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SMETHPORT, PA. — Layne Shall simply would not be denied. As the Smethport and Otto-Eldred boys basketball teams battled back and forth down the stretc...

No matter how disappointing the Bills’ 38-24 loss to the Chiefs in Sunday’s American Football Conference Championship Game might have been, it’s worth...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Earlier this month, Anthony Roberts went home to address a family matter. The St. Bonaventure junior guard has decided he’s not comi...

Some observations from the Chiefs 38-24 win over the Bills in Sunday night’s American Football Conference Championship Game at Kansas City’s Arrowhead...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It took the Kansas City Chiefs five frustrating decades to make their second Super Bowl appearance. Now, the defending champs are h...

Notes from the Chiefs’ 38-24 win over the Bills in Sunday night’s American Football Conference Championship Game at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium: —...

Jalen Adaway wasn’t entirely sure he’d even play. The junior forward had suffered a “pretty bad” migraine over the previous few days and was “really f...

It’s been 27 years since the Buffalo Bills have played in a game like this … one that puts them a win away from the Super Bowl. But here they are, a r...

For Bills fans, tomorrow night will be a rare moment. It will mark only the seventh time in the franchise’s 61-year history that Buffalo will play a g...

The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, to be sure, is content. And why wouldn’t it be? Bona has won five-straight, the longest active streak in th...

The New York State Department of Health and Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an update on high-risk high school winter sports Friday, a decision that will all...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The signs had been there since before Christmas. On Dec. 19, in its first experience of playing inside an empty Reilly Center, the S...

There will be no North Tier League this year for our area’s smaller schools. No District 9 League for Bradford. No conferences of any sort. That’s lif...

In the spring, it was expected. This, after all, was when a once-in-a-century global pandemic, one we knew nothing about, had first begun to take hold...

Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X walk into a motel room. No, that’s not the start of a joke but to one of the best movies of 2020, a b...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Seth Greenberg pointed it out during a pregame press conference last week. “You guys are a relentless offensive rebounding team,” th...

ST. BONAVENTURE — All wins aren’t created equal. And the St. Bonaventure basketball team proved that emphatically on Wednesday night before a national...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Normally unflappable in these situations, Mark Schmidt was overjoyed. Rather than leaning toward the opposing bench for postgame han...