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Florida Gators Fan Has No Idea His Head Is Covered In Peanut Shells
The Sunday morning Florida football replay program Breakfast With The Gators is one of our favorites; it's a totally separate production from what you see on Saturday, and it's heavy on the crowd shots (we featured one creepy moment last year). Sadly ESPN is killing Breakfast With The Gators, so we...

Louis Delmas Gives Up His Pet Gator Because It Scares Kevin Ogletree
Lions safety Louis Delmas had to part ways with Mojo, the six-foot-long alligator that lives in his basement. Mojo's gotten too big to care for, but more than that, Delmas has a new roommate: teammate Kevin Ogletree, who isn't keen on living under the same roof as an alligator....

One-Armed Basketball Player Commits To Florida
Zach Hodskins is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound high school senior from Milton, Ga. He played well enough on the AAU circuit last summer to get attention from several major college basketball programs. Saturday, Hodskins made a verbal commitment to play for Florida. He also was born with no left arm below t...

Banner Plane Crashes On Flavet Field Before Florida-Arkansas Game
Around 4:00 pm this afternoon, a plane carrying an advertisement for Geico Insurance McDonald's crashed on an unoccupied car in Flavet Field, an open field at the University of Florida that, from the look of it, serves as a tailgating site for Florida games. The Gators are playing the Arkansas Razor...

Florida's Top-Ranked Defense Allowed TD To Kentucky's Kicker
Kentucky went the more traditional route for its fake field goal and totally caught Will Mushchamp's boys off guard. ...

Tennessee-Florida: The Full First Half Lowlight Reel
Today's premier SEC bout in Gainesville between the Volunteers and Gators has been terrible for the game of football. Fortunately, it's been great for those who enjoy football follies....

Woodpeckers Can't Get Concussions, Will Muschamp Says (And He's Right)
Florida coach Will Muschamp is not known for his learnedness, but he dropped a little science during a press conference today, telling the assembled reporters a strange-but-true fact: Woodpeckers can't get concussions....

Florida Removes Aaron Hernandez's Commemorative All-American Brick
This photo comes to us from Ted Spiker, who was just at the Florida football stadium to witness evidence of Aaron Hernandez's 2009 all-american season being unceremoniously sawed away. Rather fitting that it sits above Maurkice Pouncey's brick, isn't it?...

Charges Dropped Against Barking Florida Gator Antonio Morrison
The charges against Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison stemming from a Sunday arrest for barking at a police dog have been dropped, according to the Orlando Sentinel....

Emails: Reporters Pester Urban Meyer About Hernandez (And Tebow)
When Aaron Hernandez became a murder suspect—and news emerged of previously unreported incidents during his time at Florida—journalists naturally turned to his former Gators coach for comments on Hernandez's "checkered" past. But Urban Meyer wasn't having it....
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Florida's Antonio Morrison Arrested For Barking At A Police Dog [UPDATING]
Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison, arrested in June over a dispute at a nightclub, was arrested again late Saturday night on charges of resisting an officer without violence and harassing a police animal—because he barked at a dog....

Ron Zook Works At A Florida Bank Now, And He'll Respond To Your Email
Former Florida and Illinois coach Ron Zook has given college coaching the old college try twice, and failed twice. Now he's in an exile of sorts in Florida. And he's working at a bank....

Ex-NFL Player Charged With Leaving Toddler In Car At Strip Club
Former University of Florida linebacker Monty Grow, who later played two NFL seasons as a defensive back for the Chiefs and Jaguars, faces a child abuse charge after allegedly leaving a 3-year-old girl in his car while he hung out at a strip club....

Not Everyone Is Turning Their Backs On Aaron Hernandez
Apparently this would have been at the Pouncey brothers' birthday party last night, which NFL beat writer Omar Kelly attended unironically/journalistically:...

Authorities Investigate Aaron Hernandez's Role In 2007 Shooting
It's a day that ends in "Y," so we were due to learn about yet another shooting incident that may or may not have involved Aaron Hernandez. Outside the Lines has us covered, with a nonfatal 2007 shooting outside a Gainesville club where at least one of the targets initially identified Hernandez as t...

Teenaged Aaron Hernandez Punched A Bar Employee After Refusing To Pay
Aaron Hernandez sucker-punched a Gainesville bar employee in 2007, injuring the man seriously enough that police recommended felony charges be brought against the then 17-year-old Florida Gators player....

You Missed Quite The College Baseball Game
Via Reddit user Thedaveabides98, someone's DVR was very, very confused about this weekend's SEC baseball action. LSU did sweep the series by a combined score of 26-8, so perhaps the description's not too far off....