Welcome to "The Sharpest Point," the newest weekly feature here at Spectrum Sports. Each week, the sports editors (Jim Byrne, Corey Griswold, John Norman and Darren Riethmiller) will be posed with a question dealing with sports.
In between frantic pockets of time in which Spectrum staff rush to get articles edited and new stories assigned, truly desperate conversations take form in the offices at 132 Student Union.
The UB Women's Soccer team continued their winning ways over the weekend going 2-0 at the UTEP Invitational in El Paso, Texas.Emily Russell was the star of the weekend, having a career week and scoring five of the Bulls' six goals in the two-game sweep.
For the last dozen years, the Buffalo community has come together to raise money and awareness for anti-rape safety and remember the tragic death of Linda Yalem, the UB student raped and murdered while jogging on the Ellicott bike path.
A member of the UB community has replaced a lamp taken from the memorial of a fallen UB athlete, which was stolen Labor Day weekend.
Concerning printer gridlock, I believe there are other solutions that could be explored.First, have the computers set so that each terminal can only send two jobs to the printers at a time.
The Visual Studies Speakers series kicked off on Monday evening with the 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner Deborah Willis.Willis' lecture is part of the weekly, one-credit speaker series hosted by the Departments of Media Study and Art.
The last year has been an incredible one for The Spectrum - and I'm not talking about how awesome I think the paper is becoming.
So the Bills whacked the Patriots 31-0 on Sunday, and the Red Sox failed to sweep the Yankees and are only one game up on the Mariners for the Wild Card.
A UB law student will receive a distinguished award this weekend for her extensive community service.
The Student Association has withdrawn $5,000 in funding for the Linda Yalem Safety Run, drawing harsh criticism from the UB administration.Every September, the Division of Student Affairs holds the race in memory of Linda Yalem, a UB student who was raped and murdered while jogging on the Ellicott bike path in September 1990.According to a prepared statement from SA, the only response the organization would provide, last year's SA Senate decided not to fund the 2003 race due to an alleged lack of support from the Yalem family.
With the regular season winding down, it's time to check in on Major League Baseball and see who is going to be left standing come October.American LeagueNew York Yankees - Even with all the changes made they still have one major weakness, the bullpen.
Let it never be said that poppy bands don't take chances.Armed with their first release on Victory Records, "Remember Right Now," the Chicago-based four-piece Spitalfield is pulling out all the stops.
The sophomore curse is a real concern for artists these days. A standout debut performance cannot only make a household name out of a mere hometown notable; it can break a career even before it's made.
By the beginning of the third week of the semester, most students have had their fill of things associated with the early semester grind: getting familiar with classes, getting forced into closed classes, taking advantage of the drop/add period for those classes that turn out to be mistakes and the most annoying of all - the immeasurable lines at the bookstore.Students gather at the UB Bookstore to scrounge for textbooks and then wait hours on end to check out.
FreyaThe Syracuse-based straight-edge hardcore band Earth Crisis formed in 1991 and in 10 years became the best-selling band on the biggest hardcore label in the business, Victory Records.
For all the lip service given from the University at Buffalo about being connected and committed to fostering the growth of the city of Buffalo, it is Canisius College that is putting money where its mouth is.
UB scored twice as many goals on Friday as it had all season, and with that, the Bulls beat the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils 2-1 for their first win of the year in Buffalo's host tournament, the Fall Classic at RAC Field.Making his first collegiate start ever, UB goalie Daniel Bell made sure that it was a memorable one.
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