Today marks college football’s unofficial start as SEC Media Days are underway from Hoover, Alabama. Along with Commissioner Greg Sankey and CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock, head coaches Gus Malzahn, Jim McElwain and Derek Mason all spoke to the press today. As Sankey enters his second season as SEC Commissioner, …
Read More »Bridget Sloan Named 2016 SEC Female Athlete of the Year
The Southeastern Conference named University of Florida senior gymnast Bridget Sloan the Roy F. Kramer SEC Female Athlete of the Year on Thursday—the icing on the cake to end an extremely impressive career at Florida. Sloan is Florida’s career leader for all-around wins with 27, event titles with 95, and 10.0 marks with …
Read More »Olympic Trials: 27 Gators Making A Run To Represent Team USA
The University of Florida’s Track and Field program will send 27 former, past, and future Gators to the United States Olympic Trials, which runs from July 1 to July 10. How will the 2016 Olympics, in Rio De Janiero, be similar to every Olympic Games since the year 1992? Every U.S. Olympic team since then, has featured at least one athlete coached …
Read More »Chasing The Beast of the East: The Kentucky Wildcats
Dominance is the Kentucky Wildcats name and winning is there game. That has been the recent trend over the last few years as the bread winners of the SEC all have come out of the East—namely the Kentucky Wildcats. Last season John Calipari and the Wildcats went 29-7 overall with a 13-5 SEC conference record. The Wildcats just …
Read More »Struggling For Identity: SEC West Basketball
Although there are no real divisions in SEC men’s basketball, there has been a stark contrast in the level of competition and success between teams that would be considered in the SEC East and SEC West. Throughout the past decade, SEC ‘East’ teams like Kentucky and Florida have been the …
Read More »Former Gator Coach Carolyn Peck Reminisces About Pat Summitt; Takes New Coaching Job at Vandy
A former Florida Gator women’s basketball head coach recently accepted a job at her alma mater to get back into the coaching ranks. Carolyn Peck, started her basketball career at Vanderbilt University in 1985 and she is returning to her alma mater as an assistant coach after a stint working as an analyst for ESPN. Peck …
Read More »Top Seeded Gators Eliminated From CWS
OMAHA, Neb. – There wasn’t much sunshine for the sunshine state at the 2016 College World Series. The top seeded Florida baseball team’s season just did not end the way they had expected it to. The Gators quickly dropped into the losers bracket after Sunday’s loss to Coastal Carolina. Their …
Read More »CWS Preview: Gator Baseball Returns To Omaha, First Up–Coastal Carolina
Sunday night, the Florida Gators open up their run in the 2016 College World Series against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, in Omaha, Nebraska. Florida, a team who is no stranger to the College World Series, is making a run for it for the 10th time in program history. Coastal Carolina is making its first ever …
Read More »Foley Officially Bids Farewell, Will Never Leave Program’s Side
A day after an emotional announcement of his retirement, Jeremy Foley entered his own press conference as loose as ever. He even teased his former employee and close friend, Billy Donovan, and said he had changed his mind and will be returning as athletic director. Unlike his friend, who walked …
Read More »The Gators Take The NCAA Outdoor Champions Title
The Florida Gator Men’s Track and Field won the NCAA Outdoor Championship Saturday. The Gators had a rocky road to earn its third Outdoor Championship which featured one of the lowest team performance to one of the highest, but at the end, the team was able to accumulate 62 points to …
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