorsSB/status/1771964119693803777 Wallace Does …
Read More »Caglianone’s Extra-Inning Homer Surges Florida Past LSU To Even Series
In front of the second largest crowd in LSU program history of 12,892 at Alex Box Stadium, No. 5 LSU put on a laser show, but the No. 6 Florida Gators silenced the Tiger fans Saturday night thanks to a two-run home run from Jac Caglianone in the 11th inning …
Read More »Florida Women Finish Third At NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships
The Gators finished third in the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday at Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Georgia. https://twitter.com/GatorsSwimDv/status/1771711512001819049 Virginia won the national championship for the fourth straight season with a team score of 527.5. Texas came in second with 441.0. Florida was third at 364.0. …
Read More »Florida Seals Second SEC Series With 9-1 Win Over Kentucky
The No. 10 Florida Gators softball team defeated the No. 23 Kentucky Wildcats 9-1 in six innings Saturday at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. The Gators (28-4, 4-1 SEC) hit three home runs to secure a program-record 23rd run-rule win of the season and capture their second SEC series. https://twitter.com/GatorsSB/status/1771648739108667630 Brown …
Read More »NCAA Tournament: Gators Battle With Buffs, Eliminated 102-100
A single shot wiped away a comeback effort and career performance for Walter Clayton Jr. and the Florida Gators in March Madness. A KJ Simpson jumper with less than two seconds remaining Friday kept the 10 seed Colorado Buffaloes dancing and sent seven seed Florida home in the NCAA Tournament …
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