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Witherspoon extended through 2012The bulls basketball head coach Reggie Witherspoon has received a three-year contract extension from Director of Athletics Ward Manuel.


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Volleyball splits weekend opening games

It was a bittersweet weekend for the Bulls' volleyball team. Buffalo opened up the 2006 season with losses against Charlotte and Davidson on Saturday, and won the next day against the North Carolina A&T Aggies, and the High Point Panthers.Buffalo lost both of its Saturday matches three sets to zero and lost its first match to Charlotte 30-24, 30-27 and 30-27.


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Coming home for a shutout

In a weekend filled with rivalry, the Buffalo women's soccer team managed to bounce back from a season opening road loss to the Niagara Purple Eagles, coming up with a shutout on Sunday over southern rival St.


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Schedule

FootballThursday: vs. Temple, 7 p.m.


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A little ray of hope

Smuggling a corpse across state lines really shows just how far the Hoover family will go to make it to an out-of-state beauty pageant.


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Scoreboard

M. SoccerFriday:Buffalo2Pittsburgh 1W. SoccerFriday:Niagara 3Buffalo1VolleyballThursday:Charlotte 3Buffalo0Friday:Davidson3Buffalo0M.


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Deli owner killed in Univ. Heights

A clerk at University Grocery & Deli at the corner of Englewood Avenue and Eley Place was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon according to officials at the Buffalo Police Department.Two black men with a sawed-off shotgun entered the store around 3 p.m.


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"New facility, new hope"

With an eye towards both the future and the present, the University at Buffalo Athletic Department announced plans earlier this summer for a new training center adjacent to UB Stadium.


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The new face of the law

The candidate picked as the next UB Chief of Police, one of over 75 qualified applicants reviewed by a board including university officials, student leaders and community representatives, is hitting the ground running.It's a good thing he already knows his way around.Gerard Schoenle, a born-and-raised Buffalonian, was recently chosen to replace former chief John Grela, who is retiring after 33 years of working for the university - 15 of those years as the leader of the on-campus police force.Schoenle's r?


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Dalai Lama tickets won't be in short supply

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama makes his anticipated visit to UB this fall, university officials will do their best to make sure every student will have a chance to hear him speak at what will be the first installment of next year's Distinguished Speakers Series.The exiled Tibetan leader's lecture, "Promoting Peace Across Borders Through Education," will be held at the UB Stadium as the highlight of his three-day visit in September.



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