Thousands watch eclipse in Gainesville
By Jessica Giles | Aug. 21, 2017Nine-year-old Ian Sousa was so excited to see the solar eclipse Monday he puked the night before.
Nine-year-old Ian Sousa was so excited to see the solar eclipse Monday he puked the night before.
About two weeks remain until Florida football kicks off the 2017 regular season against Michigan at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Gators enter this year as back-to-back SEC East champions, notching 13 conference wins under coach Jim McElwain since he took over the program in 2015. As always, UF’s success on the gridiron this fall will largely depend on its roster, a group of players featuring both seasoned veterans and unestablished newcomers. Here is the position preview for players set to play at running back for the Gators this year:
It was a rougher time at UF.
UF and the Levin College of Law both received record donations this past year.
Former scientist and founding father Benjamin Franklin once said the following: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
Playing forward at the University of Florida means having to live up to the legacy of players like Abby Wambach and Savannah Jordan. But only two games into the season, Florida may have found a perfect fit in freshman Deanne Rose.
Florida’s chances of upsetting Michigan in the two teams’ season openers took a hit over the break when UF announced seven Gators are suspended for the game.
Florida figures to be the fifth-best SEC team in 2017, at least according to the Associated Press. The AP Top 25 rankings came out Monday afternoon, and the Gators will open the season as the No. 17 team in the country.
After graduating from Florida, many former Gators are continuing their career at the next level. With two weeks of the NFL’s preseason having passed, here’s a look at how former Florida players are performing.
Will President Donald Trump be impeached? This column previously discussed that for Democrats, Trump’s impeachment and removal from office may not be the best political alternative. However, following the controversy surrounding the president’s unwillingness to denounce white supremacists and neo-Nazis with strong enough rhetoric, many Democrats may not care about the political consequences. They may let their hysteria cloud their judgment and put aside their political goals to remove the alleged white supremacist enabler. To them, a lack of strong rhetoric denouncing an infinitesimal part of the U.S. population that has gained unprecedented media attention is more important than achieving health care, tax reform or infrastructure improvement. But is impeachment even possible?
The University of Florida has been well-represented through the first two days of the World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan.
Starting Sept. 1, both the audience and Big Brother can watch George Orwell’s “1984” at the Hippodrome State Theatre.
When Chris Tunno arrived at his brand new apartment, he was met with a puddle instead of a pool.
The Veteran: Luke Del Rio
It’s 2017, and we have Nazis running around without care and without shame. Please, dear reader, take a moment to absorb the utter absurdity of the sentence you just read.
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.
I don’t mean to get sappy or sentimental right off the bat, but today marks the first day of my last year of college, so maybe I can’t help it. Although it may sound cliche, I realize with each new semester how much, however slight, I’ve changed from the last, and I try to recognize what I want to do differently each time around. Indeed, senior year seems to lend that idea even more gravity.
Gators baseball team wins first national championship
Well, here we are. It’s the start of another Fall semester. Freshmen are moving in, our graduate friends are gone, and the world is changing. The Alligator isn’t immune to that.
The first day of school may be eclipsed by a phenomenon 38 years in the making.