The months of April, May and June are more frenetic than any other times of the year when it comes to sports. From March Madness to the NBA and NHL playoffs, this time of year serves as the culmination for many different leagues, resulting in a cacophony of high stakes showdowns at a breakneck pace.
April is usually one of the most exciting months of the sports calendar. The beginning of the MLB season, the NFL Draft, the start of the NBA Playoffs, the Masters and so much more. But, year in, year out, nothing grabs my attention more than the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
I must admit that I haven’t always been a fervent fan of women’s college hoops or the WNBA — something as a female sports journalist I am reluctant and embarrassed by.
There are some bucket list experiences in the world of sport.
Every golfer dreams of making it to the Masters, and every tennis player wants to play at Wimbledon.
There have been a lot of changes in Gainesville recently.
In 1916, the Berlin Summer Olympics were canceled after the onset of World War I. In 1940, the Olympics to be held in Tokyo (and then Helsinki) were canceled as tensions in the Second Sino-Japanese War boiled, and the 1944 games to take place in London didn’t occur as World War II was coming to a climax.
For a 12-year-old baseball player, this is supposed to be a magical time.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the sports calendar into disarray. The month of June usually features the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final as well as the MLB's regular season and the U.S. Open. This summer was also supposed to have huge international events like the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and Euro 2020.
Why the big league NFL reigns supreme over college football
Third down may be the “money down,” but what about the first two downs?
Every year, college programs say goodbye to some of their best players on draft day.
Assuming that the college football season begins as scheduled (which feels like a big assumption right now), we’re down to three months until the beginning of SEC play on Sept. 12. We decided to celebrate by surveying our staff on how it would rank all of the teams in the SEC heading into next season.
Former UF wideout Donald “Reche” Caldwell was killed in his hometown of Tampa Saturday night.
Tyree Appleby was a standout high school basketball player whom seemingly nobody was interested in.
A former UF gymnast spoke out about her experiences with racism during her tenure on the UF gymnastics team on Friday.
The second year of the Dan Mullen era was largely a success. Florida won double-digit games in the regular season for the first time since 2015, defeated its two in-state rivals in the same season for the first time since 2008 and won the Orange Bowl.
Shannon Snell used to make pancakes on the gridiron, but now, he does a different kind of cooking: barbecuing.
“The one constant through all the years has been baseball.”
Todd Grantham had a reputation when he was hired as Florida’s new defensive coordinator in 2018.
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