BCS Championship Game Time: Florida-Oklahoma Kick Off Tonight

Today marks the end of the college football season as the BCS National Championship game pits the Florida Gators against Oklahoma Sooners at Miami's Dolphin Stadium. So what time is the BCS game? Florida-Oklahoma...

Gator Rips Off Teen's Arm

  "I just felt a sensation like a huge pair of needle nose pliers clamp down on my back arm. Immediately I knew it was an alligator," said Casey Edwards.  And18-year-old Florida man is recovering today after his arm was severed Sunday by a large alligator...

Alligator Blood vs E.Coli

Alligaotrs live in some pretty unhygenic areas: swamps, bogs, marshes... so their blood contains some serious antimicrobial properties. Scientists are using 'gator blood to fight human pathongens, including the...

Blogger Offers Roundup of New Year's Day Bowl Games

The NCAA Divsion 1 college football buffet line was full of candy and nuts on New Year's Day.  Below is a run-down of how the first four games turned out, according to Bob McCarty Writes™:The Tennessee Volunteers defeated the Wisconsin Badgers, 21-17, in the Outback...

Blogger Offers Major Bowl Game Predictions

I must be honest and admit that the college football bowl games that matter begin tomorrow morning. That in mind, I offer my predictions below for the eight major bowl games* being played during the next seven days:"JANUARY 1""OUTBACK BOWL, Tampa, 11 a.m. ET, ESPN""Wisconsin...

Death by Gators for 5 year old Girl

A man has been convicted in Florida of kidnapping a 5 year old girl and her mother, incapacitating the mother and feeding the little girl to alligators.  The girls body was found two days later in a marsh,...

Snake bursts after gobbling gator

"An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps."

Fla. deals with nuisance alligators (AP)

" WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - It was curtains for Crusty. The 8-foot alligator had been fed too many marshmallows, jelly beans and M&Ms, and had lost his fear of humans. Under state policy, he was deemed a nuisance, which is a virtual death sentence. But then an anonymous donor...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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