Saturday night's football game was everything we thought it could be. Although we have our worries about the correlation between media hype and the Gators' actual potential, the Editorial Board was thoroughly satisfied with the team's victory over Miami.
I don't own a car, so I keep a colorful, expensively designed Regional Transit System bus schedule by my bedside.
Saturday night, as Tim Tebow was trying to organize offensive drives, the stadium was blaring loud when it should have been quiet.
With future budget cuts looming for UF and the state alike, members of UF's Board of Trustees were urged by a representative from the governor's office Friday to set an example by donating money to the university.
After storming through an early nonconference schedule that included lightweights Alabama-Birmingham, Pacific and Jacksonville, the Gators finally climbed into the ring with someone that was willing to hit back.
This time, Aaron Hernandez was ready.
In a mock appellate court case Friday morning at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, and three other judges heard oral arguments from four UF law students.
Urban Meyer seems to have figured out a sure-fire way to win games at UF: block a punt.
When the lights brightened, the shadows of surprise evaporated.
A planetarium, normally known to feature stars confined to the night sky, now showcases other kinds of stars: the ones who rock.
A crowd of about 200 people assembled in Pugh Hall on Friday to hear Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. and Terry McAuliffe, respective former chairmen of the Republican and Democratic national committees, speak.
Mary Wise will lead the Gators into Tallahassee to take on FSU at 8 p.m. tonight. Before making the two hour drive down I-10, Wise adressed the media this morning.
Entering Saturday's duel between UF and Miami, the prevailing logic was that redshirt freshman quarterback Robert Marve and freshman Jacory Harris would wilt under the bright lights of Florida Field.
As if the Barack Obama train didn't have enough momentum, local supporters decided to hold an event to garner more support for the inescapable media darling. They even gave it a clever moniker: Obama-rama.
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Gators junior defensive end Jermaine Cunningham was named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Lineman of the week Monday after the Gators' defeated Miami by a 26-3 margin Saturday night.
I entered UF in 1998 with 26 Advanced Placement and 11 dual enrollment credits. Everybody said how great that was and how quickly I could get through school. I, like many of you, did not need study skills to get A's in high school.
When the lights brightened, the shadows of surprise evaporated.
Urban Meyer seems to have figured out a sure-fire way to win games at Florida: block a punt.
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