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Future Forecast: Wading Through the BS
May. 18 | No more football, the long-term life support for Major League Baseball, a dead-end in women’s professional sports: These are cases that have been made in the past few weeks as the individual leagues try to get a grip on where their future lies in...
#24: What if the Bills didn’t lose against Tampa Bay in 1988?
May. 18 | This is a series I started doing last year. Be sure to check out the archives. You have made this look during a sporting event, right? You fidget a bit in your bar seat. You roll your eyes and gasp for air. You take your hands and pretend you are...
Dirk’s MS Paint Sabres Draw Something: Teen Movie Pictograms
May. 17 | Pictogram is probably the wrong word. I digress. Guess the teen movie titles with the clues given by these Buffalo Sabres (from easiest to hardest, click on picture for larger version, answers given as they are guessed):
Tavares Named NLL All-Pro For Record 18th Time
May. 17 | The National Lacrosse League today announced that Buffalo Bandits forward John Tavares has been named a Second Team All-Pro for the 2012 NLL season. Tavares earned his league-record 18th All-Pro nod by finishing second in the NLL with 41 goals, including...
The art of BSing a press conference
May. 17 | This seems to be the offseason for press conferences in Buffalo. By my count, we've had 5 player conferences (Stevie Johnson, Mario Williams, Mark Anderson, Stephon Gilmore and Vince Young), not to mention Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey's multiple cameos....
Bills Sign First Rounder Gilmore
May. 17 | The Buffalo Bills have moved quickly to sign first-round draft pick Stephon Gilmore. The club announced the rookie cornerback has signed a contract with the team and according to NFL Network’s Albert Breer, the deal is for a fully guaranteed$12.1...
UB Rowing to Make First Appearance at National Championships
May. 16 | For the first time in program history the University at Buffalo rowing team will have a representative at the national championships. UB’s lightweight four boat has been invited to compete in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta...
Sabres vs. NHL Final Four
May. 16 | As the Stanley Cup Final draws near, so does the NHL Draft and unrestricted free agency. For those who follow the Sabres, the latter two are what they are likely looking forward to most. The Sabres are entering this offseason after an underwhelming...
Bandits Summer Camps Return
May. 15 | Buffalo Bandits Director of Lacrosse Operations Scott Loffler announced the team will host the Buffalo Bandits Summer Lacrosse Experience again this year with two separate camps in the month of July at First Niagara Center and Nichols School. The two...
Thank You!
May. 14 | I had this acceptance speech written for a while but I made a few tweeks. I think it will work. #LazyGM First and foremost, I’d like to say I never actually thought I’d win the Stanley Cup, GM of the Year,
Video: Gilmore Comments Following Rookie Mini-Camp
May. 14 | The Buffalo Bills held their rookie mini-camp, with four practices over three days and by all accounts, first-round draft pick Stephon Gilmore looked very impressive. Via WGRZ-TV, here’s video of Gilmore commenting about his progress as well as words...
Polian Joining Bills Wall Of Fame
May. 13 | This has been one of the most positively remembered offseasons in the history of the Buffalo Bills in terms of re-signing and extending core players and perhaps even more importantly, adding a pair of monster free agent acquisitions. Now, the Bills...
Bill Polian: Buffalo’s GM
May. 13 | You think some Sabres fans can't get over Daniel Briere? Meet the Bills version of Danny Boy...Bill Polian. For almost 20 years, you couldn't go far away from the pulse of Bills fans without hearing them wish for Bill Polian to return. Polian resembled...
In The Cards: An Interview With Ken Fremming
May. 12 | Back in his day, major league pitchers would challenge batters who dug in at the plate. That’s all changed now, insists Buffalo native Ken Fremming, who knows a thing about pitching. “In the 1940s and ’50s, pitchers would throw hard if they saw...
Report: Jackson Extension Is Very Team Friendly
May. 10 | One hundred percent of this report is credited to fantastic football blogger Brian Mcintyre of Mac’s Football Blog, who cited sources that show Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson’s contract extension was to put it mildly, extremely...
2012 Top 34 NHL Draft Prospects
May. 9 | The 2012 NHL Entry Draft will be the 50th NHL Entry Draft. The draft will be held on June 22–23, 2012 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the first time Pittsburgh will host the draft since the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Here...
My improvements for Ralph Wilson Stadium
May. 9 | When the news broke that the Bills were going to have a press conference this past Monday, the majority of Twitter assumed that it would be for the announcement of Fred Jackson's contract extension....and they were right. There was also some chatter...
White Named University at Buffalo Director of Athletics
May. 8 | University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today named Daniel J.“Danny” White the new director of UB’s Division of Athletics. A rising star in intercollegiate athletics, the former Notre Dame basketball player and New Orleans native...
Sabres To Host Pair Of Hockey Clinics
May. 8 | The Buffalo Sabres announced the Buffalo Sabres Alumni Association will host hockey clinics on May 8 and 9 for students at the Aloma D. Johnson Fruit Belt Community Charter School in the city of Buffalo. Sabres Alumni member Darryl Shannon will conduct...
Bills Lock In Jackson For Two More Years
May. 8 | The Buffalo Bills continued what has turned into arguably it’s most memorable offseason in franchise history, inking running back Fred Jackson to a two-year extension that will keep him on the team through 2014. While the team didn’t reveal...
Hail to the underdog
May. 7 | Scene: NYC Sports Bar in 2007 Me: Who the hell was that? Some Drunk: That's Fred Jackson. Me: Kirby Jackson? Some Drunk: No, Fred Jackson from Coe College. Me: Where the hell is Coe College? Some Drunk: I don't know, but he just zipped past London...
The Late Nick Mendola, Seas2Ep39: Fred Jackson Extended plus T.O. and Dr. Phil together at-last
May. 7 | AB Podcast Thirty-Nine: Fred Jackson Extended plus T.O. and Dr. Phil together at-last The Bills led a press conference in to announce they’ve cloned Fred Jackson. Email: nick@fcbuffalo.org
