Buffalo Looks North for an Economic Lift and a Fan Base From Toronto
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A plan to play some home games in Toronto is being portrayed by Buffalo Bills officials not as a threat, but as the best hope for the Bills to remain in western New York.
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The Buffalo Sabres will host the Pittsburgh Penguins at Ralph Wilson Stadium on January 1 as the NHL returns to its outdoor roots, the league announced on Monday.
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The sports world is giving New Yorkers more than their usual quotient of agita recently.
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THE North-East could see investment and employm
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NFL NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and state Senator Charles Schumer will meet with Bills owner Ralph Wilson to explore ways to keep the team in Buffalo. With NFL approval, Wilson scheduled some Bills exhibition and regular-season games at the 50,000-capacity Rogers Centre in Toronto. The decision has led to speculation the franchise will one day move north. "Commissioner Goodell is ...
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BUFFALO, New York  - The NHL will start 2008 by returning to its outdoor roots in a bid to take the sporting spotlight when the Pittsburgh Penguins face off against the Buffalo Sabres in the Winter Classic on Tuesday.
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Celebration replaced trepidation inside a Manhattan club. The NHL hosted a big bash this week, kicking off a new season free of lockout clouds, labor unrest and questions about the league's viability.
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The Great One hit town yesterday and he sure was welcome. He made it feel a bit more like winter. Wayne Gretzky was a pretty fair player in his day, and his time as an executive have been equally well spent.
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The Canadian basketball intelligentsia hoped and believed the sport would boom here with the arrival of the Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995.
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MONTREAL -- The National Hockey League is hoping a dose of high-tech design and a dollop of fashion will help revitalize a sport deemed too dull by many fans south of the Canadian border.
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The Carolina Hurricanes will raise their championship banner when they host the Buffalo Sabres in one of the NHL's three season-opening games Wednesday night.
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Buffalo's decision to draft running back Willis McGahee in the first round of the 2003 draft is finally paying dividends.
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Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Canada&#39;s first big league baseball team appeared set to move to Washington.
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Yessir, that was one whopper of an offer the players laid at the feet of National Hockey League owners last week in Toronto.
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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans â-pring is coming earlier than it used to.
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With Rutgers leading Buffalo, 21-0, after the first quarter, the question for the crowd of 43,091 Thursday became which Scarlet Knights player would wow the fans more.