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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Authorities respond to reports of robbery at Oaks Mall
By Alex DeLuca | Jan. 2, 2020The robbery was unarmed and nobody was injured.
COVID-19
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
UF took another step in the right direction in 2019
By Sam Campisano | Dec. 30, 2019MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- I asked UF running back Lamical Perine if this Florida squad was a playoff team at media day in July. His response?
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FOOTBALL
Gators hold off Virginia to win Orange Bowl
By Tyler Nettuno | Dec. 30, 2019MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Lamical Perine didn’t waste much time in the final outing of his collegiate career.
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FOOTBALL
Stagnant Florida run game has breakthrough in Orange Bowl
By Dylan Rudolph | Dec. 30, 2019MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Throughout the 2019 season, Florida struggled to run the ball.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Orange Bowl primer: Florida vs. Virginia
By Kyle Wood | Dec. 30, 2019The Gators put their undefeated Orange Bowl record on the line tonight against Virginia. No. 9 UF can secure its first 11-win season since 2012 with a win. No. 24 Virginia would finish with 10 wins for the first time since 1989 and for just the second time in program history with a win.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida squeaks past Davidson for ninth win of the season
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 29, 2019The charity stripe has not been kind to the Florida women’s basketball team throughout the first half of the regular season.
SPORTS
Five of the best UF sports moments of the decade
By Brendan Farrell and Dylan O'Shea | Dec. 29, 2019With the decade coming to a close, five of our writers picked out their favorite UF sports moments of the decade across a handful of sports. Here are our selections:
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Gators explode offensively in SEC tuneup game against Long Beach State
By Brendan Farrell | Dec. 28, 2019There were a few expectations for the Gators ahead of their final non-conference game before SEC play starts next weekend.
SPORTS
UF alumnus and ESPN reporter Edward Aschoff dies at 34
Dec. 26, 2019Edward Aschoff, an ESPN college football reporter and UF alumnus, has died at 34.
SPORTS
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida falls to Utah State in Orange Bowl Basketball Classic
By Evan Lepak | Dec. 21, 2019UF forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. stepped up to the free-throw line looking to give his team the lead.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Gators fall to Wake Forest in West Palm Beach Invitational
By Graham Marsh | Dec. 21, 2019When Florida’s women’s basketball team faced Wake Forest in the second round of the West Palm Beach Invitational, its top-four scorers: guards Lavender Briggs, Kiara Smith and Kristina Moore as well as forward Zada Williams got plenty of buckets. And they scored at an efficient pace -- all four combined to shoot 57 percent from the field.
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida holds on to beat Xavier in West Palm Beach Invitational
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 20, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team secured just eight wins in the 2018-19 campaign, with its final one coming in the 30th game of the season.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE
Women place 1st, men come in 4th at Auburn Diving Invitational
By Dylan O'Shea | Dec. 19, 2019The Gators’ swimming and diving team wrapped up its 2019 action on Thursday at the Auburn Diving Invitational.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Protesters didn’t use anti-Semitic language against campus speaker, UF says
By Hope Dean | Dec. 19, 2019UF students and faculty received an email last Friday correcting a previous university statement: protesters did not definitively use anti-Semitic language against a campus speaker in November.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Engineering team will keep all prize money
By Meghan McGlone | Dec. 19, 2019$750,000 will go toward research and $2 million is personal prize money
METRO
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POLITICS
President Donald Trump impeached by US House, 3rd in history
By The Associated Press | Dec. 18, 2019WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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FOOTBALL
Gators ink 21 signees on early National Signing Day
By Kyle Wood | Dec. 18, 2019Members of the Florida football team’s 2020 class put pen to paper and cleared up expectations for the future of the program Wednesday morning.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Florida gets back to its winning ways, defeat Mercer at home
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 17, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team had a much-needed rest after splitting a two-game road trip.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Freshmen come up big for Florida in win over Providence
By Brendan Farrell | Dec. 17, 2019Guard Tre Mann took the basketball and drove into the lane, taking on a defender. He jumped, bent his body in a way that seemingly defied all laws of physics and laid the ball up over the defender’s outstretched arms and into the basket.
METRO
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Southbound lanes on I-75 closed due to fatal crash
By River Wells | Dec. 16, 2019Troopers arrived in six minutes.
