By Budd Bailey With less than two minutes to go, the goal seemed almost out of reach for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. No, not winning the game….
By Budd Bailey Like your college basketball to have plenty of drama? Close finishes? Individual accomplishments? Alumni Arena was not your kind of place on Saturday afternoon. And that’s not…
By Budd Bailey In a sense, it was Opening Day – again – for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. The Bulls have spent the last two months getting…
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…
Review by Budd Bailey Basketball fans have learned a new word over the past several years: bracketology. If you were trying to define it, you’d say it is the study…
By Budd Bailey Gentlemen, start your madness. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament gets underway this way. We here in Buffalo are lucky enough to be involved in it again this…
Review by Budd Bailey For those of you who think the National Basketball Association has been the proverbial big-league organization forever, well, think again. It wasn’t that long ago –…
Review by Budd Bailey Dan Shaughnessy can be a tough sportswriter some times. That’s a little more rare than you might think. Criticism of sports figures has become increasingly rare,…
By Budd Bailey It was the first time all night that the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team had reason to be nervous. The Bulls had been in control throughout…
By Budd Bailey Niagara and Canisius both needed a win when they renewed their rivalry on Thursday night at the Gallagher Center. But more importantly, they needed a little normalcy….
Review by Budd Bailey At its heart, “Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised” isn’t about basketball. It’s more about sociology and urban studies than any other category. The book will be in…
Review by Budd Bailey Talk to any basketball fan who was around in the 1980s, and they’ll immediately become nostalgic when the Big East Conference is brought up. The league…