For more than 1,200 high school and college baseball players across the United States, Thursday could potentially mark one of the biggest days of their lives. The 2014 MLB First-Year Draft begins Thursday evening and will continue through Saturday.
What a week! The Gators swept the NCAA softball championship, a first for UF. Congratulations to the kick-ass ladies of Gator softball: We’re incredibly proud.
Following the release of American prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl last week, questions and allegations started to fly over why the Obama administration negotiated with the Taliban for Bergdahl’s release. Some claim that Bergdahl was a deserter, thus negating any reason to trade suspected terrorists for Bergdahl. Others — including House Speaker John Boehner — have already called for congressional hearings to investigate the matter.
Gia Coppola’s directorial debut, “Palo Alto,” opening tomorrow at the Hippodrome State Theatre, is in some ways a mix of “Mean Girls” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a coming-of-age film that frankly addresses the sex, drugs, despondency and debauchery of adolescence, while at the same time mourning the loss of its characters’ childhoods.
Disney’s “Maleficent” is so many things at once. It is a beautiful fairy tale. It is visually stunning. It is overdone. It is messy.
Hundred Waters, a band formed in 2011 with roots in Gainesville, has covered genres from electronic to indie to folk to hip-hop with their tempos and drums over their last couple projects. Though their self-titled album, released in 2012, introduced the ability to cover those genres, the band’s most recent effort, “The Moon Rang Like A Bell,” enhanced and honed in on those sounds.
Some of Gainesville’s top bars and clubs are sweating this summer, and it’s not just because of the heat.
Food is more than just nutrients. Food conjures up memories and reveals who we are and who we are not. What we eat is a medium for personal recollection and collective identity. Marcel Proust, the great French author, is famous for connecting food and memory with madeleines, “those squat plump little cakes.” We certainly have him to thank for those little packages of “petite French cakes” at every Starbucks checkout.
Tim Walton said it best on April 15.
A UF professor became the first to successfully complete genomic sequencing at sea.
When Lauren Kates was younger, she shot arrows at milk jugs with her friends in her backyard. Now, she’s going to shoot against some of the best archers in the world.
Lauren Kates and her teammate Rachel Bouchillon are representing UF at the World University Championships in Poland on July 4 to July 6. It is the only big, world event for college archery students, and Kates and Bouchillon are the first UF students to make the U.S. team. Check out our full story: http://bit.ly/1o2cPpT
Starting this Fall, dorm residents might discover their resident assistant is also their new roommate.
Heading into Florida’s first game in the Women’s College World Series Championship Series against Alabama on Monday, Aubree Munro had just two career home runs as a Gator.
For the next two months, there will be one less fraternity at UF.
Game, set, match. The Gators have everything they need in order to advance to the next step of their championship taper.
I thought this wasn’t the standard for Florida baseball.
There might not be real football to be played until late August, but that doesn’t stop news from breaking around the Southeastern Conference. In the past week, SEC football TV schedules were announced, Florida’s 2015 recruiting class picked up two commitments and a former Gator national champion announced his return to the Gainesville campus.
A bad batch of Spice is believed to be the reason 28 people were hospitalized for seizures this weekend, leading to the raid of a local smoke shop and sending Gainesville residents reeling.
UF students will now be able to access expensive programs thanks to the university assuming the costs of the former pilot program, UFApps.
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