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THE ULTIMATE SPORTS ROAD TRIP TURNS 25

Artvoice sports journalists hit milestone this week This is the story of two friends with a crazy idea… “What if we could travel across

April 21, 2023

Featured·News·Sports

HOW THE SABRES COULD HAVE MADE THE PLAYOFFS

The points that got away By Andrew Kulyk This past week’s spate of games was a feel good run for long suffering Buffalo Sabres

April 17, 2023

Featured·Games·News·Sports

LOTS TO UNPACK AS BUFFALO BISONS SET TO ‘PLAY BALL’

35th season downtown in the league’s oldest ballpark By Andrew Kulyk Check out the date. It was still March and the Buffalo Bisons took

April 3, 2023

Games·Local News·Sports

SABRES PRIDE NIGHT. A TRIUMPH? OR AN EMBARASSMENT?

Russian defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin throws last minute wrench into plans By Andrew Kulyk Let’s start by saying this. The Buffalo Sabres organization fired on

March 29, 2023

Featured·Games·Local News·Sports

HOCKEY IN THE DESERT: Arizona Coyotes new home is the smallest in the NHL

By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell TEMPE, ARIZONA…Mullett Arena. It is the third home for the Arizona Coyotes since the franchise moved from Winnipeg

March 11, 2023

Featured·Local News·Sports

DOMINIK HASEK’S FIGHT FOR UKRAINE

Sabres’ Hall of Fame goaltender speaks, and speaks, and speaks By Andrew Kulyk The ugly and horrific war in Ukraine, which is almost a

February 14, 2023

Featured·News·Sports

PHILADELPHIA PRIDE NIGHT TURNS UGLY

The bigger picture about Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov that no one is reporting  By Andrew Kulyk It’s been two days since the explosive sequence

January 19, 2023

Arts & Culture·News·Sports

 BUFFALO STATE ICE SKATING CLASSES:

Saturdays 2nd semester: Jan. 14 – Apr. 1 2023 10 weeks for $100 (non profit , run by the State of New York ) 10 am/ 11 am/

January 10, 2023

Activities·Arts & Culture·Education·Featured·Health·Lifestyle·Sports

6 Reasons Why High-Quality Shoes Are Essential

Most people think of shoes purely as a utilitarian item- something to protect our feet from the elements and make it through the day.

November 23, 2022

Arts & Culture·Featured·Health·Lifestyle·Sports

James Ferraby’s Advice for Raising a Future Golf Pro

As a parent, it can be incredibly exciting to discover that your child has a special talent, and it’s completely natural to feel the

November 21, 2022

Sports

Japan Gambling Tips: Sports Betting at Casumo

Gambling is a popular pastime in Japan, and there are many different ways to gamble. Some people prefer the excitement of casino games such

November 4, 2022

Arts & Culture·Betting·Finance·Games·Sports

HAVING FUN, SABRES FANS?

Homestand has KeyBank Center partying like it’s 1999 By Andrew Kulyk The pavilion at the downtown arena serves as the main entrance and exit

November 3, 2022

Featured·Local News·Sports

THE MOST ANTICIPATED SEASON IN YEARS

Sabres take to the ice with heightened expectations By Andrew Kulyk Buffalo Sabres General Manager Kevyn Adams sounds off a familiar refrain every time

October 14, 2022

Featured·News·Sports

Expert Automotive Retoucher Mickael Laujin Explains How to Work with Speed and Consistency

This won’t be news to anyone, but the automotive industry is big business, with many companies pulling in revenues in the billions. This is

April 7, 2022

Arts & Culture·Sports·Visual Arts

Electrical Engineer Ajeya Gupta on Tech Leadership in the Automotive Industry 

The automotive industry has a longstanding relationship with technology. At times, technology has provided more comfortable driving experiences, while at other times it has

February 18, 2022

Sports·Travel

Everything You Need To Know About The Geelong Cup

The Geelong Cup is one of the seemingly innumerable big races during Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival, taking on particular significance because of the coveted

November 1, 2021

Arts & Culture·Betting·Events·Featured·Sports

The Art of Gunsmithing, with Brett Jansen 

These days, I’d bet that most people don’t know any professional gunsmiths. In fact, the term “gunsmith,” to many people, may bring about images

August 30, 2021

Business·Sports

BIG CHANGES COMING TO MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Buffalo Bisons to feel immediate effects on rules to speed up games Are you one of those fans who have attended with your kids

March 28, 2018

Arts & Culture·Sports

NHL VENUES NEW CHAMP: DETROIT By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

And it’s Little Caesars Arena The first glance you take at the seating bowl of Detroit’s spanking new Little Caesars Arena is one of

March 18, 2018

Arts & Culture·Featured·Sports

NHL Hockey: A Lost Buffalo Sabres Generation

Young fan base tuning out as team’s fortunes swoon By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Go back to Christmas vacation in  the mid and

February 21, 2018

Arts & Culture·Sports

March Madness: Upsets Highlight Topsy-Turvy NCAA season

By Antoine Moose Jr. The NCAA Tournament is among the most unpredictable sporting events of them all. Will the best team in the country

February 20, 2018

Arts & Culture·Sports

FIVE COLLEGE BIG MEN THAT COULD CHANGE THE NBA

By Moose Jr. NBA General Managers are drooling at the prospect of five potential big man stars available in the 2018 NBA Draft in

February 13, 2018

Sports

ONE AWFUL SABRES HOMESTAND By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Accountability and take charge mindset in short supply Two plays aptly frame the horror show Sabres fans have had to endure this past

February 7, 2018

Sports

Czech Mate?

by Matt Cole 9-time NHL All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist, 2-time Stanley Cup winner, and future NHL Hall of Famer, Jaromir Jagr was placed on waivers Sunday

January 30, 2018

Sports

NHL’S HOTTEST TEAM… VEGAS By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Expansion team sits atop league standings While beleaguered Sabres fans slog through yet another dreadful season, one that will be the seventh season

January 26, 2018

Sports

WORLD JUNIORS REDUX By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Riveting final, outdoor game and poor ticket sales By many metrics, this year’s IIHF World U-20 Championship, better known as the World Juniors,

January 10, 2018

Sports

OUTDOOR GAME JUST SAVED THE WORLD JUNIORS By Andrew Kulyk

Record attendance, thrilling finish make for exciting event  The much heralded Outdoor Game. Today’s spectacle at New Era Field played before 44,592 full-throated

December 29, 2017

Sports

WORLD JUNIORS… WHERE ARE THE FANS?

Opening of tournament in Buffalo a disappointment By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Perhaps it all started to go downhill when they rolled out

December 28, 2017

Sports

MATT MOULSON’S FALL INTO THE ABYSS By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Sabres winger exiled to AHL In this day and age of guaranteed contracts in the NHL, obscene amounts of money paid out to

December 12, 2017

Sports

EVANDER KANE TRADE RUMORS By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Hottest Sabres player this season likely to be dealt In an all too familiar script that long-suffering Sabres fans have experienced these past

November 30, 2017

Sports

COLLABORATOR ALEXANDER OVECHKIN By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Russian player takes to social media to support his pal Vladimir Putin The Washington Capitals came to Buffalo last week, and with them was

November 15, 2017

Sports·Uncategorized

HOCKEY IN SIN CITY By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Vegas Golden Knights dazzles with new arena and white hot team Think back to 1970 and the NHL’s newest expansion team, the Buffalo

November 1, 2017

Sports

P.K. SUBBAN… RAISING THE BAR ON THE ATHLETE PROTEST ISSUE

NHL star attempts to bridge the divide By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell If everyone is tired of the entire anthem issue and the

October 19, 2017

Sports

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

Sabres ramp up the culinary delights at KeyBank Center By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Anyone remembering the old days at Memorial Auditorium surely

October 3, 2017

Sports

CELERY SET TO RETIRE FROM RACING By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Beloved Bisons mascot running for the final time next week. As far as drama goes, this will be the exciting finale to what has

August 24, 2017

Sports

THE BISONS CLIMB OUT OF THE ABYSS by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Team’s turnaround brings back some respectability As far as turnarounds are concerned, this is not a complete 180. But at least it’s something.

August 11, 2017

Sports

FIRE SHAPIRO? BLUE JAYS ORGANIZATION IN TAILSPIN

Bisons reeling with worst season in the modern era By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell It was a feel good moment when the 2016

July 21, 2017

Sports

AARON SANCHEZ RETURNS TO BUFFALO

Blue Jays ace dishes up another Bisons loss in rehab stint Aaron Sanchez came. He pitched. He lost. He addressed the media, sometimes patiently

July 6, 2017

Sports

WEIRD MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

It’s all about the merchandising Can you even imagine the Buffalo Bisons, a staid franchise and baseball brand here in Buffalo going back

June 23, 2017

Sports

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS DEMANDING SALARY JUSTICE by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Class action lawsuit could move forward this year How much does a Buffalo Bison player make? Not very much, if reports on salaries from

June 8, 2017

Sports

The AUD – AT COCA COLA FIELD’S HALL OF FAME ROOM by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Ballpark’s feature amenity now showcasing the Aud It’s one of those stadium amenities that is easy to miss. Right off the main concourse, close

May 25, 2017

Sports

Buffalo Bisons priming the pump with “No Rain Guarantee”

In this week’s print edition of Artvoice, Play Ball reviewed last week’s awful sequence of weather events which made for a terrible time attending

May 13, 2017

Sports

Rain, Rain, Go Away: Bisons Homestand Turns into Weather Disaster by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

As far as weather events go, the Buffalo Bisons have pretty much seen it all. Such is baseball life playing in a northern climate,

May 11, 2017

Sports

WHY ARE THE BLUE JAYS SO AWFUL?

Bisons’ parent club in early meltdown. By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell For a team that made it to the American League Championship Series

April 27, 2017

Sports

NEW LOOK BISONS HOPING FOR SUCCESS

Team looking for first pennant since 2005 By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Team looking for first pennant since 2005 By Andrew Kulyk and

April 14, 2017

Sports

TIME FOR HOCKEY ENFORCERS

Sidney Crosby Incidents Show Need For Hockey’s Bad Boys by Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell The hockey world, and all of social media, was

March 30, 2017

Sports

IT’S TIME FOR HOOPS! By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

NCAA basketball tournament returning to Buffalo for the 6th time By the time you’re reading this, no doubt you’ve seen the hustle and bustle

March 16, 2017

Sports

Martial arts legend Frank Dux’s so-called ‘non-existent’ teacher Senzo Tanaka’s death, travel records found

By Frank Parlato; For nearly 30 years critics have disputed martial arts legend, Frank W. Dux’s claim that he was taught as a

March 15, 2017

Sports

Dux: On backbiters, Bruce Lee, bogus ninjas and fake news

By Frank Dux; Few people are aware of how the late Bruce Lee – although a world famous star of martial arts films –

March 7, 2017

Sports

No Playoff Run This Year

Disastarous weekend leaves Sabres reeling By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Technically and mathematically speaking, the Buffalo Sabres are still alive for a 7th

March 2, 2017

Sports

THE NHL TURNS 100 Five Sabres make it to the greatest players of all time By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

The National Hockey League turns 100 this year. There’s a snazzy logo, some chest puffing, but considering the significance that this league is older

February 17, 2017

Sports

The Difference between Traditional Martial Arts and Mixed Martial Arts

 By Frank Dux; Despite its name, ‘Mixed Martial Arts’ is not, technically speaking, a martial art. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a professional sport.

February 15, 2017

Sports

EDMONTON’S ROGERS PLACE… THE BEST ARENA EVER?

New NHL venue living up to the hype By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell EDMONTON…At first glance, the structure looks like a giant spaceship

February 2, 2017

Sports

THE SABRES AT MID SEASON

They are a lottery team, not a playoff contender By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell That was a nice head fake wasn’t it? Got

January 19, 2017

Sports

WORLD JUNIORS: TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES?

Buffalo on Deck to Host Event Next Year By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell TORONTO…The 2017 IIHF World Juniors hockey tournament is just about

January 5, 2017

Sports

2016: THE YEAR IN SPORTS By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell

Our annual year in sports favorites can be summed up by yet another familiar refrain…no Bills in playoffs, no Sabres in playoffs, no Bisons

December 22, 2016

Sports·Uncategorized

NHL YOUTH MOVEMENT

Sabres getting younger and faster to keep up with changing game By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Saturday’s Sabres matinee at Key Bank Center

December 8, 2016

Sports

ALL THOSE SABRES PROSPECTS

“Sabres University” is on display right here and right now By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Here’s the list: Nicholas Baptiste, Hudson Fasching, Casey

November 24, 2016

Sports

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THE SABRES/LEAFS RIVALRY?

FANS EXPERIENCE A YAWNER AT LAST WEEK’S CLASH By Andrew Kulyk and Peter Farrell Back in the 90s, as the Buffalo Sabres ended their

November 11, 2016

Sports

UFC Fanboy: Insanity Hits Madison Square Garden

By Matt Cole; The long awaited, highly anticipated, arrival of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the Ultimate Fighting Championship is finally here! After declaring

October 1, 2016

Sports