UB’s men’s tennis team (12-5, 7-0 Mid-American Conference) capped off a perfect MAC season with a 4-3 win over the Northern Illinois Huskies (13-11, 25 MAC) Sunday afternoon.
If “Baby” Joe Mesi’s career has shown anything, it was that a kid from Buffalo could become a legend. He had an unblemished record of 36-0 and the city of Buffalo behind him when his career stopped short. Mesi refused to be defeated and adopted a fighter mentality.
Junior setter Madison Clark has decided to transfer out of the UB women’s volleyball program. She has signed a grant in aid agreement with East Carolina University. Clark will compete for the starting setter position right away, according to East Carolina head coach Julie Torbett.
John Kling, a former UB offensive linemen, will get a second chance at making his NFL dream come true as the Washington Redskins announced they were signing him to a free agent contract.
Bulls tennis aims for second NCAA tournament appearance in three years with the help of two newcomers, freshman Villhelm Fridell and junior Petr Vodak.
Amy Shaw was set to leave subtropical New Zealand for snowy Buffalo for a chance to run with the Bulls after just two calls with the head coach. For the senior studio art major, this was the first step of many to leaving her legacy on UB’s track.
Joe Licata spent four years as a face of UB football – he is the program’s all-time leader in passing yards and touchdowns. Licata has now decided to use his experience to develop the next generation of Western New York football players by creating “Joe Licata Football.”
Saturday night, the UFC made its return to Buffalo for the first time since 1995. UFC 210 took place at the KeyBank Center in downtown Buffalo. The event drew a crowd of 17,110 and a gate of $2 million, the largest in the history of the KeyBank Center, according to UFC president Dana White.
Before Desmond “The Predator” Green threw a punch at UFC 210, the crowd already loved him. When Green scored a takedown, the crowd burst into cheers. And when Green got his hand raised at the end of the fight, the crowd erupted.
For many MMA fans, Jon “Bones” Jones is still the center of attention. UFC 210 will be main evented by Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson’s fight for the light heavyweight title, but that title was Jones’ one year ago, and he was never beaten for it.
When the No. 5 ranked middleweight Gegard Mousasi (41-6-2) arrived at the UFC 210 open workouts, he was greeted to a not so familiar sound: the cheers of UFC fans. Mousasi is usually met with a lukewarm reception, but coming off a fantastic year, things have changed.
After the long layoff and battle to legalize the sport in New York State, the UFC is set to make its return this Saturday, April 8 at the Keybank Center with two huge fights headlining the card. The Spectrum sat down for exclusive interviews with the fighters at Media Day Wednesday at the KeyBank Center.
Four UB Athletics teams walked into a meeting Monday morning silent and confused.
UB Athletics has announced through a press release that they will be cutting four sports programs beginning in the fall of 2017. Men’s soccer, baseball, men’s swimming and diving and women’s rowing will all be cut after the spring semester.
Last season, the Buffalo Bulls entered the season without a bona fide No. 1 receiver, hoping that someone would step up and fill the void but no one did. This season, the Bulls know they need all of their receivers to step up.
Kirsch, a senior hockey player and biomedical science major has type-1 diabetes. However, Kirsch does not let this disease stop him from doing what he loves, which is to play hockey.
Baseball (8-16, 1-2 Mid-American Conference) The Bulls played the Kent State Golden Flashes (17-8, 5-1 MAC) in a three-game road series, going 1-2 over the weekend. The first game was on Saturday, where the Bulls lost 9-1.
The Oakland Raiders aren’t the only team who made the move to Las Vegas in 2017. The men’s club rugby team took their annual trip to Las Vegas to play in the Las Vegas 7’s Invitational a few weeks ago in what club president Jake Oppenheim called, “one of the greatest experiences of [his] life.”
Men’s and women’s basketball fall short in Mid-American Conference tournament, Men’s ice hockey wins second straight championship.
McMurtree has recently taken over as head coach of UB’s boxing club. She is a product of the club and was trained by the original founder, Dean Eoannou. She became the club’s first National Golden Glove champion under the direction of Eoannou.
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