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Florida welcomes Alabama for Senior Day matchup
By Dylan Rudolph | Apr. 12, 2018After a four-match road trip, the No. 10 Florida men’s tennis team finally returns home on Friday for the final match of the regular season.
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Florida track and field will host Tom Jones Memorial today
By Alanis Thames | Apr. 12, 2018UF’s men’s and women’s track and field teams have been preparing for the Tom Jones Memorial as if it were an away meet.
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Gators in action this weekend for final tune-up before SEC Championships
By Sam Campisano | Apr. 12, 2018Over the past few months, junior Gordon Neale has emerged as the No. 1 golfer for the No. 11 Florida team.
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Gators golf heads to Athens for Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic to close regular season
By Chris O'Brien | Apr. 12, 2018UF won two tournaments in a row and was riding high going into the Evans Derby Experience in Auburn, Alabama. But the wheels came off in, according to Urban Dictionary, the state without car inspections - as the Gators finished tied for sixth out of the 12 teams that participated.
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Davis deserves another opportunity to make up for recent violations
By Jake Dreilinger | Apr. 12, 2018We at alligatorSports published an article on Monday about Florida defensive lineman Keivonnis Davis violating three terms of his pre-trial intervention agreement for his involvement in a credit card scandal during the summer of 2017.
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UF sweeps Kentucky in Gainesville as SEC race winds down
By River Wells | Apr. 12, 2018When the ball popped into the air, senior Anna Danilina began a backwards gallop. She raised her racket as high as her arm would allow and spiked the ball across the center of the court. Her opponent, Kentucky’s Emily Fanning, could only watch helplessly.
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With new-found inspiration, Florida prepares for potential conference-deciding bout with Marquette
By Tyler Nettuno | Apr. 12, 2018As Towson exited Donald R. Dizney Stadium on March 21 following its 14-11 upset over Florida’s lacrosse team, the Gators knew they had to go back to the drawing board.
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Gators looking to rebound against South Carolina after tough road stretch
By Mark Stine | Apr. 12, 2018After playing five straight road games over the past nine days, Florida’s softball team is preparing for a weekend homestand with some of its players under the weather. Though coach Tim Walton wouldn’t specify which players exactly were sick, he did say roughly half the team was feeling ill.
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Austin Langworthy breaking out of sophomore slump
By Justin Ahlum | Apr. 12, 2018At the beginning of the season, hits were harder to come by for Austin Langworthy than on-campus parking is for UF students.
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UF women’s tennis faces Kentucky as SEC race winds down
By River Wells | Apr. 12, 2018With their victory against South Carolina last Saturday, the SEC race has found itself in a three-way tie.
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Florida drops midweek matchup at FSU for second meeting in a row
By Mari Faiello | Apr. 12, 2018First baseman Kayli Kvistad took the batter’s box in the top of the seventh inning with a blank expression as cheers rang out from JoAnne Graf Field Wednesday night. The crowd had been rambunctious long before she stepped up to the plate.
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Gators prepare for a return to the podium at NCAA Championships
By Alana Gomez | Apr. 12, 2018The SEC Championships on March 24 marked two changes for the Gators gymnastics team.
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Wilson motivated to elevate defense to new level
By Benjamin Brandt | Apr. 12, 2018Marco Wilson has escaped the pressure of rising expectations. No matter what the headlines read as he and fellow Florida cornerback C.J. Henderson continue to garner offseason attention, Wilson’s plans are much greater.
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What is a sport?
By Morgan McMullen | Apr. 12, 2018When the UF gymnastics team competes in the NCAA Championships on April 20, you can be damned sure I’ll be watching on ESPN. It’s one of the most entertaining spectacles in college athletics, and you’d be foolish to tune out if you’re not busy.
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From Lamborghini's to QBs, it's all the same to Mullen
By Benjamin Brandt | Apr. 10, 2018According to Dan Mullen, playing quarterback is a bit like driving a sports car. Despite the promise of power, it’s often wise to heed the warnings of speed limits and stop signs.
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Baseball fights are one of the most ridiculous spectacles in sports
By Ethan Bauer | Apr. 10, 2018The St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks participated on Sunday in one of baseball’s most unusual, most nonsensical, most useless traditions, which is saying something for a sport so imbued in useless traditions.
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Florida takes on FSU in midweek matchup in Tallahassee
By Mari Faiello | Apr. 10, 2018Florida’s softball team has little time to rest. The team is taking a trip to Tallahassee to take on Florida State tonight following a series win against the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Gators complete sweep of FSU
By Morgan McMullen | Apr. 10, 2018The last time Jonathan India was held without a hit in a game, “Black Panther” was enjoying its fourth straight week in the No.-1 spot at the box office. Since then, the Gators third baseman has been collecting hits with a tenacity that would make T’Challa proud.
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Florida goes for sweep of FSU: Over- and underachievers for week of April 3-9
By Morgan McMullen | Apr. 10, 2018With Tennessee’s win over No. 1 Florida in Game 2 of Sunday’s doubleheader the Volunteers snapped the Gators’ nine-game winning streak. Though that aspect merely matched last season’s longest stretch of consecutive wins, the 2018 Gators offense emerged as a larger part of the team’s identity than it had been during the 2017 championship run.
