Before Amanda Castillo stepped in her new training center, most of the other girls at the Orlando Metro thought they knew her.
I have always believed that things happen for a reason.
"It takes about 198 points to win…And .025 to lose. Will you fight to get the extra .025?"
For the first time all season, junior Stacey Nelson did not throw a single pitch in either game of a doubleheader.
It's been a long time since Brandon McArthur got to sit down and watch Wednesday Night Baseball.
It took a little bit longer than expected, but the preseason prediction made by UF coach Tim Walton has finally come true.
I've dreaded writing this column for a while now.
Bad luck first struck Ryan Lochte on June 30, 1985.
It had been 13 years since the UF's women's golf team found itself in the Southeastern Conference's victory lane.
The Gators men's tennis team couldn't quite pull off the improbable on Sunday.
The finish line is starting to come into focus.
It was like deja vu for the UF women's tennis team on Sunday.
Until the last pitch of the series, it was impossible to tell whether UF or Kentucky was the better baseball team.
I think there is one moment in every journalist's career when he or she has an epiphany. It's the exact moment that tells the person, this is why you chose to become a reporter.
Saying goodbye is like falling asleep.
The pitcher who has made the most pronounced impact for the UF baseball team is, perhaps, its most soft-spoken individual.
The scoreboard may have been blank, but the softball complex was far from empty. Practice starts in 30 minutes, but the off-field duties of its superstar start early, and as I sat on a leather couch in the team's lounge, I found myself largely unprepared for the continuous stream of humility that would soon resonate, not only with those asking the questions but with any overhearing the responses.
Last weekend, the UF's football team's Orange and Blue Debut garnered lavish media attention, while the Gators gymnastics team advanced to the NCAA Championships.
A quick once-over of senior Mary Ratliff's Facebook profile leaves no doubt as to where the outgoing right fielder grew up.
It's the moment both teams have been waiting for all season - tournament time.
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