Social media sports network Overtime is launching a professional basketball league that will compensate high school players. What is the league? The league is called Overtime Elite (OTE) and will start in September. It was created as a way to pull elite talent from college and get athletes acclimated with …
Read More »Heat Close Out First Half of Season With a Victory Over Pelicans
The Miami Heat head into the All-Star break after picking up a 103-93 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night. Bring on the 2nd half of the SZN pic.twitter.com/SGupaTr9yr — Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) March 5, 2021 Jimmy Leads the Way Miami picked up the win in large part …
Read More »Orlando Magic Fall Short To Atlanta Hawks In Fourth Quarter Finale
The Orlando Magic (13-23) fell short to the Atlanta Hawks (16-20) with a final score of 115-112. This gives the Magic their fifth straight loss. Magic Start Strong The Magic started strong with Michael Carter-Williams putting them on the score board with a layup assisted by Nikola Vucevic making the …
Read More »Heat are Stunned in a 94-80 Loss to Atlanta
The Win Streak Comes to an End A Miami Heat win streak that lasted six consecutive games came to a close Tuesday with a 94-80 loss to the Hawks. Miami has lost yet another game without star-forward Jimmy Butler. The Heat fell short by 14-points in its loss to Atlanta. …
Read More »Arkansas Looks to Continue SEC Streak Against South Carolina
The Arkansas Razorbacks (19-5, 11-4 SEC) will travel to Columbia take on the South Carolina Gamecocks (6-12, 4-10 SEC) for each team’s second-to-last regular season game this season. The game will begin at 6:30 p.m. on the SEC Network. In the matchup, Arkansas will be looking for their seventh straight …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Front Nine: February 26
The Front Nine comes at you on the precipice of another special weekend of Gator sports and they are going to all be that way for a while. Sit back and enjoy. 1. If this is Friday, there must be another mock draft available on one of the websites. Try …
Read More »SEC Basketball Preview: No. 6 Alabama travels to No. 20 Arkansas
The SEC-leading Alabama (18-5) heads to Fayetteville tonight for a Top-25 showdown with Arkansas (17-5). If the Crimson Tide is able to defeat the Razorbacks in Bud Walton Arena, Bama will clinch the No. 1 seed in the SEC Basketball Tournament. Matchup Preview Bama, ranked sixth in the nation, leading …
Read More »Ole Miss Holds Tight to Upset No. 24 Missouri
Don’t count them out just yet. Ole Miss completed a season sweep against No. 24 Missouri in an ugly 60-53 Tuesday night to stay in the NCAA Tournament discussion. The Tigers have had no issue knocking big-name tournament contenders out of the questions, but something about the Rebels they just …
Read More »Eastside Boys Basketball Falls Just Short of Regional Final After Loss to Santa Fe
Highly-Anticipated Rematch Six minutes. That’s how long it took for tickets to sell out for the regional semifinal between the Eastside Rams (20-2) and Santa Fe Raiders (17-5) in boy’s high school basketball. These two teams have met twice this season, once in the regular season and again for a …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: February 22
The Back Nine comes at you after a visit to St. Augustine to see Dad, my first visit to the new ballpark to see a Gator game and a visit mentally to see the revival of blueblood basketball teams. 10. It was a wild weekend around Gainesville and we saw …
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