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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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FILE - In this March 4, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks walk past the Olympic rings near the New National Stadium in Tokyo. It's been 2 1/2 months since the Tokyo Olympics were postponed until next year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So where do the games stand? So far, many ideas about how the Olympic can take place are being floated by the International Olympic Committee, Japanese officials and politicians, and in unsourced Japanese newspaper articles coming from local organizers and politicians. The focus is on soaring costs, fans, or no fans, possible quarantines for athletes, and cutting back to only “the essentials." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
SPORTS

What We’re Missing: The Olympic Games

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.


Viz
SPORTS

What We're Missing

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.


Florida-Georgia Game
SPORTS  |  FOOTBALL

The alligatorSports Way-Too-Early SEC Poll

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.


Football
SPORTS  |  FOOTBALL

What if: UF never hired Bob Woodruff

Bob Woodruff isn’t exactly the sexiest name in UF sports. He’s not talked about as one of the program’s great coaches, his legacy is only revered deep in the annals of Florida history, and he’s only the fourth result when you search for Bob Woodruff on Wikipedia.


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