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Bona’s Crowley proud of women’s basketball boom
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Apr 18, 2024
ST. BONAVENTURE — Jim Crowley isn’t entirely sure how he’d game plan for Caitlin Clark. “I wouldn’t know until I had to make the decision,” he said fr...
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Final for both a throwback & sign of the times
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Apr 02, 2024
If you played a “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” game with this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball final four, you’d probably be able to make a map of the natio...
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Headaches arise in gambling era for pros, colleges
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 29, 2024
Let’s run through a sampling of Associated Press sports headlines from the month of March: You get where I’m going with this. Last week also brought n...
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On a turbulent last two weeks for Bonnie fans
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 28, 2024
On March 16, despite an already-stormy season and still-ominous skies, there was, for an afternoon, a sliver of light. The St. Bonaventure men’s baske...
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One day later, Bona NIT saga not much better
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 22, 2024
ST. BONAVENTURE — A day later, it didn’t get any better. In fact, somehow, some way, it might actually have gotten worse. Twenty-four hours after St. ...
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Bungling of NIT adds to trying times for Bona
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 21, 2024
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has been swept up in PR storms before. Bona has been criticized for the way it handles pla...
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Bonnies’ A-10 semis loss a microcosm of season
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 17, 2024
BROOKLYN — Mika Adams-Woods and Daryl Banks III were all smiles after the latter sank yet another trio of free throws late in the second half to give ...
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Barclays comes alive as Bonnies rally over LUC
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 16, 2024
BROOKLYN — Good news for St. Bonaventure alums scrambling for last-minute travel plans: an Atlantic 10 Tournament format change gave them an extra day...
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A rare opportunity
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 09, 2024
When the tides of time sweep you far along, retired, with free time on your hands, many experience a certain inadequacy or lack of direction, some, GA...
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Cuts signal a need for new Bills leaders
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 08, 2024
For a younger generation of Bills fans, Wednesday might have felt like many my age and older did on Feb. 10, 2000. On that day, the Bills officially t...
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Lessons from Grandpa
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 02, 2024
Just the two of us were sitting by the fireplace at camp. My grandfather, Arthur Hayes, was dying, his time growing short. Under the circumstances he ...
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Five NY Big 30 hoops teams in sectional finals
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 02, 2024
Championship weekend in Section 6 will have a strong local presence after five Times Herald teams made the finals in their bracket. All five New York ...
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Three Big 30 grads appear in same D-I baseball game
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 01, 2024
If you looked around the diamond Wednesday afternoon in Morgantown, West Virginia, you’d have seen three Big 30 graduates in the same NCAA Division I ...
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Memories of ‘16 reflected in SBU’s bounce-back win
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 27, 2024
As disappointing as last Wednesday may have been, St. Bonaventure had been there before. In 2015-16, one of the finest Bona regular seasons in recent ...
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A-L grad Napoleon wins pro jiu-jitsu tournament
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 24, 2024
Just over a year removed from his college football career, Roman Napoleon feels he’s in even better shape now, crediting another kind of sport. Napole...
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A matter of value
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 24, 2024
Value is something that’s perceived. What may be of value to one individual is of little or possibly no value to another. Such things can be a matter ...
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