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  1. Jessica Pegula, daughter of Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula, earned a spot in the U.S. Open with a qualifying-round victory overMelanie Oudin, who reached the quarterfinals in 2009 at age 17.


    Pegula, 21, topped Oudin 7-6 (10-8), 6-0 Friday at the National Tennis Center in New York. She’ll make her first Grand Slam singles appearance in the main draw at the last major tennis tournament of the year, which starts Aug. 31.


    Pegula was born in Buffalo to Kim and Terry Pegula, a real estate and natural-gas executive who sold his firm East Resources Inc. to Royal Dutch Shell PLC in 2010 for $4.9 billion. The family owns the Bills, the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabres and has donated $1.2 million over the past five years to start a men’s and women’s hockey program at Penn State.


    Jessica Pegula began playing tennis at age 7, and is ranked No. 257 in the world. She’s winless in two WTA singles events this year.


    A right-hander with a two-handed backhand, Pegula’s best finish in the WTA’s year-end rankings was No. 147 in 2012. She played in the U.S. Open doubles draw in 2012 (with Madison Keys) and 2011 (with Taylor Townsend), and her career earnings are $206,784.


    Oudin, 23, was attempting to qualify for the U.S. Open main draw for the first time in three years. She had a heart ailment and has been unable to return to the form she showed as a teenager in 2009, when she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, then upset former No. 1 Maria Sharapova on center court at the U.S. Open.


    Pegula’s first-round opponent will be determined later today.

  2. Why do people keep talking about a smaller 60k seat stadium? The bills have less trouble selling out games than other teams with smaller stadiums. When this team is good, it can sell out a huge stadium. We are not the jaguars or the raiders who tarp off entire sections of the upper deck in order to 'fill' the stadiums. I understand that we need luxury boxes but don't sacrifice the atmosphere/home field advantage because buffalo is a small city. Build a 100k seat stadium with all the boxes you want, we will come.

  3. I don't think many people have a problem with something that'd be equivalent to that... like say the Florida Seminoles. The problem is "redskin" is a racist term for Native Americans/American Indians. Its kinda like someone a n*gger, sand n*gger, wetback, yellow, etc etc etc.

     

    I think you mean the Florida State Seminoles

  4. The Bills have sucked against the run for the passed eight years because our LBs suck. Kiko is the first real talent we have had at the position in a long time.

     

    The Bills will fail to resign Byrd and draft a safety in the first round. The talent level will be exactly the same on a net basis. Just another example of the revolving door of talent that has been plaguing this organization for years.

  5. "The Bills understand the county's financial position."

     

    Are the Bills supposed to feel sorry for us? At what point does the sympathy for being a small market team begin and end? The Bills owe us nothing and as much as I am not a fan of negotiating in a way that gives away everything because we should take advantage of anything that the state can help us with and the NFL. Just don't tell me that we have to worry about our medicaid budget or other things that reinforce crazy entitlements because the Bills weren't thinking about those things when they signed Mario Williams. They were trying to win football games and bring value to an entertaining product that brings revenue to the area instead of suck the area dry and push John Galt away.

     

    My advice would be to our county executive would be to keep it simple. The Bills and what they bring and what we can provide back.

     

    Who is John Galt?

  6. At this point, I have to start wondering if there is anything us Bills fans can do to advocate on Andre's behalf. This was clearly the worst inductee class in recent memory and Andre is running out of time. We could start a website or send letters to voters or buy billboards or something. He gave us a lot of good memories, we could try to accomplish something for him.

  7. McGee is not a very good corner! If you need a first down and you are playing the Bills, you throw at McGee. He doesn't get beat deep because he plays so far off the line. He is always there to make the tackle a few yards beyond the sticks but forget about a breakup. I will give him credit as a good return man in his day.

     

    McKelvin is our best corner. I think both Florence and Corner have enough skill to be a solid #2.

     

    Obviously, the pass rush wasn't great in a 4-3 with Schobel and totally sucks with the same players (minus Schobel) being forced into a 3-4. How can we even think about a 3-4 with the LBs we have on this team?

  8. Having a team in Buffalo will always be better than no team, no matter how bad that team is. Buffalo fans deserve a championship and with no team at all we can never win a Superbowl. Even in these dark times, I still have a kernel of faith that the organization's ultimate goal is to win. They have made a lot of bad decisions over the past 10 years but in this league it only take a couple seasons to go from nothing to playoff contender. Despite the Kelsay signing, I still believe the new FO is better than what was there a year ago. They decided this team has no talent when they came in and are starting from scratch to rebuild it. I would rather they do it in Buffalo than LA.

  9. Rob Johnson

     

    But I have to throw Terrence McGee in there too. He is a good return man but I cannot believe he was a starting corner (even our #1 at times). I used to play football with my friends and whenever someone wanted to run directly at their corner and turn left they would say, "I'm running a Mcgee." He sits back and lets receivers run their routes with no trouble but is there to make the tackle. Meanwhile the stick move again.

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