Sports Columnists

SALAMANCA — The late nights, driving after varsity basketball games to his Blasdell home became too much, for now at least. Brian Koscielniak and his ...

OLEAN — It was just over two years ago when I was sharing a few adult beverages with a college buddy and he began extolling the virtues of pickleball....

Sports enthusiasts from throughout the Big 30 region can file this one under the heading – ‘This one got away from us.’ Back in 1989-90, Ron Saar coul...

OLEAN — Their paths first crossed in the early spring of 2011, ironically enough in a gym and with nary a tennis racket in sight. Ben Wright had just ...

After a visit to Gannon University in Erie, Pa., this past season, Zach Bierfeldt had a pretty good idea of the kind of setting he’d like to find for ...

My first recollection of the Indianapolis 500 is from 1953 … I was seven years old. For some reason, my father, who I wouldn’t call a sports fan, was ...

The Bills have had better months … OK, 28 days if you’re being picky. To review, let’s start with April 28, the night of the NFL draft’s opening round...

OLEAN — The championship plaque that will be presented to Olean prior to tonight’s season-opener, the fact the Oilers return over a third of their ros...

OLEAN — Bobby Bell thought back to the crowds, to last year’s playoff run, to just how far the Olean Oilers have come over the last four years. For th...

Amid perhaps the most productive stretch of his professional career, a two-month run that brought as much personal satisfaction as it did points, Marq...

Jim Crowley was introduced to the Rhode Island media on Tuesday afternoon. Oh, the former St. Bonaventure women’s basketball coach took a similar posi...

Caleb Rinko took the starting running back job for Franklinville/Ellicottville last fall and ran with it all the way to the other side of the globe. F...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s been just shy of two weeks since Jim Crowley announced his resignation as the St. Bonaventure’s women’s basketball head coach t...

If this year’s effort is any indication, you can pencil Jordan Sands in as a serious contender for a national or, perhaps, even a world championship s...

For the first time in the 43 years I’d known him, Jim Baron seemed relaxed. It was halftime of St. Bonaventure’s women’s basketball game at Canisius l...

ST. BONAVENTURE — His latest, biggest opportunity was born partly out of what he’d done in Olean the summer before. A year ago, Brandon Schlimm was on...

Going to the state championship is nothing new for Nolan Ditcher. The Randolph senior will be making his fifth straight trip to the New York State Pub...

Steve McElvene had the majority of us seated along press row raising our eyebrows and shooting each other almost-startled glances. We’d heard about th...