By Patrick Giblin Similarly, on Oct. 30, 2001, about a month and a half after 9/11, the New York Yankees were hosts to the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the World Series, the first game of the series… Read More ›
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Kobe Bryant and Buddy Holly have more in common than the way they died
By Richard Lee In a busy media week that included the Super Bowl, the Iowa Caucuses and the State of the Union, the anniversary of one of the music world’s most tragic events did not receive the attention it usually… Read More ›
Q&A with Ceraulo and Wilt on reporting from Miami about the Super Bowl
Six St. Bonaventure students spent the past week in Miami, working side-by-side with media professionals covering the buildup to today’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. Joe Ceraulo and Stephen Wilt, who initiated… Read More ›
Stern was both smart and lucky
By Evan Weiner The former Commissioner of the National Basketball Association David Stern has passed away at the age of 77. Stern was the league’s boss from 1984 through Feb. 1, 2014. In many ways, he was the league. There… Read More ›
‘Wade in the Water’ has a legacy beyond basketball
By Richard Lee “Wade in the Water,” the song that greeted the St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball teams during the 1960s and 1970s, returned to campus on Dec. 7 when the Bona community celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Final… Read More ›
Words at their worst
By Paul Wieland Assaulted by walls of sound, eddies of fury and windrows of wonder, America’s sports fans hear words at their worst, and at their own peril. In the thousands of sports broadcasts and telecasts exposed to the eyes… Read More ›
Taro Tsujimoto: The story of a fictitious Buffalo Sabre takes on new relevance
By Paul Wieland Fake news…fake news… How about “real” fake news. The nirvana of hoaxers…my nirvana… After a decade as a reporter on two Buffalo newspapers, I went over to the dark side, selling my journalistic soul to General Motors,… Read More ›
Women’s sports suffers from lack of coverage – in WNY and across the U.S.
By Dominic LoVallo Abstract In Buffalo sports media, a heavy workload goes into covering the Buffalo Bills, the Buffalo Sabres and even the University at Buffalo Bulls football and basketball teams. A decent amount of effort goes into covering the… Read More ›
What if politics was more like sports?
By Richard Lee When sports and politics collide, the debate that follows usually revolves around the question of whether politics should kept out of sports. But let’s flip the question and explore what might happen if we injected a bit… Read More ›
College ADs and SIDs should attend college journalism courses
By Evan Weiner Are journalists who cover sports hard hitting, take no prisoners reporters or are they extensions of sports teams? The latest blowup between a team, in this case a university, Bradley University, and a reporter, Dave Reynolds of… Read More ›
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