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Gator Football - 1/1/07
'Godmother To The Gators'

The woman who made less than $2 an hour had an idea, and the University of Florida's football coaches listened.

At a meeting in 1980, Florida coach Charley Pell and assistants Joe Kines and Sonny McGraw gave their full attention to
the minimum-wage secretary they'd hired the previous year to keep track of Florida's recruiting efforts. Betty Ling had
dreamed up a new way to impress visiting prospects by imagining what might sway her to choose Florida over another
school.
Gator Football - 1/2/07
10 recruits to enroll for spring semester

As many as 10 members of what figures to be another standout recruiting class for Florida will enroll at UF next week and
begin practicing with the team next spring.

Two quarterbacks -- junior college transfer Bryan Waggener and Westlake (Ga.) High's Cameron Newton -- are among a
small group certain to show up when second semester classes begin in Gainesville on Monday.
Gator Football 1/4/07
QB Leak has endured many ups and downs in UF career

Chris Leak has thrown for more yards than any other quarterback in University of Florida history.

But Jemalle Cornelius will always remember UF's senior quarterback for what he did with his legs.
Gator Football - 1/4/07
Meyer predicted title meeting with Buckeyes

During a two-day idea swap between Ohio State and Florida defensive coaches last spring at UF, Gators Coach Urban
Meyer leaned into a conference room and foretold the future.

"I remember joking around, saying, 'See you in the big one,' " he said after Wednesday's practice in Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Gator Football 1/4/07
Gators feel a lack of respect

The Gators were never going to be the kind of team that was just going to be happy to be here, playing Ohio State for
the Bowl Championship Series title.

But now Florida's players are upset and feel slighted because of a BCS pregame publication that was passed around
among them in Gainesville.
Gator Football - 1/5/07
Fresh Perspective

Tim Tebow will be buzzing with nerves when Florida and Ohio State meet Monday night in the BCS title game.

That shouldn't come as a surprise. Tebow always gets nervous before games.

"I'm sure I'll have a few nerves," Tebow said. "I feel nervous before every game. I was nervous before Western Carolina."
Gator Football - 1/5/07
Leak, Tebow Bond Through Gators' Success

Chris Leak and Tim Tebow could have been rivals. Instead, the Florida quarterbacks became friends and saved the
rivalry for Florida's opponents. "My competition is not with my teammates. My competition is with the teams we play,"
Leak said Thursday. "I was willing to do whatever it takes for us to have an advantage offensively."
Gator Football - 1/5/07
Florida's ground game has become an unconventional attack

Here we are at the end of Year 2 and Urban Meyer still doesn't have the dominant tailback he's looking for in his spread
offense.

This, of course, has created the perception the Gators are not a very good running team.
Gator Basketball - 1/5/07
Gators aim for SEC title

Joakim Noah couldn't help but look ahead.

Moments after Florida's 75-70 comeback win over UAB, the last quality test before Southeastern Conference play, the
ebullient junior forward already had his mind focused on another prize.
UF Gymnastics - 1/6/07
Florida Gymnasts Open Season with Super Six Challenge Team Title

After runner-up finishes in its previous two Super Six Challenge appearances, the No. 3 University of Florida gymnastics
team moved up to the top position Friday, claiming its first team title for the event Friday evening in front of a Barnhill
Arena crowd of 2,066. Florida, making its seventh appearance in the event, becomes the third program (Georgia - titles in
2002, '01, '03, '05 and Alabama - 2000, '01, '04, '06) to take the Super Six Challenge crown.
Gator Football - 1/8/07
UF's defense at the forefront

Gators coach Urban Meyer gives his defense - anchored by a speedy front four - the credit for making tonight's title game,
but will it be enough to stop a potent Ohio State offense?

Can Ohio State be stopped?
Gator Basketball - 1/10/07
No. 2 Men's Basketball Defeats Arkansas 79-72

All five starters scored in double figures pacing the second-ranked Florida Gators (15-2, 2-0) past the Arkansas Razorbacks
(12-4, 1-1) 79-72 on Tuesday night at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. Junior Taurean Green (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) led the
team in scoring with 17 points helping the Gators extend their current and season-best winning streak to eight games.
Florida opens up Southeastern Conference play 2-0 for the sixth-straight year.
Gator Football - 1/9/07
Gators stand alone on top of the sports world

The sun that shines on the mountaintop of college athletics is now a distinct shade of Florida orange.

And the sky that kisses the college sports summit is now a decided hue of Gator blue.
Gator Football - 1/9/07
Florida first to hold football, hoops titles at same time

Call it the Gator Slam.

The Florida Gators became the first program to hold football and men's basketball titles at the same time Monday night
with a 41-14 victory over top-ranked Ohio State.

The basketball team won its first championship in April, beating UCLA 73-57 in Indianapolis. The football team claimed
its second title -- the Gators also won in 1996 -- with similar ease.
Gator Football - 1/11/07
Meyer makes it clear: It's Tebow's team now
Several freshmen helped lead UF to the national title, but the most intrigue for 2007 surrounds Tim Tebow.

The national championship hadn't been in Florida's possession much more than 10 hours when Urban Meyer threw down
the challenge.
Gator Women's Basketball - 1/12/07
No. 4 Tennessee Downs Florida 80-58 in SEC Women's Hoops Action

Junior Depree Bowden (Palmetto, Fla.) just missed a double-double with 16 points and nine rebounds, and sophomore
Marshae Dotson (Columbus, Ohio) also scored in double figures with 20 points, but it wasn't enough for the University of
Florida women's basketball team to overcome a staggering 25-0 game-opening run by No. 4 Tennessee Thursday night in
an 80-58 loss at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.
Gator Football - 1/12/07
The 'New Ball Coach' won't follow in Spurrier's footsteps

Now that he's won a national championship, everyone is stating the obvious -- that Urban Meyer is the next Steve
Spurrier.

Right idea, wrong icon.
Gator Football - 1/12/07
9 recruits enroll early at Florida
Two quarterbacks and four players from Lakeland will participate in spring practice.

Florida coach Urban Meyer already is getting a huge jump on the 2007 season. Nine players - a third of the Gators'
projected signing class - have enrolled in school for the spring semester.
Gator Gymnastics - 1/12/07
More title talk

Florida's gymnastics team is making no secret about its' goal for the 2007 season. The Gators feel this is their best
chance to win a national championship under head coach Rhonda Faehn.

"This team has every opportunity and every chance to contend for the national title," said Faehn, who is in her fifth
season at UF. "We feel it more this year than ever."
Gator Gymnastics - 1/13/07
No. 3 Florida Gymnastics Opens Home Season with 196.85-193.80 Win Over No. 12 Oregon State

The No. 3 University of Florida gymnastics team (6-0, 0-0 SEC) opened the 2007 home season with a 196.85-193.80 win
over No. 12 Oregon State (0-1, 0-0 Pac Ten) Friday evening in front of a Stephen C. O'Connell Center crowd of 4,011.
Although only just two meets into the season, Florida's 2007 season-best team total Friday would have been its third-
highest all of last season for the team that took fourth in the 2006 NCAA Championships.
Gator Men's Swimming & Diving - 1/13/07
Florida Men's Swimming And Diving Team Claim Win Over Virginia

The 11th-ranked University of Florida men's swimming and diving team won the meet's first 11 events against No. 17
Virginia en route to claiming a 176-104 victory over the Cavaliers on Friday night at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. With
the win, UF (3-4, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) boosted its record against teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference to
16-1 since 1998.
Gator Women's Swimming & Diving - 1/13/07
Florida Women's Swimming And Diving Team Claim Win Over Virginia
In women's swimming and diving action, the ninth-ranked University of Florida women's swimming and diving squad (5-1,
2-0 Southeastern Conference) opened the spring portion of its 2006-07 schedule with a 159-122 victory over No. 20
Virginia (3-2, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) Friday evening in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center Natatorium.
Gator Men's Basketball - 1/14/07
UF's Humphrey Has Hot Hand

University of Florida center Al Horford introduced a new term into the basketball vernacular a few days ago: the Lee
Humphrey Shot. According to Horford, the shot is as automatic as a layup or a dunk - except that it originates from 3-
point range and can come only from the hands of a certain aw-shucks sharpshooter from Maryville, Tenn.
Gator Gymnastics - 1/16/07
Gymnastics give Gators another # 1 team

For just the third time in program history, Florida's gymnastics team has vaulted all the way to the top. Coach Rhonda
Faehn is hoping this time, the Gators can stay there.

Florida was ranked No. 1 in the first GymInfo national rankings, released Monday. Teams are ranked in the first five polls
based on the total season average. They are then ranked based on regional qualifying score.
Gator Football - 1/18/07
Gators snagged No. 1 rated guard from trojans

A week after winning the national championship on the field in Glendale, Ariz., the Florida Gators moved a big step closer
toward capturing a possible national title in recruiting.

On Monday night, the nation's No. 1 offensive guard prospect backed out of an oral commitment to Southern Cal and
committed to the Gators.
Gator Sports - 1/20/07
Football, men's basketball titles don't up ante at UF

Other Gators coaches claim there isn't pressure to add championships of their own.

Florida's football and men's basketball teams have a good game of tag going right now.
Gator Baseball - 1/21/07
Gator Baseball Announces Complete TV Schedule

The University of Florida baseball program and head coach Pat McMahon released its 2007 television schedule on
Saturday. The Gators will have 11 games broadcast on their regional sports network partner, Sun Sports, during the
upcoming season. In addition, 16 contests will be carried on GatorVision Online, a live streaming video and audio
service available through www.GatorZone.com.
Gator Football - 1/23/07
Gators add top recruit

Urban Meyer beat Steve Spurrier at the final gun again Monday.

A little more than two months after Jarvis Moss blocked Ryan Succop's game-deciding field goal attempt on the final
play to give Florida a victory over South Carolina, the Gators picked up a prospect who might be the next Moss.
Gator Gymnastics - 1/26/07
No. 1 Gators to face No. 2 Georgia

It won't be a cocktail party, but No. 1 against No. 2 will have to do.

UF's top-ranked gymnastics team (7-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) will face defending national champion No. 2 Georgia
(6-0, 2-0 SEC) Saturday in Athens, Ga.
Gator Women's Tennis - 1/26/07
Gators open dual match season with a win

This edition of the women's Gator tennis team began their 2007 dual match campaign as nearly every Gator team before it
had, with a win. This opening match win was 7-0 over Stetson Thursday in Gainesville.

Winning in singles for the Gators were: Diana Srebrovic, Nina Suvak, Megan Alexander, Whitney Benik, Csilla Borsanyi,
and Anastasia Revzina.
Gator Men's Swimming & Diving - 1/27/07
Gator Men Swim Team Record 500th All-Time Victory In Win Over Tennessee

The #8 ranked University of Florida men's swimming and diving team defeated #14 Tennessee 132-103 in a dual match at
the O'Dome Natatorium Friday night.
Gator Women's Swimming & Diving - 1/27/07
Gator Women Swim to Easy Win Over Tennessee

The #6 ranked University of Florida women's swimming and diving team defeated #13 Tennessee in impressive fashion
157-86 Friday night in the O'Connell Center Natatorium. Gator swimmers and divers won eight events and scored 15
NCAA provisional-qualifying times.
Gator Gymnastics - 1/28/07
#1 Ranked Gator Gymnasts Tie #2 Georgia

The nation's top two gymnastics teams battled to a tie Saturday afternoon in Athens, GA. Florida's #1 ranked team and
#2 ranked Georgia exchanged the lead throughout the meet, but finally ended with each team scoring 197.25. It was the
only second tie in the 35-year history of Gator gymnastics.
Gator Basketball - 1/28/07
UF continues sashay through SEC
The No. 1 Gators stretch their winning streak to 12, routing Auburn 91-66.

Come clean, Florida fans. The thought forward Chris Richard verbalized here Saturday keeps returning, especially as the
Gators keep rolling through Southeastern Conference competition.

"We can go and win another national championship," Richard said, "if we play the way we played today."
Gator Baseball - 1/30/07
New digs for Gators

This season, if the Gators find themselves down in the bottom of the ninth and with their last hope at bat, McKethan
Stadium might rumble a little bit louder than it has in previous seasons.

It's not an acoustics trick, but rather the sound of an extra 1,000 fans cheering on the team.