Opinion
UF experiences help to prepare for future
Dec. 8, 2009Sunday morning, I woke up and started crying.
Opinion: Columns
Sports
Surprising loss needed to gain perspective
Dec. 7, 2009The Gators didn’t lose to Alabama on Saturday, they got beaten.
Opinion
First year doesn’t set tone for future
Dec. 7, 2009A question for first-years here at UF: How was your semester?
Opinion
Govt. should put rights first
By Christina Garcia de los Rios | Dec. 7, 2009The following is an excerpt from a letter sent to New York State Sen. Tom Libous.
Sports
Florida fans get rare taste of falling short
Dec. 6, 2009ATLANTA — David Nelson didn’t want to leave the field.
Opinion
2009: Year of distractions, scandals
Dec. 6, 20092009 hasn’t left us yet, but it’s not too soon to look back on the last of what Time Magazine recently dubbed “The Decade from Hell.”
Sports
Here is what you want if you desire a playoff
Dec. 3, 2009Do you want a college football playoff?
Sports
Picks Column: Alabama
Dec. 3, 2009There’s a lot at stake this week in the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column this week, as the pickers are doing their final jockeying for the crown and trying to avoid embarrassment. Only two — Bobby Callovi and Kyle Maistri — are still actually picking for glory.
Opinion
Obama is right to weigh options in war
By Nick Miner | Dec. 3, 2009In a recent interview, Dick Cheney attacked the president for “agonizing” over the Afghanistan strategy, saying: “Every time [Obama] delays, defers, debates, changes his position, it begins to raise questions: Is the commander in chief really behind what [the military has] been asked to do?”
Sports
Offense will determine UF's fate
Dec. 3, 2009The success of the Gators in the SEC Championship Game lies in the hands of Tim Tebow and the offense.
Sports
It’s really too easy being this awesome
By BEN VOLIN | Dec. 2, 2009Editor’s Note: Graduate student, Palm Beach Post Gators beat writer and reader Ben Volin earned a guest column for winning our inaugural alligatorSports Fantasy Challenge.
Opinion
Tiger’s choice of mistress was subpar
Dec. 2, 2009True to his reputation as the hardest-hitting driver on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods spent the majority of his Thanksgiving holiday entering a world of pain. The grimy details that are now oozing out of the celebrity guerrilla media sleaze machine only amplify the deliciousness of this sordid Tiger tale.
Sports
Dunlap-se in judgment just one more distraction for Florida to overcome
By CALLOVI< | Dec. 1, 2009The Gators have gotten used to playing with distractions this season.
Sports
Media relations should have handled the Dunlap situation differently
Dec. 1, 2009Pay attention, public relations majors.
Opinion
Church sets bad example
By Robert Hewitt | Dec. 1, 2009Being accosted by crazies of all types, usually benign, is normal in a college town like Gainesville. However, when it’s virulent hatred that evokes remembrance of Nazis persecuting Jews and other minorities, silence is not always the best response.
Opinion
Lessons come from experience, not advice
Dec. 1, 2009Over Thanksgiving, I got to spend a week with my 19-year-old sister, who’s a sophomore at a state school in the Midwest.
Opinion
Say what you would regret leaving unsaid
Nov. 30, 2009I like this question, even if it’s a little morbid: If you knew you were going to die this evening, and you couldn’t talk to anyone between now and then, what would you most regret not telling someone?
Opinion
Republican Party needs to realize all politics are local
By Nick Miner | Nov. 30, 2009The Republican Party has recently drafted a Purity Resolution. If passed, any candidate seeking support from the Republican National Committee would be required to support at least eight of the 10 resolutions named by the committee.
Sports
Field goal sinks rivalry to new low
Nov. 29, 2009Florida State kicker Dustin Hopkins trotted onto Florida Field to attempt a 20-yard field goal with the Seminoles down 30-0 at the end of the third quarter and gave the 90,000-plus onlookers a startling wakeup call.
Opinion
Old Florida needs to let go of old ways
Nov. 29, 2009The Gulf of Mexico may look calm from the porch I’ve perched myself on for the Thanksgiving holiday, but a contentious political storm is slowly brewing over efforts afoot in the Florida Legislature to repeal a ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
