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Fredonia football: Most popular sport in America unlikely to come to campus anytime soon

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 29, 2017August 17, 2019

November 29, 2017August 17, 2019

ANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader Football is the country’s most popular sport. Though Fredonia has never fielded a team of its own, the campus did host the Buffalo Bills’ summer training camp in the 1980s and ‘90s. The idea of a football team on campus is appealing to......

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The Sabres keep themselves out of last place

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

AIDAN POLLARD Special to the Leader The Buffalo Sabres have played three games in the past week. On Tuesday they won against the Capitals 3-1, on Friday they lost to the Panthers 4-1 and on Saturday they lost in overtime to the Canadiens in a 2-1 game. For the......

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Christian Krasnek, the diving mortician

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

AVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor “Every meet is a funeral.” Those are the words that Christian Krasnek, a sophomore member of the Fredonia men’s diving team lives by. Why? “Because I’m going to kill it,” he said. It certainly seems as though Krasnek is taking......

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Dancing with the Athletes: Athletes team up with dancers to raise money for Moving Miracles

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

QUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor On Nov. 12, in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room, the Student Dance Organization held their fifth annual Dancing with the Athletes event. The event was for charity, a non-profit organization called Moving Miracles that assists individuals with special needs in dance, creative movement, music......

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Circling the Wagons: Tailgating a saving grace for Bills fans

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

CURTIS HENRY Sports Editor Seventeen years of mediocrity. I regularly find myself wondering how the entirety of the Buffalo Bills’ fan base — myself included — is capable of rallying each and every Sunday during the fall to go out and support one of the NFL’s saddest franchises. Perhaps......

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Dieting and college sports: How much does one affect the other?

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 8, 2017August 18, 2019

November 8, 2017August 18, 2019

ANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader Division I athletes have an extreme diet and conditioning schedule they must maintain throughout the season. This diet consists of four separate workout time slots, each of which is followed by a meal of some sort. Fredonia does not do this. Fredonia and......

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The evolution of the Beer Mile

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 8, 2017

November 8, 2017

QUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor In the wide world of sports today, many new sports are popping up daily. One new sport that is starting to become a hot trend in track and field is called the “beer mile.” The beer mile is a race where you have to......

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Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

CURTIS HENRY Sports Editor The Fredonia women’s tennis team was ousted in the quarterfinal of SUNYAC play to SUNY Cortland at the start of the month. This was an unexpected early finish to what was otherwise a wildly successful year for the Blue Devils. However, missing from the team......

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Men’s basketball has big plans for upcoming season

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

JORDAN PURVIS Special to The Leader Last season the men’s basketball team finished with a record of 10-15 and failed to reach the SUNYAC playoffs. The team hasn’t been to the playoffs since the 2012-2013 season. Surely, getting back to the playoffs will be the team’s top priority for......

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The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

AVRIL KING Social Media Manager Since 1997, SUNY Fredonia has known one person as the athletic director. Greg Prechtl was a Fredonia graduate with the class of 1969. He went on to serve as the head coach of the men’s basketball team for 23 seasons, and he eventually took the......

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Fredonia football: Most popular sport in America unlikely to come to campus anytime soon

The Sabres keep themselves out of last place

Christian Krasnek, the diving mortician

Dancing with the Athletes: Athletes team up with dancers to raise money for Moving Miracles

Circling the Wagons: Tailgating a saving grace for Bills fans

Dieting and college sports: How much does one affect the other?

The evolution of the Beer Mile

Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

Men’s basketball has big plans for upcoming season

The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up