Justin Barney
Sports Editor at WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, FL)
Sports Editor at WCWJ-TV (Jacksonville, FL)
Sports editor @WJXT4 and https://t.co/bQLmaJeUvN. Covering sports on the First Coast since 1998.
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news4jax.com | Justin Barney
Published: June 5, 2025 at 4:22 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The TaxSlayer Gator Bowl has a new date. The annual bowl game in Jacksonville will be played Dec. 27 at EverBank Stadium with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff time, the bowl announced on Thursday. The date matches the earliest playing of the game in the bowl’s 81-year existence. It has been played four times on Dec. 27 (1958, 1969, 1976 and 1986). The game will be televised nationally on ABC.
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news4jax.com | Justin Barney
Published: June 5, 2025 at 2:43 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Dallan “Deebo” Coleman has one year of college eligibility left, and he’s going to make the most of it. Coleman, the All-News4JAX basketball player of the year and state’s Mr. Basketball in 2021 from West Nassau, will try and leave his mark in a different sport as his career winds down at UCF. Coleman took part in spring practice with the UCF football team and is attempting to finish his career with the Knights on the gridiron.
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news4jax.com | Justin Barney
Published: June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jaguars continue to make a flurry of moves to reshape their roster, signing one player Wednesday and releasing a local fan favorite. Jacksonville signed linebacker Dennis Gardeck and waived offensive lineman Cooper Hodges with a failed physical designation. Hodges, a Baker County High School graduate, was a good story for the Jaguars.
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news4jax.com | Justin Barney
Published: June 4, 2025 at 12:29 AMSign up for our NewslettersPublished: June 4, 2025 at 12:29 AMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Marty Lee started coaching with one small promise to himself all those years ago. If he could walk away at the very end of his coaching career at First Coast High School knowing that he’d made his mentors proud, then Lee fulfilled that promise.
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news4jax.com | Justin Barney
Published: June 3, 2025 at 8:12 PMSign up for our NewslettersPublished: June 3, 2025 at 8:12 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida High School Athletic Association put an exclamation point on its final board of directors meeting of the school year on Tuesday, voting to bring in a shot clock in playoff basketball next year, expanding a subset of the football playoffs and tinkering with the baseball postseason again. The changes were notable all for their own reasons.
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The Javier Báez renaissance is one of the coolest stories of the 2025 season. Now hitting .319/.357/.513 with five home runs and 27 RBIs in 34 games. And this walk-off capped a night in which he hit a pair of three-run homers. https://t.co/7BMhdS2KVJ
