Opinion: Columns
Sports
Five pick-up basketball archetypes
By ADAM BERRY | Aug. 5, 2009There's something special about pick-up basketball.
Opinion
Grads should look forward
By BEN CAMENKER | Aug. 4, 2009It has been my secret dream for three years now to hijack my commencement speech. I had the perfect plan. There was just one problem; there will be no big-name speaker. When I learned this, it hurt. Because, Gators, there are issues we must discuss.
Opinion
Nudity should be embraced, not taboo
By DARREN D'ALTORIO | Aug. 4, 2009Sunday nights, trash nights, before I roll the garbage out to the curb, I strip off all my clothes and leave them in a little pile on the bench by the front door. Naked, I approach the street with the garbage can, which smashes the grass under its weight. It's one of the busiest streets in Akron, Ohio, during the day. But come 2 a.m., traffic is sparse. After the can is in position on the curb, I don't hurry back to my pile of clothes. Instead, I pace the dew-soaked grass, and I let the night air touch all the parts of my body it normally can't.
Opinion
Contractor tied to deaths
Aug. 3, 2009KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary that/s now the Army/s largest contractor, is a threat to the safety of our servicemen and servicewomen.
Sports
Nelson's leadership of receivers key to success
By ADAM BERRY | Aug. 3, 2009During UF's run to a national title in 2006, David Nelson, a redshirt freshman, was one of several young receivers - including Percy Harvin, Louis Murphy and Riley Cooper - learning from the likes of Dallas Baker and Andre Caldwell.
Opinion
U.S. culture defies environmentalism
Aug. 3, 2009Glee for green has been a long time coming in this country. What started out as an almost underground burlap sack movement has sprung into a multibillion-dollar enterprise and an entire culture, even generation, of planet-conscientious actions.
Sports
Tougher non-conference schedule first step in the right direction
By ADAM BERRY | July 29, 2009The men's basketball team's season is already off to a better start than last year.
Opinion
Better to tax services than the rich
By JOHNATHAN LOTT | July 29, 2009Brian Miller/s column in Thursday/s Alligator showed his complete ignorance of basic economics and federal revenue code.
Sports
Spurrier comes clean in refreshing display of honesty
July 27, 2009HOOVER, Ala. - Let's all take a minute and give thanks for the gift of Steve Spurrier.
Opinion
Columnist reflects on political gaffes
July 27, 2009I miss President George W. Bush, "Dubya" as I affectionately called him. I don't miss his policies or politics, but the material he and his administration gave me as a commentator.
Opinion
Pill will not ensure immortality
By BEN JONES | July 27, 2009Want to live longer? As it turns out, we may have the answer. A report in the July 10 issue of Science showed a dramatic difference between the lifespan of two different sets of Rhesus monkeys in a 20-year study. The results were so shocking that scientists already began seeking additional funding for another 20 years of research.
Sports
All roads lead to Snead
July 27, 2009HOOVER, Ala. - It's a small world for Ole Miss rising star quarterback Jevan Snead.
Sports
All roads lead to Snead
July 23, 2009HOOVER, Ala. - It's a small world for Ole Miss' rising star quarterback Jevan Snead.
Sports
Spurrier comes clean in display of refreshing honesty
July 23, 2009HOOVER, Ala.- Lets all take a minute and give thanks for the gift of Steve Spurrier.
Opinion
Sales tax unfairly burdens Americans
By BRIAN MILLER | July 22, 2009One hundred years ago on July 17, 1909, Sen. William E. Borah (R-Idaho) wrote, " The income tax is the fairest and most equitable of the taxes. It is the one tax which approaches us in the hour of prosperity and departs in the hour of adversity. Certainly, it will be conceded by all that the great expense of government is in the protection of property and wealth. There is no possible argument founded in law or in morals why these protected interests should not bear their proportionate burden of government."
Opinion
Community colleges need support
By The Michigan Daily | July 22, 2009Community colleges are colleges, too.
Sports
Shredding potential suspects in robbery of Tebow's unanimous All-SEC pick
July 22, 2009HOOVER, Ala. - A few weeks ago, which of these would you have thought Tim Tebow had the best chance of becoming?
Opinion
America lacks vision after moonwalk
July 20, 2009Walter Cronkite died Friday evening. He was 92. I think it/s fitting that the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk Monday is so close to Cronkite/s death. Out of all the clips of Cronkite/s broadcasts shown over the past few days, the veteran journalist seems least inhibited during the now famed broadcast of the lunar landing. Cronkite had even remarked that the Apollo 11 landing was the high point in his career because he was certain it would be the most important event of his lifetime. Unfortunately, it seems he was correct.
