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The Sharpest Point Super Bowl

This is it. The culmination of a season-long war between the sports editors at the Spectrum comes to head in today's final installment of The Sharpest Point for the fall semester.This is ... The Greiner Cup.John Norman and Jim Byrne play for the rights to hoist the Greiner Cup into the air, victorious after a grueling season of typing and stuff.


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The Sharpest Point: 11.12.03

John Norman bounced Corey Griswold from the first playoff match up last week, and now it comes down to Jim Byrne and Darren Riethmiller as they vie for the other slot in next week's Sharpest Point super bowl.This week's judge panel is made up of WKBW-TV Sports Director John Murphy and WKBW-TV Sports Anchor Jeff Russo.


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The Sharpest Point: Playoff Time

It's playoff time at The Sharpest Point, and in this week's first round matchup we have Corey Griswold going head to head with John Norman.Norman and Griswold will once again have to answer the featured question, but judging their arguments will be a three-person panel (third judge if necessary) made up of sports editors from other Mid-American Conference school newspapers.Best of three wins this playoff game and will in turn advance to the finals to face the winner of Jim Byrne and Darren Riethmiller.Let the games begin.This Week's Question: Who is the most obnoxious personality in the pro sport world?John Norman: A few weeks ago the most obnoxious man in sports, Warren Sapp, said that the NFL was making him, and other players into "slaves" to make money for themselves, the "slave masters." Sapp then tried to clear up the previous comments by telling ESPN, "I said 'slave masters.' I didn't say I was a slave.


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Sharpest Point

[Vote for the Sharpest Point]With Special Guest Judge, GoErie.com sports columnist and Marketing Manager Jeff BiletnikoffWe are halfway through the season at The Sharpest Point, and the sports editors seem to be getting into midseason form as the playoffs loom.Darren Riethmiller was able to get off the mat last week by stealing both the judge's and fan's vote (you can vote for who you thought made "the sharpest point" in this article at spectrum.buffalo.edu). It's up to Jim Byrne and John Norman to regain their dominance and stifle the upstart Riethmiller now.


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The Sharpest Point

[Vote for the Sharpest Point]Jim Byrne and John Norman have been in a two-man race for the entire season thus far in "The Sharpest Point," so now we must see if Darren Riethmiller or Corey Griswold can muster anything to get off the schnide.Last week, Norman once again took the judge's vote, while Byrne maintained his monopoly on the fan vote narrowly, taking home his fourth straight decision from the people by two votes over Norman.Is Byrne "the people's champion?" If you want to derail his train, head to "The Sharpest Point" article on spectrum.buffalo.edu and vote.This Week's Question: Who is the most overrated athlete/team/coach in sports?Jim Byrne (5): Overrated things - one of my favorite subjects.


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The Sharpest Point

[Vote for the Sharpest Point]The season goes on for the Spectrum Sports Editors in The Sharpest Point, as Jim Byrne took home the fan vote last week in a landslide, while John Norman secured the judge's vote once again.


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