The Oklahoma City Thunder shocked the basketball world this postseason by taking a 3-1 lead against the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals. However, the Warriors’ historic season will continue after beating OKC three consecutive times—including last night’s 96-88 win at Golden State. Only nine other NBA teams have ever come back from a …
Read More »Marlins Play the Pirates Tuesday Night After a Tough Loss Monday
The Marlins were defeated last night at home when the Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher Jeff Locke threw a three-hit shutout. Winning 10-0, the Pirates made Marlin’s starting pitcher Justin Nicolino, 20, work for every out. Nicolino was up for the challenge until Nicolino was replaced by Jose Urena and Andrew McCutchen stepped up …
Read More »Gator Baseball Overall Number One National Seed In NCAA Baseball Tournament
The Florida Gator baseball team is the overall number one national seed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament after the field was announced today on ESPNU. Florida will host four seed Bethune-Cookman, three seed Connecticut and two seed Georgia Tech in a NCAA Regional this weekend. The Gators are matched up …
Read More »Top-seeded Gator Softball Falls Short in NCAA Super Regional
Down 1-0 in a best-of-three Super Regional match up at home, the top-seeded Florida softball team (56-7) dropped a consecutive game against the 16th seeded Georgia Bulldogs (45-18) in a 3-2 elimination loss on Friday to end Florida’s season. Florida pitcher Aleshia Ocasio ended her season 22-2 after the loss …
Read More »PREVIEW: Santa Fe College Baseball Swings Into JUCO World Series
Today, Santa Fe College will be up against three-time national champion Iowa Western Community College, in the first game of the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Saints marched into Colorado on Thursday with less than two full days to prepare for tough competition and also with less …
Read More »Tampa Bay Lightning’s Season Comes to an End
Despite the return of captain Steven Stamkos, the Tampa Bay Lightning could not get it done versus the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Bolts fell 2-1 to the Pens to end their season just shy of the Stanley Cup Final. Had the Lightning won, …
Read More »NBA Playoff Preview: Warriors and Raptors Facing Elimination
After a Game 5 victory, the Golden State Warriors will head back to Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City where they will fight to keep their title hopes alive again when they play the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Western Conference Finals. This is of course, the same Warriors team that holds the title …
Read More »Gator Baseball Defeats Alabama in SEC Tournament
The night before Florida’s baseball game against Alabama the Gators played a game that lasted over five hours against LSU and it didn’t finish until 1:48 AM; it happened to be the longest game in SEC Tournament history. That being said, the Gators had less than 11 hours to recuperate …
Read More »Gator Softball Shutout By Georgia in First Game of Super Regional
After coasting through the NCAA Regional with three shutout victories, the Gator softball team found themselves on the receiving end of a shutout Thursday night. The Florida Gators (56-6) fell to the Georgia Bulldogs (44-18) 3-0 in the opening game of the Gainesville Super Regional. The Gators were stumped by the Bulldogs’ defense, …
Read More »Hargreaves Adjusting To Life as a Pro
Former Gator and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Vernon Hargreaves III is set to wrap up his first week of OTAs on Friday. Hargreaves, a two-time all-American and 11th overall NFL draft pick, hopes to be able to carry his reputation of a lockdown corner into the NFL. Now that the …
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