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