On this bonus Wednesday episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by Buffalo Bills reporter for The Buffalo News, Katherine Fitzgerald for a conversation spanning her life and career to this point.

Designed to give a fans a peak behind the curtain into Katherine’s life beyond the great job she does covering the Buffalo Bills, they spend time talking about Fitzgerald’s childhood and what first got her interested in sports journalism along with Marine Biology. Katherine talks about why she went to the University of North Carolina for college and going out west to work on her Masters.

They also talk about her time at the USA Today and Arizona Republic, what brought her over to The Buffalo News this summer, her takes on Buffalo sports media colleagues, social media, living in Buffalo, wings and much more before ending with a Fun Fact Finale where Katherine drops a ton of tidbits about her personality.

It’s a great conversation with someone who’s quickly becoming known as one of Western New York’s best sports storytellers.

Be sure to follow Katherine on Twitter @Kfitz134 and of course check out her awesome work at The Buffalo News.

On this episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran has a chat with longtime Buffalo Sabres beat reporter and columnist for the Buffalo News, recurring guest Mike Harrington on topics ranging from the Sabres being a disaster both on and off the ice to a more important non-sports topics taking its toll on all our lives.

The guys talk Sabres, but before dig a little bit into what’s been happening over the past few months. Patrick recalls the last time the guys physically got together last summer for some wings and to tape a podcast before discussing how much the world has changed in just the past few months.  From normalcy to quarantine and even curfew, it’s been an insane time in the United States.

Mike talks about the job the Buffalo News and other media have done covering recent events and his feelings towards having political and non-sports fueled commentary on his social media, explaining the slippery slope it can be.

Eventually the conversation turns to the Sabres and as always, Mike isn’t one to mince words. He has strong takes on Jason Botterill returning for a fourth season as Sabres general manager, Jack Eichel being the worst loser on the team in a complimentary way, Rasmus Ristolainen’s over usage, Rasmus Dahlin’s critical development and the job Ralph Krueger did in his first season as head coach.

Mike explains how despite missing a 24-playoff to extend the postseason drought to nine years, the Sabres may not be as far off from being good as some people may think.  Patrick at one point also tasks Mike with playing salesperson to sell fans on this organization.

Also included is Mike discussing the challenges of trying to cover a team’s beat in today’s Covid-19 society, thoughts on The Last Dance documentary series that recently aired, whether he likes covering hockey or basketball more and finishes by listing of Mt. Rushmore of Sabres players that he’s personally covered, including a bonus story about another player who took heavy interest in Mike’s work.

Follow Mike Harrington on Twitter @ByMHarrington and of course support local journalism, which needs your support now more than ever by subscribing to The Buffalo News.

On this episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by friend and recurring guest Aaron Quinn from Cover 1 to talk all things Buffalo Bills as well as discuss some Christmas movies Patrick recently seen for the first time on Aaron’s recommendation.

As the Bills head down the stretch of their regular season that begins with a huge Monday night matchup next week against division rival New England, the guys discuss the impact of Tre White’s season-ending ACL injury and examine if Bills general manager Brandon Beane deserves criticism for standing pat at the trade deadline and perhaps even being a little overconfident in the depth of his roster.  They also discuss  Dawson Knox’s breakout season and Isiah McKenzie being benched.

They also each pick a sleeper AFC team to watch for, a historic anniversary for the late Michael Jackson and with it being Christmas season, Patrick’s getting in the spirit by watching movies seemingly everyone except him has already seen.

That and much more!  You can follow Aaron on Twitter @AaronQuinn716 and be sure to check out the Cover 1 Buffalo Podcast