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(09/24/17 1:50am)
Kadarius Toney caught the ball and went backwards. Instead of cutting up field, he cut to his right and tried to use his speed to outrun Kentucky’s entire defense. “Man,” defensive end Jabari Zuniga thought on the sideline, “what’re you doing?”
(09/22/17 2:52am)
Florida’s football players know about streaks. Last year, they entered a game at Tennessee having won 11 straight over the Volunteers. Former Gators cornerback Quincy Wilson announced he had a message for UT ahead of that game when he asked whether a duck could pull a truck, the point being that ducks don’t pull trucks, and Tennessee doesn’t beat Florida. That’s just the way it is. Or at least the way it was.
(09/20/17 1:28am)
DALLAS — The room where athletic directors, coaches, administrators, former players and journalists from across the country meet to discuss the College Football Playoff is as regal as you’d expect.
(09/16/17 10:08pm)
Florida’s offense has for years wandered aimlessly through the Desert of Mediocrity. And for most of Saturday, it continued to do so.
(09/14/17 3:44am)
Jim McElwain wasn’t himself. It was easy to see. Usually an upbeat guy, even following his team’s loss to Michigan two weeks ago and other low moments, the word that reporters used to describe the Gators football coach on Wednesday was somber.
(09/06/17 11:15pm)
Florida running back Mark Thompson wants to talk about football and the Florida Gators. That’s understandable. He’s a football player for the Florida Gators, so usually, that’s what he’s asked about. On Tuesday, that changed.
(09/04/17 11:57pm)
This is more like it.
(09/02/17 10:19pm)
I wanted to believe the hype. I wanted to believe Jim McElwain when he said Florida’s offensive line would be much improved in 2017. I wanted to believe the Gators had the pieces for a successful, potent offense that could put up points, yards and wins. I wanted to believe the defense could pick up what NFL draftees Jarrad Davis, Alex Anzalone, Quincy Wilson, Teez Tabor and Marcus Maye left behind.
(09/01/17 3:28am)
This ain’t UMass. This ain’t Bowling Green. This ain’t Charleston Southern or Western Kentucky or any of the other punching bags Florida has opened the season against in the past decade. This is Michigan, the Big Blue, from the Big Ten, which historically has produced some of football’s biggest and best players.
(08/30/17 1:56am)
Dre Massey’s screen saver tells a story. So did the brace he wore on his knee all spring. It’s one of tragedy and determination, of heartbreak and resilience, and it’s one Massey hopes ends in triumph.
(08/29/17 12:31am)
Florida’s Jim McElwain, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and a bouquet of other college football coaches are wasting their time drawing up plays to move a ball up and down a rectangle. No, based on how much paranoia, control and secrecy they like to involve in such an arbitrary task, it’s clear they belong somewhere else: the U.S. military.
(08/25/17 3:03am)
Malik Zaire worked with Florida’s first-team offense during the team’s open portion of practice on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Luke Del Rio did. And on the day before that, who knows? Because while there was no way to check since practice was closed, it doesn’t seem to matter to coach Jim McElwain who’s taking the first-team reps.
(08/25/17 12:30am)
In a small Florida town, an ATV accident ravaged a community and a family. They turned to their faith to confront it, but is faith enough?
(08/21/17 10:44pm)
Florida’s chances of upsetting Michigan in the two teams’ season openers took a hit over the break when UF announced seven Gators are suspended for the game.
(08/21/17 1:58am)
Anyone who listens to Jim McElwain answer one question knows he is not a straightforward man. He rambles. He swerves. He changes topics like a figure skater changing direction. For example, here’s what he said when asked about how challenging the team’s quarterback competition must be given that two weeks from the team’s season opener, it’s still a three-man race:
(04/19/17 4:14am)
When the sun rose over the O’Connell Center on Monday morning, the infield grass at McKethan Stadium was just starting to look presentable. It was 7:52 a.m., and when it finally peeked over the dome, UF student Kaleb Lewis had to pause. He couldn’t risk messing up his masterpiece by succumbing to the glare.
(04/19/17 3:27am)
Do you hear it? The ticking? She hears it. She’s been hearing it for as long as she can remember, and now it’s grown from a little pinch to a searing pain she can’t hide if she tries. She hears it when she thinks about her future — a future that, until recently, saw her heading to the WNBA. Well, no more. No more basketball for junior Brooke Copeland. Not when people are suffering, dammit, and not while she can do something about it in her limited time on earth.
(04/17/17 2:29am)
Quick, UF baseball fans, call your mothers. Wake the children. Light the freakin’ beacons.
(04/14/17 2:27am)
It was frustrating. It was just so frustrating.
(04/12/17 2:20am)
Before you start commenting that I’m an entitled millennial sh-t for defending participation trophies, please know I recognize your concern. It’s definitely a cliché thing for a 20-year-old to do. But with the number of slam pieces written about the privileged “snowflake” generation and its sense of entitlement, I think there’s something to be said about how participation trophies can actually be a good thing.