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Super Bowl Super Spunktacular
Super Bowl time is a special time of year. For me it ranks right up there, just behind Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday, all 52 new comic Wednesdays, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day,...
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UMBC clobbers Bearcats by 26
This wasn’t part of the plan. The Binghamton University women’s basketball team suffered its worst loss of the season at UMBC Wednesday, losing to the Retrievers 63-37. UMBC rode a 32-3 run,...
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Nachos: y tu, Ben Roethlisberger?
You’ve got to have nachos on Super Bowl Sunday, and who knows more about football than women? Well, men, but that’s not important. Women make good food, and so I went on...
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Playback Theater: not just fun and games
HDEV 463 is not your garden-variety Human Development course. For one thing, the course has an enrollment cap of 12 students. For another, those 12 students are graded on how well they...
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Super Bowl XL position-by-position breakdown
Quarterback If Ben Roethlisberger throws one more lob up for grabs, look for him to be yanked for Tommy Maddox. OK, so Big Ben doesn’t have the arm of Peyton Manning yet,...
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Why you should be in front of your TV on Sunday
Jeremy Stevens and Joey Porter taking shots at each other can’t possibly be this exciting. For a Super Bowl being billed as XL, the pregame hype has proven to be more XS...
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Weird news!
Announcement Sherlock Holmes society seeks members The DR. WATSON’S HOLMESTEAD was formed in 1991 by a group of area residents interested in the study and analysis of the Sherlock Holmes stories as...
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Senior Photos: Do it your own way
Let’s all look back on our time in high school. Imagine it’s the last days of May. You can finally go to the beach or whatever hot-weather locale the attractive kids frequent....
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Trying to fill Simms shoes
Historically, great blunders in judgment have been committed by New Yorkers. We are a stubborn, strong-headed people. We are also extraordinarily intelligent people. We either ignore our mistakes or intellectualize our way...
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The real geography of New York
I’ve become excessively tired of being called a hick from upstate, and I intend to set the record straight with a small geography lesson. If we look at a map of New...