By Budd Bailey Every once in a while, an elite college basketball prospect turns up in Western New York. Tuesday night was one of those nights. Emoni Bates and his…
Buffalo outscores Eastern Michigan
Akron overwhelms UB
By Budd Bailey Let’s put it this way: If the Akron Zips are the 113th best men’s college basketball team in the country (ESPN Basketball Power Index), then Team No….
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….
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…
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…
Following the Aggies
By Budd Bailey There are all sorts of interesting stories out there when it comes to NCAA basketball tournament. I had the chance to follow one of them relatively closely,…
More Madness than usual
By Budd Bailey At least the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament is half as long as the first round. It’s tough enough to follow four games in one…
The Madness begins
By Budd Bailey In some ways, it’s the best sports morning of the year. It might be the most romantic, too. The players, coaches and fans of 64 men’s college…
UB has the right stuff at crunch time
By Budd Bailey For more than 35 minutes, Saturday’s game between the University at Buffalo and Ball State was up for grabs. It was just a matter of asking –…
What’s next for the Bills?
By Budd Bailey You’d be amazed how fast professional sports teams have to turn the page on a once-completed season. When I worked for the Sabres, I might have taken…
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…
A tale of two finishes
By Budd Bailey The game of basketball has been evolving ever since James Naismith first nailed up those peach baskets to the balcony more than a century ago in Springfield,…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 1
By Budd Bailey Gil Perreault of the Sabres Taken in Round 1 in 1970 The next pick: Dale Tallon went No. 2 in that draft. He was a good player,…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 2
By Budd Bailey Bob McAdoo of the Braves Taken in Round 1 in 1971 The next pick: Dwight Davis went No. 3 to Cleveland, and the forward spent three years…
