Jim McElwain walked to the lectern inside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium’s meeting room on March 10 with big-time expectations for his first set of Spring practices as Florida football’s head coach.
Before he helped lead the Gators to eight Southeastern Conference championships and five NCAA championships and coaching multiple decorated Olympians, UF track and field coach Mike Holloway was learning the ropes of track and field under Lyle Knudson.
The 2015 Orange and Blue Debut kicks off this Saturday afternoon at 12:30. Here are five players to watch for as the Spring football season concludes.
There’s one thing coach Jim McElwain has been preaching to the wide receivers on Florida’s roster.
After JJ Schwarz hit his fourth home run of the game, the freshman trotted around the infield and ducked into the dugout.
Bailey Castro is having the senior year she envisioned.
With just three regular season games remaining, Florida heads into the weekend atop the Big East standings in the team’s first year as a member of the conference.
The No. 17 Florida Gators wraps up their dual season with a pair of weekend road contests, as UF faces Kentucky on Friday at 5 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky, before finishing the season on Sunday afternoon at 1 against No. 43 Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The 2014-2015 regular-season is wrapping up for the No. 6 Florida’s women’s tennis team (18-2, 10-1 Southeastern Conference) with just two SEC matches left on their schedule.
Bert towers at 81 feet tall and 113 inches thick, and he has been rooted in the Gainesville community for nearly 200 years.
State legislators are considering a new bill that would ban the sale of powdered alcohol in Florida.
Bruce Floyd has walked past the class of 1995’s time capsule every day for 18 years on his way to work.
Gainesville cyclists will host a bicycle scavenger hunt Sunday afternoon, and all proceeds will go toward affordable housing.
A transgender Republican politician spoke Thursday night on how her political affiliation and life experience intersected in her political career.
The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office found human remains Thursday, which they believe belong to a local mother who has been missing since February.
One day isn’t enough to celebrate the earth, so the UF Office of Sustainability is dedicating the whole month.
Better late than never, the UF chapter of a national engineering honors society is holding an unveiling ceremony Friday for its monument a year after its installation.
Jose Principe was in Singapore on sabbatical when he found out.
If Homer Simpson were real, he would be first in line at the Global Medical Training’s 5K on Sunday.
Annette Ville found dance at the age of 4 through her grandmother, a professional dancer years ago in Germany.
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