Earlier this week, Colorado head football coach Jon Embree was fired after just two seasons with the Buffaloes.

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The floods, however, damaged their home and washed away their livelihood two buffaloes, one calf, her sewing machine, and furniture.

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The energy, support and expectations surrounding this Buffaloes program are as high as the mountains that surround the western edge of its campus.

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For now, he still must tend to the buffaloes' mental state.

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They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.

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But I started watching the Ducks in the Joey Harrington days and became hooked for life when they smacked around the whiny Colorado Buffaloes at the 2002 Fiesta Bowl.

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Mogas 90 of Benin Republic earned a slim 1-0 win over Al Nassr of Libya, Sudan's El Mereikh got a similar home win over Zambia's Green Buffaloes, while Saint Louis of Seychelles earned a 2-2 draw with Madagascar's Transfoot.

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Igawa is back pitching (not all that well) in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes, DeSalvo pitched in 2012 with the Lamigo Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, Wright pitched in 2012 for the Independent Somerset Patriots and Henn is currently at Triple-A with the Mets after pitching in 2012 with the Hanwha Eagles in Korea.

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