Coming in to Friday night's meet against their Mid-American Conference rival the Kent State Golden Flashes, the Buffalo wrestling team was hoping to break a four game losing-streak.The Bulls' match against the Golden Flashes marked Buffalo's last home meet of the season, and the seniors were recognized before the meet.
Everyone likes to score. Offense is just more fun to play than defense. Buffalo and Central Michigan couldn't agree more.
When Gerard Schoenle took the reigns as UB's Chief of Police last July, he brought with him a few ideas on how to improve the University Police Department.
After a one game break from the monotony of losing, the Bulls found themselves back on the wrong end of the score against Bowling Green on Wednesday night.After a win at home over Northern Illinois in which senior forward Yassin Idbihi scored a career-high 26 points, Buffalo was unable to sustain a consistent effort offensively and defensively over 40 minutes in a 79-73 loss to Ball State.The Bulls (10-13, 2-8 Mid-American Conference) turned the ball over 20 times and committed 28 fouls in a game which saw Ball State (8-15, 4-6 MAC) rip off runs of 21-4 and 20-5.
Anna Nicole Smith, a postmodern pinup for a tabloid age, died of unknown causes Thursday in a Florida hotel room, her sudden death at 39 delivering the same shock and uproar as the celebrity life she cultivated from the hardscrabble dust of small-town Texas.Smith was in her sixth-floor room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., when her private nurse called the operator for help, according to Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger, who said a bodyguard attempted CPR but could not revive her.The former Playboy Playmate of the Year was rushed to a hospital, where she died at 2:49 p.m., sparking breathless live news coverage from the Indian reservation.
The aroma of white zinfandel permeated the halls of UB's Center for the Arts on Tuesday night, announcing the arrival of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," an opera buffa (comic opera) performed by the Bulgarian State Opera.
Hillary Clinton is a woman and riding the coattails of her husband's last name. George W. Bush looks like a monkey and is horrible at public speaking.
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You don't have to be Jodie Foster in "Contact" to prepare yourself for space travel.The UB Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, a group currently in its infantile stages, is looking to change UB's face in international space exploration, impacting the world of space development.
UB is branching out on environmental advocacy efforts and turning green early this spring with the kick-off of "A Greener Shade of Blue." The title plays on UB's school color, but according to Michael Ryan, dean of undergraduate studies, the intention behind the campaign runs deeper than surface shades.
The heartthrobs of country showed the audience what unmarred talent was all about Wednesday night at the Center for the Arts.
Whenever a big name rock band returns home to play a show, there is an undeniable electricity surging through the crowd.
The UB School of Management Alumni Association has recently elected a number of new members to its board.
For his latest stint, "Norbit," Eddie Murphy gains 500 hundred pounds, ages into an old Chinese man and develops a speech impediment, all in less than two hours.
Athleticism and passion were the two words head coach Turner Gill used to characterize the addition of 20 players to the football team on Wednesday.
The Graduate Student Association Senate decided by two-thirds vote to remove the remaining two-thirds of the GSA's executive board in a meeting this past Wednesday, in addition to electing Catalina Crespo as president for the rest of the semester.Adhering to the suggestions of an inquiry committee formed in light of a controversy over "misappropriated funds," the Senate voted to both impeach and remove Vice President Jillian Flood and Treasurer Sakeet Varma.Former President Aubrey Balcom resigned in a December senate meeting where he faced impeachment and removal from office for overspending on a Seattle conference trip he had taken with Vice President Jillian Flood."I will not slink away like a coward and resign," Flood replied in tears to senators who asked why she ignored an opportunity to resign before the impeachment and removal proceedings took place - despite admitting wrongdoing during and following the incident."If it outweighs the good and the hard work I've done for this office," Flood said, "then I don't want to take that away from you guys."Balcom requested $2,177.78 as reimbursement for restaurant, hotel and rental car charges, in addition to other expenses that he and Flood had incurred on a trip with an approved budget of only $500.
For Buffalo, it has become a tradition.A new business wants to set up shop or an existing one would like to expand.Cue the protesters, preservationists, politicians, and lawyers.Why does it seem that nearly every time an economic opportunity knocks at Buffalo's door, people come out of the woodwork to put up a fight?It's time to abandon this preposterous practice.When the Seneca Nation of Indians began to demolish the grain silos to make way for the Buffalo Creek Casino, hundreds of preservationists cried foul."Save the grain elevators," they shouted.
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