UNF baseball won two of three games April 4 - 5 in a series against Eastern Tennessee State University. Junior first baseman Kevin Martin was awarded the title of Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the...

Question 1: The UNF baseball team has won six out of 20 games, which puts them in the bottom rankings in the A-Sun Conference. What can the baseball team improve on for the next half of the season?

Finally, after a year of waiting, the biggest tournament in all of sports is finally here once again; March Madness 2009. For those of you who are die-hard Osprey fans, or don’t know very much about college basketball you may be having some trouble deciding how to fill out your brackets and who to cheer for. Here is a look at a few general norms to follow when it comes to tournament time and the lowdown on a few of this year’s teams to watch.

Being a Division I athlete at UNF and bringing the same competitiveness they show on the court into the classroom can be a full-time job. UNF student athletes, with an overall average GPA of 3.0, recently...

A nine-year-old boy’s father recently posted a video on YouTube of his son playing basketball with hopes it will catch the eye of an NCAA recruiter. The young boy is actually very good for his age, and the clip has already been viewed more than a million times. University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer sent hundreds of text messages to recruits to avoid the NCAA limit on phone calls, and found another recruit’s girlfriend a gymnastics scholarship at UF just to sweeten the deal, according to a Gainesville Sun report. What do the two have in common? They are both examples of how NCAA recruiting has gone too far.

A fourth-place finish in the NCAA Division I Provisional Tournament Nov. 22 closed the UNF volleyball team’s 2008 32-match season – its longest season since its transition to Division I. UNF went 2-3 in the tournament with wins against North Carolina Central University and Winston-Salem State University. UNF lost to Presbyterian College, the University of Central Arkansas and the University of South Carolina Upstate. “I was really proud of how they played for the tournament,” UNF head volleyball coach Kevin Campbell said. “I wanted them to play the same level they always do, but in reality, we’re down two outside hitters. They fought and passed well all weekend, not to mention they attacked offensively and served tough. I was really proud of that.”

It's that time of year again where the highly unpopular BCS ranking system rears it's ugly head. It seems nearly every coach, analyst and fan wants, at the very least, a plus one system - a compromise...

NCAA athletics is a multi-million dollar industry, and the majority of the “student athletes” who participate in these sports are not students at all, just athletes. Many major college football and basketball programs are using the four-year learning period as a minor league of sorts, and that’s exactly how the players, coaches and trainers look at it. The athletes play four years, win some games, turn some heads and then get called up via the draft, signing a multi-million dollar contract for their potential.