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BUFFALO — Welcome to Buffalo, Matt Prater. The 41-year-old, 19-year veteran kicker was signed just three days before the game on Thursday following an...

SHERMAN — The Franklinville/Ellicottville Titans gave defending class D state champion Clymer/Sherman/Panama all it could handle on the road on Saturd...

PORTVILLE — The old rocking chair’s going nowhere. The newly formed Portville/Cuba-Rushford/Bolivar-Richburg football team relished a time-honored tra...

HINSDALE — Carter Brown scored off a Brock Stadler assist and the lone marker held up as the Cuba-Rushford/Hinsdale boys soccer team knocked off Olean...

The Buffalo Bills placed kicker Tyler Bass on injured reserve on Friday with hip and groin issues, after he missed much of training camp and the team ...

FRANKLINVILLE — For Franklinville girls soccer coach Tim Wangelin, the fall season always seems to pull him back in. “This is my 11th year in total,” ...

It doesn’t count for the standings, but for measuring stick purposes — not to mention old rivalries — it’s hard to draw up a better opportunity for th...

FRANKLINVILLE — The Franklinville-Ellicottville Titans know this year’s road back to the playoffs, and what they hope will be another deep run, will l...

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Ellicottville 3, Silver Creek 1 Ellicottville beat Silver Creek in four sets at home on Thursday (25-8, 25-17, 19-25, 25-13) in a non...

ALLEGANY — For Allegany-Limestone football, the path back to traditional 11-man football has not been straightforward. Like many rural western New Yor...

GIRLS SOCCER Allegany-Limestone 5, Olean 0 OLEAN — Allegany-Limestone beat Olean 5-0 in a rivalry game on the road, leaving no doubt about early seaso...

SALAMANCA — Cattaraugus-Little Valley opened its season with authority on the road on Tuesday night, rolling past Salamanca 25-12, 25-12, 25-22 behind...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Kick off Bonnies Basketball season with the 2025 Brown and White Night by getting the first look at St. Bonaventure's men's and wome...

ALLEGANY — Dale MacArthur never imagined he’d be heading into his 38th year in charge of Allegany-Limestone’s girls soccer team. Initially, he only si...

ORCHARD PARK — In his younger days, Josh Allen had a sure-fire method to shake the lingering nerves and adrenaline he'd experience in the early moment...

ORCHARD PARK — The Bills restructured left tackle Dion Dawkins' contract in a move that gets Buffalo under the NFL’s salary cap, a person with knowled...

PORTVILLE — The task remains the same, even if some of the faces have changed, and not just due to graduation. Josh Brooks and the coaching staff at P...

CUBA — The Cuba-Rushford/Hinsdale boys soccer team defeated Bolivar-Richburg, 3-0, in both teams’ first match of the season on Tuesday. The Rebels ben...