Sports
Obsessive fan culture led to Andrews video incident
By ADAM BERRY | July 19, 2009There's a thin line between admiration and objectification.
Opinion: Columns
Opinion
Student Body president questions Machen’s meddling
By Jordan Johnson | July 15, 2009This fall many UF students will take the hour-and-a-half trek up to Jacksonville for the yearly tradition of the UF-Georgia football game. But if President Machen has his way, students will find a very different situation awaiting them in Jacksonville.
Sports
Tebow will take one of two ESPYs
July 15, 2009There are three events that consistently mark the middle of July on my calendar - the release of the annual update to EA Sports' NCAA Football game (which my colleague Adam Berry so generously opined on in Tuesday's paper), my birthday (today, time to do it big) and the always-interesting ESPY Awards.
Opinion
Alligator editorial fails to justify Sotomayor support with facts
By Benjamin Camenker | July 15, 2009Tuesday's editorial regarding Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was filled with much of the same "empathy" we expect Sotomayor to rule with, but little fact.
Sports
Top UF Athletes: Best of the Rest
By ADAM BERRY | July 15, 2009I don't envy David Letterman. Putting together a top 10 list can be fairly difficult.
Opinion
Politics without Palin lacks hilarity
By ERIC CHIANESE | July 13, 2009So I refuse to be the only one who doesn/t give my two cents about this Palin resignation.
Opinion
Population issues must be addressed
By THORAYA OBAID | July 13, 2009None of the crises we face today - whether it is the food crisis, the water crisis, the financial crisis or the crisis of climate change - can be managed unless greater attention is paid to population issues.
Sports
Despite disappointing first impressions, NCAA Football 2010 fills preseason void
By ADAM BERRY | July 13, 2009In every college football off-season, there are five days worth circling on the calendar.
Opinion
Web site scams students unaware of free credit report law
July 13, 2009FreeCreditReport.com, the credit-reporting service owned by Experian, recently released its latest TV commercial in its ubiquitous "guy sings about his bad credit" ad campaign, which raises an important question: How the hell are these ads still on TV?
Sports
Top 10 Games I Wish I Saw Live - Part II
July 13, 2009The moment you've eagerly been awaiting the past five days is finally here.
Opinion
Celebrity proves a distraction to voters
By ED MCPHEE | July 8, 2009Al Franken is a funny guy. He is also intelligent and seems to understand the needs of his constituents. And Franken seems earnest in his desire to be a U.S. Senator. But despite all this, he should not have run for the position.
Sports
Don't be surprised by King's acts
By ADAM BERRY | July 8, 2009We are all witnesses &ndash when it's cool with LeBron James and Nike, at least.
Opinion
College degrees mean little without ambition to back them
By LIZ CARLSTON | July 8, 2009Most people who go to college do so not because they enjoy sitting in stuffy lecture halls while listening to monotone-voiced professors, but so they can carve out a better place for themselves in the world when they graduate. Or at least, that's what most expect.
Sports
Top 10 Games I wish I saw live - Part I
July 8, 2009Some moments are simply better enjoyed in person.
Sports
Ranking UF's rivalries: FSU, Georgia, Tennessee top short list
By ADAM BERRY | July 6, 2009No matter which players take the field, what year it is or which sport is being played, rivalries will always exist in college sports.
Opinion
War-weary Americans turn to tabloids
July 6, 2009Sometime last week in between the earth-shattering news that Michael Jackson, the OxiClean pitchman and Farrah Fawcett had all actually died within the same cosmic time frame, two significant news items went largely unnoticed.
Opinion
Web site offers tips for lazy folks
By ERIC CHIANESE | July 6, 2009So if any of you are like me, you're probably an incredibly lazy person. And I don't mean ordinary, run-of the-mill lazy - I mean you elevate it to an art form. There's nothing wrong with laziness, by the way, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Laziness - the desire to exert the least possible effort - has given rise to our most wonderful human ingenuities. If someone hadn't been too lazy to walk, we probably wouldn't have cars. If someone hadn't been too lazy to try and make a genuine connection with a woman, we probably wouldn't have such brilliant pick up lines as "Was your dad a baker, because your buns are out of this world!" The bottom line is that laziness keeps us sharp. Because of it we are ever-vigilant for the next thing that will make our lives easier and, in our own twisted way, richer.
Opinion
U.S. should offer paid sick days to every American worker
By Rosemary Harris Lytle | July 1, 2009For most Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for fireworks, concerts, parades and all manner of patriotic displays. It's as American as barbecue ribs and apple pie.
Opinion
Dead celebrities don’t cease to charm
By ERIC CHIANESE | July 1, 2009There are those rare moments that, in one fell swoop, remind us all of the ephemerality and fragility of life and, generally speaking, those moments come after a loss. We have all just experienced one of those moments - only this time it dragged on for days. In the span of one week, we lost Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. All of them American icons and, now, all of them gone.
Opinion
Energy bill needs strengthening before becoming U.S. law
By Billy Parish | July 1, 2009The House recently passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), an important step toward protecting our environment and building a clean energy economy.
