The annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge at the Gainesville Raceway began Friday. Competitors range from engineers to beginner car modifiers. One competitor values the creativity and effort she put into the competition. The challenge will end Saturday.
Read More »Oak Hall’s football team is mourning the deaths of two coaches this season
Linebacker coach David Clark died of cancer on July 26 at the age of 54. Assistant coach Ellis Walker Jr. died of a heart attack on Sept. 2 at the age of 69.
Read More »TB McPherson Pilot Program offers new tennis opportunity in east Gainesville
The program utilizes a new curriculum, called the Net Generation curriculum, which was created by USTA National, of which Play Tennis Gainesville is a subset. The curriculum focuses on letting the users have fun while also instilling a sense of community and skills.
Read More »Junior college athletics focuses on a better future with Name, Image and Likeness law in place
As a part of the Florida law encompassing NIL, a college must provide at least five hours of courses or workshops centering around financial literacy and other important life skills. This includes time management, budgeting and mental health.
Read More »Women’s flag football could come to Florida’s state colleges after this rule change
Rob Chaney, associate director and athletics commissioner for the Florida College System Activities Association, said the change is likely a move to set up the creation of women’s flag football teams on state college campuses.
Read More »This star high school athlete made a bold switch in schools and sports
The high school student is gaining interest from colleges like Georgia Southern University and Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University.
Read More »The Lede || Season IV Episode III: Serving Food for Thought
In this edition of The Lede, we cover IFA Food Week and recap UF’s homecoming game.
Read More »Florida’s college football stadiums have been packed, but so far no apparent pandemic outbreaks
College football stadiums across Florida with tens of thousands of non-masked, screaming students and boosters packed closely together have so far resulted in no recognizable community outbreaks amid the pandemic, according to infection figures on the state’s biggest campuses.
Read More »The Lede || Season IV Episode II: All about sports
In this episode of The Lede, we review all things baseball.
Read More »A baseball team in Ocala reunited to play in honor of the coach’s ill wife
Ocala Elite became Team Watson when coaches David “Davey” Watson, 38, and Richard Benoit, 63, reunited the group of high school boys to play in support of David’s wife and team “mom” Rachel after she was diagnosed with pneumonia brought on by Covid-19.
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