P.K. Yonge alum returns as head coach for his alma mater
By Bennett Solomon | May 30P.K. Yonge introduced Willie Jackson Jr. as its new head coach May 8, where he will have the chance to bring success to the program he grew up playing for.
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Ju-Ray Kuo: The basketball barber of Gainesville
By Elena Barrera | Jan. 28, 2022As the cheers of 10,000 Florida men’s basketball fans crescendo into a deafening roar, the quiet insight from their team manager rings loudest through the players’ heads. From the locker room bathrooms, Ju-Ray Kuo, an applied physiology and kinesiology masters student at UF, has become the unofficial barber of the Florida Gators men's basketball team — every returning player on the 15-player team has received a haircut from Kuo at least once.
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The story behind Florida’s NIL leader
By Noah Ram | Dec. 31, 2021Eddie Rojas never intended to venture into the world of NIL, but he saw a open opportunity, and now, he’s a force in the Gainesville market
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Emails show Stricklin acknowledged Newbauer abuse
By Zachary Huber | Nov. 15, 2021“I don’t know what it is going to take for you to truly consider this something as real and dangerous,” B.B. Staples, the mother of former women’s basketball player Corey Staples wrote to Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin.
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Former Florida women’s basketball players detail abuse under Coach Newbauer
By Zachary Huber | Sep. 27, 2021The head coach is accused of making racist remarks, throwing basketballs at players during practices, and verbally abusing the team, assistant coaches and trainers.
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Florida name, image and likeness legislation set to change college athletics landscape
By Ryan Haley | May 17, 2021When the name, image and likeness legislation goes into effect July 1, 2021, it could serve as the most monumental change college athletics has ever seen, but what exactly is going to change?
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Why so serious?: How Kadarius Toney and Yung Joka coexist
By Payton Titus | Apr. 28, 2021Off the field, though, Toney is a poet and a musician. As “Yung Joka,” his rap alias, he allows his creativity and emotions to run as wild and free as he does between the endzones. While questions circulate around his loyalty to the game, it’s clear Toney’s football fidelity is undeniable.
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Running off a year of COVID-19
By Faith Buckley | Mar. 15, 2021Many students took up running to get a break during the pandemic.
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Easter Island to Gainesville: Documenting Izzy Kadzban’s journey to international soccer
By Declan Walsh | Nov. 29, 2020UF soccer player Izzy Kadzban's Rapa Nui roots paved the way for a decorated international soccer career prior to her college play.
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Joe Pagdin begins Florida career five years in the making
By Michael Hull | Nov. 1, 2020Nervous. That’s how I felt the first time I interviewed Joe Pagdin.
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Walk-on: The Clifford Taylor IV story
By Christian Ortega | Oct. 11, 2020When people are asked to describe a close friend in a word, it’s common to find them gazing at the distance as their brain scrambles to find the appropriate response. The momentary lapse for thought, varying from Joy from Inside Out-like efficiency or workers in SpongeBob’s brain office scrambling through burning ruins, leads to mixed responses.
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Silent Saturdays: A town without football
By Payton Titus | Aug. 30, 2020“When the football team’s doing well, the entire town just kind of explodes,” Chandler Small, a Gainesville resident, said on The Ringer’s Cam Chronicles podcast in July.
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Life after football: From All-American offensive lineman to certified pitmaster
By Zachary Huber | May 31, 2020Shannon Snell used to make pancakes on the gridiron, but now, he does a different kind of cooking: barbecuing.
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Football may be gone, but the pain remains for NFL retirees
By Christian Ortega | Apr. 19, 2020In 1989, 7-year-old Ben Troupe donned his helmet and pads for the first time and ran onto the field for practice at the Swainsboro Recreation Department's football league in Swainsboro, Georgia.
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The Best Game I Ever…
Mar. 26, 2020It’s been two weeks without sports and they haven’t gone by easily. Naturally, this hiatus has prompted us to reminisce to a time where you could turn on the TV late at night and find an NBA game on the West coast still going on in earnest. What a luxury that was.
