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UF safety Marcell Harris will miss the 2017 season with a torn Achilles tendon, the school announced Thursday.

Harris recorded a team-leading 73 tackles during 2016, including 39 during the season’s final four games. This included a stop on the goal-line stand at LSU.

The fifth-year senior from...

Do not worry, UF safety Marcell Harris insists. The defense will be just fine.

The Gators’ defense will be as aggressive, stingy and successful as the units that served as the backbone of back-to-back SEC East winners and have finished ranked in the top-10 nationally at the end of every regular...

Coach Will Muschamp needed one season at South Carolina to do what he could not do during four years at Florida.

In 2016, Muschamp found a quarterback, an offense and a good fit for himself.

The Gamecocks’ surprising 6-7 finish and bowl bid were cause for celebration in Columbia, where expectations...

Back-to-back SEC East titles are a distant memory for the Missouri Tigers.

But after consecutive losing seasons, Mizzou certainly should field an exciting team to watch, if not a winning one.

The Tigers boast a collection of playmakers few teams in the SEC can match. Among 10 returning starters...

Kentucky coach Mark Stoops could not believe the news, even though it was coming directly from the source.

Stoops’ big brother and coaching hero, Bob, had decided to step down at Oklahoma at age 56 and coming off his 10th Big 12 title in 18 seasons.

“It's one of those moments kind of you won't...

During a recent visit to Montana’s Flathead Lake, UF coach Jim McElwain had other things on his mind besides the upcoming season.

A hungry bear sniffing around the cabin breezeway and a mountain lion roaming the island will grab one’s attention. The wide open spaces of Big Sky Country will liberate...

QB or not QB — that is the question.

Again.

For the Florida Gators, it’s Groundhog Day every year at SEC Media Days when reporters flock into Central Alabama and ask who the starting quarterback is going to be and whether said quarterback is good enough to make UF’s perennially pitiful offense...

Tabbed to win the SEC East Division last season, the 2016 Tennessee Vols were champions of life but nothing else.

A promising 5-0 start included the program’s first win against Florida in 12 tries, but ended with a 4-4 slide and coach Butch Jones’ team sitting two games behind the division champion...

HOOVER, Ala. — Officially, they are known as the Louisiana State Tigers, but to the Florida Gators they might as well be the passive, purring Pussycats of LSU (Little Sisters University).

Ever since the school’s buffoonish athletics director Joe Alleva opened his mouth and tried to shame UF into...

Mike Locksley spent the winter of 2016 in coaching exile, awaiting another chance.

Little did Locksley realize it would lead to the biggest opportunity of his career, though the path back to the field would begin with a backup role.

Knowing Locksley’s offensive acumen and recruiting prowess, coach...

Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan had many duties at the College World Series. Some of the more urgent ones had nothing to do with baseball.

“I’ve had to make sure the spinners are working and the iPad is charged,” O’Sullivan said.

Along for the championship ride were his daughter Payton, 6, and son...

Athletic programs at the University of Florida and Florida State University finished in the Top 15 of the Learfield Directors’ Cup for the 2016-17 athletic season, the final standings showed on Wednesday.

The Gators, led by first-year athletics director Scott Stricklin, finished first in the Southeastern...

Florida’s first baseball championship ended with a mystery.

After catching the final out of the Gators’ 6-1 win against Louisiana State, JJ Schwarz tucked the ball in his glove and tossed both aside for the traditional mid-field dog pile. When he returned to the glove, the ball was gone.

“Whoever...

Another day, another national championship for the Florida Gators.

Yawn.

This time, it was the baseball team. A couple of weeks ago, it was the dynastic track-and-field team. A couple of weeks before that, it was the women’s tennis team. Since 2010, the Gators have won 17 national championships...

A controversial call, a throw home, a sliding catch, an unexpected star and a championship.

It was quite a Tuesday night for the Florida Gators, who earned their first baseball national title with a 6-1 win against Louisiana State. The Gators (52-19) swept the College World Series final and become...

The formula still works.

Great pitching and just enough offense Monday led Florida to a 4-3 win against Louisiana State in Game 1 of the College World Series Final. If the Gators (51-19) win tonight’s Game 2, they’ll claim their first national championship.

Sophomore Brady Singer, a Eustis High...

Before every game, Florida’s JJ Schwarz finds a moment to pray. Often that moment comes in the locker room or a hallway, away from the view.

Saturday was different.

Following the national anthem prior to Florida’s 3-0 win against TCU, most of the Gators left the first base line to return to the...

It was a sterling start but a tarnished finish.

Texas Christian broke through against the previously untouchable Florida pitching staff Friday in a 9-2 win in the College World Series. The same teams play today with the winner advancing to the final while the loser is eliminated.

Florida (49-19)...

Perhaps nobody in Florida’s lineup needed a couple days off more than Nelson Maldonado.

The area around third base has dropped the sophomore right fielder the past few days at the College World Series, but no doubt he’ll be in the lineup Friday when the Gators (49-18) take on the winner of the...

Expected power on the mound, unexpected power at the plate.

Each factored into Florida’s 5-1 win against Louisville Tuesday at the College World Series. The Gators (49-18) are off until Friday when they’ll face either Texas Christian (48-17) or Louisville (53-11) — the two teams they’ve beaten...

A whole lot of pitching and a little bit of offense. That’s been Florida’s path to success all season and the formula worked again Sunday during a 3-0 win against Texas Christian at the College World Series.

The Gators, in the CWS for the sixth time in eight years, will face Louisville (53-10)...

Quarterback graduate transfer Malik Zaire officially has joined the Florida Gators, confirming Tuesday what many have expected for weeks.

Zaire posted on his Instagram account the following: Official! I couldn’t be happier to be part of something special!!! Time to get to work!!! #Gators

The 22-year-old...

UF will reward coaches Mike White and Jim McElwain for strong seasons with salary raises, one-year contract extensions and, in McElwain’s case, significant performance bonus increases, the school announced Friday.

Following the Gators’ surprising Elite Eight run in men’s basketball, White will...

The Florida Gators road to Omaha was more like a river during their Gainesville Super Regional matchup with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

The Gators had to overcome torrential rains and long weather delays totaling nearly 10 hours during three days to oust the Demon Deacons, clinching a trip to...

The cost of running Florida Gators’ athletics continues to rise at a rapid rate.

The University Athletic Association approved a $6 million budget increase on Monday, raising the budget for Gators’ sports to $128.2 million in the first year of new athletics director Scott Stricklin.

In 2013-14,...