FOUR BITS: Pitino, Brown, SEC awards, Tebow

1 » Former Florida Gators basketball assistant Richard Pitino was named the new head coach for the Florida International Golden Panthers on Monday, signing a five-year, $1.25 million contract. At 29 years...

Gator Bites for Monday, April 16

From time to time, OGGOA will come across a plethora of news and notes that we wish to share – too much to fit into one of our truncated BITS segments. In...

Florida student dies after jumping from stadium

University of Florida student Michael Richard Edmonds, Jr. is believed by police to have jumped to his death Sunday evening after climbing a stairwell on the west side of Ben Hill Griffin...

Gators center Dwayne Schintzius dead at 43

Former Florida Gators center Dwayne Schintzius has passed away after an extensive battle with a rare form of leukemia. He was 43 years old. The Tampa Tribune reported Sunday evening that Schintzius...

No. 4 Florida baseball wins series at Tennessee

Picking up a weekend series victory for the first time since late March, No. 4 Florida Gators baseball (28-8, 9-6 SEC) triumphed 2-1 against the Tennessee Volunteers (21-15, 7-8 SEC) at Lindsey...

Moultrie, Haeger lead Florida in series sweep

No. 3 Florida Gators softball (38-5, 18-2 SEC) triumphed over the weekend, outscoring the Auburn Tigers (26-18, 5-14 SEC) 11-5 over three games to earn a hard-fought series sweep at Pressly Softball...

Women’s tennis earns SEC regular season title

No. 2 Florida Gators women’s tennis (18-1, 11-0 SEC) completed a perfect Southeastern Conference slate on Saturday to win the 2012 SEC regular season title outright after defeating the No. 27 South...

Former Florida RB Tony Waters shot and killed

Former Florida Gators running back Tony Waters was shot and killed in his hometown of Sarasota, FL on Friday morning. He was 54. According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Waters’s 28-year-old stepson has...

FOUR BITS: football, Howard, Jenkins, Shaw

1 » The Florida Gators released this week a pair of question-and-answer stories with coordinators Brent Pease (offensive) and Dan Quinn (defensive) on their thoughts following the 2012 Orange & Blue Debut....

SF DeVon Walker commits to Gators for 2012

Just a few hours after officially announcing that freshman guard Bradley Beal will forfeit his remaining eligibility and declare for the 2012 NBA Draft, the Florida Gators received a bit of good...