Buccaneers wide receiver and former Florida Gator Louis Murphy was finally back at his first practice Monday after nearly a year of injury-leave. He was anxious to get back on the field, running routes and catching passes after rehabilitating an ACL injury suffered last season during a game against the Washington Redskins. The ACL tear marked Murphy’s second …
Read More »Fall Ball in Full Swing for Gator Baseball
The Florida Gator baseball team returned to the diamond last week for the start of fall ball. The Gators are hard at work preparing for the 2017 season. Successful First Week Entering the second week of practices, Coach Kevin O’Sullivan says the first week of practice went well and was a good period …
Read More »Gators Baseball Schedule Released
Coming off the best regular season in school history in 2016, 44-11, the Florida Gators baseball team is back after an early exit from the College World Series in June. Florida finished the season ranked sixth, as the top-seeded Gators fell to the eventual national champions Coastal Carolina in Omaha. …
Read More »Gainesville’s Andrew Miller Lights Out for Indians
The New York Yankees’ may be shaking their heads over trading their relief pitcher to the Cleveland Indians. Gainesville native Andrew Miller has become the face of the Indians en route to pitching nine scoreless innings this postseason. Currently in the ALCS Since the Yankees sent Miller to Cleveland for …
Read More »Penalties One of the Blemishes on Gator Homecoming Win
In their 40-14 win over Missouri, the Florida football team committed 11 penalties for 65 yards. While some may abide by the “win is a win” mentality, this is one of the things the Gators must clean up moving forward. Penalties A Pain While outpacing the Tigers in almost every other …
Read More »Big 12 Chooses Not to Expand
After three months, countless hours, and 11 school interviews, the Big 12 has chosen not to expand from 10 teams to 12 teams. The presidents of each individual school met this past week in Dallas. After the meeting, they held a press conference Monday afternoon where Big 12 Commissioner Bob …
Read More »No. 13 Florida State Holds Off Wake Forest
The No. 13 Florida State Seminoles (5-2, 2-2 ACC) averted a homecoming disaster as they defeated the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (5-2, 2-2 ACC) by a score of 17-6 last Saturday. Offense The Seminole offense generated 442 yards of offense but was also sloppy as they committed four turnovers against Wake Forest. …
Read More »Indians Look to Continue Impressive ALCS
There has been one central theme thus far for the Indians in the ALCS — good pitching. In Game 1, the Indians not only had the home-field advantage, but also ace Corey Kluber on the hill. Kluber faced 26 batters in 6.1 innings and had six strikeouts. He also did not give up any …
Read More »NFL Round-Up: Week 6
Week 6 in the NFL, if nothing else, certainly had its share of surprises. This “Dak Guy” can play Although maybe not a surprise anymore, rookie QB Dak Prescott led the Dallas Cowboys to another convincing win over the Green Bay Packers 30-16. The win improves Dallas to an NFC East-best …
Read More »Luke Del Rio Rusty After Injury
Florida took down the Missouri Tigers 40-14 in the Swamp on Saturday, in what was quarterback Luke Del Rio’s first game played in four weeks. Del Rio had missed two games with a sprained left knee, but was healthy enough this week to make the start for the Gators. While the defense was stellar …
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