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Pat Dooley

The writing of legendary sports writer Pat Dooley

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Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 25th)

Monday April 25, 2022

The Back Nine comes at you with mixed feelings. It’s Bob Dooley XXVII week and I alternate between fist pumps and nausea. Which means it is like the previous 26 of them. 10. Let us start not with …
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Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 21st)

Thursday April 21, 2022

It’s not too early, is it? I mean, college football is still more than four months away, but all these spring games and the USFL and Billy Napier’s speaking tour kind of gets you going. Or is …
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Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 18th)

Monday April 18, 2022

The Back Nine comes at you after a great Easter weekend that included a little bit of everything and a lot of delicious food. Nobody makes holidays more special than my wonderful wife.   …
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Pat Dooley’s Grades: Orange & Blue Game

Thursday April 14, 2022

Pat Dooley grades the Gators’ spring game Offense B- First half: Anthony Richardson kind of showed us why he is QB1 on this team, especially on the first two drives. He threw the ball with accuracy …
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Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 11th)

Monday April 11, 2022

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend of baseball and baseball and a lot of watching golf. And some real tragedy that didn’t involve winning or losing games. 10.  I can’t start without …
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Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 7th)

Thursday April 7, 2022

Earlier this week, I wrote a story for GatorsWire on Brenton Cox and Alex Brown. Cox wants to break Brown’s single-season sack record of 13 set in 1999. Brown wants him to get it because that will …
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Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 4th)

Monday April 4, 2022

The Back Nine returns after an unscheduled Monday off because of an evil stomach virus, but everybody is OK now and our pipes are new and we keep doing a heck of a job dealing with adversity. Good …
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Pat Dooley’s High Five (March 31st)

Thursday March 31, 2022

In case you are wondering where the Back Nine was this week, I was leveled – and I mean leveled – by a stomach flu that was pure evil. And then I gave it to my wife, who had to deal with it while …
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Pat Dooley’s High Five (March 24th)

Thursday March 24, 2022

The High Five was told a great story the other day, but since the writer hasn’t used it yet in print, I’ll wait to tell it. I can tell you that it revolves around how many football coaches …
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Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (March 21st)

Monday March 21, 2022

The Back Nine comes at you with eyeballs that are still bouncing from watching so many basketball games (and seeing so many bad calls): The difficult part about being a fan is that you are going to …