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Volleyball is confident for tough road ahead
With the second round of the University Athletic Association round-robin coming up, the women’s volleyball team will go in with some swagger. The Yellowjackets completed a perfect weekend sweep by not losing a single game in the team’s two matches. “The team was happy to get the wins on Saturday, especially to win both matches […]
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Men impress over Liberty League play
With five All-League individual honor ranking, one League Rookie of the Year award and even the League’s Player of the Year award, the golf team should have by all accounts been satisfied at the conclusion of this past weekend’s Liberty League golf championship. Read More
Athlete of the Week
Athlete of the Week
It is clear that being a freshman does not faze UR rookie golfer Nick Palladino one bit. At the Liberty League Championships this past Saturday and Sunday, Palladino helped lead UR to a No. 2 finish as he shot a combined six-under 138 throughout the two day competition. Palladino’s performence won him the individual championship […]
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A summer’s worth of sports stories
I’m not telling tales out of school when I say that football gives America a collective boner. Frankly, after watching “Hard Knocks” this summer, I’m surprised half of the New York Jets defense hasn’t gotten into a police shoot-out already. Brett Favre’s nephew plays quarterback for Mississppi State. Poetically, he is described as a “battler” […]
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Week shows tough stretch for women
Down 2-0 at halftime against Union College, the scoreboard was no indication of the hard work and spirit of the women’s field hockey team. And it certainly couldn’t predict what would happen next. UR dominated the second half, scoring two goals to tie up the game. Sophomore forward Shelby Hall shot from the top of […]
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Women’s tennis excels in tourney
In the year’s first test, senior captain Lia Weiner and sophomore Frances Tseng shined for the women’s tennis team. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships put the women against 64 other individual players and 32 double teams from all across the Northeast region in a bracket-style tournament. Tseng and Weiner — who were seeded No. […]
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Football plays for good cause
For the sixth time,the Courage Bowl rivalry between UR and St. John Fisher College played out on the football field — or in this year’s case, the soccer field. Read More
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Volleyball prepares for tough road
When the Volleyball team is on, they’re on. Like a well-oiled machine, single-minded and efficient, each and every player devotes all of her focus and abilities to the simple goal of taking home the victory. And when the machine is at work, it’s easy to tell that it’s running smoothly. Freshman setter Jackie Fluegel lofts […]
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From the Pressbox
In June, a four-year long National Collegiate Athletic Association investigation found that Reggie Bush, a running back for the University of Southern California received improper benefits as a student athlete. Last week, this led Bush to surrender college football’s highest individual honor, the Heisman Trophy, which he received in 2005. This is all because two […]
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Seasoned coach joins lacrosse
Sue Behme has always been a “warm weather person” and for the past two and half years, she has been enjoying life under the central-California sun. But starting in mid-October, that California sunlight won’t be a part of her everyday life anymore as Behme will be coming to the brisk cold of upstate New York […]