Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, threats of violence kept him from playing in Central Florida. He returns this week in an upcoming exhibit entitled “Pride & Passion: The African American Baseball Experience” at UCF.
Recent wins over Barry and Tampa a week ago kept the men’s basketball team at Rollins College – ranked No. 18 in Division II – atop the Sunshine State Conference standings with a 20-4 mark overall and an 11-2 record in league play.
A week ago the women’s basketball team at Rollins College upended No. 14 Tampa after three previous attempts to notch a win against a Division II Top-25 team. The Lady Tars currently sit at No. 2 in the Sunshine State Conference.
For the second straight week, Rollins College junior guard Nick Wolf earned Sunshine State Conference Player of the Week honors (for the fourth time in his career) following big outings for the No. 20 Tars basketball team.
Northwestern quarterback Mike Kafka hooked up with Penn State tight end Andrew Quarless in the end zone for the go-ahead score with six seconds to play to help give the East a 13-10 win in the 85th Annual East-West Shrine Game.
The 2009-10 men’s basketball season is turning into an interesting one for Rollins College as the Tars earned their biggest win since upending No. 1 Tampa by one point way back in 1987 when they downed No. 2 Florida Southern on Saturday.
The field conditions may have slowed things down a bit on Friday but a good finish made up for the sluggish start. LSU rallied in the second half, only to allow the Nittany Lions to respond in the final minute. Check out the images caught by Scott McCall during at the Florida Citrus Bowl…
Lost in all of the Capital One Bowl postgame talk about field conditions at the Florida Citrus Bowl, an MVP performance turned in by Daryll Clark, and another postseason win for legendary coach Joe Paterno, is the story of walk-on kicker Collin Wagner.
The old beauty of a stadium showed its age (yet again) on Saturday afternoon. As torn up as the turf was before game time, the Florida Citrus Bowl couldn’t withstand the rainfall that began well before daylight had arrived, before hosting the rugged blend of speed and brawn displayed by two Top-15 teams at the Capital One Bowl.
A huge kick return by Miami set up the game’s first points of the night, but a 17-7 halftime lead for Wisconsin was all they would need in dismantling the Hurricanes at the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, where Scott McCall caught all the action.