By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Bandits played their first game of the 2022-23 season on Saturday night, a contest against the Albany FireWolves in the KeyBank Center. If they needed…
Bandits drop home opener
Jones paces Bulls to nice victory
By Budd Bailey It seems that the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team has found it “go-to guy.” You know the type. He’s a player who consistently comes up with…
UB is ready to go bowling
By Budd Bailey The comparison is almost uncanny. The University at Buffalo football team had one of the great up-and-down seasons in its history. It started painfully, then had a…
Book Review: Blood in the Garden
Review by Budd Bailey It was easy to hate the New York Knicks of the 1990s. They were, in the eyes of opposing players and fans, thugs in shorts. That…
UB is too good for Canisius
By Budd Bailey Call this a Tale of Two Teams. The men’s basketball teams from the University at Buffalo and Canisius College had plenty in common entering the current season….
UB lets another one slip away
By Budd Bailey “No lead is safe at a UB football game. No lead is safe at a UB football game. No lead …” No, it’s not. We’ve learned that…
Book Review: Path Lit by Lightning
Review by Budd Bailey Those who are driving along Interstate 476 in Eastern Pennsylvania for the first time might be a little surprised to see an exit sign that reads…
Why, John Y. Brown?
By Budd Bailey The death of former Buffalo Braves’ owner John Y. Brown on Tuesday went more or less unnoticed in the Western New York media. There was nothing in…
Review: A Wonderful Waste of Time
Review by Budd Bailey Terry Bonadonna had me on the first page of the introduction to this book. The future baseball writer describes how he was the biggest baseball expert…
Stone Cold Locks Week 10
By Bob Gaughan 2022 Record 28-15-2 2021 record 62-49 2020 record 52-52-4 2019 Record 62-41-2 2018 Record 72-50-3 Total: 276-207-11=57% Mr. Over/Under: Seattle +2.5 over Tampa Bay This would be a…
Book Review: In Scoring Position
Review by Budd Bailey Bob Ryan and I have at least one thing in common. We reflexively, and perhaps even compulsively, keep score at baseball games. That was a skill…
Tavares talks training camp
By Budd Bailey (John Tavares has been the head coach of the Bandits since 2019, although he’s been around the team non-stop since 1992. John recently took some time after…
The Interview: Steve Dietrich
By Budd Bailey (The Buffalo Bandits came ever-so-close to an NLL Championship a year ago, falling in the third-and-deciding game of the Finals to Colorado. The team started to turn…
Book Review: Game
Review by Budd Bailey It didn’t take long at all for basketball fans to fall in love with Grant Hill’s game. He arrived at Duke in the fall of 1990,…
