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Jim Kelly, Part II. This isn’t going to be easy. But then, facing a painful truth never is. And right now, Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy is going through a period of denial regarding Kelly’s value to the team. No ...

There are few things that sports- media types love more than a boiling quarterback controversy. Hey, it’s something to write about, something to talk about, something to argue about. Juicy stuff. In Buffalo, the “C” word hasn’t surfaced yet, but ...

easy. When I was a kid in Louisiana about 40 years ago, I ate, slept and breathed the St. Louis Cardinals. Musial, Gibson, Flood, Boyer, Javier, McCarver – even Harry Caray, when he was the best play-by- play announcer in ...

6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Monday night as just a bad day at the office, just one of those times when it’s your turn to get dumped on. That isn’t to say it wasn’t a bad day at the ...

Maybe it’s a question like, “How far is up?” But it is there for the asking whenever there is school budget vote: Are high school sports programs worth the expense? And once that question is raised, it is followed in ...

favored by just about everybody to win the American Football Conference’s East Division and by almost just about everybody to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. What’s that? You think you know why? Jim Kelly? Are you kidding? There ...

Long ago and far away I remember a child’s sadness when Joe DiMaggio, “The Yankee Clipper,” couldn’t get around on the fast ball anymore and retired. Surely, there never would be another like him. But before you could say “There’ll ...

refusal to disclose the details of the six proposals submitted that would privatize operation of the county’s three golf courses: Genesee Valley, Churchville and Durand Eastman Park. There was even an editorial in Thursday’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle chastising the ...

games? If not, then here are a few numbers worth digesting: NATIONAL LEAGUE – 15,266 empty seats for Colorado Rockies at Florida Marlins; 30,133 empty seats for Los Angeles Dodgers at St. Louis Cardinals; 27,714 empty seats for San Francisco ...

And make no mistake about it, the possibilities are many, as suggested by fact, fiction, hearsay, eyewitness reports, firsthand information, fourth-hand information, Wallace haters and Wallace lovers. No joke. Depending on where you are getting your information–not to be confused ...

you’ll discover how difficult it is to focus on one subject. The menu is overwhelming: the Olympic Games, the Rochester Raging Rhinos, the Rochester Red Wings, the Buffalo Bills training camp… With that in mind, here are a few thoughts ...

“I’m sorry,” I said after 2 1/2 minutes of uncontrollable laughter that left my face hurting, “but I thought you said something about going to the Bills training camp.” “I did, you dope!” he snapped, obviously irritated at my incredulous ...

Buffalo Bills games? If you’ll excuse the cliche, been there, done that. The Super Bowl? Thirty seconds after it starts, it’s just another football game (except that it has more TV timeouts and an interminable halftime show during which you ...

your typewriter and your black-and-white TV set: Frontier Field opened Thursday and it’s a monumental improvement over Silver Stadium. Go ahead. Gag. Toss your cookies if it’ll make you feel better. But the truth is–and if your dispute this, you ...

Like a bad reputation, the question just won’t go away: Is the U.S.–what’s more, is Rochester–really ready for professional soccer? Everyone associated with the A-League nods smugly and says oh, yes, soccer’s time has come. They’ll remind you that the ...