'Bama snaps Gators' winning streak
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN | Oct. 20, 2012The Gators came into Friday night’s match against Alabama on a nine-game winning streak and having never lost to Alabama before.
The Gators came into Friday night’s match against Alabama on a nine-game winning streak and having never lost to Alabama before.
The Taylor Unroe of the past was nowhere to be found Friday night when the No. 11 Gators took on Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Florida men’s tennis coach Bryan Shelton will be attending the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships for the 14th straight season this weekend, but the 2012 tournament will be a little different from his 13 previous seasons.
The crowd at the O’Connell Center jeered and yelled, but Madison Monserez, mouth agape, couldn’t eke out a word.
Jo Dragotta’s past nine games have been what statistics majors would call an outlier.
Hunter Joyer didn’t mind stepping out of the spotlight.
The No. 10 Florida swimming and diving team is coming off a first place showing in the third-annual All Florida Invitational.
When Will Muschamp thinks of legendary coaches in the Southeastern Conference, he thinks of headgear. Specifically, a houndstooth hat and a visor.
As the fourth quarter wore on, Jon Halapio could see the fatigue creeping across LSU defensive tackle Josh Downs’ face.
After finishing No. 113 in the NCAA with a minus-12 turnover margin last season, Florida ranks 14th nationally with a plus-seven margin so far in 2012.
South Carolina plays the same brand of smash-mouth football that Florida has begun to master.
Offensive linemen Jonotthan Harrison and Xavier Nixon returned to practice on Wednesday. Harrison (right arm) and Nixon (upper-body injury) both left during No. 3 Florida’s 31-17 win against Vanderbilt on Saturday.
As soon as the Southeastern Conference released statistics following last weekend’s games, the outcry was inevitable.
Damontre Harris knew he would have to sit out the season when he transferred to Florida from South Carolina in May, but he hoped he could at least help the team during practice.
Since the season began, coach Mary Wise has described No. 11 Florida as a grind-it-out team.
The Gators were historically good on defense last season.
On Nov. 13, 2010, a trip to Atlanta was at stake.
If Jeff Driskel were a defensive coordinator, he knows how he would try to slow down Florida’s offense.
This season has been one of tests for Florida. UF visited Texas A&M and the 12th Man, traveled to Knoxville to face pass-happy Tennessee and hosted a top-five team that dominated them just a year ago in LSU.
Florida entered the final round of the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate with a seven-stroke lead but could not secure the win in Vestavia Hills, Ala.