By Budd Bailey Sometimes I like to tease my fellow reporters by explaining to them just how old I am with a simple analogy. “I covered Jim Boeheim’s hiring at…
Syracuse ends an era
Following the Aggies
By Budd Bailey There are all sorts of interesting stories out there when it comes to NCAA basketball tournament. I had the chance to follow one of them relatively closely,…
More Madness than usual
By Budd Bailey At least the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament is half as long as the first round. It’s tough enough to follow four games in one…
The Madness begins
By Budd Bailey In some ways, it’s the best sports morning of the year. It might be the most romantic, too. The players, coaches and fans of 64 men’s college…
Canisius’ hopes sink a bit lower
By Budd Bailey Tom Petty was right. The waiting really is the hardest part. Canisius College’s men’s basketball team dropped a 65-54 decision to Niagara, its biggest rival, at the…
Jack leads UB to an easy win
By Budd Bailey This was the type of night that the University of Buffalo was hoping to see when Maceo Jack arrived on campus to play basketball in the fall….
Canisius can’t erase big deficit
By Budd Bailey Call it a tale of two halves – even if it was the first half that essentially decided the game. Canisius must have thought it was living…
NCAA Basketball: Flip a coin on “First Four”
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The NCAA Basketball Tournament always moves along quickly – it seems like only, well, Wednesday that we were watching the “First Four” games….
