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Celebrating Driskel’s season-ending injury downright wrong
By JOE MORGAN< | Sep. 22, 2013Dear select horrible customers at Rockeys Dueling Piano Bar,
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Picks Column: Tennessee
Sep. 19, 2013Who’s excited for the annual butt-whoopin’ that’s become the jorts-wearing rednecks vs. those toothless hillbillies (DISCLAIMER: If you kiss your cousins, eat raccoon backstraps for breakfast, live in the hills and play the fiddle for Friday night entertainment, STOP READING!).
Opinion
Public perception of Obama will plummet
Sep. 19, 2013Often, leaders are remembered for their failures rather than their accomplishments.
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The Rally: Which team will win the Arizona State-Stanford matchup?
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Sep. 18, 2013Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Adam Lichtenstein and Adam Pincus preview No. 5 Stanford’s showdown against No. 23 Arizona State in Stanford, Calif., on Saturday at 7 p.m. on FOX.
Opinion
The latest Republican attempt at sabotaging Obamacare
Sep. 17, 2013Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in March 2010, Republicans at all levels of government have made every effort to weaken and sabotage the law.
Opinion
Lessons from "Fahrenheit 451": Why burning Qurans is a big deal
Sep. 17, 2013Terry Jones’ insatiable hunger for the media’s spotlight was briefly fed last week when news of his arrest broke.
Opinion
On Constitution Day, we must remember that America is still pretty exceptional
Sep. 16, 2013On Sept. 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was signed by 38 delegates during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Opinion
The death of college dating by hookup culture
Sep. 16, 2013The college-dating scene seems to be a culture of not-quite-caring — an awkward landscape pocked with holes and valleys that trip us up on the way to understanding our relationships. Try drafting one text to the dime from last weekend. The metaphor will crystallize pretty quickly when you find yourself eight drafts deep and still unsure of what to say.
Sports
Penn State trip enlightening
By ADAM PINCUS< | Sep. 15, 2013STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The faint smell of cow manure travels to the hallowed grounds from a campus farm just across the way. Rolling hills with lush trees resemble the opening scene from “Jurassic Park” as the camera pans away to reveal a vast expanse of green.
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Some lessons don't quite translate for U.S.'s immigrant deportation program
Sep. 15, 2013The phrase sounds better in Spanish, the way I heard it first: “Amor con hambre no dura.” “Hungry love doesn’t last.”
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Picks Column: Bye Week
Sep. 12, 2013This week’s edition of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column finds our crew soul-searching, desperate for meaning in our lives.
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New Harry Potter film has similarities on football field
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Sep. 12, 2013On Thursday, the film and literature worlds were rocked by an out-of-the-blue announcement — the Harry Potter universe will come back to film with an adaptation of author J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Opinion
Guest column: Business program in Gainesville is disappointing
Sep. 12, 2013Imagine a program that promised the opportunity to change your life: the opportunity to work side by side with some of Gainesville’s most successful business leaders in creating a mock company. Imagine — after applying to more places than you can count, going on interview after interview and struggling to find a job much less a living wage — that someone offered you the chance to change your career path. Then, imagine the bad news: that for no logical or rational reason, 25 percent of you would be randomly and summarily rejected.
Opinion
Guest column: No 9/11 recognition: Is Firehouse Subs a scam?
Sep. 12, 2013Like most Americans, I am able to vividly recall the events that took place 12 years ago. It was my last year of high school, and a friend and I decided to leave study hall to hang out in the library.
Opinion
Despite what Obama says, intervention in Syria is necessary and inevitable
Sep. 12, 2013In his speech on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that the United States is not the global police force.
Opinion
The NSA can now exploit and crack your data — what do you have to hide?
Sep. 11, 2013We’re on the verge of a second civil war.
Opinion
U.S. foreign policy hasn't improved since attitudes changed on 9/11
Sep. 10, 2013By noon, a third of the class was gone. As the minutes passed, more kids in my fourth grade class were being pulled out by panicky parents. During lunch, the few of us remaining were confused. The rumor in the cafeteria was that the Chinese had attacked us. The idea of the Commies invading U.S. soil made sense to my 9-year-old mind. Earlier that year, an international crisis had occurred after a mid-air collision between a U.S. Navy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. Diplomatic tensions soon subsided, but sitting in the cafeteria, I figured the only thing that could force my buddies to evacuate our elementary school was a ground invasion of South Florida by the Red Army.
Opinion
Guest column: History knows best — Obama may be doomed to repeat it
Sep. 10, 2013Recent debate over American military intervention in Syria has sparked Cold War memories, and the parallels are stark. As I watched a discussion between Sen. John McCain and French writer Bernard Henri-Lévy at a Washington think tank on YouTube from November, this resemblance became apparent.
Sports
The Rally: Who will win the Texas A&M-Alabama matchup on Saturday?
By JOE MORGAN< | Sep. 10, 2013Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Joe Morgan and Phil Heilman preview No. 1 Alabama’s showdown against No. 7 Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on CBS.
Opinion
Plenty of hot air: Talk of impeaching Obama is more bark than bite
Sep. 10, 2013The authority to impeach the president of the United States is one of the most seldom-used powers granted to Congress by the Constitution.
