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Feeling A Bit Homesick »

I came across two awesome websites for us Buffalonians.
One is a great site for Buffalo sports called The Buffalo Sports Museum and another, for those of us that have moved from the Queen City, Buffalo Ex-Pat.
I love this quote from the text of the latter:
“Now in the same way that Dan Quayle is no Jack [...]

Buffalo Sabres, like Bills, being rewarded for mediocrity »

Two weeks from today, the Buffalo Sabres will be in their second day of training camp. In a rare quirk of scheduling, they will begin camp before the Bills have even played their first regular-season game.
So the best time of year in Buffalo sports is nearly upon us, stretching from late summer [...]

Unpaid Parking Ticket Leads To Nightmare »

This Makes Me Sick!!
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/767924.html

Woman details stay in Holding Center
Linda Arthur moves slowly on arthritic knees. She’s 60 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, and a breast-cancer survivor who reaches for her medicine at noon each day.
And she’s dangerous.
Or at least she was treated as a danger to society for a weekend in [...]

A Very Interesting Read »

Sunken Ship at Center of Legal Tug of War
State, research group battle for ownership of sunken schooner

The shipwreck hunters who want to raise an old schooner from the bottom of Lake Erie and put it on display in the Buffalo harbor have been entangled in a five-year federal court battle with the [...]

One Of Those Things I Miss »

After rainy ending last year, Zappa gets in a full set at Square
You get a strange crowd at a free concert. And, if the 5-year-old with a mohawk yelling “Go Zappa!” was any indication, you get the strangest crowd at a free Zappa Plays Zappa concert. Strange in a good way, though, as was [...]

Redefining Fantasy Football!!!! »

Krystal Gray first turned heads as a football player when she was 4 years old. That’s not about to stop when she suits up in the Lingerie Football League.
Gray, 23, is the quarterback for the New York Majesty, one of the 10 franchises in the Lingerie Football League that single-handedly redefines fantasy football.
The league [...]

Tragedy Outside of Buffalo, NY »

I don’t know why I waited so long to post anything on this. The plane crash Thursday night, near Buffalo really hit me hard.First, it was within a mile of my Mother’s house. Slightly further to my Brother’s.It’s a neighborhood that I know people in, although I did not know the people in the house [...]

Son’s tribute highlights memorial service for Tim Russert »

Luke Russert: “I love you, Dad. And in his words, let us all ‘go get ’em!’ ”
Luke Russert borrows from ‘Big Russ & Me’ to comfort all those who mourn newsman from Buffalo
WASHINGTON — Walking to the podium at the Kennedy Center before a crowd of 2,000 that included a former president, [...]

Thoughts of Home »

I find myself increasingly thinking about home, which, in case you’ve been on the moon,is Buffalo, NY.I won’t go into why I’m not there, because that’s been talked about until it’s blue in the face, but I’m here, and this is becoming more homey, but it’s not really home. Summer in Buffalo is so amazing, [...]