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…
Book Review: Commander in Cheat
The Year in Sports Books
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…
Book Review: Gods at Play
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…
With no particular place to go
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…
Book Review: Losers
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…
Farewell, old friend
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…
Buffalo’s Biggest Free Agents: Introduction
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…
Book Review: Play by Play
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…
My favorite sports books of 2019
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…
The decade in review
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…
A look back at Buffalo sports
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…
Book Review: The Great American Sports Page
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…
One at a time
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Here are the rules: I can say whatever I want, but I can only say it in one sentence – even if I…
Wanna Bet?
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…
