Super Bowl XXXIX is upon us, and the arguments have been going on for weeks. We here at the Spectrum would like to offer the best arguments by a few fabulous football fans as to who's going to take the cake or the trophy or Janet Jackson's top this year.
"The Wedding Date," directed by Clare Kilner ("How to Deal"), opens this Friday. The film is strategically marketed as a desirable Valentine's Day date flick, though at times it's as predictable as Grandma's Thanksgiving stuffing, fulfilling the obligations of a modern romantic comedy.Kat Ellis, played by Debra Messing of "Will & Grace," is a single young woman living in New York who hires a male escort to accompany her to her sister's wedding and pose as her doting boyfriend.When the ordered escort, played by Dermot Mulroney ("About Schmidt"), surprisingly turns out to be gorgeous, the viewer gets an idea of where the film is heading.
It might not be obvious by the way he plays, but Calvin Cage is actually quite small. In fact he only stands 5 feet 11 inches, and weighs 160 pounds.But looks can be deceiving.Cage is a sparkplug off the bench for the University at Buffalo men's basketball team, and what he lacks in height, he accounts for in talent and determination.When asked to describe his game in one word, Cage chooses the word "fearless."Fearless is a very appropriate term, judging by the way Cage is willing to take the clutch 3-pointer, to the way he drives into the paint, risking a hit from a powerful center, to the way he aggressively goes after the steal on defense.While attending Bladensburg High School in Maryland, Cage got a chance to befriend Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony, who was attending high school in Maryland at the same time."I actually know Carmelo pretty well.
Every February Black History Month comes along and some people take the time to learn more about the history of the people of African descent.
After hosting Ohio in Alumni Arena Wednesday night and being served with a loss, the Buffalo men's basketball team looks to deliver a loss to the RedHawks on Saturday night at Miami of Ohio.UB (13-6 overall, 6-5 Mid-American Conference) will be the 10th team to enter Miami's Millett Hall this season to face the RedHawks (12-5, 7-2). No opponent, however, has been able to leave with a win.
It's been almost a month since the last group of UB students to live in the Super 8 Motel moved back to the dorms, and many of them are still adjusting to the change.While many of the students are happy with their new accommodations, a good number of them miss their "home away from home" in the Super 8, and said they built an incredibly tight-knit community in the short time they lived there."We were all in the same boat over there, hating what was happening, but it turned out to be such a good thing.
All this week I've watched my black eye morph and swell in Technicolor. It didn't bruise right away after the chair hit me in the face, but in a day my whole eyelid had turned a deep and ugly purple.
With the Bulls down by two with seconds left, Turner Battle grabbed a defensive rebound and sprinted up court.
Main Street's popular Coffee Bean Caf?
The Student Union lobby was rockin' with the soothing sounds of UB40's "Red, Red Wine" on Wednesday afternoon at the first annual beach volleyball event sponsored by the Student Programming Board.Participants and bystanders enjoyed free food, two tons of sand, and a chance to lose themselves in a summer atmosphere not often seen this time of year in Western New York."We've had lots of people come down between classes and grab something to eat for lunch," said Rachel Lerner, a graduate student affairs administration major, who helped organize the event.
Picnicking with a stuffed woodchuck garbed in UB colors and a pointed hat isn't the way most people usually celebrate Groundhog Day, if at all.
Everyone I talk to on campus seems to have an extremely bleak outlook on the future. People claim that consumerism, mind-numbing entertainment, and decisions of the man upstairs (Bush, not God) are sending us straight to hell in a hand basket.
Football fans all over the nation are making beer runs and stocking up on Tostitos and dip in preparation for Super Bowl Sunday.Whether they are interested in the commercials and halftime shows, anticipating wardrobe malfunctions, or genuinely excited about the game, millions of people will be watching when the Eagles play the Patriots this Sunday."It's a culmination of the entire season down to one game," said Brett Shear, a senior business major.
Honors for KoeppelJenny Koeppel is at it again. The women's track and field star is picking up right where she left off last semester, earning Mid-American Conference athlete of the week honors for her performance at Penn State last week.Koeppel earned that award four times last semester as she won four races.
Retirement will be staring a current UB senior in the face in 2042, when President Bush predicts Social Security will run out of money.
With the catastrophic damage from the tsunami in Southeast Asia still fresh in the public's mind, new measures for minimizing the damage from natural or man-made disasters are being researched at UB.The research team, which includes faculty and students from UB, the University of Virginia, the University of Arkansas and outside consultants, has been working on the project using information fusion.Information fusion involves taking a number of pieces of data and combining them into a clear picture of the situation, said Peter Scott, associate professor of computer science and principal investigator.
Rediscovering old family photos can be like a warp in time, taking you to the completely altered, and sometimes disturbing, mindset of the photographer, revealing what they believed was important at the time.Such is the case with the new art exhibit by Valerie Pawlowski, who is working toward her master's degree in media communications at UB.Her latest gallery showcases reproductions of old negatives her father captured in the Vietnam era.
Last week I started my column by proclaiming that I would probably never have the opportunity, or the patience, to write a multi-part column.
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