How 'Bout Them Gators!!!

Will they listen before it’s too late?

Now, before I come off as some sort of authority figure on high school basketball, let me be the first one to say that I know squat about press breaks, triangle defenses or moving screens.
But, since I happen to be the only sports writer that I know of that has exclusively covered Santa Fe High sports for the past 12-straight years, maybe I do know what I’m talking about when I say that the current Santa Fe boys basketball team has an identity problem.
Who… Continue

Santa Fe’s Megan Hough is currently on pace to smash the all-time school record for assists in a single season

By MIKE DAROZA


The ball gently darts up into the air twice, meeting a smashing right-hand kill on the way down, the crowd goes wild.
If you’ve attended any high school volleyball match, you’ve likely witnessed this scene, over and over.
But, if you’re like most people, you remember the kill, and not the set up.
And that’s just fine, according to Santa Fe Lady Raider senior Megan Houg… Continue

By Mike DaRoza

MIAMI – The stroke of midnight came and went virtually unnoticed by Marcus Jones last Thursday night.
Just minutes before, the noise created by more than 60,000 frenzied football fans was all but earsplitting.
The Orange Bowl, and the electrifying atmosphere within it, rocked at a fevered pitch as the home team completed a miraculous comeback.
That noise, however, would ultimately pale in comparison to the deafening silence that greeted Jones and his No.17 Louisville Cardinals te… Continue

The agonizing walk down that long hallway last Saturday night, in some ways, reminded me of the time I was in Lakeland covering the Boys Basketball Florida Finals a few years back.
It was just moments after Santa Fe had lost the state semifinal game to Sebring, and I was among the reporters outside the Raider locker room waiting for a group of players to come out for the post-game press conference.
The Raider locker room, as much I could tell through each opening and closing of the door, was fil… Continue

As soon as the final buzzer signaled the end to the emotionally charged district championship basketball game between Santa Fe and Union County, players, coaches, parents and fans rushed the floor.
Heck, even I was on the floor, right in the middle of it all – just like I’ve done many times before.
I’ve seen kids get into pushing matches, parents yelling at the referees and have even watched a thug being led outside in handcuffs because he was, like an idiot, brandishing a cap gun that looked li… Continue