Gainesville is sparsly populated this time of year. Personally, I love it. The traffic is barely noticeable, the lines at Publix are shorter, yet the bars and nightclubs don’t seem to be any less crowded. Its the best of both worlds.

Why?

Spring break began yesterday.

Tim Tebow is off in the Phillipines again, and I’m sure that many of the football players have left town to go on vacations or spend time with their family.

Athletes on most of the other teams don’t have it so easy.

With no classes, the baseball and softball teams have extra practice and workouts. The softball teams hosts Georgia for a doubleheader tomorrow.

The golf and tennis teams are busy competing and the track teams had athletes in the postseason.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams are both preparing for and competing in the postseason.

The gymnastics team is preparing for and competing in the SEC championship meet and. NCAA regional meet.

The volleyball team played exhibition games in Chicago and the soccer team has workouts leading up to their final spring game.

In a lot of ways, I bet that the athletes look forward to classes resuming so that they get some rest while sitting in class or study hall.

The only downside for them is that parking on campus and traffic around town gets hectic again.