Cross country coach Jeff Pigg has left UF to take the same position at Southeastern Conference rival Georgia, the Bulldogs announced Monday. Pigg took over the UF cross country program in 2002 and led both the men's and women's teams to their first NCAA championship appearence in 2006. UF is expected to name Ole Miss associate men's track coach Brian O'Neal as Pigg's replacement.
We're not exactly sure what it is about Gainesville that predisposes The Gator Nation to excellence. Maybe it's something in the water (or in this case, the amber-colored beverages routinely found in plastic cups). At any rate, UF is once again the reigning national champion - this time we're No. 1 in partying.
Paul Drayton will still have an office to return to when his internship in New York City ends this summer.
China, the European Union, the United States and South Korea.
There won't be any more opportunities to giggle at former Mississippi coach Ed Orgeron and his gruff Southern accent. If you want to see what I'm talking about, just search for his Hummer ad on YouTube.
Student Government kicked off a clothing drive to deliver clothes to young people in Alachua County before the school year begins on Aug. 18.
If your experience has been anything like mine, you've been surrounded by Obamamania for the better part of the past several months. It's not related, as much as you might expect, to spending most of the day on a college campus, where support for the master orator is pervasive and contagious. Rather, like most Americans, I've been bombarded with thinly veiled propaganda from the mainstream media in support of the hope-monger for longer than I care to remember.
Lovetta Smith, who earned a doctorate in nursing and spent 30 years as a head nurse and counselor at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, has been confined to a wheelchair since her sophomore year in college 38 years ago.
eer into a "negative" climate, UF President Bernie Machen announced Friday an $11 million plan to give some faculty and staff pay raises for the first time in two years.
Gainesville may not have won ESPN's TitleTown USA contest Monday night, but UF students still have something to party about this week.
This weekend at the Dwight H. Hunter Municipal Pool in northeast Gainesville, a national champion was crowned.
He started in elementary school with fist fights and marijuana joints.
HOOVER, Ala. - There were plenty of memorable moments for Georgia last season.
As a result of the worst budget crisis in state history, Florida's colleges and universities have been forced to leave vacant positions unfilled, eliminate or incapacitate various degree programs and hand out pink slips to faculty members in order to cope with the state Legislature's refusal to fully fund higher education.
A former Gainesville Police officer will not be charged with sexual battery after a woman claimed he intimidated her into having sex with him.
Tight end Desmond Parks, a three-star prospect according to Scout.com, has committed to the Gators, according to several media Web sites. Parks is 6-foot-6 and 215 pounds and could be a replacement for Cornelius Ingram after he graduates.
Tim Tebow spent Friday night flipping a 450-pound tire across Florida Field.
Elaine Coomer wanted answers.
HOOVER, Ala. - Georgia is one of the favorite picks for best team in the nation heading into the season, but writers at Southeastern Conference Media Days chose UF to win the East Division and come away with the conference crown.
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