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Basketball to baseball to football and more in our Friday Sports Update… ** In local women’s high school basketball, PK Yonge, Eastside and GHS and Santa Fe get wins in regional quarterfinal action and move on to further play. ** Eastside High School’s ‘s men’s soccer team will play tonight against Orlando …
Read More »Florida Women’s Basketball Struggles on the Road, Falls to Arkansas 55-49
The Florida women’s basketball team (16-7, 6-4 SEC) takes a 55-49 road loss at Arkansas (16-7, 3-7 SEC) Thursday night in SEC action as the teams split two games against each other this season. Florida had trouble taking care of the ball all night, committing 25 turnovers and head coach Amanda Butler talked about her …
Read More »Florida’s NBA Teams Hit The Court This Weekend
Both the Heat and the Magic are coming off much-needed wins last night. Orlando cruised by the Detroit Pistons 112-98 in Orlando. The Magic will face the Oklahoma City on Sunday night. Miami beat the Clippers 116-112 in L.A. Meanwhile, the Heat will continue their six-game road trip to face the Utah Jazz on Saturday …
Read More »Florida Women’s Basketball Looks to Extend Winning Streak
The Florida women’s basketball team (16-6, 6-3 SEC) travels to Fayetteville, Ark. to face the Arkansas Razorbacks (14-7, 2-7 SEC) on Thursday. This will be the second meeting of the two teams this season. Florida captured a tight 59-52 win on January 9 in Gainesville. Florida head coach Amanda Butler weighed in on …
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Read More »Hoops, More Hoops, Thursday Sports Update
If you like basketball, you will really like today’s Thursday Sports Update… ** Lots of area women’s high school basketball tonight in regional quarterfinal action. Buchholz plays Apopka Wekiva in Class 7A, Region 1 while in Class 6A-Region 1 Gainesville hosts Pensacola. Class 5A-Region 2 has Eastside hosting Crystal River …
Read More »Signing Day Recap: Florida Nabs No. 6 Recruiting Class
Florida football Head Coach Will Muschamp saw his Gators go 4-8 last season. He wrapped up his 2014 recruiting class with a turn around in mind. Florida finished with ESPN’s No. 6 ranked recruiting class. Muschamp woke up this morning with hope of a barrage of letters of intent flying …
Read More »Gator Football Gets Big Signing Day Boosts
The University of Florida football program got some great National Signing Day news today when quarterback Treon Harris committed to the Gators; he had been a Florida State verbal commitment. Florida also got good news when athlete J.C. Jackson committed this morning to the program. He had been interested in …
Read More »National Signing Day Today; Muschamp Press Conference Too
Today is National Signing Day and ESPN 850 WRUF will have live coverage, courtesty of the University Athletic Association, of Gator coach Will Muschamp’s press conference to discuss the class. That will take place at about 3:15pm today. Florida received a verbal commitment yesterday from former Vanderbilt commit Andrew Mike, …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops struggles early but pulls away late to beat Missouri
The Florida men’s basketball team improved to 20-2 overall, and 9-0 in the conference after defeating the Missouri Tigers by a final score of 68-58 Tuesday night in Gainesville. All eyes were on freshman Chris Walker who was set to make his debut, and expectations were high. The freshman forward saw …
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