Chris Rock once said, “My only job in life is to keep my daughter off the pole.” If my parents have the same expectation for their son, this column will disappoint them.
Summer is in full swing, and Gainesville is burning. For all of you freshmen out there, welcome to UF!
When I was accepted to the University of Florida for the Fall 2010 semester, I didn’t know much about college sports. I had always preferred professional sports, and in my mind, college athletics were nothing more than wasted time on SportsCenter.
The Florida football team released its media guide – sans cover – via Gatorzone.com on Monday.
On a rainy afternoon in January, Fawn stretched her paws against the tile floor of a veterinarian’s office.
Joga Bonito, Portuguese for the beautiful game, is also known as association football and in our country — where a different football reigns supreme — soccer.
In the midst of the National Security Agency snooping hysteria, Fox Business Network pundit, author and consumer reporter John Stossel claims the federal government spying on its citizens is not that big of a deal compared to the multitude of other ways government interferes in our lives.
Are the days of Officer Friendly behind us?
At some point a week ago, a show became a spectacle.
It was recently revealed that the U.S. has been engaged in the widespread monitoring of European Union diplomats.
It’s the last week of Summer A. To those seniors who will be done with classes for good, congratulations!
It is beyond comprehension why anyone would consider the Tea Party movement to be any different than Occupy Wall Street.
A day after Tim Tebow’s release from the New York Jets, the Omaha Beef – an indoor football team in Nebraska – offered the former Florida quarterback a roster spot and $75 per game. Forty-one days later, the New England Patriots trumped the Beef’s offer, signing Tebow to a two-year, non-guaranteed contract. ESPN’s Ed Werder broke the story Monday afternoon, and immediately, our Facebook and Twitter feeds exploded. Tebowmania is a big deal – since ESPN tells us it is – so now it’s our turn to take a stab at it. As the hysteria slowly dies down for the time being, alligatorSports assistant editor Landon Watnick and alligatorSports.org editor Chuck Kingsbury will debate if Tebow will succeed in his first season in Foxborough, Mass.
My family was channel surfing the other day when we came across a program. I don’t know what the program was about or what context I was viewing it under, but one part stuck out before the channel changed.
Florida baseball is in trouble. For the second straight year, the MLB Draft has sucked the best talent away from Gainesville.
Following the Indiana Pacers’ Game 6 victory in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on June 1, star center Roy Hibbert made comments that many people deemed offensive.
This weekend, one of the greatest news leaks in the history of the United States took place.
The NBA is nearing the end of its two-month haul through the postseason, and Miami Heat forward LeBron James has continued his dominance through the Eastern Conference Finals. As James leads his team into the Finals against the San Antonio Spurs, alligatorSports editors Adam Lichtenstein and Landon Watnick will decide which Florida player dominates or dominated his or her game in a LeBron-esque fashion.
Tim Walton is a man of the present, not the future.
Solutions by The State News
