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Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 most memorable moments

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 most memorable moments

Carter Mudgett, News Editor Aug 10, 2021

The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 concluded yesterday with the United States earning a whopping 113 medals, 39 gold, across 626 athletes. Read below as we recap each day of the event and revisit some of the...

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Women’s soccer season preview: UNFinished Business

Women’s soccer season preview: UNFinished Business

John Watson, Sports Editor Aug 6, 2021

Featured Image: Justin Nedrow UNFinished Business. After a spring 2021 campaign that saw a spectacular regular season followed by a shock defeat in the ASUN semifinals, the UNF women’s soccer team...

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How the US upset Mexico to win Gold Cup in dramatic fashion

How the US upset Mexico to win Gold Cup in dramatic fashion

Riley Platt, Sports Reporter Aug 5, 2021

Featured image: AP Photo/David Becker When it comes to domination throughout the world, the United States of America is almost always at the top. This isn’t typically the case with soccer, though,...

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Conference realignment talks rattle NCAA landscape

Riley Platt, Sports Reporter Aug 3, 2021

College athletics is one of the world’s more volatile sporting associations. News of two schools’ impending departure from their current conference has stirred the pot, and things don’t seem to be...

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Ervin Lewis previously held the titles of Senior Associate AD of Facilities and Operations and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. He will still carry the duties entrusted in those roles to his new title as deputy athletics director.

Ervin Lewis promoted to Deputy AD

John Watson, Sports Editor Aug 2, 2021

As the athletic department looks to kick off the fall season, some roles are being shifted as newly-hired Athletic Director, Nick Morrow takes over. As one of UNF’s office veterans, Ervin Lewis has been...

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FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2021, file photo, Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, embraces fellow gold medalist Mutaz Barshim, of Qatar, after the final of the men's high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In an extraordinary Olympic Games where mental health has been front and center, acts of kindness are everywhere. The world’s most competitive athletes have been captured showing gentleness and warmth to one another — celebrating, pep-talking, wiping away each another’s tears of disappointment.  (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

AP: At an extraordinary Olympics, acts of kindness abound

SALLY HO, Associated Press Aug 2, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — A surfer jumping in to translate for the rival who’d just beaten him. High-jumping friends agreeing to share a gold medal rather than move to a tiebreaker. Two runners falling in a tangle...

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Simone Biles, of the United States, watches gymnasts perform at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. Biles says she wasn't in right 'headspace' to compete and withdrew from gymnastics team final to protect herself. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

AP: Olympic champ Biles withdraws from all-around competition

WILL GRAVES, Associated Press Jul 28, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic title. The American gymnastics superstar withdrew from Thursday's all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being. USA Gymnastics...

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USATF National Track and Field Junior Olympics at UNF endures positive COVID-19 tests; On-site testing now mandatory for athletes

Carter Mudgett, News Editor Jul 27, 2021

More than 6,000 athletes from across the country have converged on UNF for the 2021 USATF National Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships this week. Participants' ages range from 7 to 18 as they...

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Canada's Quinn, left, and Chile's Karen Araya battle for the ball during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Sapporo, Japan. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

AP: First openly transgender Olympians are competing in Tokyo

ANNE M. PETERSON, Associated Press Jul 26, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — For Quinn, a midfielder for the Canadian women's soccer team, the opening match of the Tokyo Games carried more emotional weight than their previous Olympic appearances. Quinn became...

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Florida-native Trey Mancini had a long road to the Home Run Derby after being diagnosed with stage three colon cancer

A look back on Trey Mancini’s historic Home Run Derby story

Riley Platt, Sports Reporter Jul 23, 2021

Featured image: David Zalubowski/AP Cancer: not many more words carry as much fear and uncertainty. This was the case for Baltimore Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini, who was diagnosed with stage three...

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Actors perform during the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

AP: With muted ceremony and empty stadium, Tokyo Olympics begin

Jul 23, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with a dazzling display of fireworks and soaring, made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a...

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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga wearing face masks pose for a photo at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo Thursday,  July 22, 2021. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

AP: Tokyo new virus cases near 2,000 a day before Olympics open

MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Jul 22, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo hit another six-month high in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, one day before the Olympics begin, as worries grow of a worsening of infections during the Games. Thursday’s 1,979...

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