Review by Budd Bailey The first person to come to mind when reading Justin Davis’ “Conflicted Scars” was Andre Agassi. Yes, the tennis player. Agassi wrote a fabulous autobiography called…
Book Review: Conflicted Scars
Book Review: When Buffalo Stood Atop the Sports World
Review by Budd Bailey Some of the Buffalo television stations seem to be having a contest about who can be the most relentlessly optimistic about the local sports scene at…
Remembering “Joe the Crow”
By Budd Bailey Hollywood loves to use the stereotyped slightly odd but still lovable uncle as a stock character of the supporting casts of movies. Think of “Uncle Billy” in…
Book Review: Icing on the Plains
Review by Budd Bailey Once upon a time, the National Hockey League had a team in Kansas City. You might have missed it. It was around for two seasons in…
Book Review: The Whalers
Book Review by Budd Bailey Ah, the Hartford Whalers. Or, as they were once called by Boston Globe hockey writer Kevin Dupont, “The Forever .500 Whalers.” The Whalers were around…
Book Review: 1972
Review by Budd Bailey Authors don’t often have the chance to take a second swing at a subject. It turns out that Scott Morrison is an exception. Back in 1989,…
Book Review: No One Wins Alone
Review by Budd Bailey An unusual book, “No One Wins Alone.” There are all sorts of biographies, sports-related or not, out there. This one is simply different in some ways….
TONY’S TAKE – 2022 STANLEY CUP FINAL PREVIEW
The 2022 Stanley Cup Final kicks off tonight and – at least on paper – this year’s edition is shaping up to be one of the best matchups in league…
TONY’S TAKE – 2022 STANLEY CUP SECOND ROUND SEMIFINAL PREVIEW
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…
TONY’S TAKE – 2022 STANLEY CUP FIRST ROUND QUARTERFINAL PREVIEW
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…
Beauts take it outside
By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Beauts had been struggling during the course of the women’s hockey season. They came into Monday afternoon’s game with the Toronto Six with a 3-10-1…
Review: Finding Murph
Review by Budd Bailey “Finding Murph” is one sad story. It’s the latest in something of an informal series of articles and books on the problems in the form of…
Remembering Dave Miller
By Budd Bailey I’m never going to be able to watch “The Price is Right” again without thinking of Dave Miller. Miller, the former radio host of Buffalo Sabres’ broadcasts…
Life on the flip side
By Budd Bailey Western New York has rivaled Disney World for the title as “the happiest place on earth” this week. The Buffalo Bills were only two wins from reaching…
