Myers penalty costly in OT loss to Detroit

He hasn’t made mistakes often during his exceptional rookie season, but Tyler Myer’s gaffe near the end of regulation proved to be costly to his team.  With Myers in the penalty box to begin overtime, Brian Rafalski scored on a slap shot 31 seconds into the extra session to give the Detroit Red Wings a [...]

Maple Grove, Middle College advance to state finals

Two of the five boy’s high school basketball teams from Western New York will be advancing to Glen Falls to play for a state title after a long day of Far West Regionals at Buffalo State College.
Maple Grove defeated Section V Houghton 52-36 to advance in Class D.  All-WNY selection Randall Secky scored a game-high [...]

Bandits keep playoff hopes alive with OT win

The Buffalo Bandits are keeping their playoff hopes alive and thrilling fans after defeating the Boston Blazers 9-8 in overtime.
The Bandits would strike first on a goal by Mark Steenhuis.  Assisted by John Tavares and Kevin Dostie, the goal marked Steenhuis’ 24th of the season.  John Harasym would also net a goal on a breakaway [...]

Kennedy spurns Bills, resigns with Vikings

The Buffalo Bills had Jimmy Kennedy in for a visit over the past few days.  They hoped to sign the Minnesota Vikings reserve defensive tackle but were spurned on Saturday afternoon when Kennedy decided to resign with the Vikings.
It’s being reported the deal was for $6 million over two years.
Reports are saying Kennedy was looking [...]

New York Life – stoopidest contest ever!

During our Ultimate Sports Road Trip travels we come across some really cool promotions and contests; then again we also see some that are downright ridiculous.

But the one here at the Big East tournament, sponsored by New York Life, is one of the dumbest ones we have ever witnessed. The sponsors ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Here’s how it works… contestants are chosen to come down on the court during a media timeout, and throw these three large dice shaped cube objects.

If all three land on the logo “New York Life”, the contestant wins $10,000.

If all three land on the same slogan, such as “164 years strong”, or “join our team”, the contestant wins a pair of tickets to the finals.

Any other outcome and the player goes him with the board game “Life”. In this day and age of X-Box, Playstation and millions of games online, who actually plays board games anymore!

Try playing with three dice and landing three of the same numbers. It is so statistically far fetched and hard to do.

So of course, this game is played at every session, twice in fact per session, and the contestants keep crapping out after throwing just two cubes. By Thursday the boos were raining down onto the court as soon as this nonsense was trucked out, that’s how ugly it got.

So lo and behold… what happens Friday night?

Both contestants win… $10,000. That’s right, 10,000 smackers handed out twice.

How did it happen? We have no idea. In the first game they didn’t even train the camera on the cubes. The guy hit two of who knows what, and the announcer screeches, “just one more and you win $10,000!” The contestant tosses the third cube, has a dazed look for a moment and then PA guy yells, “that’s it! You win!” Out comes New York Life CEO with this giant replica check and it’s all smiles.

At the nightcap, the contestant throws a cube which misfires and it rolls almost off of the court. He throws a second one and a third, then the intern collects all the cubes. But then the contestant throws a FOURTH cube. Intern guy collects two of them, and in the confusion PA Guy yells, “You WIN!”. Again, out comes bald fat CEO guy with the check. WTF just happened here!!!

Memo to New York Life and to the Big East… you clowns are a disgrace!

P.S… Another contest, a free throw shooting exhibition, delivered a prize of a “one year supply of Reese’s Peanut Butter cups”. Oh great! By March of ‘11 I’ll weigh 500 pounds, be in a diabetic coma and my teeth will have rotted out. Who comes up with this shit!!!

Mancari headed back to Portland

Paul Hamilton of WGR 550 is reporting that Buffalo Sabres forward Mark Mancari has been sent back down to Portland.
Mancari has spent the past three games with Buffalo, amassing a goal and an assist in the Sabres 5-3 victory over Dallas last Wednesday. He’s a plus-three in four games with the team this year.
The move [...]

NU Hockey Soars To The CHA Championship Game

On the strength of a goal by senior Egor Mironov, the Niagara men’s hockey team (12-19-4, 6-10-2 CHA) will play for the last College Hockey America championship, after defeating top-seeded and nationally-ranked Bemidji State (23-9-3, 14-3-1 CHA) at Dwyer Arena on Friday night.
The game-winning goal came halfway through the third period, when a shot from [...]

Bulls Split Opening Day of Long Beach State Invite

The University at Buffalo softball team kicked off their weekend campaign at the Long Beach State Invitational this afternoon, falling to Notre Dame, 1-0, but coming back to defeat San Diego, 5-3, as they move to 7-9 on the season.
Against Notre Dame, both teams played a strong defensive game, with the only [...]

Griffs hockey wins game one in quarterfinals

The Canisius College hockey team won game one of a best-of-three Atlantic Hockey quarterfinal series, defeating Mercyhurst, 5-1, on Friday night. The Griffs move to within one win of reaching the conference semifinals for the first time since 2004.
“I don’t think the score was indicative of the play tonight,” said Canisius head coach Dave Smith. [...]

Sabres suffer ugly 3-1 loss to Wild

The Buffalo Sabres saw their three game winning streak end Friday night with a 3-1 home loss to the Minnesota Wild.
Patrick Lalime, getting a rare start in place of Ryan Miller in net, let a pair of bad goals in the net during the first period.  The Wild would eventually build a 3-0 lead before [...]