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Friday, June 06, 2025

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Florida's Marquis Dendy reacts after competing in the long jump at the NCAA track and field championships on June 12 in Eugene, Ore. Dendy became the first athlete to win both the long jump and the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoors since 2002.
SPORTS  |  OTHER SPORTS TRACK

Gators travel to Arkansas for NCAA Indoors

For most of UF’s student body, Spring Break was a time of relaxation and a time to get away from the stressors that attending school builds on a person. However, for the No. 1/2 Florida men’s and women’s track and field teams, it was a time of preparation for the NCAA Indoor Championships.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Influx of fabricated news leads to misinformed society

A poll released this week shows Americans trust Fox News more than any other television news network. The notion that Americans trust Fox more than any other network demonstrates one of two things: Either Americans are very dumb, or the quality of television news across all networks is very poor. Regardless, it demonstrates that the fourth estate needs serious work.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Republican legislators in Arizona not interested in compromise

As a political science major, it is my job to understand what motivates political actors to make certain decisions. The natural inclination is to assume that political actors — like, I don’t know, let’s just say the Arizona Legislature — base their decisions on a well-informed, rational basis — or, at the very least, a basic sense of fundamental human decency.


NEWS

Taking the “Student” Out of “Student Athlete”

This past Saturday, the Kentucky Wildcats put a cap on their perfect regular season by beating the visiting Florida Gators by a decisive score of 67-50. The game was pretty close until about halfway through the second half, when Kentucky’s depth and, well, talent overpowered the struggling Gators and sent them away with their first losing record in the regular season since Billy Donovan’s second season as the head man at Florida in 1997-98. The Wildcats will enter the NCAA tournament looking to be the first team to completely run the table since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers.


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