William M. Hartnett

This guy is pretty good. He should win awards.
(Via Inside UF via HeismanPundit.com)

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Well, not so much this year as this Saturday. Florida vs. Florida State in Gainesville at 5 p.m. Battlestar Galactica: Razor at 9 p.m. Bonus metaphysical conundrum: Who/what would prevail in a confrontation, Tim Tebow or Battlestar Pegasus?

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Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach is clearly insane. I’m a great fan. Texas Tech’s upset of Oklahoma last night is as good an occasion as any to call to your attention, in case you missed it the first time around, to this excellent story about Leach that was in The New York Times Magazine [...]

As a Florida alum and fan of Gators athletics I watch a lot of SEC football on CBS, which means I get a pretty big dose of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson each fall. I’ve long thought Danielson’s broadcasting style is idiosyncratic, a bit like Dan Rather’s election-night “Ratherisms.” (”This race is hotter than the [...]

I’ve been worried for years the University of South Florida would someday gain national notoriety, whether for athletic achievement, academic success or a “Don’t Tase me bro” type incident. It appears that day has finally arrived, now that USF’s football team has won a few games.
I don’t have anything against the school, mind you, I’m [...]

> U.S. Under-20 Men Win Group D With 2-1 Victory Against Brazil at FIFA Under-20 World Cup (ussoccer.com)
> Altidore scores twice as U.S. shocks Brazil 2-1 to top Group D (AP via IHT)
Whoa. Can we just fast-forward to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, or, better yet, the 2014 competition right now to see [...]

My one and so far only foray into sports writing, Heavy Pressure: NFL players struggle with weight game, last week placed second for enterprise reporting in the 2006 Florida Sports Writers Association contest. It previously received an honorable mention for project reporting in the 2006 Associated Press Sports Editors contest.
Not only is it nice to [...]

Gaaaaa! Then again, I wasn’t feeling so good when Steve Spurrier left, either, and that turned out OK. (And, no, I don’t remember the Ron Zook era. I erased those years from my brain.)
And in a journalism-related digression from this sports-related digression … While browsing Florida’s many papers for news about Billy Donovan’s departure from [...]

>Protests in Andes as Fifa bans international games over 2,500m (The Guardian)
>Anger Echoes in South America After FIFA Bans Games at Altitude (AP via NYT)
FIFA bans international soccer matches in venues more than 8,200 feet above sea level, citing “concern for players’ health and home-field advantage of high-altitude teams over their visiting lowland rivals.” The [...]

Driving to Gainesville tomorrow for Saturday’s Orange and Blue game, UF’s spring football scrimmage, so blogging will be lighter than usual.
Or heavier. Depends on how proficient I turn out to be at thumbing out posts on my cell phone while speeding up the Turnpike. I also will be simultaneously eating Combos, guzzling Diet Mountain Dew, [...]