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From going out on a Friday night to attending a weekday lecture, students find themselves in various social circles, separating each experience from the next. But for the queer community in Gainesville, their identities unite them, no matter where they may find themselves.
Florida Gators center Rueben Chinyelu withdrew his name from the NBA Draft and plans to return to Florida, per Swamp 247. Chinyelu returns with two years of eligibility remaining.
The Florida Gators men’s basketball team was ranked just inside the preseason AP Top 25 Poll at No. 21 in October. However, when the final buzzer sounded in the national championship game, the Gators were the last team standing.
Julie Mauerman met her best friend under unusual circumstances.
Following a season of highs and lows, the Florida football team hit the field for its annual Orange & Blue spring game. With the Gators preparing to showcase the fruits of their labor this offseason, NBA Youngboy and Bossman Dlow blared over the speakers on a cool, blue-skied sunny afternoon in Gainesville as Ben Hill Griffin stadium came alive with anticipation.
As fans swamped Midtown bars and the Stephen C. O’Connell center reached maximum decibel levels on April 7, another Gator watch party was brewing a few miles away — quieter, and with a much earlier bedtime, but no less spirit.
Surrounded by a stadium packed 51,000 strong, the Gators gathered in Atlanta for the 2007 NCAA Championship game, prepared for a face off against Ohio State. Back in Gainesville, fans crowded into the popular bars of the day, anxious to see if the Gators could pull off their second — and consecutive — NCAA championship win, a feat no team had managed to achieve since the early ‘90s.
Florida took home its first national championship in 18 years after a neck-and-neck game between the Houston Cougars on Monday night. The Alamodome supported a boxing ring, much by Houston’s invention, and with a national championship hanging in the balance, top-seeded Florida and Houston traded haymakers.
When UF’s Final Four matchup against the Auburn Tigers ended in triumph, Gainesville roared. Students stormed the streets. Bar floors shook. Fireworks exploded. The Gators had just advanced to their first National Championship since 2007.
The summer after graduating from high school, my son Anthony worked for a charter bus company. He and the driver made the 31-hour trip from Tallahassee to Salt Lake City to pick up some clients. On the way, the bus driver inadvertently flicked a switch that dumped all the human waste from the restroom into the compartment under the bus.
I only recently became a Florida Gator. Before 2020, I was a proud Oklahoma Sooner who cheered loudly against the Gators back in 2008 as they whooped us 24-14 in the Orange Bowl. However, since joining UF’s neuroscience PhD program as a graduate student, I now rep the orange and blue and sing “Don’t Back Down” in the Swamp every chance I get.
Dozens of fans gather at The Swamp to watch Florida defeat Auburn on Saturday, April 5, 2025
The streets bled orange and blue in the early hours of 5 a.m. on Saturday, as Gator fans marked their spots in line at The Swamp Restaurant for a chance to secure a table for the Gators’ Final Four match against Auburn at 6 p.m.
In San Antonio, Gators men’s basketball is gearing up to take on the Auburn Tigers on Saturday night. But back at home in Gainesville, Florida fans will have their eyes glued to the TV, whether that screen is at a bar, home or on campus.
SAN ANTONIO --- After leaving class on Friday afternoon, Hannah Skalicky and a couple friends darted to her dorm and began packing the 19-year-old mathematics freshman’s car. They had a 15-hour drive ahead of them to San Antonio, Texas.
When Trevor Wayne first picked up his worn-out copy of S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Outsiders” in seventh grade and began to read the opening lines, it became more than just an assignment. Even though he was sitting in an English classroom in Boca Raton, Florida, he saw himself in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He saw himself in the characters who came to life before him, both Greasers and Socs alike.
The Huskies have more experience in the snow than the Gators. Since head coach Dan Hurley arrived in Storrs, Connecticut, his squad has watched the spattered sky six times as the confetti fell. It occurred twice before the NCAA Tournament, twice in the Elite Eight and, most importantly, twice at the national championship.
Following two notable losses to conference opponents on the road last week, the Florida Gators men’s tennis team (9-7, 4-3 SEC) entered Saturday’s match with a business-like demeanor knowing that SEC competition was heating up.
The spring signifies a lot of things: a much-needed time change, the blooming of irises in Gainesville’s swamps and the ability to hear music blaring any direction within half a mile of the Heavener Football Center. The latter would be because the Gators are back on the field.
The drought was over, and the upset was complete. Coaches and players on Florida ran to freshman Nikola Daubnerova in celebration as she delivered Florida its first SEC victory of the season by upsetting No. 9 Texas in the Gators’ first home game in 40 days.
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