In this edition of the Alligator Awards, we debate which UF freshman was the best of the 2016-17 season. Sports writers Mari Faiello, Andrew Huang and Morgan McMullen join alligatorSports editors Dylan Dixon and Jake Dreilinger in a roundtable discussion to debate the five nominees. Debates will go in alphabetical order by the writer’s last name.
Less than seven weeks remain until Florida kicks off the 2017 regular season against Michigan at AT&T Stadium. 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 quarterback at Florida this year:
When high school defensive backs decide to attend the University of Florida, they’re actually committing to two different schools.
Since his promotion to the New York Mets Class A-advanced affiliate, the St. Lucie Mets, former Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has been playing well.
Citing student safety concerns, Student Government will pay $2 million out of its reserves to fund a railing repairs project on the Reitz Union’s exterior.
Last week on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Republican Rep. Ted Yoho said it was understandable that the president’s eldest child, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer for information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
For the second time since May, a Gainesville woman was sexually assaulted near Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
Health care and education are two of the most highly debated policy areas today. President Donald Trump has advocated to diminish the level of government involvement in both areas, which are currently at the highest they have ever been in U.S. history. Based on historical trends and empirical and theoretical evidence, increased government involvement in any area where it is not absolutely necessary has served only to decrease the value created by institutions. Arguments that favor greater government control and regulation run counter to objective facts.
In recent weeks, controversy has swirled around an 11-month-old baby boy from the U.K.
“If it’s meant to be, it will be.” These words are ones I often hear, and while I think they are meant to be comforting, they make me kind of angry.
Readers beware: I feel the need to report something that happened to my family, which supposedly happens quite often at UF. It has to do with parking your car in the areas of tow-away zones, which includes most places on and surrounding UF’s campus.
By early 2018, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) will have almost doubled its use of clean solar energy through the construction of eight new solar parks, including one in Hawthorne on the border of Alachua and Putnam county.
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Suitcases in hand, Jinx, Sparky, Smudge and Frankie walk to the stage.
A fatal three-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 75 left eight injured and a former bass player for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra dead Friday afternoon.
The biggest storyline surrounding Florida’s football team this offseason is a simple one.
From June 12 to June 14, eight UF baseball players were selected in the 2017 MLB Draft, the first step in their long journeys to the major leagues.
My crush is into something called “lateral-thinking puzzles”. They’re fun little riddles presenting an odd scenario that you have to figure out.
Three months after its grand reopening, Newell Hall will be UF’s one and only 24/7 study center.
On Wednesday afternoon — in a final attempt to keep the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures two separate buildings — Jireh Davis marched.
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