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WrestlingFriday: vs. New York State Collegiate Championships, , All DayM. SwimmingFriday: vs. Miami(Ohio), 1 PMTrack & FieldSaturday: at Cornell Upstate Challenge, All DayW.


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Five necessities to enhance any wardrobe

For those who panic every Saturday night in the search for the perfect outfit, consider this a rescue mission.With the addition of a few simple and inexpensive staple items, throwing everything you own onto the floor in a frantic search for something to wear, or stealing an outfit from your roommate, will no longer be an issue.Simply adding a few essentials to every closet can help the busy student take their minds off of what to wear and concentrate on looking fabulous.


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Budd and Bennett named Athletes of the WeekSenior 133 pound wrestler Mark Budd and junior guard Stephanie Bennett of the women's basketball team were named Athletes of the Week.


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Don't be quick to judge investigators

Accused bike path rapist Altemio C. Sanchez was arrested thanks in part to a critical confession obtained by police from Sanchez's uncle, Wilfredo Sanchez Caraballo, nearly a quarter-century after Caraballo initially lied to investigators.Caraballo entered the equation when the rapist's first victim claimed she had spotted her attacker getting into a white van at the Boulevard Mall in 1981.


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Are you ready for some foot...ball?

We have all seen it, most of us have even played it, and the game is hugely popular everywhere. Everywhere except the United States.If you haven't guessed it yet, I'm talking about soccer.


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"'Centuries' ahead of its time, years too late"

It's always unfortunate when a band plays the right thing at the wrong point in time.Portland, Oregon's alterna-rock trio, Stars of Track and Field, fashion a stylistic endeavor with their third outing, "Centuries before Love and War," but get washed out in a veritable sea of indie attempters.


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Scoreboard

W. BasketballWednesday:Kent State72Buffalo69M. BasketballThursday:Ohio67Buffalo51


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El Ni?Oo puts Buffalo on thin ice

Due to the erratic weather this season, some might consider swapping the old expression "when hell freezes over" for "when Lake Erie freezes over."The current winter may be a mild one, but warm temperatures and infrequent snowfall also indicate a strong El Ni?


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Bloodless axes

Somewhere around 20 Christmases ago, pimply-faced teens were asking their parents for amps and axes.


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Same old feeling: Bulls lose to Ohio again

Late in the first half it looked as if the Bulls would get their first ever win at Ohio University's Convocation Center, as the men's basketball team was up nine with just over three minutes left in the first half.


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Bulls' opening meet shows strength

Running outside is overrated.Just ask the men's and women's indoor track team, who took home six first-place finishes in their season-opening meet, the Doug Raymond Invitational, at Kent State University last weekend.


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Bike Path Rapist suspect arrested

The 26-year hunt for the person responsible for the assaults and slaying of several women on local bike paths - including attacks on UB community members Linda Yalem and Joan Diver - led to the arrest of the man who police say is the "Bike Path Rapist" on Monday.According to The Buffalo News, 48-year-old Cheektowaga native Altemio Sanchez was taken into custody Monday after DNA taken from silverware in an Amherst restaurant was linked to three murders and at least seven sexual assaults in Erie County over the past 20 years, including the rape and murder of UB student Linda Yalem in 1990 and Joan Diver, wife of a UB professor and mother of four, this past October.Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis Black said that Sanchez even went as far as to participate in the Linda Yalem Run, which commemorates the death of the former student, 10 years ago."(Monday) night there was a media report that he ran in the race," Black said.


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Still only wading

Switchfoot must have spent more time riding killer waves and less time hashing out new jams over the last two years, and it shows.Released Dec.



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