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 Susan Viscomi, who has more than 30 years experience in intercollegiate athletics, has been named Hilbert College’s director of athletics, announced President Cynthia Zane, Ed.D. With this appointment, Viscomi is the first woman named to the position in the college’s 53-year history. Her appointment is effective July 1.
“The strength of the candidate pool made this a challenging decision,” said Zane. “Susan’s depth of experience in successful NCAA Division III athletic programs distinguished her from other talented candidates and she emerged in the search process as the ideal individual to take on this leadership role. I look forward to working with her and I’m confident, under her direction, there will be positive changes made in the athletics program.”
Continue reading ‘Susan Viscomi Tabbed as Hilbert’s New A.D.’
 (We’re counting down our list of the best 20 Buffalo Bills draft picks of all-time. Take note- this is not a rundown of the best 20 players. Where the player was drafted is often a major factor in determining his value and ranking. Today is number eight our list, Joe DeLamielleure)
Joe DeLamielleure, Guard (First round pick, 26th overall in 1973 NFL draft.)
When the 22nd pick of the first round rolled around of the 1973 NFL draft, the Cleveland Browns sat on the clock badly in need of an offensive guard. With two highly touted prospects on the board, the Browns decided on USC’s Pete Davis as their selection.
Buffalo Bills head coach Lou Saban was also in the market for a stout blocking guard to complete offensive line coach Jim Ringo’s revamping of the unit that began with selecting Reggie McKenzie the year before.
Continue reading ‘Top 20 Bills All-Time Draft Picks: Joe DeLamielleure (#8)’
 Niagara men’s hockey alum Jim Burichin (’10) will move onto the professional hockey ranks after signing a one-year deal with the Texas Brahmas of the Central Hockey League, as announced by the team on Monday.
“I’m very excited about the opportunity to play for the Brahmas,” Burichin said. “Being able to play professional hockey is a dream come true for me. I am very fortunate to have played for Niagara, which helped me build a foundation in order to take my game to the next level.”
The Strongsville, Ohio native will join the Brahmas after playing 97 games on the blueline for the Purple Eagles, scoring three goals, 10 assists and 13 points. Burichin’s strong work ethic and leadership abilities helped to solidify a blueline which advanced to the College Hockey America Championship game in 2008 and 2010, with the Purple Eagles taking home the 2008 title.
Continue reading ‘NU’s Burichin Signs With Texas Brahmas’
 Buffalo Bandits Director of Lacrosse Operations Scott Loffler today announced the team has signed Head Coach and General Manager Darris Kilgour to a three-year contract extension. The new deal will keep Kilgour in Buffalo through the 2013 NLL season.
Since being named the sixth head coach in franchise history on July 18, 2002, Kilgour has led the Bandits to eight consecutive playoff appearances – including an NLL Championship in 2008. Kilgour has compiled a regular season record of 80-48 in Buffalo, along with a 10-7 record in the postseason. Kilgour’s 12-win season in 2003 is the most in franchise history, and the feat earned him 2003 NLL Coach of the Year honors.
Continue reading ‘Bandits Sign Head Coach Darris Kilgour to Extension’
According to a report by Adam Schefter of ESPN, Marshawn Lynch is back in Buffalo and plans to be a participant in today’s OTA.
Fellow ESPN reporter Tim Graham says Schefter cites someone who has spoken to Lynch as the basis for his participation.
We’ll have to wait and see. On two occasions recently there have been published reports with quotes by Lynch saying he’d practice with his teammates and didn’t.
A variety of reports say Lynch still wants to be traded and reportedly Seattle is still interested in him. Lynch getting into camp could possibly get the ball rolling. Then again, maybe he’s just finally resigned to being back in Buffalo for 2010, as Graham stated.
 The Canisius College athletic department, in conjunction with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, will host the 2011 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships Feb. 17-19, 2011 at the Aquatics Center at the Burt Flickinger Center on the city campus of Erie County Community College.
“Canisius College is excited that the MAAC has decided to bring another conference championship event to the city of Buffalo,” Director of Athletics Bill Maher said. “The MAAC Swimming and Diving Championship had outgrown its previous location and the Flickinger Center is an outstanding facility that will help to grow this great championship event. We are looking forward to working with the staff at Erie Community College and the Buffalo community as we host another showcase for all that downtown Buffalo and Western New York has to offer.”
Continue reading ‘Canisius to Co-Host 2011 MAAC Swimming Championships’
 The Green Bay Packers are one of the most storied franchises in the history of the National Football League. Having said that; it’s a shame that the Buffalo Bills can’t face them more often.
Did you know that of all the teams in the NFL the Bills have faced at least 10 times, Buffalo has the highest success of percentage against the Packers? Ten times through the years they’ve squared off and the Bills have come away victorious seven times for a .700 winning percentage.
They’ve won 80% of the time when they’ve faced the Carolina Panthers but have only played them on five occasions.
Maybe the trend continues this year when the Bills travel to Lambeau Field to face the Packers in week two on September 19.
 ◊ Two Sabres prospects — forward Zack Kassian and defenseman Brayden McNabb — have been named to Hockey Canada’s national junior team development camp, according to this Buffalo News report by John Vogl.
◊ This column is a few days old, but the Gooses Roost has an excellent piece about the Sabres and tough love for Kassian.
◊ Buffalo Rumblings writer Brian Galliford says that C.J. Spiller is an early contender for Offensive Rookie of the Year honors.
Continue reading ‘The Daily Links – June 14, 2010′
 The Buffalo Bisons today announced that OF LUCAS DUDA, INF JONATHAN MALO and LHP ROY MERRITT have been added to the Herd’s roster from the Double-A Binghamton Mets.
To make room on the roster, INF MIKE HESSMAN was placed on the team’s disabled list, retroactive to Thursday, June 10, with a right hand contusion. Also, OF EMMANUAL GARCIA was transferred to Single-A St. Lucie and INF MARSHALL HUBBARD was transferred to Double-A Binghamton.
Continue reading ‘Big Blow to Bisons with Hessman going to DL’
 So he’s 21 years old, and he’s scored a Stanley Cup winning goal. In overtime. The only thing that could have made Patrick Kane’s goal a bigger deal is if it had been a Game Seven overtime Stanley Cup winning goal.
But it’s still a pretty big deal….and it got me thinking. Is this the biggest accomplishment ever in sports by an athlete who’s from Buffalo? How does it stack up against other memorable moments, memorable games, memorable seasons, or memorable careers?
I think its right up there. But just for comparison sake, here are a few others.
Continue reading ‘Kane’s Cup winner: a Buffalo biggie’
 At this point, nobody knows if Marshawn Lynch will be a member of the Buffalo Bills when the team opens up their season on September 12 with a home contest against division rival Miami.
According to Jason LaConfora of NFL.com, the Seattle Seahawks remain an interested observer in what general manager Buddy Nix does with the disgruntled star. He tweeted the following Monday afternoon: “Seahawks remain quite interested in Marshawn Lynch should Bills opt to deal him. Would make sense.”
It certainly does. With Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller in tow the Bills are hardly hurting at the position, even if Lynch is eventually dealt. Couple that with Lynch’s public desire to get traded and to this point, the lone veteran on the roster not named Aaron Schobel to fail to hit the practice field with his teammates during voluntary OTA’s, and he’s a distraction waiting to happen.
Continue reading ‘Report: Seattle Still Interested in Lynch’
 The Buffalo Bills haven’t had much success in the playoffs since their inception in 1960, other than the Super Bowl run of the early 1990’s.
Did you know that in their first-ever postseason game, Elbert Dubenion scored the first playoff touchdown in franchise history? On December 28, 1963 with the Bills trailing the Boston Patriots, 16-0 in the third quarter, Dubenion hailed in a pass from quarterback Daryle Lamonica for a 93-yard score. He’d finish the game with three receptions for 115 yards.
Unfortunately it would be their lone score and the Bills would lose the game, 26-8. The good news is the following season Buffalo would go 12-2 en route to winning their first AFL Championship.
 Buffalo News columnist Bob DiCesare feels that Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch is undermining his own value.
Matt Rich Warren of Buffalo Rumblings wrote an interesting Buffalo Bills article about 1970, when Jack Kemp and Billy Shaw both retired within a matter of days.
Reporter Joe Buscaglia from WGR550 feels that Aaron Schobel is looking to get traded after his statements late last week.
Skunkpost.com takes a look back at Patrick Kane’s Stanley Cup-winning goal and compares it to other big moments in sports history involving Buffalo-born athletes.
Continue reading ‘The Daily Links – June 14, 2010′
 The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame will celebrate the richness of Polish Culture and Sports at their June 24, induction in Troy, Michigan. The NPASHF induction ceremony will honor former Philadelphia Phillies Manager, Danny Ozark. The Buffalo native played in the Brooklyn Dodger’s system for many years.
As a Major League Manager, Ozark led the Phillies to National League-East titles in 76, 77 and 78. He was also a longtime coach for the L. A. Dodgers.
Past Philadelphia Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski will present for the deceased Ozark. Ozark passed in Vero Beach, Florida in 2009 and is survived by his wife Ginny and two children, Dwain and Darlene. Luzinski was inducted into the NPASHF in 1989.
Continue reading ‘Ozark to be honored by Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame’
 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt announced on Saturday afternoon that Sam de Haas (Den Bosch, Netherlands) from the Netherlands has signed an athletics grant in-aid to join the Bonnies for the 2010-11 season.
A 6-foot-3 guard, de Haas will have four years of eligibility and brings a wealth of international basketball experience to the Brown and White despite being just 17 years old.
“Sam has a tremendous skill set for someone his age and that’s due to his experience at the international level,” said Schmidt. “His ability to shoot the ball is something we needed with the graduation of Chris Matthews and he’ll be a great inside-out combo with Andrew Nicholson. He has a quick release from the outside, but is also a strong kid that will get better off the bounce. Sam is a high-character kid with a tremendous basketball IQ that we can’t wait to have on campus.”
Continue reading ‘Bonnies sign shooting guard from the Netherlands’
 With the Buffalo Bills and the rest of the NFL simply running through OTA’s, there’s not much to report on, and compelling stories not named Marshawn Lynch and Aaron Schobel are hard to find. It’s only June, but we now know the general outline of what the Bills 2010 roster will look like, and have begun making our own projections and predictions about how they’ll fare when September rolls around.
If you’ve been reading the newspapers and websites all over, you’ve already seen a consensus formed, one that has Buffalo finishing dead-last in their division. On paper the Bills were already behind on talent compared to their rivals, and the AFC East was the NFL hub of free agent moves and trades this offseason.
Continue reading ‘Sizing Up the AFC East’
 Mike Unwin set his sights on goal, ran up to his second-half free kick attempt and struck the ball well enough to earn a point for FC Buffalo.
Unwin’s goal was his first of the season and avenged a Pocono Snow first-half strike to send the Blitzers (1-1-2) home for consecutive home games next weekend (June 19 & 20, both 3 p.m. at Robert E. Rich All-High Stadium).
Nick Fetterman earned a draw in his first action between the posts for FC Buffalo. It was the second game in three nights for the Blitzers, while the Snow (2-3-2) had been off since June 6.
Continue reading ‘Blitzers rally to earn point in Pocono’
 Orchard Park senior Jocelyn Redlinski finished third in the pentathlon among both Division I and II participants at this weekend’s New York State Track & Field Championships.
She earned 3098 points in securing third place by finishing seventh in the 100-meter hurdles, eighth in the high jump, seventh in shot put, fourth in long jump and tenth in the 800-meter run.
Redlinski previously captured first place in the pentathlon at the Section VI championships for the second consecutive season by earning 3036 points.
Continue reading ‘Redlinski earns third in state pentathlon’
 Former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball great and the program’s first-ever consensus All-American Tom Stith (’61) passed away on Sunday.
A native of New York City, Stith led St. Bonaventure to a 65-12 record over his three seasons (58-61), three consecutive 20-win campaigns, two consecutive NIT appearances and the first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 1961.
“We are deeply saddened with the passing of Tom Stith,” St. Bonaventure Director of Athletics Steve Watson said. “Tom was a first-class guy that helped put St. Bonaventure basketball on the national landscape. Even more important, Tom was passionate about his experiences at St. Bonaventure and a true ambassador of this University. We extend our profound condolences to his family in this time of loss.”
Continue reading ‘Bona basketball legend Tom Stith passes away’
 After calling Coca-Cola Field his home last year, Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs starting pitcher Nelson Figueroa returned to Buffalo to face his former team this afternoon. Figueroa silenced the bats of the Herd in a 10-1 Iron Pigs win.
Figueroa was dominant in his return to the Nickel City as he pitched six shutout innings. Over his six innings of work Figueroa allowed only five hits and struck out six batters. The former Bison is now 2-0 on the year and his ERA remains unblemished at 0.00.
The Iron Pigs got the offense going early when in the second inning third baseman Cody Ransom sent a ball to deep left field and stirred up some controversy. Originally called foul by the third base umpire Jon Merry after it landed over the left field wall just a few feet from the foul pole, the Iron Pigs argued that it hit the pole and should have been ruled a home run. After the four umpires discussed the play they ruled that it in fact did hit the foul pole and Ransom was credited with his 14th home run of the year.
Continue reading ‘Former Bison Sends Herd to Seventh Straight Loss’
 When the Buffalo Bills merged from the AFL to the NFL in 1970, O.J. Simpson would lead the team in rushing that season, but only with 488 yards. Since then, every single-season Bills leading rusher would have over 500 yards for that specific season—except once.
Did you know that in 1987, a mere 485 yards on the ground led the Bills in rushing? That’s all it took for Ronnie Harmon to finish tops on the squad. He did on a team-high 116 carries, albeit good for a respectable 4.2 yards per carry.
Jamie Mueller was second on the team that year with 354 yards, while Carl Byrum had 280 and Robb Riddick added 221.
When you look at those leaders, it’s no surprise Thurman Thomas would be drafted following the ’87 season.
 Back in early May, Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Jared Gaither was the hot name on the trade market, and the Buffalo Bills were his leading suitor. After being switched from left tackle to right tackle to make way for second-year phenom Michael Oher, Gaither missed voluntary practices during that time period with an unexpected and strange foot injury; prior to the injury being known of, experts speculated that Gaither’s absence was indicative of an impending trade.
Flash forward a little over a month. Trade talks have since cooled considerably regarding Gaither, to the point where they’re non-existent to the public view. Gaither, 24, recently signed a one-year, $2.396 million restricted free agent tender, so he is now under contract with the only pro team he’s ever played for, unlike in early May.
Continue reading ‘Bills should be wary of possible Gaither trade’
 In the history of the Buffalo Bills franchise, there has only been one player to lead the team over a full season in both rushing and receiving yards.
Did you know the player we’re referring to is Joe Cribbs? In 1983 Cribbs led the Bills in rushing yards (1,131) and receiving yards (531).
The Bills weren’t even that bad either. Under first-year coach Kay Stephenson they’d finish the ’83 season at 8-8. Of course, older Bills fans will remember that over the next two years the Bills put up consecutive 2-14 campaigns.
 ◊ John Wawrow of the AP writes that stopping short of announcing his retirement, Buffalo Bills defensive end Aaron Schobel said that he’s prepared to inform the team to move on without him.
◊ The Bills completed the final two steps in getting the back half of their 2010 draft class under contract as sixth-round pick Arthur Moats and seventh-round pick Levi Brown both signed their rookie contracts Thursday morning at One Bills Drive, writes Chris Brown from Bill.com
◊ Windsor head coach and former Sabre Bob Boughner still has confidence in talented but troubled Sabres prospect Zach Kassian in his Windsor Star article by Dave Waddell.
Continue reading ‘The Daily Links – June 11, 2010′
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Following his first practice with the Buffalo Bills this offseason, Marshawn Lynch spoke to a pool of reporters. As usual, his comments were pretty straightforward. Here are some of the highlights:
