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Forward Kit Loferski exited the game in the 81st minute with a red card for dissent in Florida's shutout loss to the Volunteers on Thursday night.

SPORTS | SOCCER

Florida held scoreless against Tennessee

By Bryan Matamoros | Oct. 24, 2019

Florida’s soccer team has made a habit of coming from behind to win games.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators 2nd-round woes result in 7th-place finish

By Jack Braverman | Oct. 22, 2019

This week’s performance from the Gators men’s golf team presented both positives and negatives.

Cassidy Lindley has four goals and five assists.

SPORTS | SOCCER

Florida travels to Knoxville with 6-1 SEC record in tow

By Graham Marsh | Oct. 22, 2019

In the past 10 matches, Florida’s soccer team is 8-2. That success followed a 2-3 start to the season. The Gators — ranked No. 20 in the most recent United Soccer Coaches poll — head into the final three contests of the regular season in the upper echelon of the conference.

Quarterback Kyle Trask is completing his passes at a higher rate than Feleipe Franks did last year. The team is averaging 32.4 points a game under Trask.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

Florida is better with Kyle Trask under center

By Sam Campisano | Oct. 22, 2019

I’m sorry, Feleipe Franks.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Demarcus Robinson runs the ball against the Denver Broncos on Oct. 17 in Denver.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Gators in the NFL: Week 7 update

By Payton Titus | Oct. 22, 2019

Despite two losing seasons in the last 10 years (2013 and 2017), Florida’s football program has consistently turned out NFL-caliber athletes, establishing it as the FBS team with the third-most active players on a 53-man roster in 2019 with 35 — including five rookies (Vosean Joseph, Jordan Scarlett, Jawaan Taylor, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Fred Johnson).

McCartney Kessler will compete in the final of the ITA Southeast Regional Championship in Tallahassee on Monday. She will face off against Georgia’s Lea Ma. Kessler earned two victories on Sunday.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Florida finishes weekend at ITA Southeast Regionals

By Noah Ram | Oct. 20, 2019

At this point in Florida’s women’s tennis season, there has been one player who has emerged as a star: McCartney Kessler.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators in 2nd after 1st round

By Jack Braverman | Oct. 20, 2019

It’s been a fall season full of trial and error for the Gators men’s golf team.

Holly Carlton combined with Thayer Hall to log 30 kills Sunday.

SPORTS | VOLLEYBALL

Hall, Carlton carry Florida offense

By Brendan Farrell | Oct. 20, 2019

There is no such thing as style points in volleyball.

Edge rusher Jonathan Greenard has missed Florida's last two games, and its defense has struggled without him.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

UF is good, if it gets healthy

By Dylan Rudolph | Oct. 20, 2019

Every road trip is the same.

Injured players, like receiver Kadarius Toney, can use the bye week to recuperate.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Gators welcome bye week after road win at South Carolina

By Kyle Wood | Oct. 20, 2019

It’s all happening for Florida's football team.

Jessica Pascoe became the first UF runner to finish first in every meet she competed in in a season.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS CROSS COUNTRY

Pascoe continues unprecedented streak in Texas

By Joseph Salvador | Oct. 19, 2019

The regular season is over for the Florida cross country team. Nobody may be happier than Jessica Pascoe, who quite frankly, might be getting bored of the competition.

South Carolina's Ryan Hilinski, bottom, gets sacked by Florida's Zachary Carter, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Columbia, SC. Florida defeated South Carolina 38-27.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Florida defense plays savior in win over South Carolina

By Dylan Rudolph | Oct. 19, 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Kyle Trask has been asked to do a lot this season.

Florida's head coach Dan Mullen smiles with his players during the first half of an NCAA college football game against South Carolina, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Columbia, SC.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Gators proved they can win ugly against the Gamecocks

By Tyler Nettuno | Oct. 19, 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Florida played its worst game of the year, appearing to follow a recipe for back-to-back losses precisely.

Florida's Jacob Copeland (15) catches a pass for a touchdown as South Carolina's Jammie Robinson (7) defends in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Columbia, SC.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Gators survive SC with fourth-quarter comeback

By Sam Campisano | Oct. 19, 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C. — They say an alligator moves faster in water than it does on land.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Men fall, women rise in first SEC matchup of the year

By Dylan O'Shea | Oct. 18, 2019

The Gators had mixed results in their first SEC dual meets of the year.

SPORTS | SOCCER

Gators outlast Auburn for 10th win

By Graham Marsh | Oct. 18, 2019

Forward Kouri Peace joined the same post-game circle her team forms after every game. Over the loudspeaker at the stadium, the song “Good Feeling” by Flo Rida came on.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS CROSS COUNTRY

UF travels to College Station

By Joseph Salvador | Oct. 17, 2019

Florida will compete in the Arturo Barrios Invitational in College Station, Texas, on Saturday at 9 a.m., hosted by the Texas A&M Aggies. It will be UF’s final meet before the SEC Championship.

Marlee Zein will make her doubles debut with McCartney Kessler this weekend.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Gators send off 4 players to ITA Southeast Regionals

By Victor Prieto | Oct. 17, 2019

The Gators women’s tennis team is sending four representatives into enemy territory this weekend to compete in the ITA Southeast Regional Championships.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Florida set to face Missouri

By Dylan O'Shea | Oct. 17, 2019

UF’s swimming and diving teams are on the road, again, against Missouri in their first SEC matchup of the year. It’s Florida’s fifth-straight road meet before returning home.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

Picks Column: Week 8

Oct. 17, 2019

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow threw as many touchdowns as he did incompletions on Saturday: three.