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More than 9,000 people competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel over the summer. Of them, 1,120 represented Team USA, and of those, only one of them was Florida Gators swimmer Kelly Fertel.
Throughout the 2016-17 Florida men’s basketball regular season, freshman center Gorjok Gak averaged just 5.3 minutes per contest. He saw more than five minutes of action just twice in the regular season, relegated to the bench as he developed strength and coordination.
The World University Games in Taiwan are a chance for college athletes to represent their nations in various team and individual sports.
UF President Kent Fuchs’s Aug. 16 statement cancelling the visit by white supremacist Richard Spencer was on the mark. Events in Charlottesville, Virginia, together with warnings of a “battlefield” in Gainesville provide ample reason to halt the event. Fuchs was also right to emphasize that personally, he finds Spencer’s rhetoric “repugnant and counter to everything this nation stands for.” But though safety issues and not Spencer’s ideas comprised the reason for the cancellation, Spencer is considering a lawsuit, arguing that UF is using safety as a pretext to limit free speech. In a similar case this year, Auburn University allowed Spencer to speak rather than face a court battle.
There are few things more terrifying than the unknown of a nuclear war. The simple press of a button could wipe out entire countries — entire continents.
The hallways of The Carolina Inn on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are filled with photographs and paintings of people who made a difference in the university’s 228-year history. After staying in the inn for three nights last month, I felt like I had a sense of how UNC was influenced by the two centuries of faculty, staff and alumni whose likenesses lined the halls.
Do you hear it? The ticking? She hears it. She’s been hearing it for as long as she can remember, and now it’s grown from a little pinch to a searing pain she can’t hide if she tries. She hears it when she thinks about her future — a future that, until recently, saw her heading to the WNBA. Well, no more. No more basketball for junior Brooke Copeland. Not when people are suffering, dammit, and not while she can do something about it in her limited time on earth.
The Gators basketball team picked up a 6-foot-5 sharp-shooting transfer from Rice on Tuesday.
As droves of Jewish students and locals alike gathered for Passover in Gainesville on Monday night, the holiday meant something different for each.
At 12 years old, Hen Mazzig was almost blown up by a suicide bomber while on his way to an ice-cream shop.
A new exhibit at the University Galleries is showcasing top ceramic art picked by acclaimed artists.
Titi Aynaw went from running around barefoot to lacing up army boots to slipping on high-heels.
Smith Meyers knew he wanted to run for UF’s Student Body president after a childhood friend slipped into depression in Spring 2016.
A UF researcher is working to make tomatoes great again.
Members of the UF community gathered around a man preaching about love on Friday — a day after students and faculty members protested against a man wearing a swastika armband.
Take a look around.
At the age of 30, Dustin Pfundheller believes he will soon become the youngest American to travel to all 193 U.N. member states, all while working a full-time job.
A UF researcher has found that when you treat your child’s doctor rudely, quality of care plummets.
After hearing about her Jewish friends’ experiences at Birthright, Heather Ryan became curious about visiting Israel herself.
As UF alumnus Mike Biana prepared to board a flight at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday afternoon, his phone was flooded with panicked texts and messages.
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