UF’s win over Ole Miss should revitalize football program
By Luis Torres | Oct. 4, 2015Saturday’s game gave coach Jim McElwain his foundation for building the Florida football program back to prominence.
Saturday’s game gave coach Jim McElwain his foundation for building the Florida football program back to prominence.
Noah Shitama greeted each person who came up to his stand with a smile.
When president of the Black Student Union Phillip Wells saw a photo of four sorority sisters wearing shirts that read "trap queen," his first thought was to analyze it.
In 1965, Jaxon Cade Kennedy’s great-grandfather invented a sports drink in the basement of a UF teaching hospital.
On Sunday, an elephant rode down West University Avenue.
Attorney and UF alumnus John Morgan is for the people — and UF students.
In light of the U.S.-led airstrike that bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Saturday, it is time to reconsider the role the U.S. plays abroad. The airstrike, which killed 22 people — 10 patients and 12 staff members — and left 37 wounded, resulted in the departure of Doctors Without Borders in the area. "No medical activities are possible now in the M.S.F. (Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors Without Borders’ international name) hospital in Kunduz, at a time when the medical needs are immense," said Tim Shenk, a spokesman for the organization, to The New York Times.
On Sept. 27, Catalonia held elections to its devolved parliament. A coalition of nationalist parties won 72 out of 135 seats, though only 48 percent of the vote. The coalition, which ranges from the center-right Convergència to radical CUP, bills this vote as a de facto affirmative referendum on independence from Spain, and right-wing president of Catalonia, Artur Mas, agrees.
When Pope Francis visited the U.S., he caused quite the stir with all major news channels covering his every move. The vast amount of coverage was strange, considering only 20.8 percent of Americans considered themselves Catholic in 2014, according to Pew.
Thanks to some unusual training methods, any school facing the Florida women’s basketball team this season would be wise to think better of starting a scrap with the Gators.
Coming off a gut-wrenching loss to Missouri on Wednesday in which it threw away a 2-0 set lead, the Florida volleyball team was looking to rebound on the road against Arkansas.
A year ago, Demarcus Robinson was Florida’s lone reliable playmaker in the passing game.
It was supposed to be a blowout, but the Gators were presumed to be on the receiving end.
Divide and conquer. At least that was the intention.
Florida coach Becky Burleigh wasn’t shy about how she felt her team played Friday night.
UF alumnus Herbert Wertheim wears the same red hat almost all the time, save for when he eats dinner and showers.
It had been more than a year since Steven Lee Bingham had conducted the concert.
A group of about 20 UF students echoed in unison: "Thank you for taking care of yourself."
UF will honor Hispanic heritage with a two-time Grammy nominee and a Top Soundtrack song-of-the-year artist.