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The Back Nine comes at you after a big weekend for Gators sports and a happy Valentine’s Day … for me anyway. 10. It was pretty spectacular this weekend with so much going on. Sometimes I don’t know how the UAA handles a weekend with baseball, softball, lacrosse, basketball, women’s …

They have a chance. To make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament? Sure. To win it all? Why not? But this Gator basketball team – most importantly – has a chance to slip into my personal top five Florida hoops teams of all time. The High Five looks at …

The Back Nine comes to you after another perfect Gainesville weekend that included something I didn’t think we would see.   10. On Saturday morning at the gym I was thinking about how the first item in this column should be about the Super Bowl instead of Florida basketball. That’s …

The Back Nine comes at you after a be-a-you-ti-ful weekend. That’s the way they would sing it on WGGG when I was a kid and it stuck with me. 10. What was not beautiful, of course, was the way Florida played in Knoxville. Todd Golden called it “atrocious”, but I …

The Back Nine comes at you after watching two blowouts Saturday in the O-Dome — Florida over Georgia and the baby race at halftime. 10. Yeah, the one youngster was the only one who left the starting line. The rest just looked up at all the people cheering. Anyway, Mike …

The Back Nine comes at you with a little bit of a meat hangover after being one of the judges at a ribs contest at Sweat Meats in High Springs. I know you are supposed to take one bite of each rib, but they were so good I couldn’t help …

Fans all over the country like to complain about the schedules that are handed down by conferences in football each year. They are either too hard or too easy and never just right. I’ve talked a lot on The Tailgate with Jeff Cardozo about how much more difficult the 2025 schedule is …

The Back Nine comes at you after a cold weekend that required a lot of us to stay inside and watch all the great sports going on. It was taxing, but I made it. 10. It was kind of weird to see John Calipari coaching at Arkansas this weekend in …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend so chilly it felt like our three-day winter is coming right around the corner. 10. We knew it was coming. We knew this Florida basketball team was not going undefeated. And we knew that Rupp Arena can be both the quietest …

The Back Nine comes at you after a wonderful holiday season and a wild and crazy bowl season: 10. Which, of course, is still ongoing. It feels like we have already seen it all during the bowls and now we settle in for the next round of the playoffs. Let’s …