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Florida Faces Virginia In Second Round

The Florida men’s basketball team makes their fifteenth NCAA tournament appearance today as they take on Virginia at 2:10 p.m. Gator head coach Billy Donovan sports a 25-9 record in the tournament including both national championships in 2006 and 2007. Virginia, on the other hand, is making their sixteenth tournament …

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Thursday Sports News And Notes

An NBA coach resigns, Gator lacrosse gets a win and an SEC team goes down in the NIT as those stories head up our Thursday Sports News And Notes… ** In the NBA, New York Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni has resigned amid many stories saying he had lost his team …

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Gatornationals Kicks Off Today

Things are underway today as the NHRA Tire Kingdom Gatornationals at the Auto-Plus raceway in Gainesville. Eliminations and qualifying are the order of the day today and Saturday with the event finals on Sunday.   The defending Funny Car champion is Mike Neff while the defending champ in Top Fuel is …

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MLB Adds Two More Teams To Postseason

Major League Baseball expanded its postseason to ten teams on Friday, adding one more wild-card team to each league. Under the new playoff format, the two teams with the best records who do not win their divisions will meet in a one-game, wild-card round to begin the postseason.  Baseball Commissioner Bud …

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Daytona 500 Postponed To Monday

The Daytona 500 will race Monday after being postponed Sunday night. This is the first time the Daytona 500 was postponed in its 54 year history. Eight previous Daytona 500s survived rain delays and the most recent one was the 2009 edition. NASCAR officials spent four hours waiting for a window …

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Thursday Sports News And Notes

A legendary boxing trainer dies and the Santa Fe Saints get into baseball and basketball in our Sports News And Notes… The trainer for Muhammad Ali and many others, Angelo Dundee, passes away at the age of 90. He also was in the corner of Sugar Ray Leonard, among others. …

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