I didn't like it here at first. In fact, I tried to leave. Before I even finished a semester at UB, I applied to transfer to the Coast Guard Academy. I remember walking around campus thinking, This is the hardest thing I have ever done. I don't know if I was homesick or depressed, but I certainly wasn't happy.
Though UB Athletics claimed two Mid-American Conference East titles and made a bowl game in 2013-14, perhaps its greatest victory came in the realm of fundraising. April 19, prior to the football team's annual spring game, UB alum and donor Tunney Murchie put an exclamation point on the year, surprising the program by donating $3 million - the biggest donation in school history - toward improvements to the football headquarters at the south end of the West Grandstand of UB Stadium.
Your coach thinks there is something wrong with you. All the girls on your softball team have to run a mile and a half in 12 minutes to fully participate in practice, but you can't.
Brittney Kuras needed to be two tenths of a second faster. She swam in the preliminaries of the 100-yard freestyle at the 2014 Mid-American Conference Championships and finished with a time of 48.9.
When Stacey Evans (2002-05) began her career on the softball team in 2002, the Bulls didn't have much to celebrate. In their first two seasons as a Division I program, the Bulls went 19-78.
Replacing one first-team All-Mid-American Conference player is hard. Replacing two is nearly impossible.
There are two sides to the argument that student-athletes should be paid: those who think an education is enough, and those who think it isn't. The truth is that the argument is much more complex than that, which is why the Northwestern football players' efforts to be unionized are so important. Since the NCAA's inception in 1910, it has been an organization ensuring college athletes are amateurs.
Following a blowout loss last weekend at No. 4 Michigan State, the men's lacrosse team doesn't get much of a respite. The Bulls (4-2) open conference play this weekend, hosting No.
At the men's basketball practice Tuesday afternoon, head coach Bobby Hurley stood silently at center court and watched as ball after ball brushed through the net. It's an appropriate metaphor for Hurley's work with the Bulls this season.
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