Typing away at the laptop while taking a lunch break…..
Hard to believe the Winter Olympics are already over; aside from the pre-opening ceremonies tragedy involving the luger from Georgia (Nodar Kumaritashvili) being killed on a training run, Vancouver deserves to be highly commended on a job well done. Based on the fact that the United States and Canada brought in the lion’s share of the total medals as well as staged impressive championship hockey games, albeit with Team USA settling for silver medals in both the men’s and women’s finals, …

In one form or another, we’re all going through that dreaded syndrome called “football withdrawal” now that both National Signing Day and the Super Bowl have come and gone. Those of us who follow Gator basketball find that helps take the edge off a little, but for the next two weeks I’ll be following another sporting event that I enjoy, even though we lack snow in this great state of Florida: the Winter Olympics.

No one saw this coming. No one, except Washington fans, would have predicted the Huskies to beat the Florida Gators in the Women’s College World Series. The Gators had better pitching and better talent at the plate. So what happened? How could the No. 1 team in the country get swept in the World Series by a 3 seed?

The Florida Gators women’s softball team had a scare yesterday afternoon when they trailed the Alabama Crimson Tide 2-5 in the 7th inning. That is until senior Ali Gardiner stepped up to the plate and delivered a walk-off grand slam with two outs. The Gators (63-3) are headed to their first-ever WCWS championship series. They will play the first of a best-of-three series for the NCAA Championship on Monday, June 1 at 8 p.m. (ET).

Gator fans get so caught up in the two big sports: football and basketball, that we sometimes forget about our other sports. We want all our sports teams to go out there and win SEC Championships.

Did you you tennis has already started? I should have wrote a post about it when the season kicked off, but I guess I was too caught up in basketball. Both the men’s and women’s tennis team are off to a great start.