Florida checks out the big guys

ORLANDO, FL — This is the last big fling of the summer and it’s not what it used to be, not with Nike, Reebok and Adidas going head to head earlier in the week out in Las Vegas, but there is still a good bit of talent on display and there are some heavyweights in the coaching business here to check it out.

Billy Donovan and Rob Lanier of the Florida staff were there particularly to watch Xavier Gibson (6-10, 230, Dothan, AL Northview), JaMychal Green (6-8, 225, Montgomery, AL St. Jude), Eloy Vargas (6-10, 220, Plantation, FL American Heritage).

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Franz Beard
Back in January of 1969, the late, great Jack Hairston, then the sports editor of the Jacksonville Journal, called me on the phone one night and asked me if I wanted to work for him. I said yes. The entire interview took 30 seconds. It's my experience that whenever the interview lasts 30 seconds or less, I get the job. In the 48 years that I've been writing and getting paid for it, I've covered Super Bowls, World Series, NCAA basketball championships, BCS championship games, heavyweight title fights and what seems like thousands of college football, baseball and basketball games. I'm a columnist and special assignments editor for Gator Country once again, writing about the only team that ever mattered to me, the Florida Gators.