Normally, Florida athletes fight teammates for playing time, but on Friday, they'll compete for six worthy causes.
We head into the homestretch of the alligatorSports’ preseason college football poll with the No. 3 team in our countdown: the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Greenland is Melting is a three piece folk band born and bred in Gainesville. It consists of a stand-up bass, a banjo, an electric and acoustic guitar and a suitcase that’s used to keep a beat. Shaun Pereira, guitar, explained how he developed his love of bluegrass music to writer Sarah Arrazola, who interviewed the band for this week’s story. “I started to get a liking for folk and blues,” Pereira said. “What I liked about it was the storytelling.” Visit us online for full color photos of the band.Courtesy of Nicole Kibert
Love it or hate it, the Humans vs. Zombiesgame will return to campus Wednesday.
Under a clear summer night sky in front of UF coaches and with several current Florida players watching on from the stands, some of the state’s top recruits took the field for Friday Night Lights in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Friday.
The women of Gainesville Roller Rebels take on bruises and broken arms for the love of their sport.
On Friday, coach Billy Donovan announced that center Kenny Kadji has decided to transfer from Florida.
Last Thursday's top story, "Faculty search raises questions" concerned the inability of the College of Journalism and Communications to even interview a professional journalist with 25 years of experience at The New York Times for a very hands-on and professional opening within the college for next year.
The NCAA looks powerless.
They are white, black, Asian and Hispanic. They are rich, and they are poor. They come from all over the United States.
The Studio Percussion’s music room is a noisy place.
Four UF faculty members studied the Gulf oil spill from four angles: tourism, ocean flow, marine ecosystems and the legal aspects of the oil spill cleanup.
Starting in the fall, the Hub will no longer be the official on-campus late-night study center, with those duties being taken over by the Reitz Union, which will remain open until 3 a.m. — along with Taco Bell, Starbucks and possibly Subway.
uld have us think that national security is no joke, but a quick look at the more than 90,000 leaked reports from the war in Afghanistan showed us that honesty and integrity is somewhat of a laughing matter.
I was passing through Midtown last Tuesday evening, and I stopped to watch the live music at The Swamp for a song or two. “Cause it’s the first of May, first of May,” he sang, and I was thinking what a nice voice he had when suddenly – “Outdoor f--king starts today. Celebrate spring with a crazy little thing called f--king outside” – my heart started pounding as nervous anger flooded my insides. He dropped the F-bomb in his beautiful melody. As he scanned the audience, his eyes met mine. I felt uncomfortable just witnessing this performance. Maybe I was overreacting, I thought. I decided I’d try to wait it out, hoping the next song would be swear-free and worth staying for. He had a good voice. “I’m going to make this part as vulgar as possible,” he said, and I cringed. I instantly began to change my mind about staying. He said something about “f--king everybody,” and I couldn’t stand listening anymore. I left — no applause from me tonight.
Last Thursday's column "Make up your own mind about politics" inspired me.
It's been about a month since UF's campus-wide tobacco ban went into effect, and so far it doesn't seem like much has changed.
Another pair of gas stations has fallen victim to the same credit card-skimming scam that stole credit card information from customers of two Newberry Road gas stations.
With some of the top high school talent from across the nation converging on Gainesville this past Friday for the sixth annual Friday Night Lights camp, the star recruits were sure to shine bright.
A student was held at gunpoint at the east side of Tanglewood Village Apartments, located on the southeast corner of UF campus, Sunday night.
Solutions by The State News
