Archives for May 17, 2015

'"I love Rex. I think Rex is a players' coach and he's going to shoot straight from the hip. He's going to tell it like it is. He's not going to pull any punches. If you can survive to a certain point in New York where there's 25 papers and here, you don't have that many papers. You have papers, but not like that. The media market there is a little bit different here. Other than that, I'm very excited about this season. We've got some guys on offense that can score. We just got to get them the ball now and that's what they really talk about."'

'“I think Duke is a guy that has the physical traits you look for. He loves to play and is a tough, physical guy, and he can run. I think those are obviously some main traits you look for. How quickly he processes and things like that, we’ll find out. There’s probably competition in this building and that will be good for Duke and will be good for our football team.”'

'“Maybe it’s because he drives a pickup and drinks beer; or because his favorite local Mexican restaurant, El Canelo, sits in a strip mall; or because he wore a throwback Thurman Thomas jersey at the combine; or because he orders a plate of wings, even though his lap band won’t let him eat more than one or two during a sitting. Whatever the reason, Ryan has already won over the fans and the franchise’s legends.'

'There has been speculation that owners Kim and Terry Pegula are considering starting up a regional sports network akin to the Empire Sports Network to televise their games and that they may move the radio rights of the teams.'

'“It certainly didn’t start that way,” Erin said. “There were moments when we were reluctant to share on social media, especially my dad, just for our privacy’s sake and because of the struggle that he was going through. But we came to the point where we knew we had to share — not only so that people would pray for my dad because so many people rallied around him and that was because of social media — but because social media provided us an avenue to be an encouragement to others. Rather than being this burden of social media, it really became a blessing to all of us.”'