Bench key as UF enters stretch run
By GREG LUCA | Jan. 31, 2011As the Gators enter a demanding final stretch, the starting five at least know they have some support.
As the Gators enter a demanding final stretch, the starting five at least know they have some support.
Billy Donovan often stresses to his players the importance of focusing on the things they can control. This week, that could include their own destiny.
Along State Road 121 there is a seemingly ordinary 12-acre plot of land. If you blinked, you would miss the turn into a graveled driveway that barely stands out, except for a yellow sign that reads “Monkey X-ing.”
It didn’t take long for Urban Meyer to get back into college football.
The Constitution, ladies night and bus routes were all on the table Monday at the City Commission candidate forum on equality issues.
For the second year, the better the Gator basketball players perform, the more the UF libraries benefit.
Baseball America just ranked them the No. 1 team in the nation.
Traveling along downtown’s Depot Avenue will no longer be a hassle or a construction-heavy eye sore.
Here, children rarely go to school. Backpacks, pencils and books are scarce, just as scarce as the buildings that provide an education to growing minds. Here, they bear guns and ammunition and fight a war.
Watching SportsCenter at 3 a.m., it’s possible a commercial for the Florida women’s basketball team espousing the word “obsessed” has graced the screen.
For Gainesville Fire Rescue employees, their jobs are about helping those in need whether they face a fire or a torrential downpour.
As political and social turmoil sweep across Egypt, one UF student studying abroad there is being evacuated, UF administration confirmed Monday.
The debate of police consolidation is done — at least for now.
The Florida men’s golf team entered the JU invitational hoping to prove itself worthy of its No. 3 national ranking, and the Gators appear to be well on their way to doing so.
As Patches O’Houlihan from the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” wisely declared, “You’ve got to learn the five D’s of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.” I never thought these words would assist me at UF.
The UF Paris Research Center is on the move.
The recent health care reform may be due to tumble like a row of dominoes.
Zack Smith makes a fundamental mistake in his Jan. 31 column, “Compromise DeLay-ing the Inevitable.” In it, Smith argues that Tom DeLay demonstrated ideological consistency by refusing to compromise with Democrats. Yet partisanship, as Smith writes, is not a “philosophy [that] may have intellectual teeth.” Instead, it is a methodology for attaining one’s political — or ideological — goals.
When going from the corner of 18th Terrace and Seventh Avenue to find Bruce Baber, you can’t help but notice the signs.
Dressed to impress in cocktail attire, UF administrators, alumni and students gathered to celebrate the opening of Black History Month Monday night.