New transfers, familiar faces join Florida baseball as season approaches
By Adrian Carmona | Aug. 20After several of last year’s key players left the team for the 2025 MLB Draft, the Gators had a number of positional holes to fill.
After several of last year’s key players left the team for the 2025 MLB Draft, the Gators had a number of positional holes to fill.
Ontaria Baisden, a 20-year-old Gainesville resident, was killed in a gang-related shooting after an Easter egg hunt this year.
UF head coach Ryan Theis is set to fill Mary Wise’s shoes and take over Florida’s program, which is ranked No. 16 in the AVCA Division I Women's Volleyball Poll.
Eight members of the Florida football team were named to the 2025 Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team.
Todd Golden expressed excitement to join the Player's Era Championship tournament and bolster the Gators' non conference schedule in 2026.
You're in The Swamp. This is college football in the SEC, where rivalries are the backbone of collegiate sports culture, and school colors course through loyal fans’ veins like blood.
Beaming with school pride, Gators football unites students, alumni and Gainesville locals in orange and blue. The university’s chants set the tone and bring raucous energy to the stadium each year.
While universities across the country scramble to adapt to research funding cuts, the University of Florida reported $1.33 billion in research spending for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
UF is still looking for a new interim president as the deadline on Interim President Kent Fuchs' contract approaches.
Adjusting to college can be an emotional experience, but physical activity is commonly cited as an effective strategy in navigating it. Routine physical activity can benefit a student’s life on campus, and Gainesville has a wide range of exercise options.
Freshman year of college is a mountain to climb. Many obstacles lie in the wake of the best times most college students will experience. With that in mind, I wanted to give my top five restaurants in Gainesville and some must-order options.
Between free bus routes, a network of bike paths and ride-hailing apps for when it’s pouring Florida rain, understanding local transportation helps UF students spend less time figuring out the system and more time living in it.
Looking around the UF campus, you might catch friends sprawled out under the shade of trees, tour groups weaving through the rush of Turlington or someone feeding the campus cats near Pugh Hall. These spots hold memories of thousands of students and faculty members, marking traditions and shaping a campus life beyond lecture halls and exams.
Florida soccer was shut out in its season opener against the Florida State Seminoles.
In Florida, where laws and lingering stigma can make conversations about sex feel like contraband, college comes with enough surprises — finding sexual health care shouldn’t be one of them. Here’s where to go, what to know and who’s got your back at UF and in Gainesville.
Whether it’s students who spend hours applying to medical school each week or UF faculty members teaching more than six classes a semester, Gators often balance multiple lives at once. To balance schoolwork, occupational duties and social lives, blocking out time can set students up for success.
If you can’t get tickets to a game or the Gators are on the road, don’t worry: Gainesville has plenty of options for where to watch Florida sports.
Despite the federal government’s efforts to conceal what happens inside the recently — and hastily — built immigration detention center officially named “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility garnered national attention. We must speak up against this blatant violation of human dignity before it’s too late.
Florida football is deep into training camp, and several standouts are making their case for playing time ahead of the 2025 season.
I applied to The Alligator to become a copy editor over a year ago as a last-minute decision, kicking off what would become one of the most rewarding times of my life.