Sports
Sophomore linebacker becoming most fun aspect of Gators
By PHILLIP HEILMAN< | Oct. 7, 2013One minute he is a teddy bear. The next he becomes a grizzly bear.
Opinion
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Guest column: Rep. Yoho needs to help end shutdown
Oct. 7, 2013The federal government is being held hostage by a small cabal of the Republican Party whose popularity is on the decline. Rep. Ted Yoho is one of the 80 Republicans in the House of Representatives who signed onto Rep. Mark Meadows’ memo to Speaker John Boehner calling for the Affordable Care Act to be defunded through the budget.
Opinion
Too big to fail? Not in the U.S. government’s case
Oct. 7, 2013Amateur hour is on full display in our nation’s capital — or, to be more precise, amateur week. The government remains in shutdown mode while the president refuses to budge on Obamacare, Republicans do not have an endgame in sight and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid name-calls and refuses to negotiate with the House.
Opinion
Student Government elections are pointless
By Tyler Lares | Oct. 7, 2013How amazing, the Swamp Party won the overwhelming majority of senate seats in this Fall’s SG elections.
Opinion
‘Sex and the City’ more than a guilty pleasure
Oct. 7, 2013Most of us adore “Sex and the City,” but aligning ourselves with the show means characterizing ourselves as vapid, materialistic or at least naive. Why is this series viewed as nothing more than a guilty pleasure?
Opinion
Death of the album: Science of hitmaking is ruining the industry
Oct. 7, 2013In season five of “Mad Men,” an AMC drama set in the 1960s, there’s a scene where Don Draper — a sexy, suit-wearing ad executive, as portrayed by Jon Hamm — is given a copy of the Beatles’ “Revolver” record. In his sprawling living room overlooking the Manhattan skyline, he puts the record on the player, turns up the stereo and sits in an armchair. The trippy opening bars of “Tomorrow Never Knows” play over the speakers as Draper sips a glass of scotch and listens.
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Florida should try Patton at slot receiver
By ADAM PINCUS< | Oct. 6, 2013Will Muschamp lingered in the South End Zone meeting room as Solomon Patton strolled in just minutes removed from a stellar night in The Swamp.
Opinion
Blame Baby Boomer parents for poorly-raised Millennials
Oct. 6, 2013Baby boomers often call millennials lazy, entitled and narcissistic. If you believe them, then you’d think the country is going to hell in a handbasket when we’re in charge. But have boomers looked into a mirror lately?
Opinion
UF needs to follow suit and implement DACA
By Eric Brown | Oct. 6, 2013As a UF student, I remained puzzled as to why, after more than a year of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals being in existence, the university has not acted on implementing it at the university.
Opinion
Guest column: Uber would provide safe transportation in Jacksonville during Florida-Georgia
Oct. 6, 2013Every Fall we take our annual pilgrimage to Jacksonville to witness the “War for the Oar,” also known as Florida-Georgia. Each year, Gators get to experience and enjoy the city of Jacksonville but are usually confronted with difficulty getting around one of the nation’s largest cities by land area.
Opinion
Mugshot websites shouldn’t make money from extortion
Oct. 6, 2013It could happen to anyone — you had one too many beers, forgot to turn on your headlights on the way home and got stopped by police. Next thing you know, you’re in the county jail, grimacing into a camera — your very first “mugshot.”
Opinion
Stevie Nicks and George R. R. Martin connected by storytelling, personal lives
Oct. 6, 2013On Tuesday, Stevie Nicks told the Herald Scotland that she turned to the HBO series “Game of Thrones” to cope with the death of her mother and a nasty bout of pneumonia. She was crippled with grief, and she told the Herald she couldn’t leave her house for nearly five months. In that time period, she immersed herself in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy world of Westeros and wrote poems about the characters — some of the titles “On Jon Snow,” “On Arya” and “On Cersei and Jaime,” she said.
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Picks Column: Arkansas
Oct. 3, 2013The U.S. government may be shut down, but we here at the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column are still going strong. Unlike Congress, we don’t act like a bunch of petulant children when we disagree on issues — like picking college football games against the spread!
Opinion
Guest column: Active citizens effect change
Oct. 3, 2013We Americans are in a bad mood about our nation and our public life. Three-quarters say the country is on the wrong track. Some of us may be especially angry at the current Congress, at President Barack Obama — or both — but the roots of our discontent go deeper than that.
Opinion
New Iranian president hasn’t delivered
Oct. 3, 2013In an unsurprising and opportune moment last month, an Iranian official snubbed yet another U.S president.
Opinion
Darts & Laurels 10/4/13
Oct. 3, 2013Welcome, October! Even though the government is shut down, we’re still turnt up.
Opinion
Stop denying it: Reversing climate change is imperative
Oct. 2, 2013We’ve been talking about some serious issues in this country lately — the government shutdown, what to do about the National Security Agency and how to make gun possession safer.
Opinion
Conservative group Generation Opportunity releases false, creepy anti-Obamacare ads
Oct. 2, 2013Just in time for Halloween, conservative group Generation Opportunity released a terrifying pair of video ads aimed to scare college students into opting out of Obamacare.
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The Rally: Who will win the Florida State-Maryland matchup on Saturday?
By ADAM PINCUS< | Oct. 2, 2013Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Adam Pincus and Landon Watnick preview No. 8 Florida State’s home matchup against No. 25 Maryland in Tallahassee on Saturday at noon on ESPN.
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Bullard, Fowler needed to anchor ailing defensive line
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Oct. 1, 2013The old guard is out. The new guard is in.
