Right before my eyes the 07-08 Florida Gator basketball team delivered one of the best performances in Gator history. A 90-83 victory in Tuscaloosa over Alabama. Now what makes this victory all the more sweeter was the fact that they were on the road. In a place that has been a house of horrors over the years. A fantastic performance from Jai Lucas, Nick Calathes, and Walter Hodge sparked the Gator comeback. Down by ten,47-37, Lucas drove the length of the court pulled up at the three point line and nailed a three before the buzzer slicing the lead to seven. That proved to be the biggest basket of the night as the Gators used that to spark the second half turnaround. Playing their first conference game without the “oh fours”, Al Horford, Joakhim Noah, Corey Brewer, and Taurean Green, This young squad may have put the rest of the conference on notice that this maybe a team to reckon with. Calathes paced the Gators with 21 points and 9 assist, Lucas added 19 points, Hodge had career high 17 and Dan Werner chipped in with 12 points and 7 rebounds. For Alabama Alonzo Gee had a game high 32 points, and Richard Hendrix added a double double 24 points and 16 boards.
With the NBA tipping off tonight that means only one thing College Basketball is not far behind. Coming into this season there will be a different look to the scene. For one the two time reigning champs will have a brand new starting five make that a brand new team all together. If not for a reversal of fortune the Florida Gators would have a new coach as well. Billy Donovan originally took the Orlando Magic before feeling that the decision was not the right one. Now he has the task of rebuilding, I mean reloading, his program picked to finish fourth in the SEC East. (more…)
What a year to be a Cleveland fan. You have the Indians playing against the Red Sox tonight in the ALCS also the Browns have been pretting good this season they have K.Winslow Jr, D.Anderson and Braylon Edwards oh yeah they got King James. (more…)
The answer is Roger Federer. This man wins everything well except the French Open. Other than that he has dominated his sport like no other. Not Michael Jordan not Tiger Woods can say they have done it the way Roger has in tennis. Now alot of you will say that since he doesn’t have a French Open title than he is not dominating his sport. That is not true. He has been in the finals of that event the last two years so it is not like he doesn’t show up at Roland Garros. He has been number one for almost 100 straight weeks and noone in tennis can ever say that. Even Tiger Woods finished a season out of the top spot. He has won Wimbledon five straight times, just completed his fourth straight U.S. Open, has won the Australian Open three times in the last four years. He has twice been the only male player to have reached the finals of all four grand slams in the same year( ‘06,’07). He is only 26 years old and stands two grand slam victories behind Pete Sampras’ record of 14. Needless to say barring any unforseen tradgedies in his life he will break that record and set it at such a number noone will ever break it.
