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A friend recently interviewed me for one of his classes. "So, how did you wind up in your position and what do you like about The Spectrum?" he asked.
For Najja Johnson, it happened during a scout team scrimmage in 2009.
As Reggie Witherspoon answered the final question and his in-home press conference concluded, the friends, family members and former players sitting behind Witherspoon in support proclaimed, "Roll Tide."
Reggie Witherspoon and Mark Bortz vividly recall their first interactions with Turner Battle - both phone calls.
Reggie Witherspoon and Mark Bortz vividly recall their first interactions with Turner Battle - both phone calls.
When I consider the things I love about college (and there are many), style emerges among the foremost.
I only saw Khalil Mack get any semblance of frustrated during an interview once this season. Reporters ask athletes - especially stars like Mack - all sorts of weird and probing questions, but I asked the only one that bothered him, from what I observed.
Hopsin, the deep-thinking, name-calling hip-hop artist best known for his haunting white eye contacts and "Ill Mind of Hopsin" series, is about to bring his fast-spitting flow to Buffalo.
Almost everything about Saturday's men's basketball game was promising through the first 33 minutes. At the 7:00 mark, Buffalo led 63-53.
Update: 1:25 a.m. -- Police have finished their search of the campus and lifted the shelter-in-place warning for North Campus. They say it is now safe to resume regular activities on North Campus.
Not all sports clichés are true. Ever heard this one? "The point guard must be the most unselfish player on his team."
The John R. Oishei Foundation, Western New York's largest private foundation, announced Wednesday that it has contributed a $5 million donation to UB's new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo.
The University at Buffalo's football team is going to a postseason bowl game for the first time since 2009. On Sunday, the Bulls accepted an invitation to play in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Saturday, Dec. 21, against San Diego State.
This game was decided during halftime. We do not know what happened within each team's locker room, but it is clear that the Bowling Green Falcons came out of the break ready to battle in their most important game of the season to date, and the University at Buffalo Bulls did not.
At one point, the men's basketball team trailed 25-16 during its early-season matchup with Robert Morris Tuesday night. The Bulls fought back to tie it by halftime before making it clear they were the better team in the second half.
A perfect day for Malcolm Gladwell is one in which he does not say a word to anyone until after dinner. He wants his writing to appeal to a precocious 12-year-old. His Twitter bio is simply, "Skinny Canadian."
On a night when there were so many things to take away - Buffalo improving to 7-2 and 5-0 in conference play, Branden Oliver popping off for a Division IA school record 249 yards, the Bulls thoroughly dominating an impressive opponent on ESPN in a raucous UB Stadium - the unheralded star was Alex Neutz.
It has been nearly eight months since several coworkers and I were driving back to Buffalo from the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Cleveland and one blurted out, "Oh my God. Reggie Witherspoon has been fired."
In any matchup between two closely ranked Mid-American Conference teams, there is usually one turning-point play - one play that both teams can examine after the game and say, "That's the one that decided who won this game."
People seem to forget about 2011 Branden Oliver. Before Khalil Mack was a projected top-10 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the running back known as 'BoDozer' was The Guy around UB Stadium.