January 28th, 2010 04:48pm
by John Patton
Very few people know Tim Tebow as well as Craig Howard.
Tebow’s high school coach at Ponte Vedra Beach Nease, Howard has been taken aback by recent criticisms levied at the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner.
“He’s the most scrutinized quarterback I have ever seen,” Howard said. “It seems like so many people want to pick out what they find to be wrong with him.
“I wonder why it is everybody compares his throwing motion to Dan Marino. I mean, really, …
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January 25th, 2010 11:59am
by John Patton
Williston senior running back Deonte Welch has committed to Arkansas, but he said that could change.
Talking to a Gainesville Sun correspondent at Saturday night’s Bobcat Shootout, Welch said he planned on being a Razorback, but added that if his upcoming scheduled visit to South Florida goes well he expects to sign with the Bulls. He cited distance as the primary reason.
South Florida is having a nice year locally, as already, Columbia tailback Tiger Powell and receiver Jamaal Montague have committed …
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January 15th, 2010 01:49pm
by John Patton
A few notes on local Class of 2010 football prospects with National Signing Day rapidly approaching …
* The firing of Jim Leavitt at South Florida has not deterred USF commitments Jamaal Montague and Tiger Powell of Columbia. The receiver and tailback are sticking with the Bulls, according to CHS assistant coach Greg Gillman.
*At this point just two Gainesville High School football players have made commitments: linebacker Kevin Nelson and defensive back Devont’a Davis to Miami. However, GHS coach …
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January 7th, 2010 04:17pm
by John Patton
There are quite a few top-level local football prospects in the Class of 2011, and that is most apparent on the defensive line where there might be three “Florida level” talents.
Leading the way is Columbia’s 6-foot-2, 265-pound tackle Timmy Jernigan, who is on the short list of prospects in contention for the No. 1 ranking in the state. Nipping at his cleats are Union County’s 6-3, 256-pound Lonnie Gosha and Gainesville’s 6-4, 250-pound Trevarris Saulsberry.
Jernigan and Gosha already …
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October 7th, 2009 05:12pm
by John Patton
We have a pretty full slate of football games in front of us this week, but look ahead to next Thursday and Friday and it is quite bare.
Branford, Fort White, Hawthorne, Santa Fe, Suwannee, Taylor County, Union County and Williston all are off. Columbia is scheduled to have a bye, though school officials are trying to put together a last-minute home game with Clermont East Ridge (which actually would be a nice matchup).
Gainesville and Buchholz will meet Thursday night at …
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September 23rd, 2009 12:14pm
by John Patton
Recently, we named Marcie Hampton our volleyball player of the decade and 2003 GHS as the volleyball team of the decade. Talking with Buchholz coach Jeff Reavis about the picks, he suggested compiling an all-decade team. Sounded good to me. I even added a second team.
Please feel free to respond with selections of your own (but be nice… we had some real, um, socially challenged folks respond a few months back to the all-decade boys basketball team, and these teams …
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August 17th, 2009 03:54pm
by John Patton
There are numerous local football teams playing tough schedules this season. My vote for the toughest goes to Fort White, which has one of the most brutal early season slates I’ve seen in many years.
Check this out …
Following a preseason classic game against Columbia (which might be the area’s No. 1 team), five of the Indians’ first six games are at Madison County, home against Newberry, home against Union County, at 2008 Class 1A state champion Tallahassee North Florida Christian …
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June 25th, 2009 01:53pm
by John Patton
P.K. Yonge’s dominance of its classification continued in 2008-09, as the Blue Wave won the Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Award for the sixth consecutive year.
The school took the 3A public overall, as well as the 3A girls title. The P.K. Yonge boys placed fourth in 3A.
The Blue Wave have been overall winners in their classification every year since 2003, when they won the girls championship, but not the boys or overall.
Final rankings in each class are listed below.
CLASS 6A
1. Winter …
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June 17th, 2009 08:18pm
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The potential litigation discussed here came to fruition Tuesday when the Spokespeople for Florida’s Parents for Athletic Equity filed suit against the FHSAA for what it views as Title IX violations in Policy 6, which was passed by the FHSAA board of directors in April.
The Sun has obtained a series of e-mail correspondences between Florida Coastal School of Law professor Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the front-person in the suit, and FHSAA executive director Roger Dearing that occurred before litigation was …
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June 3rd, 2009 05:11pm
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While no one should get their hopes up too high, it appears the FHSAA
board of directors could be revisiting its decision to reduce schedules
for all sports (except varsity football and competitive cheerleading)
by 20 percent this Thursday and Friday at the final meetings of the
school year. The meetings will take place at the Orlando Airport
Marriott.
Board member/Oak Hall athletic director Jeff Malloy, the most
vocal FHSAA dissenter of the reductions, said he hopes public opinion
will sway previous pro-cut voters.
“The …
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