Thank God for football
Aug. 25, 2008Don't get me wrong. I love baseball as much as the next guy.
Don't get me wrong. I love baseball as much as the next guy.
Gators running back Chris Rainey may not be the best player to talk to for many things, but he sure as hell knows how to make reporters laugh. This exchange could be heard at UF's morning press conference today with the player of "I'm a white-girl man" fame.
Gators starting middle linebacker Brandon Spikes will probably not be playing in Saturday's season-opener against Hawaii, UF coach Urban Meyer said Monday morning.
College students know Kal Penn from movies and TV shows - as Kumar or Lawrence Kutner.
Earlier this year, I attended a handful of rallies for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama. Talking with other participants made it clear that few of them could agree on the specifics of this change.
Leona Anglin didn't even hear the wind from Tropical Storm Fay Thursday night when she got up to answer a telephone call.
Tate Casey was a student athlete who felt like he was being faulted for, well, being a student.
Nick Calathes, Jai Lucas and much of the rest of the UF men's basketball team could be found chatting with Doc Rivers, coach of the World Champion Boston Celtics, in the O'Connell Center Sunday afternoon.
Rain and puddles couldn't prevent Kelsey Carr and Marisa Eley from running across a soggy Norman Field on Sunday to their new sorority house.
Brandon Hicks is out on the practice field, and he misses a tackle. He misreads the play and gets caught in the wrong gap.
During my two years at the Alligator, I've heard all the criticism UF students and Gainesville residents have to offer.
Forward Tahnai Annis was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman Soccer Player of the Week on Monday.She scored the game-winning goal in the 95th minute of Sunday's match at Florida Atlantic. Annis was the first-ever Gator to record a golden goal as her first collegiate-goal.
In a year of shrinking state funds, UF President Bernie Machen is pleased to see two numbers stay the same: 49 and 17.
The Florida Board of Governors, the State University System's highest governing body, will ask lawmakers to dole out $65.4 million in pay raises for faculty and staff as well as provide $30.3 million for rising utility costs next year.
Despite soggy weekend weather, students were out on the town and utilizing Gainesville's new taxi stands.
Last year Ahmad Black played in seven games as a cornerback but didn't crack the two-deep depth chart.
Fall is finally here, and we are being greeted with some of the old traditions that we've come to hold so close to our hearts.
Plenty of attention is paid to UF's playmakers at skill positions, but the quarterback, running backs and receivers are not what make the Gators offense go.
The place is an alcoholic and a hippie, a scenester and a sports star, a handbag-crazy nature freak as at ease in the library as in a disco.
UF students can fight their weariness of the return of classes by getting their chuckle on tonight.