Opinion
We must do more to stop the ‘tide of evil’
Nov. 24, 2013Against a tide of evil, it can seem overwhelming to be even a single drop of good.
Opinion: Columns
Sports
Picks Column: Georgia Southern
Nov. 21, 2013We here at the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column are extraordinarily excited for this weekend. For the Georgia Southern-Florida game, you ask? Of course not. The second installment of the ‘Hunger Games’ series, “Catching Fire” premiered last night at midnight! If that doesn’t get your heart pumping, then we don’t know what’s wrong with you. Just watch the trailer, for crying out loud!
Opinion
Not your mother’s Plato: Philosophy matters
Nov. 21, 2013As the end of my final semester at UF approaches and one of my many ambitions comes to fruition, I find myself constantly reflecting on an eventful college experience.
Opinion
Panic switch: Recognizing, treating anxiety
Nov. 20, 2013It starts in subtle ways: a little shaking, some quickened breathing. No one else will notice, but you know the train has left the station. There’s no way to stop it.
Opinion
Nation still has healing to do after JFK death
Nov. 19, 2013Fifty years ago this Friday, two bullets tore through the body and head of the president of the United States, making Nov. 22, 1963, the most infamous day in American history since Pearl Harbor.
Opinion
Only two options: to have or to be
Nov. 19, 2013There are only two options for all of us: to have or to be.
Sports
Dark season still offers hope
By PHILLIP HEILMAN< | Nov. 18, 2013I'm not much of a fan of extended metaphors.
Opinion
Democrats gut Obamacare
Nov. 18, 2013Apparently there is a bit of irony in the November air in Washington. More Americans have lost their health insurance because of Obamacare than Americans who have signed up for it. The president botched the health insurance exchange website, and the strong unity of Congressional Democrats who pushed the Affordable Care Act through Congress and onto the American people is starting to chip away.
Opinion
Are gender roles still an issue today?
Nov. 18, 2013In case anyone missed the memo, we’re about to enter 2014. If you did miss the memo, then you’re not alone, because Justin Lookadoo, an unfortunately prominent speaker in public schools across the South, seems to believe this is still the 19th century. High schools invite Lookadoo to advise their students about dating as teenagers, but what they receive is a handbook on gender stereotyping.
Sports
Pease shows promise in changed offensive approach
By JOE MORGAN< | Nov. 17, 2013COLUMBIA, S.C. — Brent Pease looked like a new man on Saturday night.
Opinion
Too many people don’t value what they already have
Nov. 17, 2013Early last week, baseball fans and Atlanta residents were shocked to learn that after just two decades of calling Turner Field home, the Atlanta Braves are moving to suburban Cobb County in 2017.
Sports
Picks Column: South Carolina
Nov. 14, 2013Sitting at 4-5 with a likely loss ahead of them in Columbia, S.C., the Gators could easily be batting .400 by weekend’s end. With that possibility in mind, as well as our nation’s recent observance of Veterans Day — thank you for your service — we here at the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column would like to talk about Ted Williams — Teddy Ballgame — the last man to bat better than .400 in Major League Baseball.
Sports
The Rally: Who will win the UGA-AU game?
By PHILLIP HEILMAN< | Nov. 14, 2013Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Phillip Heilman and Adam Pincus preview No. 25 Georgia’s road matchup against No. 7 Auburn on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on CBS.
Opinion
Guest column: How Israel can better the world
Nov. 14, 2013On Tuesday I attended an event hosted by the Jewish National Fund titled Making the World a Better Place, which was supposed to highlight the positive impact Israel is supposedly making on the global community.
Opinion
Guest column: Obamacare tagline misleads
Nov. 14, 2013“If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
Opinion
University presidential candidates should appear in the Sunshine
Nov. 13, 2013Amid the revelations that the government watches nearly everything we do, it may come as a surprise that states have actual laws ensuring government transparency.
Sports
#HotSportsTakes: Forget Tyler, UF should start Skyler
By JOE MORGAN< | Nov. 12, 2013Every now and then, Grantland.com attempts to write the worst sports column on Earth. Today, Joe will try, too.
Opinion
Veterans deserve more respect than Americans give them
Nov. 12, 2013Monday marked Veterans Day, a holiday many Americans easily forgot. No grand fireworks shows or barbecues happen, and most Americans don’t get the day off from work. The only thing you might notice about Veterans Day is the absence of mail.
Opinion
Voter ID laws rig the system, threaten democracy
Nov. 12, 2013Former Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.) once held one of the most prominent political positions in the United States. From 1987 to 1989, Wright served as speaker of the House of Representatives. However, last Nov. 2, Wright found he might not even be able to cast a ballot in his state’s elections.
Opinion
Instead of death, fear the unlived life
Nov. 12, 2013As I age into my early 20s, I realize now that overused cliches are not as useless as their unoriginality might suggest. Take this one: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
