Daemen College has enjoyed a great amount of recent success from its athletic programs. the college has won 6 American Mideast Conference North titles in the past 3 years. The women's basketball team has taken out 4 titles and taken part in 4 NAIA National Tournaments since 1996 including back-to back appearances the last 2 years. The women's volleyball team has won the last 3 AMC North titles. The men's basketball team has taken out 2 conference titles and made it all the way to the 'Elite 8' and the NAIA National Tournament in 2004. The women's cross country team has sent a representative to the NAIA National Championships in each of the last 2 years. USA Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has announced today the availability of an extra thirty million dollars in education funding—This is in addition to the two hundred million dollars that was appropriated by Congress—to help and assist institutions of higher education that have been directly effected by hurricanes Rita and Katrina, as well as other universities and colleges around the nation that enrolled displaced students.

The Pacific-10 Conference is situated in the western United States. The conference participates in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It's football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football championships.

By the seventeenth century the game of cricket was very popular in rural areas, but in the following century the leisure classes took up the sport, particularly in Kent, Sussex, and London.

The American Heart Association has dubbed February, American Heart Month -- intensifying efforts to educate women on the dangers of heart disease and stroke.