Fifty purple tea lights lined the stage of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 100 performers sang and danced in celebration of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, on Sunday.
We love being Gators because the enthusiasm on campus knows no bounds. Seriously, UF students get hyped up for anything and everything and then work their tails off to make everything bigger and better than originally expected.
Earlier in the year, UF coach Urban Meyer was fond of a statistic that said when a team blocks one punt in a game, that team wins the game 90 percent of the time.
Nestled deep into the snowy banks of Aurora, Ill., lies a gold mine of volleyball talent.
On an overcast afternoon where George Edmundson-AKA Mr. Two-Bits-was honored for his 60 years of service, the Gators decided to throw a block party in his honor.
Earlier in the year, UF coach Urban Meyer was fond of a statistic that said when a team blocks one punt in a game, that team wins the game 90 percent of the time.
Here's a new word you can describe the UF defense with: Consistent. The squad which would go from impressive to embarrassing is gone. Its replacement is a unit which starts at a high level, and is now finishing at that same plateau.
A gator and a wildcat will emulate Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker today.
Homecoming weekend marks a special time in football season when Gainesville is filled with UF alumni making their pilgramages back to The Gator Nation.
Being on homecoming court is an accomplishment, but for the candidates in the running this year, a position as UF royalty might not even qualify as their crowning accomplishment.
When UF and Kentucky studied film of each other this week, they might as well have been watching a mystery movie and a horror flick.
With the forecast gray today, it may rain on UF's 85-year-old Homecoming parade. But the show will go on, complete with Kung Fu Pandas, an Olympic athlete and marching bands.
A trip to China usually lasts a couple of weeks and can cost thousands of dollars.
While Pamplona has an annual running of the bulls, Gainesville has a yearly gallop for Gators.
It seems almost quaint, in retrospect.
If it were up to Kelsey Bowers, the Gators would have a big bulls-eye stitched into their uniforms just below their names and numbers.
The Gator women's swim team showed promise a week ago in Michigan against the Wolverines and the Stanford Cardinal.
It's that time of year again. Anyone who has been in Gainesville for UF's Homecoming weekend knows all about the gridlock, the game and that, apparently, alligators can growl - something we didn't know until the fall of 2005.
When fans get their first glimpse of the 2008-09 UF women's basketball team tonight, they might notice a few changes from last season.
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