HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The smell of spicy, sweet and smoky buffalo wings drifted across Big Spring Park Saturday as 16 local restaurants competed in the 17th annual Battle of the Buffalo, a wing competition that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer care and research since its founding.
Hosted by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity chapter at the University of Alabama Huntsville, the event traces its roots to the 2009 death of Paul “fish” Salmon, a fraternity brother who died from acute myeloid leukemia.
“This event was created to honor his name because his favorite snack was the buffalo chicken wing,” said DeShaun Weerasekera, executive director of the event…