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Florida Beats Tennessee With 63-Yard Hail Mary In Dumbest Football Game Ever [UPDATE: Now With Gators' Radio Call]
An “SEC” game that starred blunders, turnovers, and penalties ended on a rare stroke of competence as Feleipe Franks connected with Tyrie Cleveland for 63 yards on the game’s final play to earn the Gators a 26-20 win over Tennessee in Gainesville....
Florida Cancels Game Against Northern Colorado Due To Hurricane Irma
The University of Florida has canceled its home game against Northern Colorado this Saturday due to the incoming Hurricane Irma....
Father And Son Alabama Fans Arrested After Brawling At FSU Game
During this weekend’s Alabama-Florida State game, a pair of rowdy Alabama fans got into a nasty-looking fight in the stands of the Falcons stadium. Officers responded to reports of a fight in the 120/121 section of the stadium at around 11 p.m. local time. According to an incident report obtained by...
Bucs-Dolphins Game Postponed Due To Hurricane Irma
The NFL has postponed this Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Miami Dolphins because Hurricane Irma is expected to make landfall in Florida sometime this weekend....
Report: Florida State QB Deondre Francois Done For The Season
After the outcome of last night’s Florida State-Alabama showdown was already more or less decided, FSU star QB Deondre Francois rolled out to his right and was sacked from behind by Ronnie Harrison. Francois left the game clutching his left knee, and after murky reports out of FSU indicated that Fra...
Jim Harbaugh And Jim McElwain Are In A Very Silly Standoff
Michigan and Florida open their seasons against each other on Saturday. As of today, nobody knows who will be starting at quarterback for either team, and nobody is really quite sure who is even on Michigan’s roster. This is because Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and Florida head coach Jim McElwai...
Reports: College Football Players Will Play In Michigan-Florida Game
Jim Harbaugh is confirmed to be coaching a football team up in Ann Arbor, but right now, that’s about all he’ll tell you. While it seems safe to assume that his football team is, in fact, made up of currently eligible football players, the most recent official roster out of Michigan is still from 20...
Lane Kiffin Is Consulting Disgraced Former Baylor Coach Art Briles
We hadn’t heard much from Art Briles for a while, and that was a good thing. The disgraced former Baylor coach, who ran the program amidst a horrifying and wide-ranging sexual assault scandal, has popped up here and there in efforts to salvage his public image, even as new lawsuits against Baylor co...
Florida Suspends Seven Players For Opener Against Michigan
Florida and Michigan will open their seasons on September 2 in Arlington, Texas. The neutral-site contest between two big-conference teams expected to open in the top 25 should be a fun one. However, it’ll be significantly less fun now that Florida has suspended seven players, including star wide re...
This Is What Happens When A College Football Fixer Goes Rogue
If you had asked me when I was a student at the University of Florida who is Huntley Johnson, my answer would have been this: The guy who represents all the football players. Football players exist in the bizarre NCAA unreality where those in power refuse to pay their most necessary workers a living...
Records Show How Miami Con Man Allegedly Tricked NBA Stars Out Of Free Shoes
Miami con man Justin Jackson and his wife Angel Agarrat were booked into Miami-Dade County jail this afternoon for the second time in three months on felony fraud charges. Jackson has a history of posing as the manager of famous artists and using his pretend platform to extract goods and favors from...
Someone Give Jaromir Jagr A Dang Phone Call
Jaromir Jagr played pretty well, not just for a 45-year-old, but for any hockey player in 2017. He notched 16 goals and 30 assists for the Florida Panthers, and Jagr was first on the team in net on-ice shot attempts. As the season went on and Jagr kept skating in every game, the old man’s remark tha...
Florida Wins College World Series After LSU Misses Out On Tying Run Due To Interference
Florida defeated LSU to take home its first College World Series title with a 4-3 win yesterday and a 6-1 win tonight in the best-of-three series. The Gators jumped out to an early 2-0 lead off of a pair of unearned runs, and the score stayed that way until LSU began mounting their comeback in the s...
Cops Discover Meth Lab, Golf Cart Chop Shop In Retirement Community Garage<em></em>
The Villages, a hilariously-large retirement community in Florida, is the fastest-growing “city” in the country—with more than 117,000 people, 48 golf courses, geriatric sex (with a resulting high rate of STDs), and absolutely no children (they’re only permitted to visit for up to 30 days a year). R...
Panthers Recruit Chris Pronger To Help With Their Master Plan, Whatever That Is
A worst-case scenario for an existing team going through an expansion draft is losing one useful player. The Florida Panthers—already a bad team—lost two last night. Today, they hired Hall of Famer Chris Pronger to join their front office, prompting the question, what exactly did the Panthers sell t...
Oklahoma Beats Florida In 17-Inning Game 1 Of Women's College World Series Championship
No. 10 Oklahoma defeated No. 1 Florida, 7-5, in a marathon 17-inning first game of the Women’s College World Series. After a wild series of extra innings that saw both starting pitchers come back in and both teams score two runs in the 12th inning to keep things going, a three-run home run for Oklah...
Florida: We Fired Title IX Official For Buying Porn With Titles Like <i>Cyborg Sex? </i>And<i> 4 Hour Wierd Positions </i>With His Work Email<em></em>
Chris Loschiavo was a Title IX official at the University of Florida when he was supposed to hear the Antonio Callaway student-conduct case. Then he was suddenly removed from it and replaced by an outside attorney and football booster, who found the football player not responsible for sexual assaul...
A Brief History Of David Beckham's Futile Attempts To Build An MLS Stadium In Miami
Miami has not had an MLS team since the Miami Fusion closed down in 2001. A joint bid between Barcelona and Bolivian billionaire Marcelo Claure failed in 2009, and the league stayed out of Florida until Orlando SC entered the league in 2015. Five years ago, MLS czar Don Garber first broached the ide...
Orlando TV Guy Says He Knows Who The Nude Man Humping A Shark Is
The identity of the nude man humping a shark has been partially revealed, per Orlando’s David Pingalore of CBS affiliate WKMG. The sports director appeared on Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi’s radio show Open Mike today, and shared what he knew about the shark humper, who is allegedly a form...
USF Football Player Dismissed After Second Arrest For Sexual Battery And False Imprisonment
According to the Tampa Bay Times, former South Florida defensive end LaDarrius Jackson was arrested on Wednesday for sexual battery and false imprisonment. He was also arrested on May 1 and charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment following a separate alleged incident....