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Friday, May 23, 2025

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SPORTS  |  VOLLEYBALL

Wise optimistic about young squad

Nick Calathes, Jai Lucas and much of the rest of the UF men's basketball team could be found chatting with Doc Rivers, coach of the World Champion Boston Celtics, in the O'Connell Center Sunday afternoon.


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SPORTS  |  SOCCER

Annis named SEC Freshman of the Week

Forward Tahnai Annis was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman Soccer Player of the Week on Monday.She scored the game-winning goal in the 95th minute of Sunday's match at Florida Atlantic. Annis was the first-ever Gator to record a golden goal as her first collegiate-goal.


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SPORTS  |  BLOGS FOOTBALL

ESPN, SEC agree to huge 15-year contract

ESPN and the Southeastern Conference has reached a huge ridiculous 15-year deal. The deal begins in 2009-10 and will include events from football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Check our Web site later tonight as we'll have a full story.


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SPORTS  |  BLOGS FOOTBALL

Sex class not what Rainey expected

Gators running back Chris Rainey may not be the best player to talk to for many things, but he sure as hell knows how to make reporters laugh. This exchange could be heard at UF's morning press conference today with the player of "I'm a white-girl man" fame.


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SPORTS  |  BLOGS FOOTBALL

Hornsby enrolls at EMCC

According to the Miami Herald former UF safety Jamar Hornsby has enrolled at East Mississippi Community College where he will play football this season. He will be eligible to transfer to another FBS school next year. Hornsby was kicked off the team earlier this summer after it was discovered that he made nearly $3,000 worth of charges to the credit card of deceased UF student Ashley Slonina. Hornsby was originally arrested on a felony charge. According to Alachua County court records, the charges were reduced Wednesday to four misdemeanor counts of unauthorized use of a credit card.


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SPORTS  |  BLOGS FOOTBALL

California Boy Lemmens preps for Hurricane

Team goofball and media favorite Duke Lemmens spoke today and he joked he was going to prep for Hurricane Fay by getting an umbrella as his protection. The Cali native hasn't ever been through a hurricane and has only dealt with earthquakes and fires.


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SPORTS  |  COLUMNS

And the top five UF rivals are…

If you didn't know UF was a big football school the day you submitted your application, you probably figured it out sometime in between jumping up and down in your parent's living room after tearing open your admission letter and watching your mom tear up as she sets your brand new Macbook Pro on your spiffy dorm room desk.



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