In 2006, Florida brought in the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation . There wasn't an unusual amount of hype surrounding the class with the exception of future legend Tim Tebow.

He comes from one of Florida's royal familes of football players. His father, John Brantley III, played for the Gators from 1975-1979 and was the starting quarterback in 1978.

The Gator men's basketball team travels to face an old friend tonight when it takes on Alabama; AM 850 and Rock 104 have live coverage starting at 6:25pm. Florida will face former long time assistant coach Anthony Grant for the first time since he became the coach at Alabama.

It may not have always been pretty, and again the game was in serious doubt leading into the final seconds, but Florida managed to once again pull out a close victory Thursday night in Tuscaloosa.

Billy Donovan , Men's basketball , National college basketball - posted by jeremy fowler on February, 6 2010 1:10 PM We're about 40 minutes from tipoff here at the O'Connell Center, and already Mississippi State Jarvis Varnado has six blocks.

The Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance will honor Bristol's Aaron Hernandez, an All-America tight end for Florida, and Oxford's Rachele Fico, a record-setting softball pitcher for Masuk High School, with the Bill Lee Male Athlete of the Year Award and Hank O'Donnell Female Athlete of the Year Award at the 69th Gold Key Dinner on April 25 at the ...

The University of Florida men's basketball team picks up a key road victory on Thursday night when it holds on to beat Alabama 66-65 in Tuscaloosa.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Whatever health problems Florida coach Urban Meyer may have, his program is in pretty good shape.

About a week ago, CNNSI ran a feature on the 15 best recruiting classes of all time .

Florida coach Billy Donovan exited Coleman Coliseum a winner tonight, but the experience wasn't one he'll treasure.

Flash forward to Jan. 7, 2013, to the BCS National Championship Game at that sure-to-be-renamed-yet-again stadium in Miami.

Urban Meyer coached the best defense of his career in recent weeks. And the job had nothing to do with a 4-3 formation or Brandon Spikes.

The Florida Gators return enough solid players on offense that most of their recruiting efforts were focused on stockpiling players on the defensive side of the ball.

Florida has the nation's top recruiting class for the second time in Urban Meyer's five years as the Gators' coach.

On college footballs' national signing day there will be rowdy cheering across UF's campus almost as loud as the sigh of relief gator fans let out when Urban Meyer decided not to retire one month ago.

Tim Tebow gave Florida the jolt it needed, and the Gators toughed out a second BCS title in three years.

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow doesn't even want to think about it. Gators coach Urban Meyer started fighting back his emotions Monday.

In a historic career at the University of Florida, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow has kept his faith and his convictions confined mostly to a few square inches beneath his eyes: Every Sunday, he would write a Biblical citation on his eye black.

Now, at the very moment when his hope of becoming a pro football quarterback hangs in the balance, Tim Tebow is taking on perhaps the single most divisive topic in America - " abortion - " in an advertisement set to air during the single most-watched television program of the year: the Super Bowl.

Pastors have long competed with the NFL on Sundays, but this season a hipster megachurch is turning the tables with a 30-second ad that could muscle its way into that all holiest of sporting events: the Super Bowl.

Crowds swarmed Beckleya s Raleigh County Convention Center on Sunday. Tim Tebow, the former Heisman trophy winner from the University of Florida, drew the crowd.