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He’s a connector by nature, a relentless dot-linker, working the state — and beyond — like a bee in full bloom season, pollinating every corner of his football colony. High school coaches, boosters, parents, former players, seventh graders with a Hudl page — nobody’s too small, nobody’s off the grid. Because in his mind, every conversation is a seed, and every seed has a chance to grow into something Florida can use on Saturdays.

Have the Gators ever had a better late game closer than Walter Clayton Jr. (Photo by Chris Spears) Of the eight games the Gators lost last season, seven were by a combined 25 points: Arizona (6), TCU (4), Duke (1), UConn (4), Missouri (2), Auburn (7) and Iowa (1). The other loss was to Vanderbilt (17). Arizona and UConn are in the Final Four and it’s possible they could meet for the national championship on Monday. Duke and Iowa made the Elite Eight. TCU and Missouri made the

Other than the cold bats on the cold Friday night, the rest of the team picked up their leaders at the dish with enough runs and hits to potentially win the series. 

Will Rueben Chinyelu return to Florida or bolt for the NBA (Photo by Chris Spears) When Rueben Chinyelu was announced as the National Defensive Player of the Year Tuesday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), it confirmed what Todd Golden has been saying for months. With the 2026 award in hand, is it possible that Chinyelu will be back in his Florida uniform with a chance to not only win the defensive player of the year award a second time, but get the Gat

At 6-foot-1, 231 pounds, Baugh looks like he should run through people — and he does — but what’s been underestimated is how often he runs away from them.

ninth with everything wobbling again — and instead of letting it unravel, he snapped off the strikeout that stranded Arkansas and sealed something bigger than a game.   For O’Sullivan’s club, this wasn’t just about surviving another close call. It was about answering a miserable stretch with something definitive.

We need to go slow here and burn the candle of hope, carefully exploring every possibility. Because players like Haugh don’t come around often and he's a true treasure. Not like this. Not packaged this way. Not with that combination of grit, growth, and good old-fashioned basketball conscience.

If anyone is up to the challenge of constructing a contender for next season, it's Todd Golden. By CARLTON REESE GatorBaitMedia.com   I must admit the difficulty of watching the NCAA Tournament since last week’s heartbreak at the hands of the Iowa Hawkeyes. We shouldn’t be here, yet here we are… mired in a deluge of “what if?” and “why didn’t we?” A week has passed and the moments still replay in my mind, an attempt to alter a reality that is more of a poison pill. This all

If there’s a gravitational force inside this quarterback room, it’s the offensive coordinator — a high-octane, sleeves-rolled-up, “let’s go right now” kind of football coach who doesn’t do idle.

You could tell they were stunned when the game against Iowa ended everything so abruptly. And in their hearts, they felt this was rightfully theirs and they were on a mission to win it again. When they did not, it was a shock to their system.

Depending on the NCAA and NBA, Todd Golden could have a team that could very well compete for the NCAA championship next year or one with a

White doesn't care how many yards you give up. He's told you that. "My dad was in the military, so I bounced around a lot," White told Scott Carter this week. "I was born in Massachusetts, did three years in Wyoming, three years in Germany, and then we settled in Rhode Island." "My dad was in the military, so I bounced around a lot," White told Scott Carter this week. "I was born in Massachusetts, did three years in Wyoming, three years in Germany, and then we settled in