Todd Golden has Florida on the brink of an SEC title (Photo by Chris Spears) Just call them road warriors.   Todd Golden has a team that doesn’t seem fazed by the kind of hostile environments found in venues around the Southeastern Conference. It’s almost as if 7 th -ranked Florida (21-6, 12-2) has this thing about going on the road to burst the bubble of fans intent on potentially storming the court to celebrate a win over last year’s national champ.   The numbers bear it ou

The Florida bats stayed red hot during the weekend. Taylor Shumaker had two home runs; Brown, Jocelyn Ericksonand Madison Walker each homered.

Todd Golden should be SEC Coach of the Year (Photo by Chris Spears) The best basketball coach in the Southeastern Conference is Todd Golden. He proved it last year when he took the Gators to the NCAA championship in just his third year on the Florida job. He should have been SEC coach of the year in 2025, but that honor was bestowed on Auburn’s Bruce Pearl, whose Tigers held the No. 1 ranking for a portion of the season and who got to the Final Four. Head-to-head, Golden won

hen your basketball day starts in Oxford Mississippi before lunch central time and goes until midnight with only a few hours break, I would, in fact, call that a super binge.

Tommy Haugh is the best player in the SEC (Photo by Chris Spears) When CBS rolled out its latest attempt to nail the brackets for a 2026 NCAA Tournament that is still nearly four weeks from the opening tip, three of the four top seeds were Arizona (West), Duke (East) and UConn (South). Florida has already played those three, Arizona in Las Vegas back in November, Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium back in December and UConn at Madison Square Garden, also in November.   In losing

The most important period in Florida history may rest on the success of Sumrall to get this spring off to a roaring start. By Loren P. Meadows, Football Analyst, GatorBaitMedia.com , Host of the Lowdown with Loren Meadows Out the gate strong-Coach Jon Sumrall (Chris Spears photo) For the past three seasons beginning with Napier’s first week, we set out to grab 6-7 reasons the Florida Gators would win the corresponding number of games the following season. Unfortunately, from

Coach Todd Golden has been a master at developing players into potential they may not have realized. Todd Golden will not tolerate a static nature to his program. By CARLTON REESE GatorBaitMedia.com Watching the Florida Gators win is fun – championships even better. Best of all, though, is sustaining that winning edge year and year out such that every season seems like one that could be a potential run for a title, be it conference or national. Winning it all last year took e

Urban Klavzar steps back before launching a 3-pointer (Photo courtesy of UAA) On Florida’s first possession of the game, the Ole Miss Rebels surrounded Rueben Chinyelu with four players. The result, a turnover.    The Rebels were determined to neutralize Chinyelu, the nation’s leading rebounder and the Southeastern Conference leader in double-doubles. The strategy was effective, just one teensy problem. In paying so much attention to Chinyelu, Ole Miss left open the perimeter

Coach Jenny Rowland was ecstatic on how her team held it together, winning at Georgia: “What a fun intense environment it’s always a battle when you’re at Georgia or competing against Georgia and it’s always a great day to be a Gator when you beat Georgia. Gators really did a phenomenal job sticking together, fighting all the way through. We had a little hiccup here and there and yet nobody panicked. Everybody followed through did their job trusted their training trusted

Boogie Fland gets a defensive stop against Georgia (Photo by Chris Spears) The mathematics favor 12 th -ranked Florida, so much that everybody on the planet expects a blowout today (12 noon, ESPN) when the Gators (20-6-11-2 SEC) take on Ole Miss (11-15, 3-10 SEC) in Oxford. The Gators have won six straight games including their last five on the road and they have a 2-game cushion in the Southeastern Conference standings. Ole Miss, on the other hand, has lost eight straight ga

The Gators need to come out aggressively in each of these games and play their brand of softball regardless of the opponent

It was shock and awe in high definition — The Massive Mountain Man, The Nigerian Nightmare, The Sultan Of Swat. Pick your favorite and hope the trademark lawyers are asleep