Jerry Sullivan

Photo by Shawn Turri/WNY Athletics Just before Christmas, Amir Moye had a joyful conversation with his father, Furmon. They were excited about the holidays, and about the fact that Amir, back on top of his game after missing a year to injury, was closing in on a major basketball milestone. “Yeah, we were actually talking about 1,000 points,” Moye said last week, “and how we were going to celebrate it. We talked about what we were going to do that night and what was going to happen.” What...

Photos courtesy St. Joseph Collegiate Institute Liam Horan was asked if he could remember playing a half of basketball like he did against Canisius on Friday night. “Freshman year of JVs, probably.” Horan said with a big smile. Suffice it to say, Horan had never had this sort of performance in a game of this magnitude. The St. Joe’s senior had the night of his life on the sport's biggest stage, scoring 19 of his 21 points in the second half as the Marauders beat Canisius, 54-42, in the latest...

Sure, he hears the whispers. Carlos Bradberry knows there are people in the Niagara Falls basketball community who thought he was a little crazy when he made the big move, that he must be some kind of hoop masochist. Three years ago, Bradberry decided to pull the Falls boys basketball team out of the Niagara Frontier League and play an independent schedule. The motive was to create more competition for his team. In essence, to lose a little more. The first year, the plan worked like a charm....