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MacDonell, Allen, Coleman & Leonard chasing NYS dreams
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 23, 2024
The Bolivar-Richburg wrestling team believes it has unfinished business to attend to this weekend in Albany. The Wolverines have two representatives i...
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March toward boys hoops glory begins in Pennsy
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HUNTER O. LYLE Special to the Times Herald 
Feb 22, 2024
The best time of the year is finally here: playoff basketball. As of last Thursday, the District 9 boys’ basketball brackets are set and competition i...
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New OT rules get a test drive in Super Bowl
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 15, 2024
For a game that didn’t actually test the NFL’s new playoff overtime rules, Super Bowl LVIII has sparked some debate on how to approach them. Sunday ni...
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Family tradition
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 10, 2024
Kyley Weaver and her dad Todd have been hunting deer together since she first turned 12. The early mornings, quick breakfast and tingling anticipation...
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Close games typical for A-10 play, Martin says
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 09, 2024
Every game in the Atlantic 10, Frank Martin said, felt like this one. In UMass’ first 10 A-10 games, half have been decided by six points — Wednesday ...
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Weishan honored after 1,000th game with Salamanca hoops
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SPENCER BATES Olean Times Herald 
Feb 08, 2024
SALAMANCA — The world looked a little different in 1975. But one thing remains the same: Pete Weishan on the sideline for a Salamanca basketball team....
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Notes from a ‘heavyweight’ matchup at UD
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 06, 2024
Listening to the Dayton press conferences Friday night, you could tell, while the Flyers would admit it wasn’t their best performance, they came out w...
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Hunting, fishing and the sexes
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 03, 2024
Human beings are by nature remarkably flawed. When we’re not doing foolish things, we know we should wisely avoid, chance, bad luck or not just thinki...
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Gutsy Bonnies effort falls short against Flyers
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Feb 03, 2024
For how proud he might have been somewhere deep inside, Mark Schmidt sounded, above all, defeated. In this moment, mere minutes after the final buzzer...
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Did the Bills make the right OC, DC calls?
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Feb 01, 2024
The Buffalo Bills didn’t have to look far to settle on their offensive and defensive coordinators for the 2024 season. The Bills hired two in-house ca...
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Bonnies show resilience in 20-point comeback
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 31, 2024
ST. BONAVENTURE — Maybe it’s not time to count out these Bonnies yet. Improbably, it wasn’t time to count them out of Tuesday’s men’s basketball game ...
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Another fishing rod
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 27, 2024
Women love shoes. Over the years there have been countless jokes about this and I’ve seen large closets specially designed for and filled with stylish...
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Observations from Bills’ final presser of ‘23
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 27, 2024
Here we are, the weekend every football fan dreads: the first without your favorite team on the schedule until the preseason arrives in August. For mo...
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After Duquesne debacle, Bona season at brink
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jan 26, 2024
ST. BONAVENTURE — On paper, this is a team that’s begging to be great. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball squad, with the recent addition of Mika Ad...
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Once again, Dukes and Bona struggled on offense
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 25, 2024
PITTSBURGH — At UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, reopened after renovations in 2021, Duquesne boards one of the prettiest venues in the Atlantic 10. The basket...
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Where did big-play Bills offense go?
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 24, 2024
The Buffalo Bills have a superstar quarterback with one of the biggest arms in the league, but in the biggest game of the season, you wouldn’t know by...
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Another loss feels far too familiar to Bills
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jan 22, 2024
ORCHARD PARK — It’s not Groundhog Day, though it may feel like it to Bills fans. Once again, the Kansas City Chiefs ended Buffalo’s season. In a cruel...
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