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Dressel the most dominant athlete in Florida history
By Benjamin Brandt | Mar. 28, 2018My 14-year-old sister is really good at rolling her eyes.
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NFL takes a step in the right direction on Tuesday regarding player safety
By Jake Dreilinger | Mar. 27, 2018It’s about time.
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Sports reporting has become shallow
By Ethan Bauer | Mar. 26, 2018I’m pretty sure I’ve written some variation of this column every semester for as long as I’ve been writing columns at the Alligator, but it’s a topic that really touched me this weekend.
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An honest assessment of bias in sports reporting
By Ethan Bauer | Mar. 14, 2018Long after the Florida basketball team’s lifeblood had trickled from its veins on Friday in St. Louis, the Arkansas Razorbacks continued to pound a beaten UF team that just wouldn’t stop trying. That was much to the frustration of one broadcaster on press row, who slammed a table with his open palm and mouthed something under his breath.
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Derrius Guice's question is an indictment of bigoted NFL fans
By Morgan McMullen | Mar. 11, 2018If you’ve kept up with the NFL Combine or anything surrounding it in the past couple of weeks, you may have heard LSU running back Derrius Guice spill some tea on an unidentified team after one of its scouts asked Guice a pointed question in a private interview.
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LeBron James was right. The NCAA needs to allow college athletes to get paid
By Skyler Lebron | Feb. 28, 2018Call me a LeBron James fanboy, and you’d be one thing.
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Raising awareness in sports often feels disingenuous, but there’s also nothing wrong with it
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 26, 2018Everything in the O’Connell Center was pink on Friday night.
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What if the 2018 Gators football team sucks?
By Morgan McMullen | Feb. 26, 2018Imagine this scenario: It’s Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. The U.S. midterm elections have rocked the political world one way or the other. You’re probably still stuffed from that huge Thanksgiving feast, yet thankful that you’ve left your weird uncle’s house and returned to Gainesville. And the Gators football team, led by coach Dan Mullen, is floundering down the stretch of a once-promising season. Mullen decides to start Feleipe Franks at quarterback against Florida State after some rough outings from freshman Emory Jones. Mullen still has a shot at a bowl bid in his first season as head coach, but he needs to win against the Seminoles.
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“Stick to sports” mantra is just plain wrong. It always has been
By Morgan McMullen | Feb. 21, 2018Sport has always been political.
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Recruiting is a necessary part of college sports. It’s also completely ridiculous.
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 20, 2018Feleipe Franks was a lucky one.
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Few care about snowboarding most of the time. Why do the Winter Olympics change that?
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 14, 2018I never watch snowboarding, and you probably don’t either.
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A story worthy of national news coverage occurred this weekend at UF’s lacrosse game. And you all missed it.
By Jake Dreilinger | Feb. 13, 2018I might be a little late to the party on this one, but something happened this past weekend that deserves recognition.
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Tired of the mind-numbing debate over whether college athletes should be paid or not? Here’s a solution.
By Morgan McMullen | Feb. 12, 2018College football has a problem.
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Why aren't we talking more about curling? It's the greatest sport of all time.
By Morgan McMullen | Feb. 11, 2018I can’t speak for everyone, but these Winter Olympic games have been hard to keep up with.
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Two trade deadline hypotheticals that could alter the course of the NBA
By Andrew Huang | Feb. 7, 2018With the 2018 NBA trade deadline coming today at 3 p.m., I’ve come up with a couple of trades I think could push potential title contenders over the edge.
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Four Florida football signees likely to make an impact in 2018
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 7, 2018Four Florida football signees likely to make an impact in 2018
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What were the three best commercials of Super Bowl LII?
By Jake Dreilinger | Feb. 7, 2018Ah yes, the Super Bowl. The event where millions of people around the country flock to a TV set for three and a half hours, not to watch the championship game of America’s most popular sport, but to obsess over the new, fun, flamboyant commercials that debut throughout the night.
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Esports are just as interesting and competitive as traditional sports
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 4, 2018I know nothing — I mean absolutely nothing — about video games.
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Worried about the Gators' recent losses? I'm not. They'll be all right.
By Skyler Lebron | Feb. 1, 2018The Florida fan base is confused right now. And rightfully so.
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Vince McMahon would like to sell you some mediocre high school football again
By Morgan McMullen | Jan. 31, 2018Hoo, boy.
