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FC Buffalo season preview series: The plan

blog by Ben Tsujimoto  • 

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As FC Buffalo enters its third season as an amateur soccer club, the direction of the organization will continue to take shape. Given the inherent difficulties in running a minor league team—volatile rosters,…

Sports

Quick thoughts on the Bills’ first round

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In what was a bit of a surprise, General Manager Buddy Nix and the Buffalo Bills’ war room stood pat at the #10 pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft first round, landing…

Entertainment

Podcast update: Nick Mendola goes Hollywood with Rich Herbeck

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{video_photo_caption}Who's in that spooky cabin? Why, it's Nick Mendola!

Hollywood seems a long way from Buffalo—well, it actually is a long way from Buffalo, but, you know, culturally—so it’s always interesting to see one of our own make good out West. On…

Sports

FC Buffalo settles on majority of roster, new faces abound

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FC Buffalo announced Thursday night that 17 more players have committed for this summer’s NPSL season, and 13…

News

Nick Mendola: fired up about Darcy Regier, deadline moves - PODCAST

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{video_photo_caption}Why is Nick smiling? Maybe Darcy Regier just winked at him.

The notoriously acerbic commenters at BuffaloNews.com are mixed in their opinions. Goose’s Roost is delightfully obtuse.…

Arts + Culture

Audio Buffalo + Buffalo.com: This is what we look like

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{video_photo_caption}Audio Buffalo + Buffalo.com staff at Casa di Pizza in Buffalo.

Last night, the Audio Buffalo podcasters—whose fine work you can hear every day on Buffalo.com/Audio—got together with members of the…

Entertainment

Nick Mendola, Audio Buffalo coming to Buffalo.com on Feb. 1

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{video_photo_caption}Nick Mendola is coming to Buffalo.com.

Consider the great podcasters in today’s digital world. Mark Maron. Adam Carolla. Those ladies who do the Stuff…

Sports

FC Buffalo: A new leaf

blog by Ben Tsujimoto  • 

{video_photo_caption}Photo of Blitzer lineup courtesy of Nate Benson

FC Buffalo soccer fans are getting accustomed to new faces, and due to the nature of the amateur National Premier Soccer League, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2010 team MVP Daniel Stevens buoyed his All-Star season into a full time gig in Finland with…

Grub + Pub

I drank beer, talked about it

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Beer buffs Chris Groves, Ethan Cox and Nick Mendola started “Craft Beer Talk” in 2010, quickly becoming one of the most reputable online sources for craft beer and brewing information.

These local guys…

Neighborhood

FC Buffalo’s Winter’s Wolves at Town Ballroom

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FC Buffalo, a men's amateur soccer team that participates in the NPSL, held a fundraiser at Town Ballroom on Saturday evening to showcase new apparel, offer season tickets and unveil the brand-new mascot (pictured extensively). The mascot has rather intensely sharp…

Sports

Klinsmann takeover: A local reaction

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{video_photo_caption}Photo of Juergen Klinsmann by flickr.com user Naturalblu

I thought Bob Bradley’s job was safe when the United States fought back from losing to Panama in the group stage to advance to the Gold Cup Final against Mexico.  Apparently, U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati didn’t agree, as he relieved…

Entertainment

WECK loses its meat

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{video_photo_caption}There's a mess at WECK.

Don’t know why, don’t know how, but the social media world is abuzz—abuzz!—with the news that Brad Riter and Nick Mendola have left Culver Communications and WECK 1230-AM.  Riter and Mendola had led a charge championing “real”…

Sports

10 things to know about FC Buffalo

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{video_photo_caption}FC Buffalo photo from fcbuffalo.org

The FC Buffalo Blitzers open their NPSL slate on Sunday with a home match against the FC Reading Revolution at 3 p.m. in Robert…

Entertainment

Mid-day Mendola

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Even though media members rarely report on other media members, we figured we’d buck the trend.  One of Buffalo’s beloved talk show hosts, Nick Mendola of WECK 1230, has been promoted to…

Entertainment

WECK Birthday Blowout

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{video_photo_caption}WECK Birthday Blowout

To celebrate three years in business, WECK 1230 is hosting a birthday party at Hucklebuckets in Amherst (3047 Sheridan Drive) on Friday night (7 PM - 3 AM).  The AM radio station—fresh off declaring war on WGR 550 and committing to local programming—will…