Due to the impending storm set to hit Western New York on Wednesday, the University at Buffalo is closed all day and therefore the Bulls’ planned athletic events have also been rescheduled.
The men’s basketball game versus Toledo scheduled for 7 pm Wednesday has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 3 at 2 pm in Alumni Arena. Reserved parking for the rescheduled date will not be in effect due to classes. The game will be broadcast live on Time-Warner Cable Sportsnet as well as WECK-AM (1230).
The Bulls’ Football National Signing Day Event planned for Wednesday has been rescheduled for Thursday at 5:30 pm at the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre. Head coach Jeff Quinn will announce and show video clips of his 2011 class. Fans that cannot attend can view the event online at buffalobulls.com.
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If you’ve followed high school basketball in Western New York this season, you know Jamestown forward Jaysean Paige is one of those “must see” talents. To think, however, the Red Raiders are a one-man show is a big mistake.
With Paige off to a sluggish start Tuesday night in Jamestown’s ECIC match up at Frontier, Senior forward Darin Butts took on the starring role. Butts scored a game-high 28 points, including 12 in the decisive third quarter as the Red Raiders improved to 10-2 with a 76-59 victory over the Falcons.
“He’s (Butts) been playing really good basketball for the past few weeks,” Jamestown head coach Ben Drake said. “He got off to a slow start this year for whatever reason but recently he’s been playing really well for us. He’s been starting for us for three years and he’s the kind of guy that fills up the stat sheet.”
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So the Buffalo Bills stagger to the finish line, Buffalo Sabres fans may finally see light at the end of the tunnel, Buffalo Bisons have a new manager, Buffalo Bandits kick off their season and a certain publisher from this very website and a starting NFL safety may end up fighting each other— for charity.
Buffalo also said hello to a well known coach joining the Bills staff and sadly said goodbye to one of the team’s all-time great running backs.
A former Bills wide receiver gets to the brink of the Hall of Fame again and a potential future Sabres Hall of Famer starts to turn it around in net after a subpar season.
We celebrated the best the world had to offer in junior hockey and mourned the 20th anniversary of arguably the single-worst moment in Bills history.
That’s the kind of month it’s been in the world of Buffalo sports.
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This simple three paragraph statement emailed to the media at 2:36pm Tuesday afternoon says it all. Terry Pegula will be the new Buffalo Sabres owner.
“The Buffalo Sabres today announced that Tom Golisano has reached an agreement to sell the Buffalo Sabres and its related companies to Terry Pegula. The agreement, completed at 1 p.m. today, is subject to certain closing conditions including review and approval by the National Hockey League. It is expected the NHL review process will take several weeks to complete.
Tom Golisano and Larry Quinn will hold a press conference on Thursday at Noon in HSBC Arena. There will be no further comment until the press conference.
Terry Pegula will not be at Thursday’s press conference.”
When Reggie Witherspoon asked Byron Mulkey to redshirt his senior season just slightly more than a year ago, perhaps the point guard was discouraged from getting a chance to play on a conference championship team. After all, the Bulls had six other seniors returning to the team last year and had advanced all the way to the MAC conference championship game the year prior.
Mulkey, a former starter for Witherspoon who averaged more than 30 minutes per game as a freshman, had fallen out of favor with the UB head coach at the tail end of 2008-09 and was asked to redshirt last year in favor of John Boyer to start at point guard. Since both were seniors, Witherspoon couldn’t afford to head into 2010-11 without a veteran point guard. Plus, there simply weren’t enough minutes for both players.
Things didn’t work out all that bad. Boyer led the nation in assists-to-turnover ratio and the Bulls won 18 games, reaching the MAC quarterfinals.
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Senior Kourtney Brown was named MAC East Player of the Week for the third time this season on Monday afternoon, following a week where she became UB’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder. The honor is the third of the season for Brown and her second in the last three weeks.
Brown became UB’s all-time leading scorer as she averaged 31.0 points and 13.5 rebounds on the week, while adding 4.5 blocks per contest. Brown had 33 points and 16 rebounds in a UB’s win over Central Michigan where she set both school records. She also had six blocks in the win over the Chippewas. Brown followed that up with 29 points and 11 rebounds in Buffalo’s win over Ball State.
In the latest national rankings which were released this afternoon, Brown is currently sixth in the country in scoring, fourth in rebounding, seventh in field goal percentage and 14th in blocked shots. Brown’s 14 double-doubles this season are also tied for 3rd in the nation.
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