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Gator Basketball - 6/1/07
Orlando Magic hire Billy Donovan as coach
Brian Schmitz | Orlando Sentinel Writer
Billy Donovan sent seismic shock waves from Gainesville to Orlando on Thursday, taking over as Magic head coach and
leaving the national champion Florida Gators without the architect of their dynasty.
After a whirlwind courtship that lasted about a week, Donovan was hired by the Magic just two months after leading Florida
to the second of back-to-back NCAA titles -- and mere days before UF was set to announce that he had agreed contractually to extend his stay as the Gators' head coach. |
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Gator Basketball - 6/7/07
Coach Donovan Returns to UF
UF players relieved at resolution
Dave Curtis - Orlando Sentinel Writer
GAINESVILLE -- All the time this week, when out with his friends or at the gym or just hanging around town, Florida signee
Chandler Parsons gets the question: What the heck's happening with Billy Donovan?
"It happens, probably, 20 times per day," Parsons said by telephone Wednesday night. "It's all anybody wants to talk
about."
Since Sunday when word leaked that Donovan wanted out of his deal with the Orlando Magic to return to his spot as head
coach at Florida, folks have bugged Parsons for answers. Is he or isn't he? Will he or won't we? And what does it all mean for you and Nick Calathes, Parsons' teammate at Lake Howell High and prospective teammate at UF? |
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Gator Baseball - 6/8/07
McMahon fired as UF baseball coach
By BRYAN JONES - Alligator Staff Writer
UF baseball coach Pat McMahon will not return next season, Athletics Director Jeremy Foley announced in a press
conference Thursday.
Foley said he has lost confidence in the baseball team's ability to succeed under McMahon's leadership.
"It's not due to a lack of effort. Foley said. "I just don't think it's happening. I think this baseball program can be a major
factor on the national scene on a consistent basis.
"More than anything else, we're looking for consistency in our baseball program, and we haven't been able to achieve that."
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Gator Baseball - 6/15/07
New Florida baseball coach wants in-state players
Dave Curtis - Orlando Sentinel
New Florida baseball Coach Kevin O'Sullivan and Athletic Director Jeremy Foley agree better recruiting could push the
Gators back to the top of their sport. That search for talent, O'Sullivan said, often won't take him over the state line.
"Obviously, there are players here," O'Sullivan said Thursday at his introductory news conference. "We're looking forward
to keeping those players in-state."
O'Sullivan, 38, was a nine-year assistant at Clemson and a former player and coach in Florida. Foley said background
and experience made O'Sullivan a clear choice. |
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Gator Baseball - 6/21/07
O'Sullivan Names Weitzel and Bell Baseball's Assistant Coaches
University of Florida head baseball coach Kevin O'Sullivan announced the appointments of Brad Weitzel and Craig Bell
as the Gators' assistant coaches on Wednesday. The pair was most recently professional scouts for the Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners, respectively.
Weitzel and Bell will work with UF's position players, while O'Sullivan will focus his attention on the squad's pitchers.
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Gator Football - 6/24/07
Speed obsession
ROBBIE ANDREU - Gainesville Sun
The Gators have a new greeting now when they pass each other in the hall or on the street.
No, it's not, "Go cure cancer," or "Go write the great American novel."
It's a simple one-word greeting that reflects the theme Florida football has come to embrace.
"I'll walk by a coach now and instead of saying, 'Hi, what's going on,' it's like, 'Speed, speed,' and keep on walking,"
strength and conditioning coordinator Mickey Marotti said. |
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Gator Lacrosse - 6/23/07
Gators hire Yale's Amanda O'Leary as first women's lacrosse coach
Dave Curtis - Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
As a lacrosse player, Amanda O'Leary won a national championship and two World Cups. As a collegiate head coach,
she's won better than 70 percent of her games.
Together, those careers have earned her a spot in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
"She has achieved," Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley said, "everything we hope to achieve at the University of
Florida."
That, then, made it pretty easier for Foley and senior women's administrator Lynda Tealer to tap O'Leary from about 25
applicants to become the Gators' first women's lacrosse coach.
O'Leary, the head coach at Yale for the past 14 seasons, will spend the next three years building a program that will
begin varsity competition in 2010. |
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Gator Basketball - 6/29/07
Gators' latest glory -- 'Big 3' taken in top 10
Dave Curtis - Orlando Sentinel
NEW YORK - At a quiet spot in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, three old teammates savored another few moments
together.
Ex-Gators Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer laughed at the old jokes, reflected on the old stories, and wondered
about their future. Inside them, unspoken all night, lay a frightening question: When would they find a time and a place to enjoy an evening like this again?
"We're always going to keep in touch," Brewer said. "We never talk about not seeing each other. But it's going to be a
little weird. It's an adjustment because we were so close." |