August 30th, 2007 02:35pm
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Because John Brown has had to wait so long to hear from the NCAA Clearinghouse, Gator fans are up in arms. They envision a bunch of suits sitting around in an office smoking cigars and having their fantasy drafts while Brown’s file sits on a desk somewhere.
There are two truths here that people have to understand:
1. The NCAA has to process the admissions of thousands of college athletes from all of its member institutions in every sport. This isn’t …
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August 23rd, 2007 02:45pm
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The “other” Ring of Honor is going to grow drastically soon.
Billy Donovan’s ring is in the basketball practice facility on the walls of the practice court.
He has had large banners hung to honor players who have had successful careers and graduated from Florida.
They are not in the O’Connell Center because there are so many Gator teams that share that space that if you hung banners for every special gymnast, volleyball star, swimmer and women’s basketball player …
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August 13th, 2007 11:23am
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There is only one dominant golfer in the world. Tiger Woods is also the best to ever play the game.
We don’t need to wait until he passes Jack Nicklaus’ 18 majors to declare Woods as the best to ever stick a tee in the ground.
Here’s why …
When Tiger is playing well ” not great, but well ” nobody else has a chance. He may tease you the way he did on Sunday when his lead dropped …
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August 9th, 2007 04:50pm
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In Friday’s Gainesville Sun sports section you can see who I have
selected as the 10 Most Influential Gators in the first 100 years of
Florida football.
It’s a project I started thinking about last summer and never got
around to doing. The Birmingham News ran a list of its 25 most
influential in SEC history last month and it jogged my memory to go
back and finish this idea.
Picking 10 meant leaving some out and
I’m sure you have some ideas on who …
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August 3rd, 2007 02:33pm
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Boy that seems a little high for Florida’s football team to be ranked in the first coaches’ poll that came out on Friday.
But when nine coaches vote Florida No. 1, it skews the balloting a bit. I’m going to assume that there were nine coaches who thought, “Hey, they’re the champs until somebody beats them.”
Obviously, with all the defensive personnel Florida lost, a ranking that high is surprising. Then you add in the fact that four of the teams in …
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