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Lifetime Opportunity for Beutel
Feature Photo credit Geoff Schneider It was a tough decision for Nate Beutel, and an easy one at the same time. Last May, Beutel was hired as assistant coach and basketball operations director under new Buffalo women’s head coach Kristen Sharkey. After 13 glorious seasons at SUNY Niagara (former NCCC), Nate was ready for a fresh challenge. Joining UB, a Division I program in full rebuild, seemed ideal. A tireless recruiter, he dove right in, hitting the road, searching out pl
Jerry Sullivan
Dec 12, 20255 min read
ECC football on the rise
Early in 2021, Mike Kemp was in a coaching limbo. He was the part-time, interim head football coach at Erie Community College. A year into Covid, however, Kemp wasn’t certain that ECC football would survive the pandemic. The 2020 season had been canceled because of Covid.. Many of the ECC coaches had been laid off. The budget had been cut. Most of the players had scattered, uncertain where the football program was headed. “I wasn’t sure the program was going to continue,” K
Jerry Sullivan
Nov 12, 20256 min read
Clarence's Murphy takes a victory lap
Mark and Laurie Murphy, after being married for about three hours. By Budd Bailey Later this week, Mark Murphy will become the latest...
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Aug 25, 20257 min read
Chemistry has been key to Daemen success
By Jerry Sullivan Mike MacDonald admits he didn’t quite see this coming. Really, who could have foreseen one of the best seasons in...
Jerry Sullivan
Jan 24, 20257 min read
Remembering Gerry Meehan
By Budd Bailey The date was October 6, 1986, a Monday morning. I was reporting for my first day at work in the public relations department of the Buffalo Sabres. I thought I was simply walking through the side door at Memorial Auditorium, but in reality, I was walking through the gates of hockey hell. I’ve been thinking about that day and the ones that followed since I heard about the death of former Sabres’ executive Gerry Meehan on Saturday. I discovered I was arriving just
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Running Hall picks Class of 2026
The Western New York Running Hall of Fame has announced its 14th class, bringing the total number of inductees to 55. This year’s group includes: • Linda (Rogers) Haas built an extraordinary running career spanning decades, becoming an All-American at Erie Community College and Fort Hays State University while maintaining exceptional academic success. She set multiple school records, earned Erie Community College’s Hall of Fame recognition, and was a member of the world-recor
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May 23
TONY’S TAKE – 2026 CONFERENCE FINAL PREVIEW
by Tony Fiorello View of the Stanley Cup, the National Hockey League's championship trophy, taken during the cup's 100th year anniversary, New York, New York, November 1992. The cup is named after Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley. (Photo by Scott Levy/Getty Images) Welcome to this year’s editions of the NHL’s Eastern and Western Conference Finals, where four teams will battle for the right to become the final two squads to square off for the most famous trophy in sports. The more
Tony Fiorello
May 19
TONY’S TAKE – 2026 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF SECOND ROUND PREVIEW
by Tony Fiorello View of the Stanley Cup, the National Hockey League's championship trophy, taken during the cup's 100th year anniversary, New York, New York, November 1992. The cup is named after Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley. (Photo by Scott Levy/Getty Images) It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Typically that’s a phrase one would hear around Christmas. But for hockey fans, there’s no better time of year to enjoy the game than the playoffs. With storylines galore and t
Tony Fiorello
May 4
TONY’S TAKE – THOUGHTS ON THE 2025-26 BUFFALO SABRES AND THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS
by Tony Fiorello BUFFALO, NEW YORK - APRIL 6: Rasmus Dahlin #26 and Tage Thompson #72 celebrate with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1 of the Buffalo Sabres following an NHL game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at KeyBank Center on April 6, 2026 in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo won, 4-2. (Photo by Joe Hrycych/Getty Images) If anyone had told me in early December 2025 that the Buffalo Sabres would not only break their 14-year playoff drought but win their division for the first time since
Tony Fiorello
Apr 19
Bandits peak at the right time
By Budd Bailey Some of the Buffalo Bandits are feeling a little sentimental these days. Yes, the team is preparing for the playoffs. It won its seventh straight game on Saturday night, a 12-6 triumph over the Rochester Knighthawks before 19,070 at the KeyBank Center. The Bandits will be playing someone in the postseason in two weeks, but they don’t know where and they don’t know when. But they do know that this core group of players, who has won three straight titles together
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Apr 11
A look back and ahead at local hoops
There were plenty of good seats available at some local college basketball games this season. By Budd Bailey It’s a good time to examine the just completed local men’s basketball season. While the NCAA tournament is about to take over the spotlight nationally – including six games right here in Buffalo - there’s still time to poke at the year closer to home. It wasn’t a particularly encouraging season in most ways. Canisius showed a little life this season going 10-21, 5-15
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Mar 17
Bandits make it three in a row
By Budd Bailey Sometimes it helps when your best players are your best players. Take the Buffalo Bandits, for example. “The Dhane and Josh Show,” sometimes associated with a talk show shown on YouTube, were in Oscar-winning form on the field Friday night as the Bandits defeated the Colorado Mammoth 13-10 before a sellout crowd in the KeyBank Center. Dhane Smith and Josh Byrne both had four goals and five assists for nine points, and were the dominant players on the field. It
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Mar 14
Return to Daemen was step in the right direction for Hamburg's Ben Bill
Around the local basketball community, people figured Benjamin Bill wouldn’t be back at Daemen this year.. Bill was the reigning East Coast Conference player of the year. In the NIL era of college sports, with the money flowing, surely some Division I school would lure away a marvelously skilled 6-10 center. Head coach Mike MacDonald understood the realities. Last March 19, three days after the Wildcats lost to Aquinas in the DII regionals, MacDonald took his team out for chi
Jerry Sullivan
Mar 4
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