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The Sweet 'Four'

The NCAA Tournament has narrowed its field down to 16 teams, 'The Sweet 16.' Teams are now just four wins away from calling themselves National Champions.


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"A faded memory, a blurred future"

On a crisp October afternoon, I strapped up my football helmet and lined up for tackling drills on my high school football field. It was my least favorite part of practice because some of the players on my team did not exemplify the proper tackling technique and would lead with the crown of their helmets.


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Playing for a higher cause

After speaking to women's basketball forward Christa Baccas, I sat back and thought to myself: 'How can athletes do this?' How can anyone deal with such trying and emotional moments off the field and perform to their highest capabilities in a game?


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Follow in their footsteps

Rivalries make the sports world go 'round. Entire sports leagues thrive off the high-octane matchups of their biggest rivalries: Red Sox-Yankees, Canadiens-Bruins, Lakers-Celtics and Packers-Bears. When these teams get together, the intensity is unrivaled and the competition is cutthroat. But there is a different kind of rivalry that doesn't always get the national attention the other games do.


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Where's the sun?

I am not a winter girl. Because I was born and raised in Buffalo, people assume I'm a total winter-lover. But this is certainly not the case.


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MAC attack: time for UB to look elsewhere

The Mid-American Conference is not a good place to be, especially for Buffalo. Saturday night's men's basketball game against Western Michigan was the most recent reminder of that. The officials in Saturday's game were whistle happy all night.


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Cindereality

Say Yes to the Dress, Four Weddings and David Tutera's My Fair Wedding all have one thing in common: fairytale weddings.


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Sexy gifts to buy your boo

Just in case you haven't noticed from Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"blasting in every single store you walk into or all of the Christmas lights decking the halls - it's the holiday season.


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How To: avoid getting sick

It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it. The common cold. Around this time of year students start to get sick with the common cold, the flu and everything in between. You don't have to let it take you as well.


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How To: avoid getting sick

It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it. The common cold. Around this time of year students start to get sick with the common cold, the flu and everything in between. You don't have to let it take you as well.


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Sikander Khan Leaves Everlasting Black Eye on Student Association

I am the editor in chief of The Spectrum, but I am also a student at UB and for the past three weeks I've had a front row seat for one of the biggest scandals in Student Association history. The scariest part is that nobody in my office was surprised when SA Treasurer Sikander Khan wanted to fork over $300,000 of student money for a mobile application produced by a company that had no record or any discernable employees.


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