Book Review: Freedom to Win

Review by Budd Bailey When it comes to emotion and drama in international hockey games, the standard was set in 1972 in the Super Series between Canada and the Soviet…

Farewell to a local legend

By Budd Bailey Rick Jeanneret, the voice of Buffalo Sabres’ hockey for more than 50 years, made hockey games better. No, hold on for a minute. That’s an incomplete sentence….

Book Review: The Lineup

Review by Budd Bailey Paul Aron has given himself quite a challenge, and it’s revealed in the subtitle to “The Lineup.” It reads, “Ten Books That Changed Baseball.” Fans of…

Review: In the Inner Sanctum

Review by Budd Bailey There probably isn’t a better boxing writer out there than Thomas Hauser. He’s been out there forever, it seems, writing about the Sweet Science. Much of…

Book Review: Game of Edges

Review by Budd Bailey Perhaps the biggest overall story about professional sports these days might be the most underreported story as well. Not surprisingly, it’s about money. It’s almost always…

Book Review: Boom Town

Review by Budd Bailey “Boom Town” recently popped up in a recently circulated article on the best sports books of our time, basketball division. I hadn’t heard about it, but…