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    <title>GatorCountry.com &#45; Basketball</title>
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      <title>Franz Beard&#8217;s Basketball Confidential</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Now that Marreese Speights has moved on to the NBA, the Florida Gators have to figure out what they're going to do to replace the big guy in the low post. The Gators have three large freshmen and at least one of them is going to have to establish himself in the low blocks.]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Feature image story</dc:subject>
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      <title>Speights selected by Sixers at #16</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As music blasted away in the background at the NBA Draft party that was in high gear in his home town of St. Petersburg, Marreese Speights thanked Billy Donovan, Larry Shyatt, Rob Lanier, Donnie Jones, Lewis Preston, the entire Gator Nation and at least three times said he loves everybody in Gainesville. He was on an emotional high, the kind you get when your life changes completely with a single phone call. Then, just like that, Marreese Speights suddenly got serious. ]]></description>
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      <title>Making the right choice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tuesday morning the average cost of a gallon of gas in the United States was $4.08 and that means the typical American spends $60 or more to fill the tank with regular. Now you may not make a connection between a full tank and the NBA Draft, but Matt Ramker certainly has, which is why he’s content with the choice that Marreese Speights made to stay in the draft a couple of weeks ago.]]></description>
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      <title>ACK: An interview with Billy Donovan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Catching up with Billy Donovan these days isn't easy. He's been out on the recruiting trail trying to put in place the final piece of the puzzle for the 2009 recruiting class and this week he's playing host to hundreds of kids on campus for the 2008 Billy Donovan Basketball Camp. He's energized and moving forward with his plans to get Florida basketball back in the NCAA Tournament again after missing for the first time in 10 years this past season. ]]></description>
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      <title>Speights signs with agent Andy Miller</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marreese Speights made it official that he won't be returning to the University of Florida Thursday morning. Speights' AAU coach, Matt Ramker, informed Gator Country that the 6-10, 240-pound sophomore, who averaged 14.4 points and 8.1 rebounds per game for the Gators last season, signed with agent Andy Miller which means he is eligible to be taken in the upcoming NBA Draft.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2008-06-12T15:14:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A few minutes with Bruce Pearl</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[DESTIN --- Agents, runners, and rumors of shoe companies acting as a facilitator for deals between AAU coaches and certain college programs are just some of the issues at the forefront of college basketball. Bruce Pearl may not have answers for all of the problems that have the sport standing at a crossroads, but he does know what areas of concern need to be addressed immediately if the sport is to move forward with something close to a clean bill of health. ]]></description>
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      <title>Silencing the critics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Taurean Green knows all about the doubts. He’s heard them all his life so it’s nothing new to hear it again, this time from NBA types that he’s probably an inch or two too short and a step or two too slow. Everybody, it seems, wants to doubt Taurean except for one person that counts.]]></description>
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      <title>No more explaining necessary for Smart</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As a magna cum laude graduate of Kenyon College Shaka Smart had some explaining to do when he made his first career choice. He wanted to pursue his dream of coaching basketball and while his mother understood and gave him her blessing, there were some professors at Kenyon that just couldn’t understand why he would want to coach basketball when he the academic background to open just about any door in so many lucrative and highly competitive professions.]]></description>
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      <title>New UF assistant is the &#8220;Smart&#8221; move</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[University of Florida men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan moved quickly to fill the vacancy in his coaching staff, adding Shaka Smart of Clemson as assistant coach on Monday.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2008-06-02T17:54:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Broken or on life support?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[DESTIN --- It is debatable if the system is broken beyond repair or just on life support but there is no question that the AAU program that acts as the feeder for Division I basketball is in desperate need of some changes. Although the coaches of the Southeastern Conference didn’t reach any definitive conclusions or proposals about what changes are needed at their spring meetings at the Sandestin Hilton this week, there was agreement that there are huge problems that must be dealt with soon.]]></description>
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