Review by Budd Bailey The first question about Rick Reilly’s book, “Commander in Cheat,” is a basic one. Does it deserve to be put on a website that includes sports…
By Budd Bailey If you’re anything like me, you probably have had time to do some reading in the past several months. Funny how a pandemic frees up time for…
Review by Budd Bailey You hear the phrase “I couldn’t put it down” when it comes to books. That’s more rare than you’d think. Even the good ones call for…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Greetings from a disclosed location – my house. I’ve seen a lot of it during the past five months or so. We’re coming up…
Review by Budd Bailey There are plenty of sports anthologies out there if you go looking for them. There are books about the best writing of a particular year, the…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page In a spring filled with firsts for almost all of us, something happened to me in the sports world that had never happened before…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist A mere two weeks ago today, I covered the game between the Sabres and Capitals at the KeyBank Center. It was an odd…
By Budd Bailey The best announcers are the ones that the listeners grow comfortable to their voices. They are the ones that clearly know their business, handle everything professionally, and…
By Budd Bailey I read 46 sports books that were published in the past five years during the course of 2019. I read several other titles that either had nothing…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page This is the time when newspapers love to run year-end summaries – perhaps because it fills space in a period when the news can…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist If you are a local sports fan who hasn’t been to the Buffalo History Museum to see its Icons exhibit, well, what are…
Review by Budd Bailey It seems that “The Great American Sports Page” has created more buzz in the media than most of the other new sports books this year. It’s…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Supreme Court recently struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Betting Act, which in 1993 had outlawed any sort of sports betting…