Gators basketball news

• Austin Rivers is still considering the Florida Gators. Read the blog here. Rivers still open to UF
• Florida coach Billy Donovan is aware of the dangers involved when agents contact college athletes. Agent issue also a concern for Donovan
• http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=GS&Dato=20100727&Kategori=ARTICLES&Lopenr=100729568&Ref=AR Corey Brewer wore his trademark grin as he took questions from kids at the Santa Fe College gym Monday. (Photo by Erica Brough/Staff photographer) UF alum Brewer gives back
• http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=GS&Dato=20100726&Kategori=ARTICLES&Lopenr=100729630&Ref=AR Around a group of reporters, Marreese Speights isn't the most talkative guy you'll meet. But get him in a group of kids and he's the life of the party. (Photo by The AP) Speights improving for 76ers
• Once promising Florida sophomore big man Kenny Kadji became the latest casualty of the school's dwindling 2008 class. Kadji transferring from UF
• When Marni Jaffer was about to deliver her husband's eulogy to a crowd of 300-plus mourners, she noticed a familiar face rising above the others in the back of the funeral chapel. She had never met the man, but she recognized him from her television screen. Traded by Knicks, David Lee was still a team player
• With just about every Miami Heat acquisition this summer, another recruiting story seems to emerge. Dwyane Wade helped lure LeBron James and Chris Bosh. James played a big role in talking Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Mike Miller into coming to Miami. Miller recruiting Jason Williams to Heat
• http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=GS&Dato=20100715&Kategori=ARTICLES&Lopenr=100719725&Ref=AR Mike Miller has signed his five-year contract with the Miami Heat, joining LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to chase a championship. Miller signs Heat deal
• Mike Miller has arrived in Miami and expects to sign a contract with the Heat by Thursday. Mike Miller closing in on finally finishing Heat deal
• Udonis Haslem is staying with the Miami Heat. Haslem staying put, agrees to deal with Heat

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• Jonathan Dowling and Trey Burton of the University of Florida are among the top 500 freshman, according to Phil Steele's 2010 College Football Preview.The publication listed Dowling from Southeast High as the 18th best defensive back. Burton out of Venice High is the 26th-ranked quarterback.The No. 1 quarterback is Alabama's Philip Sims from Oscar Smith [...] Dowling, Burton among top freshmen
• Jason La Canfora, a reporter for the NFL Network just said he has some intel that indicates the Broncos could select Florida QB Tim Tebow with the No. 24 pick.Tebow has been the most controversial player of this year's draft, with many analysts saying he would fall to the 2nd round.We'll see soon enough if [...] Somebody just said the word 'Tebow'
• When speaking on his recruiting class, University of Florida Urban Meyer said redshirt freshman quarterback Jordan Reed would move to tight end.That leaves three scholarship quarterbacks: redshirt sophomore John Brantley, Venice High's Trey Burton and Tyler Murphy, also part of the 2010 class. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Murphy was leaning toward Connecticut before heading to Gainesville.Brantley [...] Less competition for Burton at Florida
• The biggest contingent of signings was at Bogey's Restaurant and Sports Pub in Venice, where seven Indians signed letters of intent on National Signing Day.Actually, two already are attending classes and going through workouts at their new schools: quarterback Trey Burton at Florida and defensive end Brandon Wilkinson at South Florida.Burton and Wilkinson graduated early [...] 7 Indians sign with colleges
• Two Southeast High football players made it official Wednesday on National Signing Day.Safety Jonathan Dowling, who committed March 1 and visited Jan. 15, signed to attend Florida.Running back LeTray Fagins will attend Towson State in Baltimore, Md. Two Southeast players sign
• Venice High quarterback Trey Burton plans to keep his commitment to attend the University of Florida, according to Indians coach John Peacock.In a text message sent Sunday evening, Peacock stated that nothing is changed for him.Peacock said Burton is planning to leave next Sunday for Gainesville.Burton's need to reconfirm his commitment stems from Urban Meyer [...] Burton plans to keep commitment to Gators
• Maybe it is something in the water in Gainesville.Those reports of Urban Meyer resigning as the head football coach at the University of Florida?Never mind.For now.A day after Meyer announced that he was resigning as coach of the Gators, the Florida football coach apparently is having second thoughts and is now considering taking an indefinite [...] Never mind
• Now that there has been time to digest the stunning news that Urban Meyer will be stepping down as head coach at the University of Florida, attention shift to who will replace the 45-year old icon.The job is one of the best in the nation and there will be  no shortage of names that will [...] Who will be next?
• Florida football coach Urban Meyer believes that junior cornerback Joe Haden is one of the best defenders in the country. Apparently others are in agreement.Haden, who came to Florida from Ft. Washington High in Maryland, was chosen to the 2009 AFCA Coaches' All-America Team announced on Thursday by the American Football Coaches Association.Haden, who also [...] Haden named to All-America team
• Tim Tebow came cruciatingly close to choosing Alabama over Florida during a heated recruiting battle after he finished his high school career at Nease High in Ponte Vedra.Tebow connected well with then-Alabama coach Mike Shula and Tebow's recruitment was the subject of an ESPN 'Faces in Sports' documentary titles 'Tim Tebow: The Chosen One'. The [...] Tide turned