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 Fresh off a second place finish at the Penn State Open Sunday, junior Kevin Smith was named the Mid American Conference wrestler of the week for the week of November 29 to December 5, the Mid-American Conference announced from its offices in Cleveland this morning. The award is the Mexico, NY native’s second in his career and second in a month’s time.
Smith had a terrific outing Sunday, starting the day with four straight wins before falling in the championship match at 133 pounds at the Penn State Open. The Exercise Science major took down wrestlers from Navy, Bloomsburg, Maryland and North Carolina en route to his runner-up finish. Smith’s third win of the day gave him 70 for his career and he now has 13 wins of the season.
Continue reading ‘UB’s Kevin Smith Named MAC Wrestler of Week’
 The Buffalo Sabres announced they will again provide fans a chance to do some holiday shopping while supporting the Buffalo Sabres Foundation with the return of their annual autographed ornament surprise.
A $20 donation will get fans a commemorative Sabres 40th anniversary holiday ornament autographed by one of the Buffalo Sabres. The ornaments will be on sale in the 100 level pavilion prior to the Sabres’ game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, December 11 at 7:00 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Buffalo Sabres Foundation.
The Sabres’ significant others will be at tables throughout the HSBC Arena 100 level pavilion beginning at 5:00 p.m. to sell the ornaments. The ornaments will be sold gift-wrapped, keeping the player who autographed each one a surprise. The tables will remain open until the final ornament is sold.
Continue reading ‘Sabres To Sell Autographed Ornaments For Charity’
 Going by a report by Deadspin, things aren’t going well for former Buffalo Bills wide receiver Peerless Price.
According to the report, an attorney named W. Anthony Collins is looking to find Price, so he can serve him papers to foreclose on a home that he’s owned.
In an email to Deadspin, Collins wrote “If any of you have heard about where Peerless Price may currently be, then please let me know. I am trying to foreclose on his house, and cannot find him in order to serve him. Pleadings attached.”
Collins sent the website a 46-page attachment, but Deadspin displayed just the first page as evidence that Price is indeed in legal trouble.
Continue reading ‘Things Aren’t Good For Peerless Price’
 I spoke to a source connected with the Buffalo Bills on Tuesday night and he told there are “still several thousand” tickets remaining for Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns. With the deadline for sellouts being Thursday at 1pm, it’s a certainty that the game will be blacked out to local viewers.
Although I did cite a source since I spoke directly to a team official, it doesn’t take groundbreaking investigative reporting to figure out Buffalo attendance is rapidly taking a nose dive.
It will be the third time over the last four games played at Ralph Wilson Stadium will not be televised locally. Fans within the area were unable to watch Buffalo fall to Jacksonville on October 10 nor see the Bills get their first win against Detroit three weeks ago.
Continue reading ‘Buffalo Bills To Get Blacked Out.. Again’
 USA Hockey named the 29 players that have been invited to its pre-tournament camp beginning Dec. 17 in Troy, Rochester, Jamestown and Amherst, N.Y., and make up the preliminary 2011 U.S. National Junior Team roster.
The camp will include exhibition games against Rensselaer’s men’s ice hockey team (Dec. 19), the Czech Republic (Dec. 21) and Norway (Dec. 23). The final U.S. National Junior Team 22-man roster will be announced prior to Team USA’s final exhibition game against Norway.
The 2011 U.S. National Junior Team will compete at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, Dec. 26, 2010-Jan. 5, 2011, in Buffalo and Niagara, N.Y.
Continue reading ‘Preliminary 2011 U.S. National Junior team Announced’
 Andrew Nicholson’s game-winning jumper with 5.2 seconds left – his second consecutive game-winning shot – lifted St. Bonaventure (5-2) to a 67-66 victory over host St. John’s (5-2) Tuesday night at Carnesecca Arena.
The Bonnies trailed by as many as 10 with 13:02 left in the second half, but rallied for their second straight dramatic win and snapped the Red Storm five-game win streak..
“It’s a great victory,” said head coach Mark Schmidt of the Bonnies first victory at St. John’s since Jan. 2, 1922. “I told the guys with five seconds left in the game that it was the same situation as last year (when St. John’s won 69-68). Last year we didn’t finish and this year, we wanted to finish.”
Continue reading ‘Late Bona Rally Stuns St. Johns, 67-66′
 The youth of the Buffalo Sabres came back to haunt them Tuesday night as a couple of huge mistakes led to losing to the Boston Bruins in overtime, 3-2.
Mike Weber’s horrible giveaway in the third period resulted in the Sabres blowing a 2-1 lead and rookie Luke Adam took a double-minor penalty for high sticking in overtime that resulted in Mark Recchi tipping in Dennis Seidernberg’s shot for the game-winner.
Adam scored the first goal of his NHL career earlier in the game. Thomas Vanek also scored for Buffalo, who fell to 0-1-1 against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year.
Even with the loss, Buffalo has earned five out of six possible points over their last three games and are 3-1-1 over their last five contests. They begin a three game-home stand on Thursday against San Jose.
 Owning a 47-25 edge in rebounding, making 80 percent of its free throws and going 8-for-14 from behind the arc, St. Bonaventure defeated the Canisius College women’s basketball team 74-41 at the Reilly Center on Tuesday night. The Golden Griffins have dropped three straight and fall to 2-5 overall.
Freshman Jen Lennox led Canisius with eight points while junior Steph MacDonald had six points, nine rebounds and four assists. Freshman Jen Morabito had six points in a team-high 32 minutes while Courtney VandeBovenkamp and Melissa Gardner each had five points.
“For the third straight game, we’re continuing to get outhustled and not guarding well enough defensively,” Canisius coach Terry Zeh said. “We need to make a change in those aspects of our game to even have a chance at competing, let alone trying to think about winning a game.”
Continue reading ‘Canisius Women Lose to Bona In Hoops’
 Nazareth (6-1) owned the glass, outrebounding visiting Buffalo State (4-2), 49-34, in an 86-79 victory in a non-conference game tonight at Kidera Gymnasium.
Jake Simmons led Buffalo State with 26 points and five steals. Justin Mitchell added 16 points and six boards, and T.O. Jackson added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Nazareth never trailed in the first half, but the Bengals closed the opening 20 minutes knotted at 38-38. Buffalo State took a two-point lead early in the second half for its only lead of the game, but the Golden Flyers used a 16-3 run to pull away. The Bengals battled back, cutting the deficit to 79-77 with just under three minutes remaining, but Nazareth held Buffalo State off the rest of the way.
Buffalo State will travel to the Worcester (Mass.) Tournament this weekend and will open against Elms on Saturday at 7 p.m.
 In 1989, Don Henley, former lead singer of the classic rock band The Eagles, penned a classic that now more than ever seems precise in describing the Buffalo Bills. Scattered in his hit song “Heart of the Matter”, Henley scribed a lyric every Bills fan seeking to comprehend what happened this past Sunday subconsciously uttered inside their head.
“The more I know, the less I understand, all the things I thought I knew, I’m learning them again.”
Before Sunday’s 38-14 drubbing at the hands of the Minnesota Vikings, we thought we were at least beginning to establish these 2010 Bills. In spite of the porous record, which fell to 2-10 after Sunday, this appeared to be a team willing and able to go blow-for-blow with any team in the league… anytime and at any place.
Continue reading ‘Buffalo Bills: The Heart of the Matter’
 The season is over for Buffalo Bills right guard Kraig Urbik. He was placed on Injured Reserve Tuesday afternoon following a significant injury suffered last Sunday in the fourth quarter at Minnesota. Urbik becomes the 13th Bill to be placed on Injured Reserve this season.
To take his place on the active roster the Bills promoted guard Chad Rienhart from the practice squad. Sean Allen was also signed to the practice squad to fill Rinehart’s role.
Urbik had started the past two games at right guard in place of injured Eric Wood and played well. He came over to Buffalo on September 5, two days after he was waived by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Rinehart was signed to the Bills practice squad on October 18 after he released from the New York Jets practice squad five days earlier. The former third-round pick by Washington in the 2008 draft played four games at right guard for the Redskins.
Allen was on the Bills training camp roster this summer but was cut from the team.
 The Buffalo Sabres return to the ice tonight when they take on their division rival Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
it’s the second meeting of the season between the clubs. Boston won the first game on November 3 in Buffalo, 5-2.
The Sabres and Ryan Miller in particular on a bit of a hot streak. Buffalo won both their games over the weekend by way of shut out, blanking Columbus on Friday before traveling to Ottawa the next night and defeating the Senators in a shoot out. Miller stopped all 51 shots he faced over the weekend, not including the three he stopped in Saturday’s shoot out and has not allowed a goal in over 148 minutes .
Continue reading ‘Sabres Return To Ice Tonight In Boston’
 Four weeks into the college hoops season, and the worst fears of a long season from each of the Big 4 programs have already shown their collective ugly heads.
To be fair, St. Bonaventure and UB are showing some promise, but to think either are capable of an NCAA Tournament bid — or any postseason bid for that matter — is a bit far-fetched at this point. As for Canisius and Niagara, they’re fortunate the MAAC doesn’t exclude teams from their post-season conference tournament, or each school might have a tough time even getting to Bridgeport, Conneticut; site of the 2011 MAAC Tournament.
Negativity aside, the Bonnies, who won a thriller against UB Saturday in Olean, are showing some signs of hope. They are getting everything out of preseason All-Atlantic 10 selection Andrew Nicholson, who hit a long 16-footer in the waning seconds Saturday to break a 74-74 tie, eventually giving St. Bona the win. The 6-foot-9 forward is averaging 18.8 ppg and 9.2 rpg, and I’m dying to see who will cover him Tuesday when the Bonnies travel to New York City to take on Steve Lavin and the St. John’s Red Storm.
Continue reading ‘Big Four Hoops Struggling Out Of The Gate’
 The Buffalo Bills have claimed linebacker Pierre Woods off waivers from the New England Patriots Monday afternoon. Woods will take the roster spot of rookie linebacker Antonio Coleman, who was placed on Injured Reserve today following a knee injury suffered Sunday in Minnesota.
Woods had been with New England since signing with them as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He has 108 tackles and two sacks for his career, including a sack against the Detroit Lions this past Thanksgiving.
Continue reading ‘Bills Claim Pierre Woods Off Waivers’
 Buffalo Bills rookie outside linebacker Antonio Coleman has become the 12th player to land on the Injured Reserve list this season. Chan Gailey announced Monday afternoon that Coleman would miss the rest of the season with a knee injury suffered in the first quarter Sunday at Minnesota, but the injury will not require surgery.
Gailey also said that while offensive linemen Geoff Hangartner and Kraig Urbik are already ruled out of this Sunday’s game against Cleveland with knee injuries, neither has yet been ruled out to return again this season.
Continue reading ‘Antonio Coleman to Injured Reserve; More Likely to Follow’
 Senior guard Ogo Adegboye has been selected as the Atlantic 10 men’s basketball player of the week, the conference office announced on Monday.
The London native converted seven 3-pointers – one shy of the school record – for 24 points with a career-high 10 assists the help the Bonnies hang on for a 76-74 win over Buffalo on Saturday. He tied his previous career high 17 points and set personal high-water marks for 3-point makes and attempts in the first half alone and helped Bona’s to a 19-point lead by the 13:02 mark of the final stanza.
Continue reading ‘Adegboye Named A-10 Player of the Week’
For those hopeful the Buffalo Bills would collect their third win of the season Sunday at Minnesota, it wasn’t a good day. Others are quietly hoping the Bills continue to lose to improve their draft stock for 2011. If that was your angle Sunday, you didn’t have much luck(as in Andrew Luck) either.
While there’s still a month to go in the 2010 season and the NFL draft won’t be around for four-plus months, the bottom line is the Bills are 2-10. Like it or not, it’s time to start thinking about it.
Buffalo got blown out by the Vikings, 38-14 and didn’t get any help via the bottom of standings either. Buffalo came into Sunday slated to pick fourth in next April’s draft and by the time the team boarded their plane back to Western New York Sunday evening, they remain in the same position.
Continue reading ‘Bills Loss Doesn’t Help Draft Standing’
 Things looked promising for the Buffalo Bills in the opening minute of Sunday’s game at Minnesota when on the third play of the game rookie linebacker Arthur Moats nearly decapitated Brett Favre on his first pass attempt. The blindside hit not only resulted in a Drayton Florence interception, but sent the league’s all-time leading passer to the locker room with a shoulder injury.
It turned out be a blessing in disguise— for the Vikings.
Tarvaris Jackson entered the game and engineered four first half touchdowns and the Minnesota defense went into overdrive, punishing Ryan Fitzpatrick and anyone else who touched a football as the Vikings went on to (literally) pound the Bills, 38-14.
Continue reading ‘Bills Humbled By Vikings, 38-14′
 The Niagara men’s basketball team was defeated at the Iona Gaels, 82-58, in its second conference game of the season on Sunday at the Hynes Athletics Center.
“We are going through the peferct storm right now,” head coach Joe Mihalich said. “We are not healthy and are playing some really good teams like, like Iona. We have our young guys in some tough situations. We need to stay the course, get better and get healthy.”
Continue reading ‘Niagara Men’s Basketball Falls at Iona’
 When the Buffalo Bills face the Minnesota Vikings this afternoon, the biggest drama may be what players actually make it out to the football field.
Both teams have been decimated with injuries lately to important players and it won’t be until shortly before kickoff before we find out who’s even playing.
Starting cornerback Terrence McGee, right guard Eric Wood and tight end Shawn Nelson have already been ruled out for Buffalo. Linebacker Reggie Torbor and defensive end Dwan Edwards were placed on injured reserve late this week. Rookie nose tackle Torrel Troup will be a game-time decision with a fibula injury, even though he was able to practice on a limited basis Friday. If he can’t go, former first-round draft pick John McCargo will get the call. It would be the first action of the season for McCargo, who’s been inactive for each of the Bills 11 games this season.
Continue reading ‘Injury Questions Dominate Bills vs. Vikings Today’
 Andrew Nicholson’s jumper with 6.8 seconds remaining sent St. Bonaventure (4-2) to a 76-74 win over Buffalo (4-3) after the Bulls all but erased a 19-point second-half deficit down the stretch.
The Bulls trailed by 19 and mounted an extended comeback from the 13:02 mark on to turn what looked like a blowout into a nail-biter.
After whittling the lead down to 13 at the 5:53 mark, Buffalo held the Bonnies to just one field goal – the game-winner – over the remainder of the game. Byron Mulkey’s layup knotted the score at 74 with just 32 ticks left.
After a Buffalo timeout, St. Bonaventure worked its offense and found Nicholson open a step behind the stripe for a jumper that was all net.
Continue reading ‘Bona Wins Nailbiter Over UB in Men’s Hoops’
 The Buffalo Stampede got off on the right foot Saturday night, opening their basketball season with a resounding 132-114 win over Hudson Valley at Daemen College in their ACPBL debut.
Marcus Hall led the way for the Stampede with 27 points, seven rebounds, six steals and five blocked shots. Charles Walker added 23 points while Vinnie Darpino scored 19 and Jorge Ebakns chipped in with 16.
Price Jackson had a game-high 33 points for the Kingz.
Buffalo is home again next Satuday at Daemen College when they take on the Garden State Rebels at 7:30pm. Tickets are just $5.00 for general admission and $10.00 reserved seating.
 Ryan Miller is playing like the best goaltender in the world again and by no coincidence, the Buffalo Sabres are getting back to their winning ways.
For the second consecutive night Miller completely shot down the opposing offense, stopping all 32 Ottawa shots in regulation and overtime and all the Senators chances in a shootout. Thomas Vanek scored the lone goal of the shootout to give Buffalo a 1-0 road victory Saturday night and an important two points.
Continue reading ‘Miller Perfect Again in Sabres Shootout Win’
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I spoke with co-owner Ronnie Anderson this past week and I’m happy to announce a new Semi-Pro football franchise is coming to the city of Buffalo. The South Buffalo Celtics will be making their debut in 2011 and playing their home games at Tift Field.
Williamsville South quarterback Joe Licata won the 39th annual Connolly Cup in a ceremony Saturday afternoon at Ilio DiPaolo’s Restaurant in Blasdell. The Connolly Cup is awarded each year to the best high school football player in Western New York.
