Sports Columnists

Bryan Paar had a sideline view during the Florida State football team’s national championship run in 2013. He was also around for the rise of the Coas...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Some notes on the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team as it nears the end of its first full week of practice: n Want to know where...

There’s a clip of Jim Mora, during his days coaching the Colts, that still gets shown. Oh, not as much as his famed “PLAYOFFS?” meltdown in 2001 that ...

FOXBORO, Mass. — They didn’t have Tom Brady? No excuse. The New England Patriots had done just fine in the first three games this season without their...

FOXBORO, Mass. — Many Bills fans figured they had it all doped out. The New England Patriots, sans Hall-of-Fame-to-be quarterback Tom Brady, serving a...

When Martha Ruether returned stateside 10 days ago after competing in September’s Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, it would have seemed that her Br...

I think it was the Charlon Kloof 3-pointer late in the second overtime that did it. The game – St. Bonaventure vs. Saint Joseph’s, Feb. 29, 2012, Andr...

ORCHARD PARK — One thing Rex Ryan is not is predictable. He arrived for one media day press conference last year wearing a Clemson helmet … a shout ou...

Sunday evening was a sad one for anybody who knows or appreciates the history of golf. That’s when the world learned of Arnold Palmer’s passing. Oh, t...

ORCHARD PARK — So what do we make of Sunday’s domination of Arizona by the Bills? Talk about “never saw that coming.” Other than erstwhile Buffalo fan...

ORCHARD PARK — There’s a temptation to say the Arizona Cardinals aren’t as good a team as advertised. After all, the winless Bills embarrassed them, 3...

Full disclosure, I’m conflicted by the Colin Kaepernick-National Anthem controversy. And here’s why. My birth came barely two months after World War I...

SALAMANCA — Throughout his decorated career, Rich Morton has worn many hats in the Salamanca athletic department, but he didn’t until this fall serve ...

Gregor Makechnie began by answering the question that just about all of us were wondering. “It’s pronounced like ‘Chef’, but with a hard ‘ch,’” he sai...

ORCHARD PARK — You look at his record and can’t help but wonder what took Bruce Arians so long to become a head coach in the National Football League....

OLEAN — Its first drive against the Fredonia/Westfield/Brocton coop was a representation of the season the Olean High football team has had to this po...

It wasn’t the normal press conference. For most NFL teams, Monday is when head coaches issue their post mortems on the previous day’s game. But for th...

Some observations from a rare afternoon with no Bills game … just me and the Sunday Ticket. • As much as I enjoy clicking from game-to-game on that Di...