Swimmer Ryan Lochte to serve as parade's grand marshal
By KATIE EMMETS | Oct. 23, 2008Homecoming weekend marks a special time in football season when Gainesville is filled with UF alumni making their pilgramages back to The Gator Nation.
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.
A gator and a wildcat will emulate Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker today.
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.
Illegally setting up a stand selling Gator gear could cost roadside peddlers more than football tickets this year.
When it comes to Homecoming week, there may be no one busier than UF's rowdy reptiles, Albert and Alberta, who spread spirit around The Gator Nation like its their job because, well, it is.
It began with some household cloth, Barbie-outfit stencils and a few Barbie dolls. Years later, her passion for hand-sewing dresses has become a business.
I was bothered enough to feel compelled to write about Stephanie Dunn's Thursday article "Halloween treats adults to more than candy" in this week's edition of Sex on the Avenue.
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.
An assistant manager at a gas station was arrested Wednesday after a surveillance tape showed him cashing in stolen lottery tickets.
Although the Gator will growl at tonight's pep rally, some UF students are scowling at its organizers for choosing an "unknown" comedian and a musical act that may be out of tune with their generation.
For the first 66 minutes of the match, it appeared UF would have its fourth 1-0 game in a row with Arkansas.
Clad in a yellow shirt, blue blazer and an orange and blue striped tie, George Edmondson Jr. first made the trip from Tampa to Gainesville to watch the Gators play in 1949.