The No. 5 Gators opened up the 2009 NCAA Championship meet Thursday at the Student Rec Center Natatorium on the Texas A&M University campus with five finals-qualifying swims and dives. Three individuals and two Gator relays are set to return to Thursday evening swimming and diving consolations and finals.
While students are looking forward to the relaxation that comes with the end of the semester, the No. 5 UF men's golfers are looking forward to the end of school for a different reason.
Amanda Butler says she bleeds orange and blue, and it's hard not to believe her.
Only three of them know the feeling.
The banners were strange. They were painted black with a diamond-shaped logo that doesn't belong in the O'Connell Center. They read "National Invitation Tournament" and spoke of postseason dreams, but not the postseason dreams with shining moments and the usual Madness.
Whether at the plate or behind it, Kristina Hilberth made the big plays her team needed Wednesday.
Nick Calathes looked a lot more like his old self Wednesday night.
ORLANDO - FSU may have been billed as the big midweek in-state rival for UF, but you would never know it from the crowd that turned out at Jay Bergman Field to watch Central Florida take on the Gators.
It's the invitation of a lifetime.
When Amanda Castillo stung her ankle against Utah on Friday, UF (6-4, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) could only hope it was a minor injury.
Percy Harvin, Louis Murphy and Cornelius Ingram caught passes in The Swamp for the final time Wednesday, showing off for NFL scouts at UF's Pro Scout Day.
The Santa Fe College softball team (29-3, 6-2 Mid-Florida Conference) proved why it is ranked No. 1 in the National Junior College Athletic Association on Tuesday against El Paso Community College.
Working an extra day of the week might not seem like an appealing prospect to most people, but for coach Tim Walton and the UF softball team, it's something to be excited about.
It was the best news the UF women's basketball players had heard in three years, and they were wishing for something better.
At the intersection of Marion and Thomas S. Boyland streets in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the Marion Hopkinson Playground.
The UF basketball team sat and watched the NCAA Tournament selection show Sunday just like all the others.
FSU's Tyler Holt yelled back at Buddy Munroe after running over UF's catcher to score the game-tying run in the top of the ninth. Munroe responded with his bat.
There's nothing like a rivalry game to wake up a reeling team.
The latest addition to the Gators' 2010 recruiting class is a big one.
Every year, there's one week I look forward to above everything else &mdash the selection and first two rounds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.From Selection Sunday to the finalizing of the Sweet 16, I'm in heaven.
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