About a year ago the Buffalo Bills were attracted to then-free agent wide receiver Laveranues Coles. The former New York Jet visited Buffalo last March and the Bills were ponied up a contract offer. The sides couldn’t agree on terms and ultimately Coles inked a four-year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals on March 4.
Twelve months later the Bills and Coles may cross paths again. Buffalo is very likely to be in the market for a number two receiver and according to a Cincinnati beat writer, Coles is likely to be looking for employment.
Coles still has three years remaining on the four-year, $27.5-million contract he signed a year ago, but he’s not likely to see the final three years. The Bengals are expected to promote Andre Caldwell to starter and with Coles scheduled to make $4.65 million in 2010, he’s expected to be a high salary victim.
According to several media outlets, former long-time head coach Dan Reeves is interested in joining Chan Gailey and his staff with the Buffalo Bills.
Reeves has been out of coaching for the past six years but has a long and largely successful coaching career, including leading the Denver Broncos to the Super Bowl three time and Atlanta once.
“He hasn’t reached out to me,” Reeves said to WIVB-TV, “but I coached him in Little League and he might give me a chance. He might come back and try to see if I could help him out.”
Reeves, 66, could potentially come to Gailey’s staff in an offensive coordinator role. Despite Gailey saying at his press conference that he intended on calling the plays, bringing in Reeves with the coordinator title as well as assistant head coach would seem like a logical move.
Enjoy this joint venture between Buffalo Sports Daily and WNYMedia. Net for our live blog as the Buffalo Sabres face off against the Kings in Los Angeles.
Buffalo head coach Jeff Quinn announced today that sophomore quarterback Zach Maynard has left the Buffalo football program.
UB has just released a single paragraph statement on the developing matter.
“I’m very disappointed in Zach’s decision to leave our program prior to getting to know our coaching staff,” said Quinn. “That being said, we are only interested in guys that are passionate about being a Buffalo Bull in our football family. In line with our “Next Bull In” philosophy, we will not let this deter us from our goal of playing for championships.”
♦ St. Francis used home court to their advantage as they stunned sixth-ranked large school Bishop Timon Wednesday night, 56-54. Kyle Clifford scored 16 points for St. Francis including nine in the fourth quarter. Mike Scarcello led the Tigers with 22 points, who lost for the second time in their last three games in Monsignor Martin Association play.
♦ In Yale Cup play, Middle College, ranked second among small schools, easily handled South Park 73-34. Sean Mulhern scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.
♦ Erik Simmons’ 15 points led McKinley to a 75-66 victory over visiting Riverside.
♦ East high school, the defending Yale Cup champion had no problem staying unbeaten in league play with a 81-44 victory over Buffalo Arts. Dominque Jackson had 18 points and 11 rebounds.
Maybe the Buffalo Bills really are trying to change their losing ways.
General Manager Buddy Nix dropped the hammer earlier this month on the entire coaching staff. Wednesday it was dropped on John Guy. The Bills main pro personnel guy was relieved of his duties by Nix, ending a run of him being with the team since 2001. He’s been the team’s chief pro scout since being brought in by Tom Donahoe in 01’ and was given the title of vice president of pro personnel in 2008.
His contract was set to expire in May but Nix decided to not wait that long.
Guy was given the prime responsibility of evaluating free agents but didn’t have anything to do with their contracts. His role is expected to be filled quickly in advance of free agency beginning in March.
The University at Buffalo men’s basketball team ran into a bad combination on Wednesday night as the Bulls not only struggled from the field, but faced a Kent State squad who could not miss in the second half as the Golden Flashes won the contest, 89-54. The loss drops UB’s record to 10-5 and 3-1 in the MAC.
Both teams struggled to find their shooting touch in the first half as the two teams combined for just 17 points over the first seven minutes of action. The Golden Flashes would lead by nine in the opening half, but the Bulls cut it to two on back-to-back fast break buckets from Calvin Betts. Kent State would respond by ending the half on an 8-0 run to go into the break up 10.
For the second straight game it was the sophomore class to the rescue, as a game-high 26 points from Andrew Nicholson and Michael Davenport’sfirst career double-double helped St. Bonaventure hold on for a 70-69 Atlantic 10 win at Massachusetts on Wednesday night at the Mullins Center.
The road win is the first of the season for the Bonnies, who improve to 9-8 on the year and 2-2 in the A-10. The Brown and White have now taken two straight from the Minutemen, as they fall to 7-11 on the year and 1-4 in the conference.
A struggling Johnny Flynn and his Minnesota Timberwolves took their home floor Monday against the Philadelphia 76ers. Determined to not continue the losing path his team has been on all season long, the Niagara Falls native had the best game of his brief career.
Flynn pumped in a career-high 29 points, double his season average in 43 minutes as the Wolves upended Philadelphia, 108-103.
Flynn also tied a career-best with 9 assists and added 4 rebounds to solidify his best all around game as a young pro.
Studesville had been the Bills running back coach since 2004. He previously served in the same capacity with the New York Giants and Chicago Bears.
Studesville is the latest in a long line of Bills coaches from a year ago having no trouble finding another job. Bobby April is now the special teams coach in Philadelphia, while Perry Fewell will run the Giants defense and Sean Kuglar the Pittsburgh offensive line.
UB is in a place they have never been, 3-0 in conference play and they have arguably taken care of the two other teams most likely to win the East (Akron and Bowling Green). What remains before cross division play ensue is a road trip to Kent, and Athens for matches against two teams currently sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Division.
Should UB manage to win these games they can hit Western play with a 5-0 mark, huge for a team that punted away a game to the Jacksonville Dolphins less three weeks ago.
As much as I’m looking forward to an undefeated UB possibly facing down a loss less NIU in late January (a nice east west power showdown happens rarely in Basketball) MAC Road wins are always hard earned and record aside Kent it not all that bad a team. Bull Run’s own Hoops Czar Brandon had them as his second best team in the pre season power rankings and their two conference losses are by a total of eight points. Miami needed overtime to beat them and Bowling Green was trailing until there was a scant 1:30 left on the clock. Out of conference play both teams beat Green Bay (The Flashes needed overtime).
Clearly, when you’re a head coach in the NFL, every decision you make, no matter when or where, carries some degree of importance. Every decision carries some degree of magnitude when your job is as high-profile and high-demand as leading a professional football organization from the sidelines.
New Buffalo Bills head coach Chan Gailey, simply because of his job title, has important decisions to make. But his decisions won’t be of run-of-the-mill importance; in case you missed it at the beginning of this paragraph, Gailey is the new coach of the Buffalo Bills. Gailey inherits the reigns of a team that has not made the playoffs in ten straight years amidst a level of fan angst rarely seen in these parts. There are holes to be filled at the most important positions on this roster. Without improvement in several key areas, Buffalo will not win many games in 2010, regardless of how much effort and creativity Gailey puts into his first year on the job here.
Are you from the Western New York area, have a talent for writing and enjoy high school sports?
If the answer to these is yes, and you’d like to build your writing portfolio and get your work exposed to a readership that is growing leaps and bounds daily, then we’re looking for you.
It’s time to step up our high school coverage at Buffalo Sports Daily and I’m searching for a few quality writers to help make that happen.
I’m looking for someone with talent; regardless of age and experience who’s interested in covering and perhaps anchoring our high school sports coverage. I want people willing to cover the area’s best games and profiling some of its biggest stars.
The Niagara University Athletics Department will induct three new members into the Niagara Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, Feb. 13, as part of a special Hall of Fame Weekend. The 2009-10 class includes Chris Begg (baseball), Eva Cunningham (women’s basketball),and Dick McCarthy (football).
Chris Begg
Begg, a 2001 graduate of Niagara, was the 2001 MAAC Pitcher of the Year. He holds the NU record for career strikeouts (195), complete games (13) and shutouts (3), as well as the single-season record for wins during the 2001 season with eight. Begg led Niagara to the 2001 MAAC Championships with an 8-3 record and 86 strikeouts. His 3.61 career earned-run average still ranks second in the schools career annals.
Anaheim pummeled starting goaltender Patrick Lalime for four goals in the first 10:26 of the game and then held off a furious Sabres comeback to send Buffalo to their first regulation loss in 11 games Tuesday night, 5-4.
After seemingly getting blown off the ice after the four-goal deficit, coach Lindy Ruff pulled Lalime in favor of Ryan Miller. Buffalo came out in the second period on fire, using goals by Tim Connolly and Clarke MacArthur in the first minute to cut the lead in half.
Steve Matador made it 4-3 just 6:12 into the second with his third goal of the year before Jonas Hiller was finally able to put a muzzle on the Sabres’ scoring.
The Buffalo Bills officially introduced Chan Gailey as their new head coach at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Speaking in front of reporters for the first time alongside GM Buddy Nix, Gailey promised a consistent winner and outlined his goals for the organization moving forward. Nix, too, spoke candidly about some aspects of the Bills’ coaching search.
For those who missed the short press conference, here are a few of the major talking points.
Gailey to call his own plays: The biggest successes that Gailey has experienced as a head coach came as a play-caller, and he’ll assume that role in Buffalo as well. Gailey stated that he’d have a coach on his staff with the title of ‘offensive coordinator,’ but that he’d be calling plays on game days. He made it clear that he wanted the offense to be run a specific way, and the only person that could get it to his liking initially was himself.
The Buffalo Bills have hired Chan Gailey as their next head coach. Right now fans understandably are miserable. Gailey is not regarded as a hot prospect and hasn’t been a head coach in the NFL in over a decade.
He certainly wasn’t the Bills’ first choice. Jim Harbaugh was offered the job last Wednesday and declined. Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Bill Cowher and Charlie Weiss were all pursued. The team was interested in talking to Brian Schottenheimer, Russ Grimm and Ron Rivera and none showed serious interest.
So the Gailey era is set to begin. At best most consider Gailey a retread while at worst his hire further contributes to the organization’s perceived laughingstock league-wide reputation.
The 57-year old former Dallas Cowboys and Georgia Tech coach has agreed to become the next head coach of the Buffalo Bills on Tuesday.
There will be a press conference today at 2pm.
Gailey fit the criteria that new Bills general manager Buddy Nix was looking for; a head coach with experience who’s regarded as an offensive mind.
Although it doesn’t seem like there was a rush to hire Gailey the Bills had to make a decision. Gailey was considering taking the offensive coordinator job in Chicago.
Gailey was last a head coach in the NFL in 1998-99 with Dallas. He led the Cowboys to the playoffs in both seasons, but following a 10-6 record his first year was fired after stumbling to 8-8 in 1999 when the team backed into the playoffs and lost to Minnesota in the first round, 27-10.
The Niagara men’s basketball team (11-9, 4-4 MAAC) used a hot start to the second half to help defeat Marist (1-17, 1-7 MAAC) 72-56 at McCann Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The victory snapped a three-game road losing streak and evened the Purple Eagles’ conference mark at 4-4.
Niagara scored the first nine points of the second half thanks to an aggressive full court trapping defense. The Purple Eagles run extended to 23-7 and Niagara led by as many as 22 after the break. NU forced 18 turnovers and scored 18 points of off Marist’s miscues.
Fairfield senior Yorel Hawkins scored 21 points and freshman guard Derek Needham added 17, and the host Stags were able to hold off a last second run by Canisius to hold on for a 76-74 victory Monday afternoon in the Arena at Harbor Yard. The win improves Fairfield to 13-5 overall and 6-2 in the MAAC, while the Golden Griffins slipped to 9-10 overall and 4-4 in league play.
For the Griffs, juniorJulius Coles scored a game-high 24 points to go with eight rebounds and three assists in the losing effort while senior guard Frank Turner chipped in 14 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Canisius shot 51 percent from the field and 61.5 percent from 3-point range against Fairfield, but the Stags were able to turn 18 Canisius turnovers into 24 points, with 16 of those points coming in the game’s final 20 minutes. Continue reading ‘Griffs fall short at Fairfield’
Gaughan cites a team and league source to give credence to the rumor.
Gailey was the head coach in Dallas in 1998-99 and was most recently the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator in 2008. He was fired by Todd Haley in Kansas City just two weeks prior to the start of this season.
Gaughan is usually spot-on with his reporting and doesn’t make a habit of throwing rumors against a wall hoping they stick. Gailey to Buffalo is now a very real possibility.
I searched message boards for reactions by Bills fans and the one-word reaction is nearly universal.
The Buffalo Sabres have headed west for their third stop on a season long seven-game road trip. After picking up three of a possible four points in their first two contests, Buffalo takes the ice in Phoenix tonight for a clash with the Coyotes.
It’s the second and final meeting between the clubs this year. Buffalo won the first meeting 2-1 back on October 9 at the HSBC Arena.
As has been the case most of the season the Sabres remain hot. They’ve picked up at least a point in 10 consecutive games and have opened up a double-digit lead over Boston in the Northeast division.
About a year ago the Buffalo Bills were attracted to then-free agent wide receiver Laveranues Coles. The former New York Jet visited Buffalo last March and the Bills were ponied up a contract offer. The sides couldn’t agree on terms and ultimately Coles inked a four-year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals on March 4.
According to several media outlets, former long-time head coach Dan Reeves is interested in joining Chan Gailey and his staff with the Buffalo Bills.
Buffalo head coach Jeff Quinn announced today that sophomore quarterback Zach Maynard has left the Buffalo football program.
♦ St. Francis used home court to their advantage as they stunned sixth-ranked large school Bishop Timon Wednesday night, 56-54. Kyle Clifford scored 16 points for St. Francis including nine in the fourth quarter. Mike Scarcello led the Tigers with 22 points, who lost for the second time in their last three games in Monsignor Martin Association play.
Maybe the Buffalo Bills really are trying to change their losing ways.
The University at Buffalo men’s basketball team ran into a bad combination on Wednesday night as the Bulls not only struggled from the field, but faced a Kent State squad who could not miss in the second half as the Golden Flashes won the contest, 89-54. The loss drops UB’s record to 10-5 and 3-1 in the MAC.
For the second straight game it was the sophomore class to the rescue, as a game-high 26 points from Andrew Nicholson and Michael Davenport’s first career double-double helped St. Bonaventure hold on for a 70-69 Atlantic 10 win at Massachusetts on Wednesday night at the Mullins Center.
A struggling Johnny Flynn and his Minnesota Timberwolves took their home floor Monday against the Philadelphia 76ers. Determined to not continue the losing path his team has been on all season long, the Niagara Falls native had the best game of his brief career.
UB is in a place they have never been, 3-0 in conference play and they have arguably taken care of the two other teams most likely to win the East (Akron and Bowling Green). What remains before cross division play ensue is a road trip to Kent, and Athens for matches against two teams currently sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Division.
Clearly, when you’re a head coach in the NFL, every decision you make, no matter when or where, carries some degree of importance. Every decision carries some degree of magnitude when your job is as high-profile and high-demand as leading a professional football organization from the sidelines.
The Niagara University Athletics Department will induct three new members into the Niagara Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, Feb. 13, as part of a special Hall of Fame Weekend. The 2009-10 class includes Chris Begg (baseball), Eva Cunningham (women’s basketball), and Dick McCarthy (football).
Anaheim pummeled starting goaltender Patrick Lalime for four goals in the first 10:26 of the game and then held off a furious Sabres comeback to send Buffalo to their first regulation loss in 11 games Tuesday night, 5-4.
The Buffalo Bills officially introduced Chan Gailey as their new head coach at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Speaking in front of reporters for the first time alongside GM Buddy Nix, Gailey promised a consistent winner and outlined his goals for the organization moving forward. Nix, too, spoke candidly about some aspects of the Bills’ coaching search.
The Buffalo Bills have hired Chan Gailey as their next head coach. Right now fans understandably are miserable. Gailey is not regarded as a hot prospect and hasn’t been a head coach in the NFL in over a decade.
The Chan Gailey era has officially begun.
The Niagara men’s basketball team (11-9, 4-4 MAAC) used a hot start to the second half to help defeat Marist (1-17, 1-7 MAAC) 72-56 at McCann Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The victory snapped a three-game road losing streak and evened the Purple Eagles’ conference mark at 4-4.
Fairfield senior Yorel Hawkins scored 21 points and freshman guard Derek Needham added 17, and the host Stags were able to hold off a last second run by Canisius to hold on for a 76-74 victory Monday afternoon in the Arena at Harbor Yard. The win improves Fairfield to 13-5 overall and 6-2 in the MAAC, while the Golden Griffins slipped to 9-10 overall and 4-4 in league play.
The Buffalo Sabres have headed west for their third stop on a season long seven-game road trip. After picking up three of a possible four points in their first two contests, Buffalo takes the ice in Phoenix tonight for a clash with the Coyotes.
The Canisius College men’s basketball team closes out its four-game MAAC road swing today when the team takes on Fairfield in Bridgeport, Conn.
Three incoming recruits had their names land on the 
