Haugh had a gimpy leg but toughed it out -- like the SEC POY he should be. (UAA photo) Tommy Haugh, who is either No. 1 or No. 1A in the race for Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, had a game to forget Wednesday night when 7 th -ranked Florida traveled to Austin to face a Texas team scrambling to solidify its NCAA  résumé. Five points, his first game without a three since early in the non-conference schedule, no rebounds and a tweaked ankle although he did have a cou

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

By CARLTON REESE GatorBaitMedia.com Todd Golden will not tolerate a static nature to his program. Watching the Florida Gators win is exhilarating. Championships are even better. However, the true joy lies in maintaining that winning edge year after year. Each season feels like a potential title run, whether it’s a conference championship or a national one. Winning it all last year took every Gator fan to a place we thought we might never return to. Despite a rough start to t

Ole Miss took a crucial step forward in the SEC race with last Saturday’s 34-26 win at Oklahoma, powered by Kewan Lacy’s late touchdowns and

(Photo by Chris Spears) It is Florida-Georgia week and the Gators (3-4, 2-2 SEC) will go into the annual clash in Jacksonville under the direction of interim coach Billy Gonzales. With five games remaining in the regular season, the Gators can still become bowl eligible if Gonzales is able to lead them to three wins. That is a monumental task considering the schedule includes 5 th -ranked Georgia, 8 th -ranked Ole Miss (in Oxford) and 17 th -ranked Tennessee. If Gonzales were

(Photo by Chris Spears) Thoughts from an eventful Monday: Even before the 2025 season began, Billy Napier sealed his own fate. It happened in what athletic director Scott Stricklin described Monday as “hours” of conversations about the need for Napier to give up play calling to focus on the duties of being the head football coach at the University of Florida.   "I shared with him that I thought that his strength may be in leading the program and overseeing the bigger picture,

Destiny has its little pranks that are designed to toy with our emotions during March Madness.