Gators backup QB Jack Miller day-to-day with ailing throwing shoulder • Orlando area high school football scoreboard: Kickoff Classic preseason games
 Sentinel Sports Final Friday, August 18, 2023 | | |
| | | | | Fall sports are winding up. High school football is playing preseason games and the NBA released its regular-season schedule for 2023-24. If the Magic start 5-20 again, they'll likely be talking about how they can't wait for 2024-25 by Christmas. ... UF coach Billy Napier can retool the team all he wants, but if the Graham Mertz doesn't pan out or gets dinged up and has to miss time, there's a good chance his next QB will have never taken a snap in a game that counts since high school. ... Imagine UConn and Gonzaga basketball in the Big 12. It was discussed. | | | | When will NBA champion Denver come to town? The longest homestretch? The NBA announced the full 2023-24 schedule Thursday for all 30 teams. Orlando opens training camp on Oct. 3 at the AdventHealth Training Center. | | | | | A source close to UF QB Jack Miller said he hurt his throwing shoulder while compensating for a right thumb injury suffered 12 months ago that did not properly heal. Miller broke his thumb during fall camp and underwent surgery last August. | | | | | Kickoff Classics are exhibitions but power programs have pride at stake in Friday football games like the Apopka at Osceola and Edgewater at Seminole showdowns. Other intriguing games include Lake Mary at Bishop Moore, Boone-Olympia and Tampa Jesuit vs. Jones High game at Camping World Stadium. | | | | | The ties run deep between Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and the Houston Texans' DeMeco Ryans. The two coached on the same staff in San Francisco, but McDaniel also had an early coaching stop in Houston when Ryans was a rookie Texans linebacker. | | | | | Anthony Richardson, who only finished .500 in his only season as a starter in Gainesville, left big shoes to fill for Graham Mertz. The Colts made Richardson their starter in his first season. Mertz has far more experience as a starter at Wisconsin, but still has to prove himself in the Swamp. | | | | | UConn plays in the Big East and just won its fifth men's basketball championship in April. The Huskies compete as an independent in the top tier of Division I football. Gonzaga, which plays in the West Coast Conference, has been one of the dominant men's basketball programs for about two decades. | | | | | The Bucs need a new No. 3 after Russell Gage ruptured his patellar tendon in a workout against the Jets. | | | | | So much for the notion then that conference realignment would cause schools to reassess their priorities. It will have the opposite effect. If you don't want to be left behind in the every-school-for-itself mania of conference realignment, you'd better invest in your football program. | | | | | College sports administrators have touted the benefits of conference realignment for their athletes. Increased exposure. Better competition. More money for nutrition, mental health and academic support, not to mention the stability of athletic departments that otherwise might have to cut teams. Count UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin among those who aren't buying it. | | | | | Miami Dolphins wide receiver Robbie Chosen remembers former South Plantation High teammate Alex Collins, an eventual NFL running back who died in Lauderdale Lakes on Sunday. | | | |
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