Jay Sanin

After a thrilling run through the first two rounds of the America East basketball championships, UAlbany is faced with the daunting task of heading north to Patrick Gym in Burlington to take on the second seeded Vermont Catamounts on Saturday.

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Mitch Buonaguro was supposed to help bring the Siena Saints back to the NCAA Tournament and reach the heights it hit under former head coach Fran McCaffery. Those dreams are officially dead, as he has been fired from his position as the Saints head coach.

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This weekend, the University at Albany played host to one of the first great moments of this year's NCAA basketball conference championship week when Albany's Mike Black hit a game winning layup to upset the America East's top seeded Stony Brook Seawolves. The Great Danes advanced to Saturday's championship game, the fans stormed the court, and it was a truly amazing moment.

Now people want to make sure moments like it can no longer happen.

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UAlbany head basketball coach Will Brown has done a number of good things in the Albany community in his 12 year tenure as the head coach of the Great Danes, including work with a number of charitable organizations. He has extended that charitable spirit to this weekend's America East basketball tournament, as he has purchased 400 student tickets to Saturday's quarterfinal game against Maine.

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The Chicago Blackhawks have started the NHL season with an amazing 23 game point streak, meaning that they have not lost a game in regulation this season. Chicago is 20-0-3 on the season, with their only three losses on the season coming in overtime or shootouts, in one of the most impressive runs in sports history.

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Yesterday's match between Manchester United and Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 was looking to be in United's hands, with them holding a 1-0 lead and just needing to hold Real Madrid scoreless for the final 40 minutes to move onto the quarterfinals. However, a controversial red card on Nani of Manchester United after a karate-style kick shifted the landscape of the game dramatically, and led to a Real Madrid comeback win.

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After their team bus crashed on the way to a game against Boston University last week, the University of Maine has decided to withdraw its women's basketball team from this week's America East basketball championships.

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Rory McIlroy is one of golf's bright young stars, with much fanfare following him around the course each and every time he plays at an event. He decided to thank everyone who has inflated his star (and bank account) by walking off the course today at the Honda Classic with his score a miserable 7-over par on the day.

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UAlbany women's basketball clinched the America East regular season championship on Wednesday night with a 55-46 win over New Hampshire, due largely to the efforts of sophomore center Megan Craig.

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The NCAA believes in the ideal of the student athlete, an athlete who competes on behalf of their college or university, with a college education and the promise of a better future as adequate compensation.

Of course, any rational person can tell you that with millions of dollars riding on their every move, a college education is nowhere near adequate compensation for the services of some college athletes.

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The Indiana Pacers are one of the NBA's most physical teams thanks, in large part, to big man Roy Hibbert. David Lee of the Golden State Warriors is one of the league's most physical players and one of the league's best rebounders. That amount of physicality on both sides resulted in an ugly scene in last night's game between the two teams as a fight broke out, spilling into the crowd in the process.

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After a bus accident last night involving Maine's women's basketball team, the team's scheduled America East conference game tonight against Boston University has been postponed.

The accident was a result of the team's bus driver, who was not identified, suffering from some sort of medical condition and passing out, according to Athletic Director Steve Abbott, resulting in the bus crossing the median into oncoming traffic before stopping on the shoulder, miraculously not striking any cars in the process

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