On Wednesday, history was made when Marcus Jordan, Keith Clanton and new head coach Donnie Jones led the Knights to a 57-54 win over No. 16 Florida at the new Amway Center in downtown Orlando.
The Florida Tuskers took advantage of four Hartford turnovers to score a United Football League record 38 points in the first half en route to a 41-7 win over the Colonials on Thursday at the Citrus Bowl.
Daunte Culpepper added to a long list of great memories at the Florida Citrus Bowl on Thursday night by leading his United Football League team to a come-from-behind win over the Florida Tuskers.
This is what the “War on I-4” is really all about. On Saturday at St. Pete Times Forum the Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm battle for the American Conference Championship and the right to advance to the ArenaBowl. The Predators hold a slim 23-22 lead in the series.
The Orlando Predators are living off borrowed time entering Saturday night’s road game at Milwaukee. Following last week’s 45-34 win over Alabama the Preds are currently holding down the fourth and final playoff spot in the American Conference with a 6-7 record.
It seems every week the Orlando Predators are fighting for their playoff lives. It’ll be that way once again this Friday, just as it was in a heartbreaking shootout this past weekend, when South Division foe Alabama comes to town. The Preds lost 77-70 in OT on Saturday.
A week after suffering a gut-wrenching loss at home, the Orlando Predators bounced back with their best performance of the season. The Preds blew out the league’s best team, the Jacksonville Sharks, 70-48 in front of a season-high 14,010 at Amway Arena.
The Orlando Predators started the 2010 season ranked No. 5 according to the Arena Football League Writers Association. But then they dropped the first three games of the season and suffered losses to the rival Tampa Bay Storm and newly-formed Jacksonville Sharks.
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at UCF had their seasons come to a close in the Conference USA Championship quarterfinals in Tulsa this week. Despite the ups and downs, there seems to be enough in place for a strong turnaround.
Still just one win shy of becoming the winningest coach in program history, the milestone for Kirk Speraw may lack the kind of celebration it otherwise deserves as UCF has hobbled along over the past month.