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SPORTS | VIDEOSHOW

alligatorSports Video Show, Episode 10

Mar. 28, 2011

We celebrate the 10th episode of our weekly video show in style, as Greg Luca reports back from New Orleans with coverage and footage of the Florida basketball team following the Gators' 74-71 overtime loss to Butler in the Elite Eight. UF fell just one game short of a return trip to the Final Four and will lose a talented senior class, which leads Greg to briefly look forward to next year's squad. We also congratulate Greg on an exhaustingly full season of coverage, getting clips from what the Florida basketball players are (not) saying about his work.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Elam looks to fill Black’s spot as strong safety, leader

Mar. 28, 2011

For the first time this spring, Matt Elam fielded questions from the media Monday.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

Undersized Florida will miss big men, be guard-heavy in 2011-12

By ADAM BERRY | Mar. 28, 2011

I hope Florida fans enjoyed the Gators’ low-post dominance Saturday more than UF’s players and coaches seemingly did, because they won’t be seeing much of it next year.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Gators seeking more from middle of lineup vs. ‘Noles

By JESSE SIMONTON | Mar. 28, 2011

Before No. 4 Florida challenges No. 7 Florida State tonight at 7 in Jacksonville, the heart of the Gators’ order needs to exorcise its demons.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Sturgis returns to practice after injury

By ANTHONY CHIANG | Mar. 28, 2011

While the Gators were having trouble getting rest preparing for the Crimson Tide last October, Caleb Sturgis was kept awake for another reason.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators men in disappointing ninth after Day 2

By ALEX PECKHAM< | Mar. 28, 2011

The Florida men’s golf team came into the Hootie at Bulls Bay Collegiate hoping to get one last tournament victory before moving on to postseason play, but that goal seems nearly impossible now.

NEWS | FEATURES

Research links energy drinks with health risks

By Brianna Donet | Mar. 28, 2011

A review of the effects of high-caffeine energy drinks on children and young adults suggests they may be linked to health risks as serious as heart palpitations, high blood pressure, cardiac arrest and death.

METRO

Area unemployment rate drops

By Morgan Watkins | Mar. 28, 2011

While many people are still on the job hunt in Gainesville, some of their fellow unemployed peers have landed paid positions that have contributed to a nearly one-point drop in the area’s unemployment rate in February.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF alumnus and Navy squadron help bring supplies to Japan

By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 28, 2011

Timothy Berryhill was no stranger to earthquakes.

METRO

Final plan for removing animals from Paynes Prairie released

By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 28, 2011

Against many citizens’ wishes, Paynes Prairie will no longer have living, breeding herds of bison and horses.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF buildings lack funding

By Hannah Winston | Mar. 28, 2011

For the third year in a row, $130 million in donations for UF won’t be matched by the state, and an estimated state deficit of more than $3 billion looms as the culprit.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

We Heart the OED

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2011

It may come as a surprise, but we aren’t language purists.

NEWS | CAMPUS

NYT still free on campus

By Jessica Kegu | Mar. 28, 2011

The New York Times began charging users to view online content Monday.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Florida House bills would attack women’s right to choose

By Kendra Vincent | Mar. 28, 2011

Women’s rights are under attack again.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Spelling worsened by technology crutch

By Laura Ellermeyer | Mar. 28, 2011

Predictive text technology is a wonderful thing. If you know only a few letters or the beginning of a word, most smartphones will automatically suggest multiple options for what you were looking for.

METRO | BUSINESS

Academic Cred: Professors shouldn’t be “strictly business”

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2011

Professors might want to rethink how their students perceive them. In a study published in the March issue of Learning, Media and Technology, researchers found that professors who reveal a bit of their personal lives are viewed as being more credible and more caring by students.

NEWS | FEATURES

More boots than suits at cowboy church

By Alex Orlando | Mar. 28, 2011

In a rodeo arena just off S.R. 41 in Williston, the rugged and the denim-decked have met every Thursday at 7 p.m. for five years to hear sermons from Rev. Billy Keith.

NEWS

Smile like you mean it

By Tara Braun | Mar. 28, 2011

Spring is finally here, which means Florida is full of flowers and sunshine. I can’t help but notice these sunny days are prompting an increase in smiling — both for me and for others.

NEWS

Public relations: First step in networking 101

By Brittany Brave | Mar. 28, 2011

If you take up a career in communications, the most important client you'll be assigned to advertise will be yourself.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Gators fall to Gamecocks, drop first series of season

By JESSE SIMONTON | Mar. 27, 2011

It took Matt Price just one day to get revenge.

El Caimán