In the first five innings of their rubber match against the Tennessee Volunteers, the Florida Gators did not trail once. But that all changed following a turbulent sixth inning. In a frame that saw Florida shuffle through three pitchers, the Gators surrendered 11 runs, all but sealing their fate in …

Florida baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan had seen enough.  It was a March 6 midweek game against UCF when O’Sullivan stepped out of the home dugout, walked slowly toward the mound and signaled to the bullpen for a pitcher. The Knights had roughed up right-handed starter Luke McNeillie by tagging the …

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 …

Last year, the Florida Gators men’s golf team reached its final destination: The National Championship. Then, they won it. Fred Biondi became only the third Gator ever to win the individual national title, Yuxin Lin earned first team All-SEC honors and four different Gators contributed to six solo victories. Only …

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 …

“Leader by example.” That’s how Florida’s Colby Shelton views himself, both in his approach to the game of baseball and the game of life. Since his arrival in Gainesville this past fall, Shelton has made a seamless step into a leadership role for the Florida baseball program. After former UF …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that pretty much had every emotion possible.  10. Let’s start with what happened Friday evening and the depression that fell over Gainesville with the end of another basketball season. There was anger, there was pain, there was the stinging realization that …

The No. 24 Florida men’s basketball team sealed the deal on its 20th win of the season Wednesday by holding back the Missouri Tigers 83-74 at the O’Connell Center. Tyrese Samuel led the Gators (20-8, 10-5 SEC) with a career-high 28 points to help the Gators toward their seventh straight …

The Back Nine comes at you after one of those weekends that makes the Gator Nation warm and fuzzy all over.  10. But we have to start with the big national story which was the court-storming by Wake Forest students that caused an injury to Duke’s Kyle Filipowski. The answer …

The Back Nine comes at you after a wet weekend that included another win by Florida’s suddenly en fuego basketball team.  10. You can look at these Gators as a team that is making you run out of Tums or a team that keeps winning close games. No matter how …