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Normally, at this point, the Bills roster would already be down to the NFL limit of 75 players, well before today’s mandated 4 p.m. deadline. But with...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Three years ago, Larry Sudbrook wiped the proverbial slate clean and put a new plan into place. With his St. Bonaventure baseball te...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Mark Schmidt wasn’t necessarily looking to leave earlier in the offseason. St. Bonaventure has never wanted to see him go, and exten...

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — At first, Cheyanne Heffner wanted merely to make her point. She was in elementary school at the time, she recalled, on the day th...

ORCHARD PARK — With all the buzz Saturday about the Bills waiving running back Karlos Williams and Marcell Dareus checking himself into drug rehab, it...

How remarkably healthy did the Buffalo blue line stay in 2015-16? The Sabres recalled a defenseman as an injury replacement just once. Think about tha...

ORCHARD PARK — Under the best of circumstances, NFL preseason games are a drag … an endless parade of wannabes and neverwouldbes, many of whose next p...

For much of a three-hour meeting Thursday at the Times Herald, we kept coming back to Bradford High. It was two days ago that a group of us sat down t...

Full disclosure, I’ve never been a fan of Ryan Lochte. I’m not prescient, given the mess in which he and a trio of other U.S. Olympic swimmers are emb...

Vin Diesel and company have tried countless outlandish stunts with the help of movie magic in the Fast and the Furious franchise, but it’s doubtful th...

This is really getting old.Bills fans have to be feeling like the folks who run Donald Trump’s campaign … another day, another controversy. The Buffal...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In the past, the time period between the end of summer school and the start of the actual academic year was one of the quietest on t...

ORCHARD PARK — By the time the game ended at 10:23 p.m., three hours and 18 minutes after it started, and with coach Rex Ryan not starting his press c...

ORCHARD PARK — The National Football League hates the word “exhibition.” That’s why the four games preceding the 16 that actually count are referred t...

WELLSVILLE — Deep down, Denny Miles had always wanted to give this a shot. For years, the Wellsville athletic director sat back and watched as the foo...

Usually it takes a few losses for Bills fans to become discouraged. This year it’s happened even before the first preseason game. The lone shred of go...

OLEAN — If you’ve never attended a 7-on-7 drill for high school football teams, I will offer a few thoughts. Don’t expect to see any scoring. That’s n...

ST. BONAVENTURE -- For St. Bonaventure basketball fans, the biggest concern about their team heading into last season was the state of the frontcourt....