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Column: Way-too-early MLB superlative predictions
By Patrick Pinak | Apr. 5, 2017It’s April, which means Major League Baseball is in full swing.
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Column: Please, coach McElwain, learn to answer questions
By Ethan Bauer | Apr. 4, 2017Last week I asked coach Jim McElwain if he thought the word adversity was overused in sports. He stuttered once, stuttered again and finally gave a winding response that didn’t answer the question and somehow brought up the questionable nature of participation trophies.
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Column: Who should win the NBA MVP race?
By IAN COHEN | Apr. 3, 2017Usually the NBA’s annual MVP race is fairly clear cut.
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Column: The now-infamous softball push: Why UF's coach deserves more of the blame
By Patrick Pinak | Mar. 30, 2017How often is Florida’s softball team cast under the national spotlight for something that happens after a game?
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Column: The occasional absurdity of sports journalism
By Ethan Bauer | Mar. 21, 2017There’s a lot to like about sports journalism.
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Column: Dear Facebook debaters: Siding with contrarians will never make you ‘woke’
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 28, 2017Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey made some controversial comments over the weekend. Speaking to an audience at a basketball game, the championship-winning coach spoke — indirectly — about the sexual assault scandals gripping her school.
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Column: Earth is flat, obviously, you idiot
By Matt Brannon | Feb. 19, 2017Kyrie Irving, NBA superstar, said he believes Earth is flat, and now everyone on God’s green disk is losing their minds.
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Florida football will be better in 2017: a rebuttal
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 14, 2017On Monday, one of my colleagues penned a column saying that Florida football fans shouldn’t be optimistic. That UF won’t be making a third-consecutive trip to the SEC Championship. That with Florida’s daunting 2017 schedule, the Gators are doomed to mediocrity.
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Column: Who to love, hate and appreciate in the sports world on Valentine’s Day
By IAN COHEN | Feb. 13, 2017Happy Valentine’s Day, sports fans.
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Football fans: Don’t expect SEC championship appearance
By Matt Brannon | Feb. 12, 2017Some students and fans have welcomed coach Jim McElwain as God’s gift to football since he won his first Gators game in 2015.
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Column: Dear New York: Do the world a favor and just end it already
By Ray Boone | Feb. 9, 2017OK, this is starting to become childish.
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Column: The cruel, cutthroat cult of college coaching
By Ethan Bauer | Feb. 7, 2017Every year immediately after National Signing Day, the sports world witnesses one of its most dazzling spectacles: the great migration of college football coaches.
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Column: McElwain saved his recruiting class on signing day, but does it really matter?
By Patrick Pinak | Feb. 1, 2017Jim McElwain walked through a row of screaming fans inside UF’s indoor practice facility while UF’s band blared the school’s fight song throughout the facility.
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The absurdity of National Signing Day
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 31, 2017When I was in high school, I wanted to be a recruiting reporter. I read recruiting stories daily while I was supposed to be paying attention in class, and National Signing Day was one of my favorite days of the year (seriously).
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Column: UF’s 2015 secondary was one of best of this century
By Patrick Pinak | Jan. 25, 2017When Fox Sports’ Peter Schrager likened Keanu Neal to the surefire NFL Hall-of-Fame safety Ed Reed last week, it got me thinking.
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Column: Take yourselves less seriously, sports teams
By IAN COHEN | Jan. 23, 2017I usually hate these types of columns.
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Column: Baseball HOF should keep standards high but stay objective
By Patrick Pinak | Jan. 18, 2017Picture the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the expensive flower vase that sits in your mom’s living room.
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Column: Why sports journalism matters
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 17, 2017The Alligator sports department welcomed five new staffers this week. As sports editor, it was my job to hire them. And while I’m confident the folks we brought in will do well here, I noticed an unsettling trend in many of the applications.
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Column: For the sake of everyone involved, make the NFL safer
By IAN COHEN | Jan. 16, 2017On Sunday afternoons, the TV was on.
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Column: Does God, if He exists, care about football games?
By Ethan Bauer | Jan. 10, 2017Following Clemson’s last-second victory over Alabama in Monday’s championship game, coach Dabo Swinney was overcome with emotion.
