UF welcomes back 2 key starters, including a playmaker, for Kentucky matchup • Week 6 Football: Lake Mary hosts Mandarin; Osceola vs. St. Cloud turns 100
 Sentinel Sports Final Friday, September 29, 2023 | | |
| | | | | The Sentinel's Matt Murschel takes us way back to UCF-Baylor, this weekend's matchup at the Bounce House, and how it led to the Big 12. Blake Bortles and company don't disappoint. ... Two offensive weapons should help Billy Napier's team this weekend in Kentucky. It seems like every game is make-or-break (which is kinda ridiculous) but that Tennessee win means more if he can stack Kentucky on top of it. ... The Ryder Cup is underway in Italy ... The Miami Heat thought they had a vise grip on Damian Lillard but he ends up on with Giannis in Milwaukee, but everyone forgets this: Lillard is 33. This might not be the same as Allen Iverson going to Denver to play with Carmelo (Lillard + Giannis, OK?), but experience tells me to cool my jets. Too many teams (and fan bases) celebrate in the offseason. They have a first-time head coach. ... It's a busy high school football Week 6. District matchups heat up. | | | | In the decade since that Fiesta Bowl win, UCF claimed three conference titles, earned a spot in back-to-back New Year's Six Access bowls highlighted by a win over Auburn in the 2017 Peach Bowl to finish undefeated. The Knights won a school-record 25 straight games and earned a Big 12 bid in 2023. | | | | | The Gators should be stronger after struggling in 22-7 win against Charlotte last weekend, but they have a chance for consecutive wins against SEC opponents this weekend to create some serious momentum for the season. | | | | | The high school football regular season already has a playoff feel to it as Lake Mary hosts Jacksonville Mandarin and Apopka plays at Sanford Seminole. Kissimmee Osceola is home vs. St. Cloud in a big district game that serves as the 100th meeting between those schools since 1925. | | | | | Among girls volleyball winners on Thursday were Kissimmee Osceola, Winter Park, East Ridge, Oviedo and Foundation Academy, while Foundation Academy and First Academy had boys golf wins. Lake Mary and Windermere Prep also notched girls golf wins. | | | | | The battle for the 17-inch Ryder Cup, in U.S. possession since that 19-9 beating at Whistling Straits in 2021, gets started Friday morning at Marco Simone. It's a golf course built for big excitement at an event that really doesn't need much help. | | | | | Most everybody loses in the weird, protracted drama that was Damian Lillard's monthslong maneuvering to get out of Portland. But nobody loses in all this quite like the Miami Heat lose, and by extension that giant L on the Heat is borne on the neck of team president Pat Riley like a heavy yoke. | | | | | The Hurricanes have opened the season 4-0 for the first time since 2017, setting UM up to make a run for the ACC title game. | | | | | Deena Early will find herself in a rare predicament at Edgewater when her twin, football-playing sons face each other for the first time. Kalen and Kylen Meadows each will wear No. 24 in a Class 3M, District 3 game. | | | | | UF now aims to avoid its first three-game losing streak in the series since Bear Bryant coached Kentucky more than 60 years ago. During the latest Swamp Things, Mark and Edgar discuss the Gators' push to close September on a winning note. | | | | | He practiced sporadically during the first week of camp. He did not participate in a full practice over the first four days, saw his first extensive work on Tuesday and Wednesday, and did not practice again Thursday. | | | | | Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa became the first Miami player to win AFC Offensive Player of the Month since 1993. Plus, Dolphins injury updates on Jaylen Waddle, Connor Williams and Jaelan Phillips. | | | |
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