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SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Stewart overcomes loss of kidney
Oct. 27, 2008Azania Stewart was always a healthy kid growing up.
METRO
Local Tampa Bay Rays fans increases as team finds success
By TAYLOR TRAVIESA | Oct. 27, 2008Tampa Bay Rays fever has swept Gainesville since the team defeated the Boston Red Sox on Oct. 19 to take the American League Championship and go to the World Series.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Senate actions would speak louder than titles
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2008We cried foul when the now-infamous Student Government Gmail scandal dropped on SG election day, and then we screamed for change. Our only demands were transparency and fairness.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Jon Reep, Steve Miller Band pump up Gator Growl crowd
By LAUREN BAKER | Oct. 26, 2008After dancing a jig around stage to OutKast's "Hey Ya!" with UF mascots Albert and Alberta, comedian Jon Reep got down to business at Friday night's Gator Growl.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Gators give Wildcats homecoming beatdown
Oct. 26, 2008Let the countdown to Jacksonville begin.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Alicia Silverstone visits Gainesville to promote Obama
By KATHRYN WATSON | Oct. 26, 2008Alicia Silverstone wants Sen. Barack Obama to be her dad.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS GOLF
Gators take second at Columbia Invitational
Oct. 26, 2008No Billy Horschel? No problem.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gator Growl too political
By Megan Moore | Oct. 26, 2008I just wanted to say how disappointed I was as I left Gator Growl feeling brainwashed.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Early voting could mean Obama win
Oct. 26, 2008In what pundits are calling a year with "strong Democratic tailwinds" (think economic woes, unpopular president, etc.), Sen. John McCain has managed to hold the presidential contest between him and Sen. Barack Obama very close. According to Real Clear Politics, an organization that averages a week's worth of poll results from multiple sources, McCain was in a dead heat with Obama in national and battleground state polls.
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
IFAS vice president chosen as UT chancellor
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 26, 2008Jimmy Cheek, senior vice president of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, will step down in late January to become chancellor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Back off: Early voting is not life or death
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 26, 2008The political pestering never seems to end.
METRO
UF organization fights Florida electioneering law
By LAUREN IRIZARRY | Oct. 26, 2008A hearing today could decide whether citizen groups must register with the state to campaign for political candidates and issues.
METRO
Local woman charged with stabbing boyfriend
Oct. 26, 2008A woman who brought her boyfriend to the hospital for a knife wound was arrested Sunday on charges of stabbing him.
SPORTS
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VOLLEYBALL
Bulldogs shock Gators in Athens
Oct. 26, 2008No amount of history was going to help UF defeat Georgia on Sunday.
SPORTS
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OTHER SPORTS TENNIS
Boonstra, Alexander play for chance to be among nation's elite
Oct. 26, 2008Certain days are more important than others. For Marrit Boonstra and Megan Alexander, today could be huge.
