In a shocking announcement made today, University of Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley has announced his retirement. Foley told his staff and coaches in a meeting this morning about his decision; there is a press conference scheduled for Tuesday at 5 p.m.  He will continue to be Florida’s AD until October …

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 …

University of Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley joined ESPN Gainesville’s Steve Russell on Sportscene Wednesday to talk Gator sports. Listeners called and emailed in questions to ask Foley, and he spoke on a wide variety of topics. Some of the most consistent talking points brought up were about improvements to athletic facilities, football’s …

The Gators conclude their home schedule with the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational Friday April 22.  Florida track and field Coach Mike Holloway approaches each meet with the same focus.  However, this event is sentimental for Holloway, his team and Gator fans. The meet honors longtime Women’s Track and Field coach Tom Jones.  Jones lost …

Jordan Williams of Micanopy, Florida and Trevarris Saulsberry of Hawthorne, Florida have known each other since the third grade. What started out as an elementary school friendship while playing basketball turned into a brotherhood of football. The two outstanding defensive linemen developed their skills together starting with Pop Warner football, continuing …

The Florida gymnastics team saw its back to back to back national title run come to an end this past weekend as Oklahoma won the 2016 national championship with the Gators finishing fourth.  . Florida’s score of 197.350 was good enough for fourth place behind Oklahoma (197.675), LSU (197.45) and Alabama (197.435), and ahead …

It wasn’t a storybook ending for Kobe Bryant the way he wanted to finish it, but nevertheless he put an exclamation point on his 20-year Hall-of-Fame career by ending it in remarkable fashion in the only way the Black Mamba knew how scoring.  Also, the Warrior won their 73 game and …

The Gators women’s swimming season officially came to a close near the end of March but Olympic hopeful Jessica Thielmann remains hard at work. The Gators senior phenom hails from Newcastle, England and looks to represent her country in 2016 at the summer games in Rio de Janeiro. The right to participate …

Few collegiate athletes are lucky enough to call themselves champions at least once in their collegiate career. Fewer are lucky enough to call themselves champions twice during their collegiate careers. Even less can call themselves champions four times in their college careers. Then there are UConn women’s basketball players Breanna Stewart, …

Top overall seed Connecticut and No. 4 seed Syracuse will battle for the national title in Indianapolis tonight at 8:30 p.m.  Holding a perfect record of 37-0 the UConn girls will compete for an NCAA-record 11th national championship (4th straight). Syracuse (30-7) clawed their way to the national championship game by beating the Washington …