GatorLinks: Lacrosse wins big, Rainey's contract, Horn to miss SEC Finals, plus more tidbits
Monday, May 7, 2012 | Baseball, Women's Basketball, Football, Lacrosse, Softball, Track and Field, Scott Carter
There are going to be a lot of busy weekends for Florida athletics the next few weeks as the spring sports season winds down.
That was the case this past weekend, highlighted by the Gators' victory over No. 1-ranked Northwestern in the American Lacrosse Conference Tournament title game on Saturday.
Without further adieu, let's get to some fresh links from around the Internet for your perusal this Monday afternoon:
--Florida's second victory over Northwestern in two weeks earned the Gators their first overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament writes GatorZone.com.
--A New York Times blog on how the Gators lacrosse team got better from Josh Jurnovoy.
--The Gators baseball team won the first two games at Kentucky but the Wildcats avoided the sweep with a 2-1 win on Saturday writes the Lexington Herald-Leader.
--The Gators softball team fell 5-3 at Alabama on Sunday with the SEC regular-season crown on the line writes the Tuscaloosa News.
--Former Gators running back Chris Rainey inked his first NFL contract with the Steelers writes NBCSports.com.
--Gators women's basketball assistant coach Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick is expected to be named head coach at UNC Asheville later today writes Antonya English of the Tampa Bay Times.
--Gainesville Sun columnist Pat Dooley questions if the end of the SEC Championship Game is near with a BCS Playoff system coming.
--Former Gator Al Horford returned to the lineup for Atlanta on Sunday night, scoring 12 points and adding five rebounds in a Game 4 loss to Boston. Meanwhile, Horford's former teammate and roommate at UF, Joakim Noah, missed Chicago's Game 4 loss to the 76ers.
--This has nothing to do with the “Florida Gators,” but everything to do with Gators in Florida and how they mix with the game of golf writes David Whitley of AOL FanHouse/Sporting News.
