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Home runs unable to power Bulls

Through wind, rain, sleet or snow, this game was being played.After moving the start time up one hour Wednesday afternoon to avoid any chance of snow, the Buffalo baseball team took advantage of the windy conditions, but was unable to take down rival the Canisius Golden Griffins.


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Bearded Buffalo

Try as I might, my facial hair grows in patchy. My genetic coding has forever forbidden me from sporting a goatee, a soul patch or even an awesome pair of muttonchops.


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Scoreboard

BaseballFriday: vs. Toledo, 3 PMW. TennisFriday: vs. Akron, 1 PMSoftballFriday: vs. Eastern Michigan, 1 PMSaturday: at Central Michigan, 2 PMBaseballSaturday: at Toledo, 1 PMTrack & FieldSaturday: vs.


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Spectrum Book Club

"This novel is fiction: Except for the parts that aren't." -Author Michael Crichton on his book, "Next" Book: Next, by Michael CrichtonThemes: the future and deception Background: Michael Crichton, the creator of the television series "ER," as well as the author of new-age classics including "Jurassic Park," was born in Chicago Illinois in 1942.


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Short N Sweet

Dwarfism and Islamic fundamentalism - to the novice ear these things may sound like unrelated issues, but students staying alert on campus know that such topics are the themes of this year's Diversity Film Series.


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Winless in Ohio

For the softball team, March came in like a lion and went out like a...lion.After losing its first eight games of the month, the Bulls finished up March in similar fashion as they dropped their last seven games.


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The Spectrum Challenge: Week Four

The final week of The Spectrum Challenge has finally arrived. Now it is up to the competitors to let the habits they have developed over the past four weeks become lifelong changes in their every day lives.Although Joyce Wang only lost one pound, she began frequenting the gym at Governors regularly and has addressed her tendency to overeat at each meal.


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In George We Trust?

Here we are, folks, halfway through the second four years of the second Bush administration. In the past six years we've seen Republicans and Democrats alike back "speculative facts" in the form of WMDs, a near-perfect smear campaign against the very "smear-able" John Kerry (props Karl Rove), an economic scandal involving Cheney's Halliburton, questionable democracy within the Patriot Act and events down in Guantanamo and, oh yeah - the war is still going on.


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Working your way around the gym

Jill Esposito, the aerobics and program director with the Buffalo Athletic Club on Niagara Falls Boulevard, knows first hand how difficult it is to stay in shape while going to school full time.As an undergraduate studying exercise science at UB, she can remember rollerblading with friends along the bike path during the spring and summer, but the winter months were always the most difficult between classes, work and assignments.


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Envisioning a wireless world

In the future, wireless technology will work seamlessly and in the background, according to Mark Shepard, assistant professor of architecture and media study at UB.Shepard presented the last installment of the Cutting Edge Lecture Series, entitled "Media, Architecture and Computing in a Wireless World," held Saturday in the Center for the Arts.


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Bulls win one in extra innings

You can only have your heart broken so many times. Unable to pull out close games all season, the Buffalo baseball team knew it was only a matter of time before a close one went their way.


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Sidelines

Schneider named MAC East Player of the WeekJunior infielder Lacy Schneider of the women's softball team garnered the Mid-American Conference East division player of the week honors.


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