Opinion
Mayor welcomes students to city for fall semester
By Craig Lowe | Aug. 21, 2011Welcome to Gainesville, home of the University of Florida and Santa Fe College at the heart of The Gator Nation.
Opinion
Opinion
Alligator debuts new look, new focus
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 21, 2011So much about today is new.
Opinion
Meal limit finally served correctly; City does right thing
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 21, 2011If there is one thing we, as a nation, need to start picking on, it's homeless shelters.
Sports
What to expect this semester
By TOM GREEN< | Aug. 21, 2011With a new semester and a new football season around the corner, the Gators aren’t the only ones “trying to get better each and every day.”
Sports
Will & Charlie: A Molotov cocktail duo
By JESSE SIMONTON | Aug. 15, 2011On Sept. 3 just before 7 p.m., a swagger-jacked Will Muschamp will sprint onto Florida Field and lead the Gators in their season opener. Just a few long strides away, Charlie Weis will be plodding along, thumbing through his playbook and trying to find the perfect set to propel him back to college football relevancy.
Sports
ESPN: A journalistic enigma
Aug. 15, 2011I appreciate what you guys do at ESPN for the Florida Gators — Will Muschamp, 08/08/11.
Opinion
Mr. Editor, tear down this fourth wall!
Aug. 3, 2011So this Tuesday, in either a stroke of ingenuity or a subconscious desire to get more people to verbally pummel me, I announced to the swarms of Alligator fans that they could use the last paper of the summer to ask whatever their heart desired. Here were some of the gems
Opinion
The white sepulcher that is painted orange and blue
Aug. 3, 2011Do you remember just a couple of months or years ago when you were preparing for this new, magical period of your wonderful life?
Opinion
Play to win
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 3, 2011We all know that one guy who, no matter how you slice it, is just incapable of flexing his cool muscles.
Opinion
Rage on
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 3, 2011Oh God, We're not tops in partying! Get over it.
Sports
Rejoice Gator Nation: This was your season
By MATT WATTS | Aug. 1, 2011Fans love to gloat. They love to boast.
Opinion
Lost in the sauce: One last call for a swig of surrealism
By BILL O'CONNOR< | Aug. 1, 2011"Mike, join me in a pint of Guinness."
Opinion
When businesses suck, let them know
By Shea Ford | Aug. 1, 2011A few days ago, I went to a McDonald's. My girlfriend and I ordered two sandwiches. The women at the window seemed, shall we say, less than thrilled to be working there.
Opinion
Game of drones
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 1, 2011"The only thing dumber than a Republican or Democrat is when these pricks work together," Lewis Black once rambled in one of his acerbic comedic whippings of American society. He said, "We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas. And the way it works is the Republican stands up in Congress and goes, ‘I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!' and the Democrat says, ‘AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!'"
Opinion
Why should we have all the fun? Let's open it up
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 1, 2011We're going to try something different Thursday.
Sports
The Challenge: Where sports and entertainment meet for a marvelous orgy
By JESSE SIMONTON | July 28, 2011MTV’s “The Challenge: Rivals” is the best damn show on TV not starring Larry David.
Opinion
Don't pass GOP, don't collect compromise
July 27, 2011The news these past couple of days has been an embarrassment to American politics.
Opinion
Thank God for this guy
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 27, 2011With all the utter stupidity and assclown-ity that has been allowed to run rampant in this town and university, let alone this country, it's incredibly easy to become jaded toward the Big Guy Upstairs. He's probably not that enthused either when he has to explain to other celestial beings that yes - He has to take credit for all his children, including the deadbeat ones who use emoticons in their everyday speech, wear Ed Hardy and actually think George Lopez is funny.
Opinion
Landlords should be aware of students' needs
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 27, 2011In the next few days, a good number of you will be fully immersed in one of the greatest pains in the backside known to man as you fire up your U-Hauls, break out the boxes and load up your arms with as much stuff as possible as you bid your apartments/houses/glorified shitholes farewell.
Sports
Run, Demps, Run: Back should leave Gators in dust
By MATT WATTS | July 25, 2011Routinely referred to as the fastest man in college football, Florida running back Jeff Demps has an alter ego, one that has always come second to football.
