Book Review: The Big East

Review by Budd Bailey Talk to any basketball fan who was around in the 1980s, and they’ll immediately become nostalgic when the Big East Conference is brought up. The league…

Covid-19 takes a toll at UB

By Budd Bailey On the list of “jobs I’d rather not do, thank you,” which includes such professions as garbage collector, door-to-door salesman, heart surgeon, mountain climber, and “celebrity journalist,”…

A tale of two finishes

By Budd Bailey The game of basketball has been evolving ever since James Naismith first nailed up those peach baskets to the balcony more than a century ago in Springfield,…

Book Review: Getting to Us

Review by Budd Bailey The bookstores have a very big selection of books on leadership, mostly in the business sense. Not all of them have connections to the sports world,…

Book Review: Madness

Review by Budd Bailey Veteran college basketball fans probably looked at the cover of this book and thought, “I probably could write this.” After all, they thought, how hard is…