As Hawaii football players prepare to take on the Gators this weekend, UF is preparing to send a 60-foot-long metal shark in their direction.
Here's a scary thought: Tim Tebow can get better.
Ameera Abdullah is no stranger to injury.
First off, we would like to issue an at-least-someone-does-their-homework LAUREL to UF spokesman Steve Orlando for calling out the Editorial Board for an embarrassing blunder. We wrongly implied that UF President Bernie Machen contacted the St. Petersburg Times with an editorial when it was the other way around. From now on, we will quadruple check ourselves before we wreck ourselves. Our bad.
Unity is the talk of the town in Denver this week. The Democrats have gone out of their way to try to demonstrate that their party has healed its rift in the months following the grueling primary battle between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Among its clerks and commissioners, the city of Gainesville's employees include a variety of artists.
If there is one word to describe the last 17 seasons under coach Mary Wise, it is consistent.
While it's not the Emerald City, it certainly is green.
When Eric VanVeelen arrived for fall classes, he found that most of the job opportunities in Gainesville had already been snatched up.
UF President Bernie Machen said in his State of the University address Thursday that UF needs to focus on ways to build new revenue and preserve its resources - even after budget cuts.
Forget the run-and-shoot offense.
Living across from campus may seem like a comfort.
Because no action was taken by the West to stop the invasion of Georgia, Russia has now become bolder. Russian troops remain on Georgian land, days after the newest cease-fire was brokered by Condoleezza Rice.
I recently returned from a summer studying Chinese in Beijing. It was an intense summer, to say the least, in a war zone of culture fought in the urban jungle that is Beijing. The language barrier was daunting, the food hard to digest and the cabbies had a death wish that Charles Bronson couldn't deliver on.
It's mid-August, and the bells of Century Tower - maybe a few e-bill notifications, also - are beckoning you to UF, a sultry and sticky swamp where you become an under-financed, oversexed version of your at-home self.
Ah, back to school. Remember the days when going back to school meant buying a whole new wardrobe? Returning for another academic year was the perfect reason to go shopping and your perfect excuse for spending money. "It's for school next year" seemed to be one of the few replies that parents actually accepted. In college, it's like no one even cares.
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