Buckets and Dan are BACK and will be dropping on Thursdays moving forward.  In this episode we have Ace Vetrano previewing the US Open, as well as an awesome discussion with Buffalo Bisons GM (and SUNY Cortland grad) Anthony Sprague.  Thursdays also provide a great day to talk Bills, as we recap the week one win over the Jets, and preview this week's battle against the Miami Dolphins.  Our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past to end the show is former heavyweight boxer "Baby" Joe Mesi! Enjoy!

A little bit of everything! We start with some #QandA4B&D before welcoming on Michelle Magdziuk (26:45), of FantasyPros and Ballblast: a Fantasy Football Podcast, to get you ready for your upcoming drafts.  We then talk some golf with our good friend Ace Vetrano (59:19) before former Buffalo Bill, and three time super bowl starting guard, John Davis joins us as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:13:51).  Enjoy!

Another episode slammed with content as we discuss the NHL and NBA playoffs before welcoming on Buffalo Bisons' archivist and curator John Boutet (28:21) to discuss his incredible collection of Buffalo sports memorabilia, and how his passion first started.  We then talk some hockey with Sportsnet's Jeff Marek (45:45), including what teams might blow it up now that they have been eliminated early from postseason play, and what he thinks the Sabres' first off-season move should be.  Joining us for our Mt. Rushmore this week is WGR550's Brian Kozial and ESPN Ithaca's Nick Karski, as we each draft our top sports play-by-play announcers of all time (59:35).  Finally, we finish it up by interviewing former Sabre J.P. Dumont as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:30:12).  Make sure to head to bucketsanddan.com as t-shirts are now on sale. Enjoy!

A little bit of everything since we are in the meat and potatoes of the COVID-19 sports season.  We start with some Bills talk, with each of us providing our thoughts on the latest extensions, as well as the three players we are most excited to hear about about as training camp continues with the first full day of pads taking place today.  We follow that up with two great segments as we welcome on Guru Gray to discuss the beginning of the NBA playoffs, and then our good friend Jay Moser hops on to talk about his new hockey betting site, puckluck.com, as well as giving us some locks heading into tonight's NHL action.  Dan then talks more in depth on a few Bills topics with Cover 1 Buffalo's Greg Tompsett, followed by a very entertaining trivia segment, and Mt. Rushmore of Sports Records.  Finally, we welcome on Buffalo Bisons' legend Jeff Manto as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past,  Enjoy!

The play in round for the NHL is in the books, and we give our predictions for the first round including who we think reaches the Stanley Cup finals.  We then recap the PGA Championship with Ace Vetrano and Dan Keem during our Hole in One segment (28:48), followed by a great conversation with WGR550's Sal Capaccio to talk all things Bills related (51:17).  Steve Mathes of The Bills Guys podcast, along with friend of the program Brendan Graham, then join for a very fun Mt. Rushmroe segment in which we each build an offensive skill position roster comrised of all-time Buffalo Bills players (1:15:30).  Finally, we welcome on former Buffalo Bills LT Chris Hairston as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:34:00).  All this, Tre White, the Buffalo Blue Jays, and much more! Enjoy!

We start with yet another BREAKING news segment as Dan tells us about his huge weekend.  We then discuss sports being back, including an all-time rant from Dan regarding his beloved Mets, before our resident NBA experts Jim Doyle and Zach Bouley join us for an NBA round-table to discuss the return of basketball (21:21).  NBA reporter Sean Highkin of Bleacher Report then hops on the pod to discuss more of the NBA return, including which players and teams to watch for as the playoff picture becomes clearer (48:09).  We then mix it up a bit with our weekly Hole in One segment as Ace Vetrano is accompanied by Dan Keem to discuss the upcoming weekend’s PGA championship, the year’s first major, and we get best bets from each of our local experts (1:12:54).  We then welcome our fiance’s on for a special Mt. Rushmore segment, as we discuss the Mt. Rushmore of wedding songs (1:33:46).  We wrap it up this week with Damone Brown, a Buffalo native who starred at the University of Syracuse before spending four years in the NBA, and is currently the head basketball coach of Bryant and Stratton College, as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:54:05).

Another packed show!  MLB is back (for now), there is a new NHL team, and the NFL agreed on a process to return, so we tackle those topics and more in the resurgence of our #QandA4BandD segment (6:26).  With the NHL returning this weekend, our playoff predictions are now on record as we go through each matchup of the qualifying round (19:29).  Reid Wilkins of Global News and 630CHED in Edmonton then joins us to talk about the process of the NHL choosing their Western Conference hub city, and how the Oilers match up in their qualifying round tilt vs the Blackhawks (37:06).  We then have some golf talk with our resident golf expert Ace Vetrano in our Hole in One with Ace segment. quickly recapping the 3M Open before previewing this upcoming weekend's WGC (1:06:38).  We continue with golf as The Pepper captains, Mike Licata and Pat Cahill, recap this past weekend's festivities (1:19:07).  A very entertaining Mt. Rushmore this week with our friends from @MtRushmore716, Nick Phillips and Adam Fron, as we debate and choose our top TV show theme songs (1:33:32).  We wrap up the show with former Buffalo Sabre and 18 year NHL veteran Grant Ledyard as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:59:48).  Enjoy!

Over three hours of content! Do not get overwhelmed, pace yourselves, soak it in, we are jam packed this week.  Baseball starts this week, and we go through each division predicting our winners and go on record with our world series picks.  Plenty of golf talk as our weekly Hole in One with Ace segment returns (18:05) with Ace Vetrano giving his thoughts on this past weekend’s Memorial Tournament, followed by team captains Mike Licata and Pat Cahill joining us for a preview of this weekend’s local annual Pepper tournament (32:39).  We then dive back into baseball with the former voice of the Bisons and current Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer Ben Wagner (54:52), and then perhaps our biggest get ever, ESPN baseball play-by-play announcer Jon “Boog” Sciambi (2:23:05) .  After some Mets trivia (1:32:42), and a very fun Mt. Rushmore building starting rotations consisting of only post 2000’s pitchers (1:45:23), we welcome on former Bisons manager Marty Brown as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the (2:47:19). Do not miss any of it!

Another mixed bag of topics before sports heat up in the coming weeks.  Our resident golf expert Ace Vetrano stops in to discuss this past weekend's tournament, as well as give his thoughts on the upcoming Memorial Tournament, in our first of many, Hole in one with Ace segment (11:37).  We then welcome back two of our favorite guests as Coach Nasca and Coach Simon return to the pod as we discuss our Mt. Rushmore of sports movies (34:03).  After that, I surprise Buckets with a Bills trivia segment as he takes on good friends Dan Muscarella and Cory Martin (1:13:12), and we finish off with former Bills tight end Tim Euhus as our RE McNamara Buffalo Sports Blast from the Past (1:19:53).