SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Florida shuts out LSU, advances to SEC Tournament Championship game
By Ethan Bauer | May 28, 2016The rally opossum finally failed LSU on Saturday night.
El Caimán
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Horsfield, Neale lead Gators on Day 1 of NCAA Championship
By Ray Boone | May 28, 2016During Friday’s round of the NCAA Championship in Eugene, Oregon, it was all freshmen for the Florida men’s golf team.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
Woolcock's run ends; Austin and Keegan advance to semifinals
By Jake Dreilinger | May 28, 2016Belinda Woolcock’s run in the NCAA Individual Championship in Tulsa came to an end on Friday against Oklahoma State’s Katarine Adamovic.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
Georgia hits walk-off home run, ends Florida’s chance at three-peat
By Matt Brannon | May 27, 2016When Kirsti Merritt tried to save her team, she ran into a wall.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Men’s golf to compete in NCAA Championship
By Ray Boone | May 27, 2016This is it.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Danny Reyes’ late hit leads Florida past Alabama
By Patrick Pinak | May 26, 2016Danny Reyes didn’t disappoint in the biggest start of his young career.
SPORTS
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BASEBALL
Gators fall to LSU in longest game in SEC tournament history
By Patrick Pinak | May 26, 2016Deacon Liput couldn’t play hero twice.
METRO
Memorial Day travel expected to break records
By Catherine Dickson | May 25, 2016A record amount of people are estimated to travel on the days leading up to Monday, but gas prices will likely reach the lowest point since Memorial Day 2005. The American Automobile Association announced an estimated 38 million people — more than two million in Florida — will travel between today and Monday, according to a press release.
NEWS
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CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG to vote on changes to the online voting amendment
By Catherine Dickson | May 25, 2016On June 7, UF’s Student Government will vote on changes to its constitution.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TRACK
Gators looking to improve at NCAA East Preliminary
By Lauren Staff | May 25, 2016Only one meet stands in the way of Florida bringing its first national championship back to Gainesville since 2013: the NCAA East Preliminary.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Gator Dining launches mobile ordering app
By Samantha Brittingham | May 25, 2016With a new program, ordering from most Gator Dining locations can be done through an app before users reach their destinations.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Column: Billy Donovan deserves credit for managing Thunder
By IAN COHEN | May 25, 2016In a tense Oklahoma City locker room, broadcasted on TNT’s telecast just before Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference Finals, Billy Donovan sits in a chair and stares at a semicircle of millionaires.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF faculty member takes on ‘Jeopardy’
By Jasmine Osmond | May 25, 2016When people think of “Jeopardy,” some think of encyclopedia-like knowledge and books of trivia. For Wilcley Lima, he saw numbers and patterns. In March, the IT director at UF’s Business Services Division played as a contestant on the show. He’s been sworn to secrecy for two months, but the episode will air May 30.
SPORTS
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SOFTBALL
UF softball set to open Super Regionals against Georgia
By Matt Brannon | May 25, 2016One series separates Florida from punching one of eight tickets to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Darts & Laurels: May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016It’s that time of year, dear readers: The days are getting hotter, the sun’s growing brighter, the list of your friends on wild summer vacations is getting longer and longer. Don’t worry: You may be shaping up for exams now that Summer A is halfway over, but this Summer here in Gainesville is still fire. Traffic is super light, the lines to the clubs are nearly non-existent and there are fewer people around to clog up your Wi-Fi when you’re on an all-night gaming spree. Most of all, you’re in for a treat: our senseless ramblings, our assessment of life’s deepest concerns, our latest segment of…
OPINION
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COLUMNS
My weekend safari in Paynes Prairie: a look into venture capitalism
May 25, 2016“The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours.” Ann Coulter
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF campus tours disrupted by high-speed rainstorm
By Marina Masterson | May 25, 2016Flying lounge chairs and falling trees welcomed visiting families to UF last Friday when tour groups experienced a damaging storm. Three campus tour groups and the orientation session, Preview, were caught in a rainstorm with high-speed winds that ravished the Student Recreation & Fitness Center’s pool area just after 11 a.m.
THE AVENUE
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ART AND THEATER
Original show to debut at Gainesville Community Playhouse
By Kirsten Chuba | May 25, 2016An original play written by one of Gainesville’s own will debut at the Gainesville Community Playhouse this weekend.
NEWS
Research Roundup: May 26, 2016
May 25, 2016UF researcher Jamie Kim is developing a wearable technology called iMotion, a combination of glasses and a wristband that aims to improve tourism experiences, according to a press release.
THE AVENUE
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MUSIC
Q&A: Sitting down with Jason Small of Former Planets
By Kirsten Chuba | May 25, 2016Former Planets, a Gainesville-based rock band made up of Jason Small (lead vocals), Evan Johnson (guitar and vocals), Korkut Genc (bass) and Brook Stermer (drums), have been making music around town for the last two years. I sat down with Small before the band’s Friday night show at the Hardback Cafe, located at 211 W. University Ave.
