The phrase that sets off the loudest set of alarm bells in the sports world -- for me, at least -- is "he's an even better person than he is a player."
User comments on news sites, while vital to interactive storytelling in the digital age, often read like scribblings on a bathroom stall: anonymous, offensive and full of hate.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The Buffalo Bills consider two-time Super Bowl-winner Mike Shanahan a legitimate candidate to be their next head coach.
In a recent interview with The Buffalo News, newly minted NHL Players Association boss Paul Kelly was asked about the 600-plus page Collective Bargaining Agreement, a document forged in the wake of the season-long lockout of 2004-05 and one that both the union and the league are still trying to comprehend fully.
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the nation's worst act of domestic terrorism, was put to death by lethal injection at 8:14 a.m. ET Monday.
The below statements were taken by Court TV "American Terrorist," a book about Timothy McVeigh by Buffalo News reporters Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck:
SI.com: Belief in a dreamupdated: Thu Apr 12 2007 16:09:00
BUFFALO -- There were 12 of us watching the game that January evening, a dozen converted Bills fans huddled around a television in the den of a rented house in the city's University Heights section. I had lived in Buffalo for just under 42 months, but my education as a Buffalonian was nearly complete. I knew the difference between Albright-Knox, the city's famed modern art gallery, and Chuck Knox, the Bills' best coach before Marv Levy. Pronunciations such as Cheektowaga and Tonawanda, the tongue-twisting towns that tripped up the new television anchors, rolled from my lips as if I were a Niagara Frontier native. And while I hated winter in Western New York, a season that lasted longer than many marriages, I had come to admire the heartiness of my fellow Buffalonians as they combated snow drifts as tall as Manute Bol and wind-chill readings that often dipped below zero.
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