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.
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 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.
Wisconsin put the Miami offense on ice at the Florida Citrus Bowl on Tuesday night during a dominating 20-14 win in front of a record 56,747 fans at the 2009 Champs Sports Bowl. Game MVP John Clay rushed for 121 yards and two scores in the win.
Tuesday night’s Champs Sports Bowl pits two Top-25 teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten against each other as No. 14/15 Miami (9-3) and No. 22/24 Wisconsin (9-3) meet up at the Citrus Bowl at 8 p.m.