For basketball fans, March means slam dunks, buzzer beaters and brackets. For Alachua County Animal Services, it means waived adoption fees, or “Match Madness.”
Florida’s pitchers struggled with command all night in the series opener at No. 15 Ole Miss, as the Gators dropped to 0-7 in conference play.
Florida’s season has been filled with firsts. The Gators earned their first one seed in over a decade. They ran out their first AP All-American in program history. They won the SEC for the first time since 2014. Now, Florida advances to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2017.
The Florida Gators women’s basketball team narrowly escaped with a win in the WBIT quarterfinals to punch its ticket to Indianapolis for the tournament’s penultimate round.
After a dominant win over Arkansas, a dogfight at Ole Miss and a strong performance against Vanderbilt, the Florida men’s tennis team looked ready to take on anyone who stood in their way.
A Gainesville man was arrested Wednesday and faces three counts of distribution of child pornography and 49 counts of child pornography possession.
Having traveled across the country to San Francisco, Todd Golden is in familiar territory. His team isn’t, though. Here are three storylines entering Florida’s first Sweet Sixteen game in nearly a decade.
The 27-year-old made his Broadway debut in “The Outsiders” in April as the understudy for the protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis. The show, which won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical, opened on a Saturday, and Wayne made his debut the next Tuesday without ever having run the show in rehearsals.
The pair opened Le Petite Beignet in June out of a small trailer attached to their silver Jeep Wrangler. Not even a year later, the Johnsons sold their 10,000th beignet this spring.
As they faced a 2-0 deficit, most of Wednesday evening had not gone in favor of the No. 4 Florida Gators. However, the UCF Knights delivered the final dagger in the bottom of the fifth inning. Coming into this contest 7-3 in its last 10 against the Knights, and undefeated since a 7-0 loss in Gainesville four years ago, this was unfamiliar territory for Florida.
With just five seconds to go in overtime, UF junior attacker Gianna Monaco scored a game-winning goal to give No. 7 Florida lacrosse a 13-12 win over No. 15 Pennsylvania.
With the Trump administration calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education and Florida’s teachers still struggling to make livable wages, Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association, said the future of educators and student proficiency is uncertain.
Hace cincuenta años, Irene Thompson estaba frente a un mar de 370 estudiantes, preparándose para enseñar la primera clase de UF que era orientada a mujeres. Se sintió abrumada. El departamento de inglés pensó que estaba loca. Lo mismo hizo la administración.
During Women’s History Month, three female business owners discussed how they started and maintained their businesses in lieu of these struggles. As they have learned over the years, being a female business owner can have its advantages and disadvantages.
Temperaturas bajo cero, ropa sucia y escasa atención médica son algunas de las realidades diarias reportadas por los detenidos dentro del Centro de Detención del Condado de Baker.
March is here, and with it comes Women’s History Month — a time to honor the achievements of women while acknowledging the challenges they still face, but there's still one glaring gap: male advocates.
Jeremy Miranda’s closet of 150 button up shirts is synonymous with the man he is: playful, organized and always ready to support Florida gymnastics.
Women made up about 30% of College of Engineering graduates in the 2023-2024 academic year, according to the most recent data from UF Institutional Planning and Research. In comparison, 57% of total degree recipients across the university that year were women.
After dethroning the reigning champs, No. 1 seed Florida enters the Sweet Sixteen amid a historic run. Now, the Gators gear up for their next test.
Florida is one of a growing number of states where women’s and gender studies have been targeted by Republican lawmakers, who see the programs as ill-equipped to prepare graduates for the workforce and a waste of taxpayer dollars. But students, alumni and faculty argue the program’s value extends beyond the classroom.
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