By Budd Bailey With less than two minutes to go, the goal seemed almost out of reach for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. No, not winning the game….
UB runs past Bowling Green
UB takes care of business
By Budd Bailey Like your college basketball to have plenty of drama? Close finishes? Individual accomplishments? Alumni Arena was not your kind of place on Saturday afternoon. And that’s not…
UB opens MAC play in style
By Budd Bailey In a sense, it was Opening Day – again – for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. The Bulls have spent the last two months getting…
Jones paces Bulls to nice victory
By Budd Bailey It seems that the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team has found it “go-to guy.” You know the type. He’s a player who consistently comes up with…
Book Review: Game
Review by Budd Bailey It didn’t take long at all for basketball fans to fall in love with Grant Hill’s game. He arrived at Duke in the fall of 1990,…
Book Review: Bracketology
Review by Budd Bailey Basketball fans have learned a new word over the past several years: bracketology. If you were trying to define it, you’d say it is the study…
Getting ready for Madness
By Budd Bailey Gentlemen, start your madness. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament gets underway this way. We here in Buffalo are lucky enough to be involved in it again this…
Book Review: Hang Time
Review by Budd Bailey The first time I noticed Elgin Baylor was in 1974, when I was 18 years old. I was in the Basketball Hall of Fame – the…
Book Review: From Hang Time to Prime Time
Review by Budd Bailey For those of you who think the National Basketball Association has been the proverbial big-league organization forever, well, think again. It wasn’t that long ago –…
Review: Wish It Lasted Forever
Review by Budd Bailey Dan Shaughnessy can be a tough sportswriter some times. That’s a little more rare than you might think. Criticism of sports figures has become increasingly rare,…
UB has a finishing kick
By Budd Bailey It was the first time all night that the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team had reason to be nervous. The Bulls had been in control throughout…
Niagara downs Canisius
By Budd Bailey Niagara and Canisius both needed a win when they renewed their rivalry on Thursday night at the Gallagher Center. But more importantly, they needed a little normalcy….
Book Review: Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised
Review by Budd Bailey At its heart, “Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised” isn’t about basketball. It’s more about sociology and urban studies than any other category. The book will be in…
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…
