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So, the season six finale of “The Walking Dead” happened Sunday night. Wasn’t it crazy? Wasn’t it intense? There’s so much to discuss about this series, in fact, that AMC Networks created a talk show centered around it called “Talking Dead.” You all probably know this, because the talk show has come on just after the most recent episode of “The Walking Dead” since the premiere of season two in 2011. AMC has copy-pasted this formula a few times: “Talking Saul” parallels “Better Call Saul” and “Talking Bad” paralleled “Breaking Bad.” The network’s got a knack for creating whole subcultures around these shows, which is really a double-edged sword.

Opinion

Column: Reread an old book, learn something about yourself

Apr. 4, 2016

In the season-one finale of “Master of None,” Aziz Ansari’s character, Dev, stands in the middle of a bookstore clutching a copy of “The Bell Jar.” Faced with a seemingly unending variety of life choices, each taking him on a drastically different path, Dev has exhausted every source of advice and looks to the Sylvia Plath novel as a last-ditch effort. Ansari’s voice can be heard reading some of Plath’s most painfully poignant lines: “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America.”

Opinion

Letters to the Editor: Israel isn't an "apartheid state"

Apr. 4, 2016

I am deeply disturbed by Jordan MacKenzie’s column from Wednesday, “The meaning of the word ‘apartheid.’” First, I am always amazed when a Floridian criticizes Israel, given how Floridians live and work on land stolen by force from Native Americans who were “ethnically cleansed.”

Opinion

Column: How cheap are inexpensive jokes?

Apr. 4, 2016

Readers, I’d like you to know I was followed just yesterday by members of the #StopMichael movement. I could feel them lurking behind me for 10 minutes before I turned back to see the entirety of The Really Independent Florida Crocodile editorial staff. They satirized the daylights out of me. No dead horse went unbeaten that day.

Opinion

Guest Column: Meatless Mondays - one small step

Apr. 4, 2016

Over the last decade, phrases like “go green” and “reduce your carbon footprint” have become firmly embedded in our lexicon, just as Earth Day has become an annual celebration. As an environmental advocate, this couldn’t make me happier. I’ve been inspired to see people switch to efficient light bulbs, recycle and use canvas shopping bags instead of paper or plastic. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they recycle on a regular basis compared to a quarter of Americans in the 1990s.

Florida players celebrate during the team's 10-7 win over Texas A&M on April 3, 2016, at McKethan Stadium.

News

Statement Sweep: No. 2 Florida defeats No. 1 Texas A&M

By Luis Torres | Apr. 3, 2016

JJ Schwarz had been struggling at the plate during Southeastern Conference play.

Aubree Munro catches a ball during Florida's doubleheader sweep of Jacksonville on Feb. 17, 2016, at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.

News

Alabama hands Florida softball first series loss of season

By Matt Brannon | Apr. 3, 2016

The infield collapsed as Alabama’s Chandler Dare showed bunt.

Freshman infielder Jonathan India hits a ball during Florida's 7-4 win over Texas A&M on April 1, 2016, at McKethan Stadium.

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Column: UF baseball should be feared

By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Apr. 3, 2016

After recording the final out in No. 2 Florida’s series finale against top-ranked Texas A&M, Shaun Anderson pumped his right fist twice as the rest of the Gators gathered around the pitcher’s mound.