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UF ended the Florida Relays in a deserving fashion — with a standing ovation from a near-capacity crowd.
The Gators’ bats remained silent long after Easter service ended Sunday.
LSU came into Gainesville riding a nation-best 24-game winning steak, and left on a three-game losing streak.
Florida finally got the monkey off its back Saturday.
The Gators men’s tennis team has grown and proven it can win under the most difficult of circumstances.
With the Southeastern Conference Championship Tournament less than two weeks away, the Florida men’s golf team has one last chance to get back on track for competition after a strand of poor performances.
As a Christian missionary I am ashamed the Westboro Baptist Church continues to pose as Christians. Real Christians base their faith on the Bible — the teachings of Jesus. He says, “All men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” The most famous scripture, John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ... that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
On Tuesday, Gainesville will get a glimpse of the increasingly popular God-concentrated argumentative cavalcade appearing in many of the auditoriums across the country and the world, the local showcase the Accent speaker’s bureau has dubbed The Great Religion Debate. These loosely related, independently organized events have made celebrities out of their dialectical pugilists, among them Richard Dawkins, William Lane Craig and Shmuley Boteach, although I must admit it seems the notoriety gained from these debates is severely biased toward the atheistic side of the podium. Is it infamy more than fame, the relative lameness of their theist counterparts or simply their writing of more entertaining books? I’m sure we’ll find out.
HvZ players gather to learn the rules and regulations of the Humans vs. Zombies game before it begins this week.
When Jeremy Stieglitz was an undergraduate student at UF, he didn’t spend his weekends partying. He was sitting in his apartment coding for video games.
Paul Murty’s column is a pain to read every week and last Friday’s was no different. To say that the media target the Catholic Church is ridiculous.
I’m pretty sure there’s a simple solution to the controversy in this town over “ladies night” at the bars. Placate all sides by doing away with free drinks for women and replace the specials with free drinks for anyone who shows up in a dress and heels.
Their yard signs may be down, their support stickers thrown away, but the three Gainesville mayoral candidates who didn’t make the runoff election aren’t calling it quits.
As final exams approach, Facebook could prove to be more than just a distraction from studying.
Just when you thought it was safe to cross the Turlington minefield, another socially aimless specimen is trying to rise from the graveyard of “who gives a crap?”
The Department of Housing and Residence Education have said that playing with and storing toy guns in the residence halls is forbidden - even against zombies.
Gainesville residents can now vote in the runoff election for their next mayor and District 4 city commissioner.
The lights dimmed, and a bottle of Scotch glowed on the stage of the O’Connell Center Friday night.
We knew people would be fighting against the health care changes, but somehow people always manage to surprise us with exactly how far they will go, planting their feet and digging their nails into the wall if they have to, in order to resist change.
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