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Aaron Hernandez is a tight end for the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Florida Gators, and he was a member of the BCS National Championship. He was drafted in the fourth round by the New England Patriots. He was a wealthy NFL player that stays in his four story home with an in ground pool, in North Attleboro, Massachusetts for one million dollars. Throughout his personal life he has been in trouble by the law. In 2007 and 2013, he was in a shootout in Miami and…

Before wowing fans in the National Football League, Tim Tebow set records and won championships with the University of Florida Gators. He also brought millions of dollars to the school. That money went to the coaches, staff, and the athletic department, but Tebow--like all college athletes--was not paid. -Adele Birkenes So the big matter is, Should college athletes be paid? We all have different perspectives ,but the answer is yes. College athletes should be paid because they bring millions of…

all make mistakes and he did also, but he never strayed off from God. In 2006 Tim Tebow received a scholarship to University of Florida to play football. His freshman year he played as the backup. The next year he became the starting quarterback and won, among other honors, the Heisman Trophy and the Davey O'Brien Award. He later set many records, including the Gators' single-game QB rushing yards and records for SEC season rushing touchdowns , career high single-game rushing touchdowns and…

Tebow was not faced with many struggles in his early life. In 2006 he was named the second-string quarterback for the Gators, behind Chris Leak. Throughout the season he had a limited amount of snaps, including a handful during the BCS Championship Game, one of which was a 39-yard touchdown run. Other than being a second-string freshman, the rest of his college career was…

York. She was the youngest of seven kids. In high school she played soccer and basketball for Our Lady of Mercy High School. But she decided to focus her energies on soccer in college and got a soccer scholarship to the University of Florida. Where she lead the Gators to victory in 1998 as a freshman,…

the American Alligator is fresh water swamps, marshes, rivers, lakes, and occasionally smaller bodies of water, such as man-made retention ponds. The alligator range is from the southern Virginia/North Carolina border, along the Atlantic coast to Florida and along the Gulf of Mexico as far west as the Rio Grande in Texas. I chose this organism because…

knows that the bottle is a Gatorade bottle because of the shape and color of the product. But why is that? According to Gatorade.com, “it was developed in the summer of 1965 for the University of Florida Gators in hopes to replace key components lost when players would sweat and exercise.” Once the Florida football players starting drinking Gatorade they began winning. Needless to say the product gained popularity, “now…

Technology can prove to be both a benefit to our lives as well as a hindrance. Today, people have come to rely on technology and the Internet to function in everyday life. While it helped advance our society to a great degree, it has also created new issues such as cyberbullying, Internet addiction, and “catfishing”—pretending to be someone else online for the purpose of tricking another individual. Carl Hiaasen discusses both the pros and cons of technology in the novel Skink: No Surrender. He…

to redshirt due to college football rules” “Troy Aikman Biography.” In Troy’s UCLA college career he lead the Bruins to a 20-4 record. During his junior year he carried the team to a 10-2 season and to the 1987 Aloha Bowl where they beat The Florida State Gators 20-16. As a senior Troy earned himself the 1988 Davey O'brien award. UCLA earned themselves the same exact record as the year before 10-2. In the 1988 season the Bruins earned themselves a 17-3 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks…

grew up in a suburban part of Miami; Hialeah. I learned English as a second language in primary school and was labeled gifted and talented after completing assessments. I am a young adult first generation college student at the University of Florida; Go Gators. My family were farmers from Cuba, were sugar cane is ever so sweet and the smell of coffee is ever so strong. These farms were passed down from generation to generation until resources became scares. In Cuba, you were successful if you…