UF freshman Gray Horn made history Friday night by winning the men's decathlon at the SEC Outdoor Championships on his home track.
What started as a nightmare turned into a pretty good day for the Gators.
Once per season, CBS gets to cover two games a day. This year, that weekend will be next weekend when the Gators face the LSU Tigers.
Kelly Murphy was named the Southeastern Conference Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week.
Senior midfielder Ameera Abdullah cashed in Monday for her two goals against Tennessee on Sunday.
The Gators (3-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) loss to Mississippi Saturday caused them to fall eight spots in the new Associated Press poll. UF checks in at No.12 this week , while Georgia falls to No. 11. Alabama jumps up to No. 2 after their win in Athens, Ga. and former No. 1 Southern California slides to No.9 following its loss to Oregon State.
After two rounds at the Mason Rudolph Women's Championship in Franklin, Tenn., the women's golf team is sitting in seventh place.
The Gators, fresh of their 3-0 (25-19- 25-17, 25-21) win against Arkansas, make the trip to Oxford, Miss. Sunday to take on the Rebels. UF is 26-0 against Mississippi under coach Mary Wise. The Rebels (6-5, 2-0 SEC) are coming off a 3-1 win against South Carolina Friday night. The Gamecocks had won 10 straight matches before the loss. Mississippi is led by freshman outside hitter Katie Norris who is averaging three kills per set this season.
Kelly Murphy had a match for the record books.
Apparently people are expecting big things from the Gators this season. At this point all of the major preseason basketball magazines have been released, and the consensus seems to be that UF is heading back to the NCAA Tournament after missing out on the Big Dance last season for the first time in 10 years.
UF has announced its TV appearances on SUN Sports and Fox Sports Net for the upcoming season.
I was just perusing on ESPN.com through their list of most important stadiums in history by Jim Caple. Note that this list is not "best" stadiums or "prettiest" or the writer's favorite stadiums. Most important means how it was influential to the sports world.
For the second straight year, UF will not host the once annual open practice. Instead, the Gators will hold an interactive fan-player event the week of Gator Growl before the Oct. 25 homecoming football game against Kentucky.
After finishing in fourth in the Mountain Dew Invitational, UF's Josh Izewski was named the Southeastern Conference's cross country Male Freshman of the Week.
First, if you want to get Urban Meyer mad, talk about the new clock rules. The new rules have significantly reduced the number of plays a team can run, as evident in UF running less than 50 -plays against Tennessee-a game the Gators dominated. The new rules cause the clock to always be reset after a play, barring a timeout. And when teams have 40 seconds, instead of 25, to get a play off, there's less plays that run. Meyer called the new rules "awful."
The newest version of the 2008 UF basketball schedule includes Syracuse on Nov. 24 and either Kansas or Washington on Nov. 25 as part of the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic. Florida and Kansas would both have to either win or lose their previous games to meet. UF lost to Kansas 82-80 in overtime during the 2006 Las Vegas Invitational.
The UF women's cross country team was ranked 15th in the nation on Tuesday by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that UF's home game against Mississippi on Sept. 27 will kick off at 12:30 PM. The game will be televised on Raycom Sports.
Well I certainly thought the Ohio State-USC game would end the way it did, but apparently I'm not alone.
Midfielder Sarah Chapman was named Southeastern Conference Freshman Soccer Player of the Week on Monday.
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