Top 12 for 2012: Off the Field Stories of the Year
For as much as the Florida Gators accomplished on the field in 2012 (check out Monday’s post), the Gator Nation was making plenty of news off of it as well. From crazy occurrences and strange decisions...
View ArticleBradley Beal hits two buzzer-beaters in four days
Statistically, Washington Wizards rookie guard Bradley Beal had a rough first few months in his first NBA season. But if he continues playing the way he has been in the month of January, the future...
View ArticleTWO BITS: Texas A&M preview, Beal’s big night
1 » No. 9/10 Florida Gators basketball is currently in College Station, TX getting ready to take on the Texas A&M Aggies in each team’s third Southeastern Conference game of the season. The Texas...
View ArticleSIX BITS: NFL, Rainey, Beal, Rosario, track
1 » In addition to Pittsburgh Steelers running back Chris Rainey (who is expected to be released from his contract) and Buffalo Bills wide receiver David Nelson (a restricted free agent), six other...
View ArticleFormer Florida Gators in the NBA: Feb. 2013
Now four months into the 2012-13 NBA regular season, there are 10 former Florida Gators basketball players spread over nine teams. A total of 10 players participated in the fourth month of action, many...
View ArticleSIX BITS: NBA, baseball, Tebow, women, Gillespie
1 » Former Florida Gators currently playing in the NBA collectively had an interesting last three days. Centers Al Horford of the Atlanta Hawks and Joakim Noah of the Chicago Bulls each started March...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: NCAA Tournament, Walker, Beal
1 » With the 2013 NCAA Tournament set to begin, yet another statistical model has predicted the three-seed Florida Gators to come out of the event victorious. This model comes via Sports Illustrated;...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: Corps Classic, Beal, Donovan, Harvin
1 » Though nothing at all is finalized, the City of Jacksonville is working towards holding the Navy-Marine Corps Classic for a second-straight season and hopes to reach a deal with the U.S. Navy to do...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: Beal, Walker, Pitino, Grossman
1 » The Washington Wizards announced Wednesday that rookie guard Bradley Beal will miss the remainder of the season with what the team described as a “stress injury in his right fibula.” Beal also...
View ArticleFormer Florida Gators in the NBA: March 2013
Now five months into the 2012-13 NBA regular season, there are 10 former Florida Gators basketball players spread over nine teams. A total of 10 players participated in the fifth month of action, many...
View ArticleFormer Florida Gators in the NBA: April 2013
With the 2012-13 NBA regular season concluding on Wednesday, 10 former Florida Gators basketball players spread over nine teams participated in the sixth month of action (16 total days), many of whom...
View ArticleSIX BITS: Ogbueze, Donovan, Elam, Beal, Banks
1 » While sophomore guard/forward DeVon Walker changed his mind about his decision to transfer and returned to the Florida Gators basketball program, sophomore point guard Braxton Ogbueze remained...
View ArticleSIX BITS: Beal, Tebow, Spikes, Leak, Francis
1 » If Chicago point guard Derrick Rose did not have enough motivation to come back and play well next year, comments from Washington Wizards rookie guard Bradley Beal may give him that extra kick in...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: Beal, Frazier, Larson, Prather
1 » Washington Wizards rookie guard Bradley Beal, whose attendance at the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday earned his team the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft, faces a long journey before he...
View ArticleGators Lee, Noah, Beal earn 2012-13 NBA honors
Three former Florida Gators basketball players – two veterans and one rookie – earned 2012-13 regular season honors from the NBA this year. On Thursday, Golden State Warriors power forward David Lee...
View ArticleSIX BITS: USA, Tebow, Spikes, Pouncey, Sturgis
1 » Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal and Houston Rockets forward Chandler Parsons are two of 27 players that have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s National Team...
View Article15 Gator Bites for Friday, June 21
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. When stories like these fall through the cracks,...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: Beal, Lewis, Johnson, Sturgis
1 » In Washington, D.C. with USA Basketball preparing for the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship, Florida Gators head coach Billy Donovan wound up sitting down next to rookie Washington Wizards guard...
View ArticleSIX BITS: Morrison, USA, Calathes, Pouncey
1 » Florida Gators sophomore linebacker Antonio Morrison and head coach Will Muschamp – and even Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel – get the Taiwanese animation treatment in this video about...
View ArticleFOUR BITS: Harvin, Hill, Beal, Zunino
1 » Though he will officially get a second opinion about his injured hip on Tuesday, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Percy Harvin is expected to be able to avoid surgery. According to Sports...
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