Swimmers competing in meet for chance at NCAAs
By MERCEDES MACHADO | Feb. 26, 2009Senior Kelsy Smith has this weekend left to qualify for the NCAA Championships, and the pressure is on.
Senior Kelsy Smith has this weekend left to qualify for the NCAA Championships, and the pressure is on.
The Gators are focused.
The last time UF's men and women won Southeastern Conference Indoor titles was 2004 in Lexington, Ky. This weekend, UF track and field returns to this familiar site, hoping for the same result.
After shutting out No. 6 Michigan on Wednesday, UF pitcher Stacey Nelson said she felt like she could have pitched four more games. She might have the opportunity to do that this weekend.
I was disappointed to see that Johnathan Lott's column reverted to the same arguments that proponents of Charter Amendment 1 have been using to scare people into supporting discrimination.
Editors Note: Shelbi Day of Equality is Gainesville's Business and Jim Gilbert of Citizens for Good Public Policy debate the merits of Charter Amendment 1, which will appear on the ballot for the Gainesville City Elections held March 24.
They've had a week to rest, catch up on school and lick their wounds. Now, the Gators women are hitting the road again.
To Eric Chianese:
Homelessness can't be solved in a weekend, but one UF graduate hopes his project will open the doors to the solution.
A failing economy may be your lifeline.
When UF heads to Athens, Ga., on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. to face Georgia in the regular-season finale for both teams, there will be a lot on the line.
If People magazine had a face, I would punch it. Hard. Nineteen-year-old Mike Tyson hard.
For the first time, UF is offering a two-week study abroad program to Antarctica and Argentina.
Five underage drinkers were arrested Wednesday when GPD officers did a routine check of bars in midtown.
The Gators picked up their fifth oral commitment for the 2010 recruiting class Thursday when cornerback Victor Hampton of Charlotte (N.C.) Independence High told UF coaches he was Gainesville-bound.
Sixty-one percent of the nearly 10,000 students who cast a ballot in this week's Student Government elections voted in favor of withholding funding from facilities that require biometric data, such as a hand scan, for entry.
The UF baseball team is in a familiar place.
After Peaceful Paths, which aids battered women, burned down early Wednesday morning, a UF club reached out.