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The University of Florida does not plan to fire coach Will Muschamp, despite a shocking loss FCS team Georgia Southern to add to a disappointing season, according to the Orlando Sentinel. However, Muschamp's coaching staff will reportedly undergo significant changes after the season ends this Saturday against Florida State. CBS Sports reported Saturday that offensive coordinator Brent Pease and offensive line coach Tim Davis will lose their jobs. The Gators (4-7) have lost six straight, capped by Saturday's 26-20 loss at home to Georgia Southern.

Embattled Florida Gators coach Will Muschamp has to be feeling a lot better about his job security after receiving a vote of confidence from university president Bernie Machen, athletic director Jeremy Foley and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier.

The Green Bay Packers' loss to the Chicago Bears was particularly painful for one Packers fan who was tasered by her Bears fan husband to settle a bet after Monday's game.

We may compare Panasonic to the character of Michael Myers way too often, but this Halloween the analogy is particularly relevant given news the company is officially killing plasma TV production. Manufacturing of plasma panels will end in December this year, earlier than the most recent rumor ...

How's this for a pitch? "[T]his is a show that explores human frailty, possibility, terror and the triumph of the human spirit." Chris Carter likes to keep the things he's working on mysterious. The X-Files creator is a superstitious guy, apparently. Amazon's description of the forthcoming one-hour ...

If you have used a slow cooker, you know that the burnt remnants can be a pain to scrub off completely. But here’s a secret: keeping the slow cooker going and adding water will actually make it easier.

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Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic airline by the number of passengers getting on and off a plane ("enplanements"). Its reasonable prices and consumer-friendly policies make it my number one choice for leisure travel.

I’d like to share a tip about flying Southwest Airlines: book your round-trip travel as two one-way flights.

Southwest prices its tickets as one-way tickets. A round-trip is merely two one-way’s added together. When you book your out and back flights separately, you retain the maximum flexibility for any possible changes.

Making Changes

Say after you book your ticket your plan changed. You want to keep the departure date and change the return. If you book your ticket as a round-trip, you will have to cancel the whole thing and rebook the round-trip. If fares have gone up, you will have to pay the higher fare on both legs. If you booked as two one-way’s, you get to keep the original ticket you are not changing. You only pay the higher fare on one leg.

Fares change after you book, both up and down. Southwest’s no-change-fee policy means if the fare goes down, you can cancel the tickets and rebook the same flights at a lower fare. You keep the fare difference as credit, to be applied toward future travel in 12 months (be sure to write down the old confirmation number).

But fares don’t necessarily go down on both legs. Suppose the fare on one leg goes up and it goes down on the other leg, if you cancel the whole thing and rebook, you only get the net difference from the round-trip. If instead you booked two one-way tickets, you keep one original ticket and only rebook the leg that went down in price.

Group A Boarding Pass

Finally, everyone flying Southwest knows you should check-in at exactly 24 hours before the departure time in order to get a group A boarding pass. If you are taking a quick trip and your return flight is within 24 hours of your outgoing flight, you are not able to check-in to the return flight until the scheduled departure time on your outgoing flight passes.

For instance if you have a round-trip ticket leaving at 2:00pm on Thursday and returning at 1:00pm on Friday, you can’t check-in to the return flight until after 2:00pm on Thursday.

By that time, (a) you are already on the plane; and (b) many people already checked-in at 1:00pm. When you check-in after you get off the plane, you will get a dreaded C boarding pass. If you booked the tickets separately as two one-ways, you can check-in to the return flight at 1:00pm on Thursday.

It’s a little more work to book two one-way tickets. The flexibility makes it worth the effort.

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When he was a head coach of the Florida Gators, Steve Spurrier was known to take quips at the expense of Tennessee. His one-liners cracking jokes on the Vols became part of his legendary career as much as his great Florida teams. “You can’t spell Citrus without UT.” “I know why Peyton [Manning] came back…

Florida running back Matt Jones is out for the rest of the season with a torn meniscus in his left knee.

Welp it's been a good run. Nice work humanity, you produced a lot of cool stuff on the internet. But now that ghostsingles.com is live there isn't much else to do. Time to learn how to rock climb or read War and Peace.

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You never know what you’re going to get in a postgame press conference with LSU coach Les Miles. Sometimes he’ll make some funny faces . Other times he’ll go on a rant about being (or not being) a flop . On Saturday, following the Tigers 17-6 win over Florida, Miles went on a nonsensical rant about hammers and nails in response to reporter's reference that in last year's 14-6 loss to the Gators, LSU was a nail to Florida's hammer (whatever that means). You can watch the video above (though, fair warning, it does have some mild language in it) or you can read the transcript below . In either case, it’s an entertaining couple minutes. "I've got a question for you: It was a 14-6 game. We played our ass off, and how anybody could pick the hammer and the nail, when if fact, that hammer, or that nail, or whatever the hell you got picked, we catch a ball down there, we're fixing to take the lead and we turn it over. I mean explain to me how Kevin Minter who sets, damn near, the career tackle record in that game, how anybody could ever say 'hammer and nail.' I can tell you right now, here's what happens: two very quality teams take the field and compete like a son-of-a-bitch for victory. And you know what? It's not a hammer and a nail relationship. It's an opportunity for an opponent to be equal, and to raise the level of play in such a fashion that they win. And that's how this thing works. That, in fact, you respect the opponent, and he's not the hammer and he's not the frickin' nail. OK, he's the opponent. Understand? I'm just letting you know I resent that. I resent the fact that suddenly we were nailed. You got it? I mean, honest to Petes. [Expletive] we were a pretty good team last year. I thought we played like a son-of-a-bitch in the stadium. I'm just letting you know, I felt differently than the nail, so you know." The gist of this rant is that Miles doesn’t like being called a nail nor does he like being nailed. Or hammered. Or something. I actually don't think anyone was sure what he was saying. When Les Miles speaks, it’s best to have an interpreter. - - - Want to join the conversation? Hit us up on Twitter @YahooDrSaturday be sure to "Like" Dr. Saturday on Facebook for football conversations and stuff you won't see on the blog.

NFL Security has contacted the Houston Texans and the Houston police regarding an alleged incident in which a fan apparently showed up at Matt Schaub's home and berated the quarterback, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Ed Werder.

If you are an Amazon Mom member, check out this promotion page where if you purchase at least $45 in select Amazon.com Gift Card multi-packs by October 31, 2013, they will email you a bonus $5 Amazon promotional code credit by November 15, 2013. Give them as gifts or use them yourself to buy gifts. Offer is good only to Amazon Mom members with a free trial or paid membership to Amazon Prime.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- No. 18 Florida is methodical, deliberate, calculated and predictable. Some might even say the Gators are boring to watch.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon, comedy skit best friends and the human couple equivalent of a pair of colorful striped socks, teamed up yet again to shed light on a disease that's been plaguing phone-connected humans for years now: the ridiculous overuse of hashtags.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Three days after losing its starting quarterback, No. 20 Florida lost its best defensive player.

BETHESDA, MD—A groundbreaking psychiatric study released Monday indicates that hearing the words “2016 frontrunners” is currently the leading cause of chronic depression in the United States.

You can eat out, order coffee, get your car washed, or whatever else and get through life just fine, but several secrets exist in the service industry. Take a little time this weekend to learn them to save yourself time, money, and the occasional headaches.

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The New Orleans Saints have had the Atlanta Falcons' number in recent seasons and as the two NFC South rivals are set to meet in Week 1, linebacker Junior Galette says his team's goal is to extend that domination to the rest of the division.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco says Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is "quickly becoming" his favorite college player.

An Arkansas athletic department employee injured a leg Saturday when a T-Shirt gun apparently malfunctioned during the first half of the Razorbacks' victory over Louisiana-Lafayette.

Just in time for the start of the 2013 season, the SEC has looked ahead to next year and unveiled its slate of games for the 2014 season. Highlighting that schedule release are several cross-division matchups, beginning with Texas A&M traveling to South Carolina Aug. 28 to open the 2014 regular season.  Another must-see game…

The clitoris. For thousands of years, humans (some of them, anyway) knew that if you play with it in the correct way, you will get its owner sexual pleasure. But it only was until 2009 that science understood how it actually worked. Discover... the Mystery of the Clit!

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The NCAA is investigating whether Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was paid for signing hundreds of autographs on photos and sports memorabilia in January, "Outside the Lines" has learned.

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Florida opens fall camp in just three days. Starting quarterback Jeff Driskel definitely won’t be participating at the start of it. The university announced Tuesday that Driskel underwent appendectomy surgery at Florida’s Health Shands Hospital. “Jeff had acute appendicitis and fortunately the medical staff caught it very quickly,” said coach Will Muschamp. “His surgery went well…

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Florida coach Will Muschamp will get a $250,000 raise in each of the five years remaining on his contract, the school announced Friday.

Meyer's latest betrayal of the Gators didn't go over well with current coach Will Muschamp.

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