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The Back Nine comes at you after a really nice weekend for the mighty Gators on so many levels.   10. We will start with what happened with baseball, because after the Thursday loss I think a lot of us had the obits ready to go for this year’s team. …

It’s funny how being semi-retired makes you not care about game times being released. We used to agonize over those Mondays when we would be told the following week’s game time, peaking at the news through spread fingers. The High Five gives you what used to matter and the game …

The Back Nine comes at you after an eventful weekend that was some good, some not so good. Some of it was just downright sad. 10. And I will start out with sadness because we found out as we were all preparing to have our Sponsors Party Friday night that …

The Back Nine comes at you on Bob Dooley Invitational Week and I am stressing so be nice to me. I’m just kidding, Gainesville has been plenty nice to me. 10. This is the 29thyear of the tournament and we are once again overwhelmed by the generosity of people. We …

The Back Nine comes at you after a lazy weekend that included a lovely nine holes with my wife and a couple of sleep-deprived nights. 10. The NFL draft was everything that makes the NFL – as my friend Chris Harry likes to call it – The King. It was …

It was an interesting Friday morning for us old folks who went to sleep well before the first round of the NFL draft concluded late Thursday night. I told my wife Florida receiver Ricky Pearsall was picked in the first round and her response was, “Really? I was told he …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that included too much watching, but nine holes of golf just to get off the recliner. 10. Let us start with something good that happened over the weekend and that would be Florida taking two of three against South Carolina in …

The Back Nine comes at you after a glorious weekend that reminds us why we live in Dreamville. In July, there will be none of these reminders, I must say. 10. OK, here is my take on the spring game – it was a great Saturday. It doesn’t mean Florida …

Pat Dooley Grades the Gators after Florida’s Blue team beat the Orange 19-17 Saturday (at least that’s what the scoreboard said): OFFENSE B First half: It helps when one offense – in this case the Orange – gets to start the game with three free points because it won Thursday’s …

The Back Nine comes at you after an eventful weekend where I got some sun and Kentucky fans got burned. 10. Or did they? So many of them were sick of coach John Calipari in Big Blue Country. They gave him everything and he gave them back a 1-4 record …