Erik Brady
The Buffalo News
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Erik Brady: Consider yourself a trivia expert, Patrick Curran class, if you watch Bob’s grandson on 'Jeopardy!'
Watch Patrick Curran's turn on "Jeopardy!" tonight. → Read More
Erik Brady: Let there be peace on earth, and a Bills' Super Bowl victory
Tammy Boglione loves Christmas. She also loves the Buffalo Bills. That’s why she has a Bills Christmas tree. → Read More
Erik Brady: Tale of two John Browns, the one Buffalo fans like and the one they don't
Two John Browns made local news of late. One shuffled off to Buffalo. One shuffled off this mortal coil. → Read More
Erik Brady: Bills playing on Thanksgiving again? That's gravy
How have the Bills fared in the 10 games they've played on our most American of holidays? → Read More
Erik Brady: Bills and Vikings meet in F. Scott Fitzgerald Bowl
The Bills and Vikings are paired in NFL history as the only franchises that sit at 0-4 in Super Bowls. → Read More
Erik Brady: A Baltimore kid fell in love with Buffalo, thanks to his Dad. And then he found the love of his life
Jack Smith and Vanessa Giannelli's love story began in Buffalo. → Read More
Erik Brady: Philip Burke, the Josh Allen of artists, captures leaping Bills QB in mural
People like to have their picture taken by the mural so it looks like Allen is leaping over them. → Read More
Erik Brady: He wants to be mayor of Port Colborne. To get the job, he has to unseat his brother
We don’t dabble in Canadian politics much hereabouts, but this story is too good to resist, Brady says. → Read More
Erik Brady: How did Caitlyn MacInnis get from Fort Erie to Niagara-on-the-Lake? Practice, practice, practice
“I was this little Black girl from a small town,” MacInnis says. “And that’s when I thought, ‘I can do this.’ ” → Read More
Erik Brady: 40 years ago, Buffalo golfer Jim Thorpe upended the field in Canada
The Labatt rep who presented the trophy introduced Thorpe as being from “a suburb of Fort Erie.” → Read More
Erik Brady: Curse of the Bambino's connection to Buffalo
Joseph J. Lannin is a forgotten man of Boston Red Sox history – and Buffalo Bisons history, too. → Read More
Erik Brady: Remembering Al Smith, Lou Boudreau and snapping Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak
The story of DiMaggio’s hit streak is well known. The story of the Bisons’ 1939 season, when Smith and Boudreau played in Buffalo, is all but forgotten. But both stories → Read More
Erik Brady: NBA settlement to pay ABA players is testament to Bona legend George Carter
Carter died penniless, in 2020, of throat cancer, at 76. He was to be given a pauper’s burial in an unmarked grave in Las Vegas. Then Bona and the Dropping → Read More
Erik Brady: Remembering James Caan's Buffalo-made movie 'Hide in Plain Sight'
"The 1980 flick depicts Buffalo in the late 1960s and was made here in the late 1970s. I watched it again the other day. And you know what? All these → Read More
Erik Brady: Pet sitters, pickleball and the Buffalo Bill who wore No. 32 before you-know-who
Gary McDermott’s Bills went 1-12-1, worst record in pro football in 1968, which is how they got the No. 1 overall pick in the 1969 draft. The Bills used it → Read More
Erik Brady: The other 13 seconds of infamy in Buffalo Bills history
Let’s forget the deep dismay of those 13 seconds and relive the hidden history of another 13-second horror story. You see, 13 has been the Bills’ unlucky number before. And → Read More
Erik Brady: Steve Stoute made history at Canisius College, 54 years after a group of students changed its course
The sit-in, all those years ago, wasn’t really about making demands after all. Let history show that in the end it was much more about giving than taking, Brady writes. → Read More
Erik Brady: 'The Magician' Marlin Briscoe's greatest trick was becoming a Bills receiver
Marlin Briscoe was known as The Magician. His greatest trick came in Buffalo, where he became an All-Pro wide receiver for the Bills despite never having played the position before. → Read More
Erik Brady: Fred Hunt, who helped bring Sabres to Buffalo, nets Hall of Fame hat trick
Hunt was inducted into the Brantford and Area Sports Hall of Recognition posthumously this month, which gives him a hat trick of halls, counting his memberships in the Greater Buffalo → Read More
Erik Brady: Lauren Belfer's latest isn't set here, but as in all her books, Buffalo's role is huge
Belfer's new novel, “Ashton Hall,” makes its Buffalo debut when she appears at Larkin Square, at 5:30 p.m. today, in conversation with Margaret Sullivan, media critic of the Washington Post → Read More