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Josh: This year’s Florida lacrosse team has a chance to be dominant. The Gators lost just one player from last year’s squad, which made it to the national semifinals. No Florida team that finished one game short of the finals the previous season has returned as high of a percentage of its lineup since the last men’s basketball championship run in 2006-07. If the Gators aren’t hoisting the championship trophy in Philadelphia on Memorial Day weekend, it will be legitimately shocking, and you can’t say that about any other team.

Center Patric Young (4) pulls down a rebound during UF's 77-44 win against Georgia on Wednesday night in the the O'Connell Center

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Gators struggling on glass

By LANDON WATNICK | Jan. 10, 2013

Rebounding has been an issue for center Patric Young and forward Erik Murphy this season. Both players’ production on the glass has dropped from last season.

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Cathedral catharsis: Victory in marriage equality

Jan. 9, 2013

Who says you can’t teach an old church new tricks?

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After football season: What to do in G’ville

By Samantha Doucette | Jan. 9, 2013

After a disappointing loss against the University of Louisville in the Sugar Bowl, the Gators football team has traded in its gameday uniform for practice jerseys this semester.

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Florida university to build Catholic dorms

By Rachel Kurland | Jan. 9, 2013

Housing at two universities are getting an upgrade with a twist.

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Study says female binge drinking overlooked

By Alexa Volland | Jan. 9, 2013

About one in eight women over the age of 18 binge drink.

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Last year hottest on record nationally, rainier than usual locally

By Rachel Crosby | Jan. 9, 2013

According to the National Climatic Data Center, last year was the hottest on record.

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Alternate Gainesville society goes to print in fiction series

By Jensen Werley | Jan. 9, 2013

Electricity is nonexistent, residents are rebuilding a city they once knew and a dark figure schemes to sabotage progress.

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Heat Wave to Hell: You’re making the Earth too hot

Jan. 9, 2013

Global warming is happening. Now please get over yourselves before we all die.

UF President Bernie Machen, seen here speaking in October at the BEAT Lousiana State University T-shirt distribution, is not stepping down from his position at this time.

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Bernie Machen will stay as university president

By Chris Alcantara | Jan. 9, 2013

The search has been suspended: President Bernie Machen isn’t leaving UF right now.

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Financial results of ‘cash for clunkers’ were harmful and also predictable

Jan. 8, 2013

Like many, if not most government economic stimulus programs, what sounded like a beneficial government policy on the surface created disastrous unintended consequences.

Michael William Kriesel, 22, died in a car accident Sunday morning after his car crashed into the concrete base of a highway sign on Interstate 95.

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Santa Fe student dies in I-95 car wreck

By Jenna Lyons | Jan. 8, 2013

Michael William Kriesel dreamed of saving the wolves out west.