South Africa was to be my birthplace. Zambia, where I was eventually born, didn’t have the best maternity care in southern Africa in the early 1990s, and my parents were advised to move. Eventually, things worked out, and there was no need for my mom to go to Durban, South Africa.
Business ventures during Winter Break brought another Dunkin’ Donuts close to campus and banned smoking inside High Dive. Gainesville also lost two popular campus-area restaurants.
WUFT-TV just got a little fresher with an addition to its how-to and do-it-yourself programming. Slicing into its Saturday lineup is a local cooking show featuring southern, traditional-style recipes.
While coral reefs across the world are reportedly struggling, off the warm coast of the Cayman Islands, UF researchers have witnessed colonies bounce back.
The Southeastern Conference is cultivating champions on and off the field.
Florida lost several players to transfer and the NFL Draft following its season-ending loss to Florida State on Nov. 30.
For the first time in Amanda Butler’s tenure as Florida’s coach, the Gators tamed the No. 6 Wildcats in Kentucky, defeating them 83-73 on Sunday on the back of a 30-11 run in the game’s final 12 minutes.
Editor’s Note: A version of this story originally ran online on Dec. 26, 2013.
It might be too difficult to fit 161 candles on the birthday cake, but UF will still recognize its 161st today.
Gainesville, it’s cold outside.
Saturday’s swim meet came down to the final two races in the O’Connell Center, as the Florida women’s swimming and diving team looked to avenge last year’s loss to rival Florida State.
Florida fans got a glimpse at their quarterback of the future on Saturday.
Today the O’Connell Center will host the 77th men’s and 43rd women’s dual meets between the Gators and Seminoles swimming and diving teams at 1 p.m.
Patric Young stood at the free throw line with 9:44 left in the second half with 999 career points. With No. 13 Florida already up 61-24 against Savannah State, the most suspenseful part of Sunday afternoon’s game was whether Young would become the 50th Gator to score 1,000 career points.
Chris Walker has been admitted into the University of Florida, but the freshman forward is not yet eligible to play for the Gators, the school announced Saturday morning.
The King has flown the coop.
World politics were introduced to the chambers at the final Student Senate meeting of the semester.
Gators can put a little extra emphasis on the green in this season’s color palette by taking advantage of the Gator-themed e-cards released by the university.
At a Student Senate meeting I was covering for the Alligator a few semesters ago, a student journalist went rogue. He was covering his last meeting for the Gainesville Sun and decided to break one of the most important rules of journalism — he gave his opinion.
Twenty feet up in the air, gracefully twisting her body and wrapping pieces of silk around her feet and hands, A’shayla Passaretti flips upside down and dangles above the studio floor.
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