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Tank You Very Much

Is it ever OK for sports teams to lose on purpose? I’m sure we’d all say, “Probably not”. After all, there’s a very real reason that gambling is strictly forbidden in baseball, and there’s a very real reason one of … Continue reading

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I do bite my thumb, sir!

A player from the Ottawa Senators got into a scuffle with one of the Buffalo Sabres last night, biting his thumb in the process. Well, now! Clearly he does quarrel. Draw, gentlemen! It’s Capulets like these Ottawans that make blood … Continue reading

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Sporting Notes

Stuff from sports: :: Every year in the various playoff periods for each sport, I’ll encounter a bit of logic that always escapes me: the idea that if your team loses in the playoffs, you should root for the team … Continue reading

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Let the gnashing of teeth begin

A couple of hours ago, the Buffalo Sabres went down to defeat against the Ottawa Senators, thus ending their season one series short of the Stanley Cup Finals — just where their season ended last year. I’ll leave the post-mortems … Continue reading

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The road back

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world … Continue reading

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Take heart, Buffalo!

I have to admit that a split of the first two games would not have shocked me. But going down 0-2 in the first two games does surprise me. Wow. So the Sabres are facing the biggest test of these … Continue reading

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Halfway There

Win number eight: Check. Eight more to go. (You know, I remember when, in my younger and more foolish days, I thought that the Stanley Cup playoffs take forever. Now, they just seem to whip right on by. The NBA … Continue reading

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Following hockey, the minimalist way

In our home we don’t have cable, so unless the hockey games are on one of the national networks or I’m someplace that does have cable, I can’t watch the games. Thus, a lot of times when the Sabres are … Continue reading

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We Believe!

Thanks to Buffalo Hodgepodge for pointing out this wonderful Sports Illustrated article about Buffalo and the Sabres. Weather was the last thing on our minds on Jan. 27, 1991. Not with paradise a mere 47 yards away in Tampa. I … Continue reading

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