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.
From the human traffic jam of Putnam's to the snaking procession at the University Bookstore, UB students are no strangers to long lines.However, administrators are developing plans to relieve one of the UB's most infamous delays -- the wait for printouts from public site printers -- within the next year.To limit the amount of pages a student could print for free, UB officials may begin to monitor each student's usage.
Cold beer, steamy hot dogs and the heated voice of 24-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, known for her hit "Sweet Ones," closed out another season of Buffalo's "Thursday at the Square" this past week.Clouds and gusty winds were the only uninvited guest at the event as one of two opening bands took the stage at rush hour.
President George W. Bush had all summer to address the nation on the out-of-control situation in Iraq.
Friday's Fallfest may have gotten a little more illmatic.That's because due to a scheduling conflict, Busta Rhymes will not be performing at the annual concert.
In recent years, entertainment at UB Bulls games have included appearances by Dustin Diamond, who played "Screech" in "Saved by the Bell," professional skater Tony Hawk, and the Village People.
Saturday marked the start of Kino Polski V, a series of contemporary Polish film and video screenings presented by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center through Oct.
IOWA CITY, IA - No one gave the Bulls (0-2) much of a chance heading into Saturday afternoon's game against the 23rd ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (2-0). And no one was rougher on UB than the press in Iowa.
Although several of the group's flyers were consistently taken down, members of the Pagan SA held its first meeting Wednesday to lay out plans for the future.Seven students and a local community member discussed events such as workshops on herbology and runes, which are prophecy stones inscribed with Nordic letters.Members researched the dates of this year's various pagan holidays and the next full moon and began planning the second annual psychic fair.The group hit bulletin boards around campus with a series of fliers early in the semester, but the posters began to disappear almost immediately.According to Christie Syphrit, president of Pagan SA and junior computer science major, it is not the first time their flyers have been removed.
In an attempt to play off of God himself, ESPN.com Page 2's Bill Simmons, I recorded my own little diary of the events that took place this past weekend on the UB football trip to Iowa with my cohort, John Norman.Friday, 12 noon - The whole bunch of us, players, coaches, fans, cheerleaders, administration, trainers, and yes, even us lowly Spectrum editors too, get ready to hop aboard a plane bound for Iowa.
During the first weeks of the semester, walking through the Student Union can be an adventure, with tables everywhere, promoting various groups and organizations.Of the students who gravitate towards the information booths about sororities and fraternities, some see becoming a member of a Greek organization as an opportunity to form lasting friendships, while others don't think being a Greek is worth the effort.
Despite agreeing with the majority of Jamie Lynn Perna's opinion piece "Needless Classroom Policy 101" in the Sept.
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