Vengeance for Before, Cheers for Now

I read this, on Tim Tebow, in Bruce Feldman’s always-a-must-read Sunday notes:

He also now has 56 rushing touchdowns in his career, three behind Eric Crouch for the FBS record among quarterbacks.

It got me thinking.

Surviving Starkville

The 29-19 score wasn’t pretty.

Anyone Want the Tebow Turtle?

You will never see a reptile exist this, uh...

Given the suffocating hysteria over that messianic guy who wears 15 for the Florida Gators, you would be forgiven for forgetting the one absurd bit of it that was the Tebow Turtle.

No worries: Now you can buy it!

The 2009 Orange and Blue Game Open Thread

I’m trying something new with this.

This is a CoverItLive link, but it will have Twitter updates exclusively; I’m going to integrate a couple of other accounts and Twitter hashtags, too, so you’ll get more than my perspective.

I hope this is fun.

Entrails: April 2nd, 2009

Billy Donovan was almost gone.

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More backstory on Billy Donovan-to-Kentucky: Anonymous sources, but I know and trust the writer and he trusts them, so I believe this is how things transpired. (RootZoo)

Actual analysis of football from Orson Swindle? Expect it to be raining fire in a matter of days. (EDSBS)

Encouraging the Lions to fail…to make the first selection in the NFL Draft. Intriguing idea, but Punter sums up the Draft wonderfully in the last sentence. (With Leather)

Allen Iverson would rather retire than ride the pine. So what team needs a starting point guard in 2009? (ESPN)

Enormous Amazon sale on Majestic baseball apparel. (Amazon)

Greg Oden, from range. (But The Game Is On)

The celebrity charity medley era is over. Thank the stars. (The No Look Pass)

On Jozy Altidore. Tyler Duffy does smart soccer writing well. (The Big Lead)

Ireland shocks Italy in World Cup qualifying. (The Red Carders)

Jason Whitlock, repentant and circumspect. This is new. (Fox Sports)

Entrails: March 25th, 2009

Well, this is symbolic. (Andrew Stanfill/The Alligator)

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Florida’s men’s and women’s basketball seasons ended last night, but you knew that, right? Maybe more importantly, UF’s baseball team fell to UNF in Jacksonville. If there’s a sport where UF clearly lags, it’s baseball. (UNF)

A certain magazine really likes Tiger Woods. (Esquire)

The boys from the Alligator give good podcast. (The Alligator)

Live Blog: Some Gators Play Lions, Some Gators Play Lambs

Tonight, the UF women’s basketball team faces a team some are calling the best to ever play women’s college basketball. And, what’s more, the Gators have to play the UConn Huskies in Storrs, Connecticut. Can they avoid being more than lambs led to slaughter?

After that game, their Y-chromosomed counterparts will take the floor in Gainesville and play Penn State for the right to advance to their fourth straight Final Four. (What? Even though it’s the NIT, it’s still a Final Four, right?) Will the Gators continue their hot postseason shooting, or will Stanley Pringle and the Nittany Lions spurt past them?

I have no idea. But I’ll be live blogging as I find out. Join me, won’t you?

Gators Fall to Vols: Does It Really Matter If They Make It or Not?

With just under four minutes left in the second half at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, the Florida pep band started playing Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.”