The Miami Marlins have had a solid season as they currently sit third in the NL Wild Card race only a half game back of the New York Mets, but there seems to be one team the Marlins cant figure out. That team would be the worst in the National …
Read More »Football Recruiting at Full Swing in Gainesville
Though football season has yet to begin, the Florida Gators staff has not stopped in their pursuit for new recruits this summer. The Gator recruiting class of 2017 is currently ranked as No. 17, according to ESPN, with 10 signees to the class thus far. This class includes three signees included in the …
Read More »Gators in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials
The U.S. Olympic Swimming trials are underway in Omaha Nebraska and 10 Gators, past and present, have competed in preliminary rounds today.Gator great Ryan Lochte won his heat and turned in the fastest prelim time for the 200-meter individual medley this morning at 1:58.05. Lochte's time of 1:58.05 in the 200 IM …
Read More »Andrew Luck Becomes Highest Paid Player in NFL History
Drinks are on Andrew Luck tonight. The 6′ 4″ quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts signed a six-year record breaking $140 million contract on Wednesday, which is substantially larger than the previous record holding $110 million contract quarterback Aaron Rodgers signed with the Green Bay Packers in 2013. That’s $23.3 million …
Read More »MLB Weekend Outlook
For the baseball teams in the local area, it hasn’t been the best of seasons up to this point. The Atlanta Braves have the second worst record in baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays are in last place in the AL East, but the Miami Marlins have shown promise by climbing to second …
Read More »Steven Stamkos Staying In Tampa Bay
Rumors were spreading about the teams that were planning to pursue Tampa Bay Lightning center and captain Steven Stamkos. The Detroit Red Wings. The Boston Bruins. The Buffalo Sabres. The Vancouver Canucks. The Toronto Maple Leafs. With Stamkos set to become an unrestricted free agent on Friday, competition was going to …
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 »Ryan Lochte to Swim in 2016 Rio Olympics with Fellow Gators
Ryan Lochte will take a trip to Brazil later this summer for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The former Gator swimmer has qualified for the U.S. Olympic 4x200m team finishing fourth with a time of 1:46.62. Lochte will compete in his fourth Olympic Games on the US 4×200 freestyle relay …
Read More »Former Gator Harrison Bader Making Impact In Double A
Harrison Bader is a known name to many Florida Gator baseball fans. The right fielder from Bronxville, New York was a standout in in his three-year career at Florida, especially his junior season where he was second on the team in home-runs (17) and RBI (66). Bader was apart of …
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