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Lifetime Opportunity for Beutel
Feature Photo credit Geoff Schneider It was a tough decision for Nate Beutel, and an easy one at the same time. Last May, Beutel was hired as assistant coach and basketball operations director under new Buffalo women’s head coach Kristen Sharkey. After 13 glorious seasons at SUNY Niagara (former NCCC), Nate was ready for a fresh challenge. Joining UB, a Division I program in full rebuild, seemed ideal. A tireless recruiter, he dove right in, hitting the road, searching out pl
Jerry Sullivan
Dec 12, 20255 min read
ECC football on the rise
Early in 2021, Mike Kemp was in a coaching limbo. He was the part-time, interim head football coach at Erie Community College. A year into Covid, however, Kemp wasn’t certain that ECC football would survive the pandemic. The 2020 season had been canceled because of Covid.. Many of the ECC coaches had been laid off. The budget had been cut. Most of the players had scattered, uncertain where the football program was headed. “I wasn’t sure the program was going to continue,” K
Jerry Sullivan
Nov 12, 20256 min read
Clarence's Murphy takes a victory lap
Mark and Laurie Murphy, after being married for about three hours. By Budd Bailey Later this week, Mark Murphy will become the latest...
bbailey182
Aug 25, 20257 min read
Chemistry has been key to Daemen success
By Jerry Sullivan Mike MacDonald admits he didn’t quite see this coming. Really, who could have foreseen one of the best seasons in...
Jerry Sullivan
Jan 24, 20257 min read
Bandits peak at the right time
By Budd Bailey Some of the Buffalo Bandits are feeling a little sentimental these days. Yes, the team is preparing for the playoffs. It won its seventh straight game on Saturday night, a 12-6 triumph over the Rochester Knighthawks before 19,070 at the KeyBank Center. The Bandits will be playing someone in the postseason in two weeks, but they don’t know where and they don’t know when. But they do know that this core group of players, who has won three straight titles together
bbailey182
2 days ago
A look back and ahead at local hoops
There were plenty of good seats available at some local college basketball games this season. By Budd Bailey It’s a good time to examine the just completed local men’s basketball season. While the NCAA tournament is about to take over the spotlight nationally – including six games right here in Buffalo - there’s still time to poke at the year closer to home. It wasn’t a particularly encouraging season in most ways. Canisius showed a little life this season going 10-21, 5-15
bbailey182
Mar 17
Bandits make it three in a row
By Budd Bailey Sometimes it helps when your best players are your best players. Take the Buffalo Bandits, for example. “The Dhane and Josh Show,” sometimes associated with a talk show shown on YouTube, were in Oscar-winning form on the field Friday night as the Bandits defeated the Colorado Mammoth 13-10 before a sellout crowd in the KeyBank Center. Dhane Smith and Josh Byrne both had four goals and five assists for nine points, and were the dominant players on the field. It
bbailey182
Mar 14
Return to Daemen was step in the right direction for Hamburg's Ben Bill
Around the local basketball community, people figured Benjamin Bill wouldn’t be back at Daemen this year.. Bill was the reigning East Coast Conference player of the year. In the NIL era of college sports, with the money flowing, surely some Division I school would lure away a marvelously skilled 6-10 center. Head coach Mike MacDonald understood the realities. Last March 19, three days after the Wildcats lost to Aquinas in the DII regionals, MacDonald took his team out for chi
Jerry Sullivan
Mar 4
Bulls edge closer to MAC playoff berth
By Budd Bailey The task was simple, but not easy. If the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team wanted to qualify for the Mid-American Conference playoffs on Tuesday night, two results had to happen. The Bulls had to beat Eastern Michigan, while Massachusetts had to lose to Ohio University. Buffalo did its part. It defeated the Eagles, 72-67. But UMass spoiled the party, beating Ohio at home. We’ll have to wait until Friday before we know what eight teams in the MAC will
bbailey182
Mar 3
Canisius exits the season with a loss
By Budd Bailey Senior Day (or Night) used to be a staple of the college basketball season. It was something like graduation – a day to look back at the end of a journey that usually took three or four years, and a day for all concerned to show their appreciation for the ride. The journeys have gotten shorter these days of the transfer portal, as athletes barely have time to learn how to say hello before they are saying good-bye. Yet as Canisius showed on Sunday afternoon, tha
bbailey182
Mar 1
UB misses an opportunity
By Budd Bailey If you want to know about how to take a direct route from Buffalo to Cleveland, don’t ask the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. It can’t seem to figure out the way to get there. The Bulls had another chance on Saturday to take a big step toward qualifying for the Mid-American Conference playoffs. Instead, they stumbled in a 75-70 loss to Central Michigan before 2,499 in Alumni Arena. Let’s take a look, then, at the situation as the battle for the eig
bbailey182
Feb 28
Bandits edge Rush in 'must win'
By Budd Bailey It’s difficult to imagine a more dramatic midseason indoor lacrosse game than the one that saw the Buffalo Bandits beat the Saskatchewan Rush, 11-10 in overtime, on Friday night. The subplots could have filled up a television mini-series. The Bandits came into the game having lost five of their last six games to fall to 4-6 on the season. For a team that had won three straight championships entering this season, this was unacceptable. Buffalo hadn’t dropped fiv
bbailey182
Feb 28
TONY’S TAKE - THOUGHTS ON USA HOCKEY’S VICTORY AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS
by Tony Fiorello MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 22: Jake Sandersson #85 of Team United States celebrate Jack Hughes #86 of Team United States who scores for 2-1 and celebrate the victory and Gold Medal during the Men`s Ice Hockey final match between USA and Canada on day sixteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 22, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images) Some thoughts from this corner on USA Hockey
Tony Fiorello
Feb 23
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