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After joyously watching archnemesis Bill Belichick chuck a sideline phone in disgust six days earlier, Buffalo Bills fans were treated Sunday afternoon to another sideline moment that brought smiles to their faces and the faces of dental hygienists everywhere. During ...

The beard is in its budding stages, more scraggly stubble than plush bush. And in the coming days and weeks there’s sure to be growing pains as the follicles fill in and begin digging into my cheeks and my chinny, ...

While racking my brain for ways to say good riddance to this (expletive-deleted) year, several home run calls popped into my head. Like Michael Kay’s “See ya!” And Bob Prince’s “Kiss it goodbye!” And Jeff Kingery’s “That ball is going, ...

The email blind-sided him. Caught him totally by surprise. “I’m reading it and re-reading it,’’ recalled Ron Kampff of the December 3rd correspondence. “And I’m thinking to myself, ‘Are you kidding me? No way! Is this real?’ ’’ It was ...

Josh Allen is well on his way to one of the greatest statistical seasons in Buffalo football history. But there’s another player in the City of Good Neighbors who’s racking up even more impressive numbers. Only difference is this guy’s ...

Josh Whetzel sits at the kitchen table of his Brighton apartment, talking into a microphone as the University at Buffalo men’s basketball game unfolds before him on his laptop screen. Were this a normal year, he’d be in the arena, ...

Just when I’m ready to proclaim that sports aren’t all that important in the grand scheme of things, something powerful occurs that sets me straight. And this time I can thank Buffalo Bills fans for helping me see the light. ...

Like many subjected to a barrage of annoying robo calls, Naomi Silver usually avoids answering her phone if she doesn’t recognize the number on the screen. But in recent days she’s been less guarded. The woman who oversees Rochester Community ...

Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll could have relied solely on the stat sheet. He could have cited how quarterback Josh Allen has accounted for 24 touchdowns (19 passing, five rushing) through nine games — numbers that exceed Tom Brady ...

Right about now — just three words into this column — I would have been interrupted by my cat, Sassy. She already would have leapt up onto my desk and started meowing orders for me to stop typing, so I ...

Just when 72-year-old sportswriter Lary Bump thought he had seen it all on the baseball diamond, he wound up witnessing things he’d never witnessed before. Like an 11-run first inning. And a four-base error. And 11 pitchers being used by ...

Wish I could tell Syracuse fans the Orange hit rock bottom with last week’s loss to a Liberty University team that seemingly joined the ranks of major college football just five minutes ago. But truth be told, things could get ...

If Alex Smith had his druthers, he would have scripted a different ending Sunday afternoon. Rather than a 30-10 loss in which he put up pedestrian numbers after entering the game just before halftime, he would have rallied his Washington ...

Extrapolating numbers can be an exercise in futility, but I couldn’t help myself. So, just for the fun of it, I got out my phone calculator and did some multiplication. If Josh Allen were to continue doing what he’s done ...

By the time all’s said-and-done with the conclusion of the NBA Finals in two weeks, Jeff Van Gundy will have spent roughly three months inside the bubble at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Fortunately, he and fellow network basketball ...