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https://vimeo.com/163498006 The second ranked Florida baseball team improved its record to 34-5 after defeating the Jacksonville Dolphins (22-14) 3-1 Tuesday night in Gainesville.  This is just the sixth time this season the Gators have scored three runs or less. They are 3-2 in those contests. Florida is now 22-1 in non-conference play this season, and 12-0 …

The Stanley Cup playoffs are here. Here are tonight’s match-ups. Tampa Bay Lightning @ Detroit Red Wings- 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Penguins @ New York Rangers-7 p.m. St. Louis Blues @ Chicago Blackhawks-9:30 p.m. Anaheim Ducks @ Nashville Predators-9:30 p.m. In the first match-up, the Lightning will face off against the …

Ichiro Suzuki continued his road to 3,000 hits last night, as he and the Miami Marlins took a 6-1 victory over the Washington Nationals. A five game losing streak for the Marlins has officially ended. In just the first six innings, Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez had a total of nine strikeouts. The pitcher held the …

GAINESVILLE, Fla—The Santa Fe Saints baseball team clinches a Mid-Florida conference title Sunday with a 6-3 win over Daytona State College.  These two teams are no stranger to each other as they met in a three game series in Daytona where the Saints took two out of three games. The Falcons flew into …

Meet Gordon Burleson, a 77-year old retired engineer who is the University of Florida baseball team’s biggest fan. He is a UF alumnus and a lifelong Gator fan. At every home game, you can find him in the stands leading the Gator faithful in UF cheers and revving them up …

Jordan Williams of Micanopy, Florida and Trevarris Saulsberry of Hawthorne, Florida have known each other since the third grade. What started out as an elementary school friendship while playing basketball turned into a brotherhood of football. The two outstanding defensive linemen developed their skills together starting with Pop Warner football, continuing …

The NBA playoff games Monday night included a comeback, a game-winning shot, and a player stepping up when a man was down. The first game of the night started with a comeback — by the Toronto Raptors to even its first round-playoff series with the Indiana Pacers. The Raptors, a favorite …

The Miami Heat will look to take Game 2 of their NBA playoff series with the Charlotte Hornets Wednesday night in Miami.  The Heat defeated the Hornets on Sunday 121-93 in Game 1. Miami followed their game plan and played extremely well as Luol Deng scored 31 points and Hassan Whiteside added 21 …

Entering the NBA playoffs, the Boston Celtics had to love their chances. They played well as the season wore on and had a favorable first round match up with the Atlanta Hawks. The team looked solid all-around, with a deep rotation of players that could make up for the lack …

The Florida gymnastics team saw its back to back to back national title run come to an end this past weekend as Oklahoma won the 2016 national championship with the Gators finishing fourth.  . Florida’s score of 197.350 was good enough for fourth place behind Oklahoma (197.675), LSU (197.45) and Alabama (197.435), and ahead …