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The Gator Country Magazine is now the fastest growing full color magazine printed on high quality glossy paper that’s dedicated to bringing you the best in-depth feature coverage of the Florida Gators. Our magazine is the only one that has award winning writers and columnists on staff so you can truly enjoy reading about your beloved Florida Gators.

There are ten issues a year and each issue is packed with feature stories & information, the latest recruiting news, excellent commentary, and outstanding photographs not found anywhere else. Unlike most magazines, we have fewer advertisements so as to allow us to pack more content for your reading pleasure.

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• ALL GROWN UP
  Gator bigman Marreese Speights matures on and off the court to lead the Gator basketball team
  
  June 1. That’s the day Gator fans will always remember as the day that Billy Donovan said good-bye Florida, hello Orlando Magic. Six days later, Billy was back where he belonged, coaching the Gators after realizing that his heart belongs in Gainesville and not in the play-for-pay ranks of the National Basketball Association. This story isn’t about Donovan and how he realized he made a huge mistake only to rectify things by coming back to the place he loved. This is about one young man that used those six days to grow up.

• FIVE FABULOUS FRESHMEN
  Nick Calathes, Adam Allen, Jai Lucas, Alex Tyus, and Chandler Parsons are already making an impact
  
  They are Florida’s Fab Five, a recruiting class that in many ways mirrors Billy Donovan’s last great recruiting class of Al Horford, Corey Brewer, Joakim Noah and Taurean Green. Only time will tell if Nick Calathes, Adam Allen, Alex Tyus, Chandler Parsons and Jai Lucas will elevate Florida basketball to the same level as the ‘04s, but in terms of unselfishness and a burning desire to get better every day in practice, there is an amazing similarity

• TIME FOR THE TENNESSEE TWO-STEP
  Volunteers expected to win the Southeastern Conference this winter
  
  Can you hear the music, the sweet little ditty that percolates from the Chattanooga foothills to the Blue Ridge mountains in Johnson City? Wish that I was on ole Rocky Top Down in the Tennessee Hills Ain’t no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top Ain’t no telephone bills If you’re a Southeastern Conference sports fan, you heard it in football. Well, get used to it, because you’ll hear it again soon as SEC basketball starts in January.

• LIFE AFTER A NATIONAL TITLE
  Florida Basketball starts over after unprecedented glory the past two seasons
  
  When it comes to Florida basketball, Bill Koss has seen it all, the good, the bad and the ugly. As a player, fan and broadcaster, he has followed the Gators for more than 40 years. Through five decades. Through seven coaches. Through four athletic directors. Through the shame of an NCAA investigation. Through the fame of the first-ever Final Four.

• CHAMPAGNE ON ICE
  Florida women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler is not afraid to dream big
  
  The rectangular package arrived soon after Amanda Butler was hired, from one colleague to another, from one former Florida coach to the new gal in town.
  The gift—a bottle of Dom Perignon—came from Carol Ross. Attached was a congratulatory note with a bit of motivation: “A second bottle after you win a championship.” So for now, a single bottle of the bubbly sits in Butler’s office until an improbable quest is fulfilled. For the record, the Gators have never won a Southeastern Conference title, nor have they ever played in the Final Four. Championships? Well, there’s always a first time for everything.

• A SOPHOMORE’S JOURNEY
  Dustin Doe adjusts to the ups and downs of a promising football career
  
  The cliché is true. A year does make a difference. A big difference. Just ask Dustin Doe, who has rolled with the changes throughout his football career, from one high school to another, from the land of the Seminoles to Gator Country, from a struggling high school program to a consistent collegiate national championship contender, from backup to starter.

• ROCKETMAN
  With the help of a former FSU star, Gator recruit Caleb Sturgis has developed legendary leg strength
  
  Dan Mowrey was exiting the playing field at Dolphin Stadium as his team concluded pre-game warmups before their state championship game. Place-kicker Caleb Sturgis had just drilled a pair of field goals from 55 and 65 yards before launching a kickoff that was perhaps the longest Mowrey had ever seen.

• HOLLYWOOD BOB’S TOP FIVE PROSPECTS TO FOLLOW
  Every month, Gator Country Recruiting Analyst Bob Redman tells us who the Gators are hot after in football recruiting.
  

• THE RECORD WAS BROKEN, BUT THE MAN STANDS TALL
  Buddy Martin’s column
  
  The chill of November was beginning to cool the cloudy Thursday afternoon at Gator football practice. Two men in street clothes sat and watched, not 10 feet apart — the only spectators in the bleacher section. Deceived in appearance by the many years that had passed them by, they were unable to recognize each other — “The Cuban Comet” and the graying sports writer with the bulging waistline.

• BONUS EXTRA:  Pull-out full color poster of Andre Caldwell breaking Carlos Alvarez’s record as he watches in the background
  

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Prior Gator Country Magazine Issues:

• July 2007
• August 2007
• September 2007
• October 2007
• November/December 2007