Former ESPN analyst Merril Hoge, who once said Kurt Warner sounded “extremely uneducated” when the Super Bowl XXXIV MVP said he wouldn’t allow his kids to play football over fear of concussions, was fired during the network’s mass layoff in 2017.
Sure, I’m excited when I wake up on Saturday.
It was this week a year ago when this Florida program was unraveling at every seam.
The announcement of the four teams selected to the College Football Playoff later this season will undoubtedly elicit the outrage that it always does.
My friend and colleague, online sports editor Mark Stine, wrote a column at the beginning of the football season with two bold predictions about the Gators football team.
Good news for those of you who haven’t gotten over your intoxication of Florida’s win against LSU: Our weekly picks column is both sobering and unmistakably dry today.
You probably noticed LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was deadly accurate early last Saturday against the Gators defense. His only incompletion in the first quarter came on a fade route to the corner of the end zone that floated just out of the reach of receiver Justin Jefferson. His six completions went for 78 yards and set the Tigers up with the game’s opening score.
People make sports special.
We got with Kennedi Landry, the sports editor of LSU’s student newspaper, The Daily Reveille, to ask a few questions about Saturday’s game. Here’s what she had to say about the Tigers and their chances of winning against Florida.
We never thought we’d say this, but it’s good to be back in Gainesville.
I wrote an article nearly three weeks ago highlighting the Florida football team’s game against Tennessee. That article started out with the phrase, “The Florida-Tennessee rivalry is the stuff of legends.”
Remember that fourth-down blitz on Saturday from safety Donovan Stiner?
Now seems as good a time as any to say it: I told you so.
Feleipe Franks makes mistakes.
The Dan Mullen hot takes are among us. The alligatorSports staff travels to Starkvegas this weekend to see for ourselves the alleged anti-Mullen outrage. And among all of that clanga clanga, we’ll all bare witness to some of the maroon-faced hatred.
Cowbells ring.
The crowd of 100,027 fans that had packed into Neyland Stadium on Saturday night dwindled down to a sparse few.
The players won't say it. But this game is a must-win.
Mick Hubert, the voice of Florida Gators radio, has been immortalized for all time with his call of Florida-Tennessee last season. You can probably hear his exasperated voice trying not to crack as he shrieks, “IT’S A TOUCHDOWN! HOOO MY!”
This column is a public service announcement to all of you ridiculously passionate Florida fans.
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