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On Tuesday afternoon at the Otis Hawkins Center in Gainesville, Mississippi State’s Scott Stricklin was introduced as the next athletic director for the University of Florida. Stricklin, the 14th athletic director in school history, is set to replace Jeremy Foley, who has been the AD for the Gators since 1992.  Stricklin had been the …

An LA Dodgers win over the Colorado Rockies was hardly the takeaway from Sunday’s game. What history will remember about this particular game is that it marked the last time that 82-year-old sportscaster Vin Scully would be calling a baseball game at Dodger Stadium. The game itself  was intense, however, with Corey Seager tying the game at …

If you think the addition of a new football practice facility or the renovation of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center is something to marvel at, the University Athletic Association says you haven’t seen anything yet. On Friday, the UAA presented its Board of Directors with a massive $107 million proposal …

The Boston Red Sox currently lead the American League East by a single game over the Toronto Blue Jays, who lead the American League wild card by, you guessed it, a mere one game over the Baltimore Orioles. However, with 23 games to play, those three teams will all be …

With under 30 games to play in the 2016 Major League Baseball season, three divisions are separated by five games or less, and both wild card spots are crapshoots with six AL teams within five games vying for that second spot, and four NL teams within four games. Let’s get …

Coming off of a sweep against the New York Yankees and a 8-7 record since the All-Star break, the Tampa Bay Rays (42-61) are facing the Kansas City Royals (49-55) to start a four-game series at home tonight. The season high four-game winning streak for the Rays will hopefully be enough of a …

The Miami Marlins moved up one spot to #12 in the ESPN power rankings for week 16. Their current record is 53-45 after losing a three day series with the Mets yesterday(1-2), leaving them one of several teams still battling for the two wild-card spots. The Marlins started with Jose Urena, …

The Tampa Rays are riding high after Tuesday night’s 8-7 victory over the Seattle Mariners. When Mariners starter Taijuan Walker left during the fourth inning with an apparent achilles injury, the bullpen was tasked with holding on to a three-run lead. It was not to be as the Rays came firing back. The Tampa Bay Rays look to …

Tonight is the night. The 2016 Major League Baseball Draft will be in full swing beginning at 7 PM. The three day event consists of 40 rounds and a total of 1,186 picks. Rounds 1 and 2 tonight will be televised on MLB Network; all the other rounds can be …

The Florida Gator baseball team is the overall number one national seed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament after the field was announced today on ESPNU. Florida will host four seed Bethune-Cookman, three seed Connecticut and two seed Georgia Tech in a NCAA Regional this weekend. The Gators are matched up …