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Column: How legitimate is UF coach Jim McElwain's claim about death threats?
By Dylan Dixon | Oct. 24, 2017I’ve always been someone who tries to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Column: McElwain and player threats need to stop, immediately
By Jake Dreilinger | Oct. 23, 2017Things in Gainesville have been pretty tense lately.
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Column: In the wake of Spencer controversy, it’s OK to take a break from sports
By IAN COHEN | Oct. 22, 2017A white man in a black V-neck stood outside the Phillips Center on Thursday. On his right shoulder, he had pinned a pro-Nazi button. He proceeded to speak about how he disliked transgender people.
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Column: UF athletic department should follow Luke Del Rio’s lead and condemn Richard Spencer
By Ethan Bauer | Oct. 19, 2017The University of Florida sat still on Thursday. Classes continued on like normal, but campus felt dead. Or at least, everywhere except its southwest corner. That’s where white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech attracted attention and sparked confrontations between his small number of supporters and hundreds of protesters. The event was one of the biggest spectacles in recent university memory, with more than half a million dollars spent on security. But if you took a peek at most Twitter accounts associated with UF athletics, you’d have no idea it happened.
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Picks column bye week: Is Florida’s season already over?
Oct. 19, 2017The halfway point in the season is upon us, and Florida is already limping to the finish with a 3-3 record. Luckily for the Gators, they have a bye week, giving their fans a chance to have at least one fall Saturday without inevitable disappointment. With a looming matchup against No. 3 Georgia, things are looking bleak for the Gators’ season. But is it time to officially declare Florida’s 2017 campaign is over? That’s for our writers to decide. Before we make our picks for this weekend’s college football games, alligatorSports editor Matt Brannon and assistant editor Dylan Dixon are going to debate whether Florida’s season is already over.
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Column: Bragging after a loss? Another instance of the Gators’ laughable social media conduct
By Dylan Dixon | Oct. 18, 2017I had a column published last week about Florida’s football players and their questionable social media profiles.
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Column: 25 things that made me cringe in the Gators’ loss to Texas A&M
By Matt Brannon | Oct. 17, 2017It’s tough to go into a bye week on a loss. That’s what coach Jim McElwain said after UF dropped its second straight home game to the Aggies, 19-17, on Saturday.
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Column: After U.S. men’s soccer loss, it's important not to forget about the women’s team
By Jake Dreilinger | Oct. 16, 2017The United States men’s soccer team lost to Trinidad and Tobago a week ago, knocking out any chance of the U.S. making the World Cup in Russia next year.
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Column: McElwain isn’t the only one feeling the heat: Three coaching hot seats in the SEC East
By Skyler Lebron | Oct. 15, 2017We’re smack dab in the middle of SEC football conference play, and some coaches are already suffering from severe butt sweats from how hot their seats are. Some might also be a little more soothingly warm on the buttocks than you might expect.
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Picks column Week 7: Polka dot jerseys
Oct. 12, 2017It has been a trying week for the Florida Gators football program. The team lost by one-point to LSU, lost multiple players with injuries and lost the respect of some fans by ditching the orange and blue uniforms this weekend. The Gators will take the field Saturday against Texas A&M wearing green jerseys that the Oregon Ducks passed on. The jerseys took 18 months to design since the artist accidentally opened Internet Explorer and had to wait for it to close. He then used the remaining 10 minutes to put black polka dots on a greenish-gray background. The team first got the idea for the jerseys when Nike approached them and told them that no one was buying Gators merchandise. A year and a half later, here we are. The Florida-Texas A&M game is sure to be one of the most interesting picks this week. But before we get into all of our picks and meet our competitors, Alligator sports editors Matt Brannon and Dylan Dixon will break down the much-anticipated matchup between Delta State and West Florida. Be sure to catch Statesmen and the Argonauts on Saturday on BLAB TV.
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Column: Negligent UF football staff appears unaware of players' social media accounts
By Dylan Dixon | Oct. 11, 2017According to the University Athletic Association’s staff directory, coach Jim McElwain has over 30 employees working for him to help oversee Florida’s football program.
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Column: UF’s new uniforms are so cool they almost make me forget how bad the team is
By Matt Brannon | Oct. 10, 2017The Gators recently released photos of the alternate uniforms they plan to wear on Saturday night, and I couldn’t be more excited. The greenish-gray uniforms are designed after actual alligators and will be paired with matte green helmets featuring a Gator logo.
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Column: Series-by-series prediction for 2017 MLB Postseason
By Dylan Dixon | Oct. 10, 2017Following the completion of a long, arduous, 162-game regular season, the MLB playoffs are officially in full swing.
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Column: If you’re an offensive player, why would you want to play for the Gators?
By Ethan Bauer | Oct. 8, 2017Florida ruins offensive players. That’s just what it does, with a few notable exceptions.
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Column: Florida cannot challenge anyone for the SEC title, and Saturday was the proof
By IAN COHEN | Oct. 7, 2017Funny, isn’t it? The game of football. It’s a confusing sport. One with plenty of randomness that sometimes isn't that random and plenty of measurables that you can’t really measure and plenty of certainties that turn to uncertainties.
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Picks column Week 6: Homecoming edition
Oct. 6, 2017There’s nothing quite like Homecoming week at the University of Florida — as long as you exclude all the Homecoming weeks at other colleges. But one thing UF has going for it this weekend is a premier college football matchup between the Gators, who feel like they can conquer the world after beating Vanderbilt, and a team that almost knocked off Troy last weekend. The LSU Tigers come into Gainesville looking to find the win column for the first time since beating Syracuse two weeks ago. But while LSU had little trouble taking down the Orange, we’ll find out Saturday if they can beat the Orange and Blue.
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Column: Cam Newton’s comments should not go unpunished
By Jake Dreilinger | Oct. 5, 2017Growing up, my parents instilled the idea in me that everyone should be treated equally, regardless of race, ethnicity, orientation, etc. That especially includes gender, and there’s a reason I chose to single that out.
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Column: Men’s basketball coach Mike White makes reporting easy
By Skyler Lebron | Oct. 4, 2017Florida men’s basketball coach Mike White is a very honest man.
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Column: Three predictions for Gators men's basketball
By IAN COHEN | Oct. 3, 2017One head coach, three assistant coaches and 13 basketball players walk into a locker room. They’re fresh off of a trip to the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight, but they just lost four very productive seniors, three of their top-four leading scorers from a year ago and their would-be starting center for several months due to an ACL injury.
