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

By Budd Bailey It’s difficult to imagine a more dramatic midseason indoor lacrosse game than the one that saw the Buffalo Bandits beat the Saskatchewan Rush, 11-10 in overtime, on Friday night. The subplots could have filled up a television mini-series. The Bandits came into the game having lost five of their last six games to fall to 4-6 on the season. For a team that had won three straight championships entering this season, this was unacceptable. Buffalo hadn’t dropped fiv

By Budd Bailey The dynasty is teetering. The Buffalo Bandits had won three straight championships entering this season and had designs on winning an unprecedented fourth in a row. They started the current season with three wins and an overtime loss, and looked to be a contender – as usual. But suddenly the tide has turned, and the Bandits are in trouble. The team lost its fourth in a row on Saturday night, a painful 13-11 loss to the Philadelphia Wings before a sellout crowd

By Budd Bailey It was a game that was there for the taking. Jeff Teat and his Ottawa Black Bears took it. They scored four straight goals in the fourth quarter to erase a 7-6 lead for the Buffalo Bandits, and held off the Bandits in the final minutes to take a 10-9 win. While Buffalo’s second loss within a week and a drop to .500 (3-3) is a cause for concern, Teat certainly deserves top billing for what happened on Friday night before 17,190 in the Key Bank Center. He scored

By Budd Bailey It was an unexpectedly “entertaining” night for the fans of the Buffalo Bandits at the KeyBank Center on Saturday. The crowd of 19,070 had watched their favorites take a 14-7 lead over Las Vegas with a little more than 10 minutes to play. Since 2016, the Bandits were 22-0 when they had a seven-goal lead at some point in the fourth quarter, so it seemed time to light up a “rhetorical” victory cigar. Then the Desert Dogs scored five goals in a row in a little ove

By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Bandits played more than 60 minutes in their game against the Halifax Thunderbirds in the KeyBank Center on Saturday night. Yet it took less than a minute of that time for the game to get away from them … the last minute of play. As a result, the Bandits dropped a 9-8 overtime that was on the painful side. “A tough night,” Dhane Smith summarized. “We came out flat. … We didn’t play to our standard. We played to theirs. We had our moments to build mo