The Dolphins saw reason for optimism despite losing when Chad Pennington's pass was intercepted in the end zone in the final seconds.
With the nation watching, the Gators ended a six-game losing streak by defeating the Hurricanes in a game that was a renewal of a not-so-friendly rivalry. Florida has earned bragging rights for the next five years.
Tom Brady went from the disappointment of a Super Bowl loss to the devastation of an injury that could keep him out for the rest of the season.
For far too much of this live-long afternoon, the Dolphins football team played like one-legged men in a fanny-kicking contest. Then, for a golden handful of moments, they were back on both wheels, wreaking havoc, threatening to embarrass a bunch of Jets who couldn't even seem to put away a ragtag bunch reeling off a 1-15 season.
Chad Pennington took a pounding Sunday in his first regular-season start as the Dolphins' new quarterback. One of the four sacks he endured had the effect of a punch in the mouth. The bloodied mouth that stained Pennington's jersey and required postgame treatment was a badge of effort, indicative of a player who fought and worked and bears little blame for this 20-14 loss to the New York Jets - even though his end-zone interception in the final seconds sealed the defeat.
Wide receiver Antonio Bivins sustained a neck injury late in the third quarter of a high school football game between American and Coral Reef at Harris Field in Homestead on Saturday night.
