It was a busy three days for Buffalo Bills’ general manager Doug Whaley as the NFL conducted its’ annual draft of college players this past weekend. The team’s new GM pulled off a number of trades, the biggest one being the deal that allowed the Bills to move up in the first round to grab … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
This isn’t a “team” logo, but with the NFL draft just concluded, I thought it would be interesting to feature a logo that I was surprised even existed – a logo for the 1995 expansion draft that stocked the two teams entering the league that year, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars. Unlike in prior … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1973 Topps football card of the player who was the Buffalo Bills’ first pick in the NFL’s inaugural “common” draft, defensive back John Pitts. The year was 1967, and it marked the first year that the National and American Football Leagues, which had just agreed to a merger, drafted eligible college players together from one … Read More
R.I.P. Dr. Jack Ramsay
Jack Ramsay coaching the Buffalo Braves in the 1970s I was saddened to hear of the recent death of former NBA coach Jack Ramsay, one of the league’s classiest people who had a Hall of Fame coaching career, and was a tremendous ambassador for the game as a game analyst for ESPN after his coaching … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trailblazers, a franchise that came into existence when the league expanded in 1970. This logo was used from 1970 until 1990. The club won the NBA championship in 1977, under the direction of Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay, and led by star players like Bill Walton, Maurice … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1977 Topps basketball card of a former player who excelled in both the American and National Basketball Associations, Maurice Lucas. He was a preeminent power forward in his time, starting in the ABA with the Spirits of St. Louis franchise, then with the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers, where he was part of that franchise’s 1977 championship … Read More
Rayonsports.com’s Fifth Anniversary
On April 28, 2010, I wrote the first few posts on this blog, which, as my “about” page explains, is my family’s idea of a place for me to vent on the world of sports instead of yelling obscenities at the television. I was unemployed when I first started the blog, so there were many … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
The very first “Classic Team Logo of The Day” that I posted five years ago, back in April of 2009, was that of the old American Basketball Association’s San Diego Conquistadors. So it seemed fitting, on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of this blog, to post the logo of the team the Conquistadors morphed … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
When I first started this blog five years ago, a regular feature of the early “Sports Card of The Day” posts were “error” cards – sports cards in which the card company erred in producing the cards. In honor of Rayonsports’ fifth anniversary, today’s featured card is a 1965 Topps football card of Oakland Raider … Read More
Reviewing The Buffalo Sabres’ 2013-2014 Season
The Buffalo Sabres franchise bottomed out in the 2013-14 season, in practically every sense of the term. They finished last among all 30 NHL teams, scored the least amount of goals since the league added the “Additional Six” teams in 1967, lost the draft lottery for the top pick in the amateur draft and, in … Read More