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Friday, July 24, 2026

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Shahmir Memon, a 21-year-old business administration junior, receives a fresh cut on the Plaza of the Americas lawn on Friday, Jan. 14. From bathroom stalls to street corners, Ju-Ray Kuo, a 24-year-old applied physiology and kinesiology master's student at UF, has been giving free cuts throughout Gainesville for the past six years.
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Ju-Ray Kuo: The basketball barber of Gainesville

  As 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. 


Florida outfielder Jud Fabian and the Gators collapsed in the ninth inning Sunday afternoon, falling to the Alabama Crimson Tide, 8-7.
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Gator Baseball Preview: Outfield

Jud Fabian shocked everybody when he returned to Florida for his fourth season in Gainesville. His experience is something the Gators will be thankful to have in a very young outfield that is loaded with talent.


Trinity Thomas during a floor routine against Mizzou January 29, 2021. Thomas became the 12th gymnast in NCAA history to score a 10 on each event during her career, earning a perfect mark on the vault Sunday.
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Florida beats Alabama in historic meet

Hot off a 197.675-193.70 win on Friday, the Gators faced their toughest challenge head-on. Despite the Gators trailing behind in the second and third rotation, they were able to pull off a dramatic comeback of 197.000-196.925 in the final rotation on floor.


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