Column: The World Baseball Classic is every bit fun as it is important
By Patrick Pinak | Mar. 22, 2017When Yadier Molina was asked how much winning the World Baseball Classic meant to him, he didn’t hesitate.
When Yadier Molina was asked how much winning the World Baseball Classic meant to him, he didn’t hesitate.
Jordan Roberts started back to home plate.
In August, Maegan Chant’s life was uprooted.
Standing in Florida’s Indoor Practice Facility, Feleipe Franks a few feet to his left, Kyle Trask realized something.
UF students studying abroad in London are safe after an attack at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, university officials said.
Outside Joe Steven Vincent Wagner’s hospital room, the waiting room is never empty.
In the last 15 minutes of Michael Che’s standup act, he turned his full attention to the front row, where key members of UF’s Student Government were sitting.
Alachua County is the only county in Florida singled out for failing to comply with federal requests to detain non-native arrestees after the release of a Department of Homeland Security report.
Every basketball game, Kalie Laughlin stands and screams along with Rowdy Reptiles dressed in orange and blue bodysuits.
A UF professor will help determine speakers for a large TEDMED conference this November in California.
UF’s part-time and full-time master’s of business programs are among the top in the nation.
A gruesome attack happened in London on Wednesday, leaving five dead and dozens more injured. It is a horrible, tragic event that occurred, despite increased security measures throughout Europe in the recent years. There’s a lot to take in. In the past two or three years, Europe has been struck by frequent terror attacks. The strategy behind this one — using a vehicle and then a knife to attack law enforcement officers — is described by the British security service as a “marauding attack,” something they have been preparing for. The British officers were able to stop the attacker, and Scotland Yard is now working on protecting the city as well as investigating the attack as a whole.
The most important leader at a great research university is not the president. UF has about 1,000 administrative entities with leaders, including departments, schools, colleges, centers, institutes, programs and divisions. I hope to visit all of these entities while I am president, which will require I serve until I’m 90 years old, longer than Presidents Albert Murphree and John Tigert.
We The Kings reached fame in 2007 with their self-titled full length album, and 10 years later, the band is back without too many changes.
This weekend, the Hippodrome State Theatre will host a Cuban film festival downtown. The festival, which runs from Friday at 6 p.m. until Sunday at 7 p.m., will feature three Cuban films: “Before Night Falls,” “Cicho and Rita” and “Playing Lecuona;” a biopic, animated film and music documentary, respectively.
An identity crisis has never sounded so good. At this point in his career, Drake could rap the alphabet and it’d chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the first three months of 2017, we’ve seen amazing releases from artists like Drake, Ed Sheeran, Future and many more. However, 2017 has also already had some lackluster music. Here are some 2017 releases to keep off your playlist:
Indie rock fans will be able to catch New Orleans-based band Generationals on Sunday at the High Dive as the band begins its spring 2017 tour.
South Carolina-based artist Zach Deputy will be bringing his talents to Gainesville with a concert at Heartwood Soundstage tonight.
After dominating Monday in South Carolina, the Florida women’s golf team did not let up on the competition Tuesday afternoon.