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Talk about coincidence.The night of the opening round of the NFL draft, the Bills “couldn’t believe” that Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson had fallen...

Talk about coincidence.The night of the opening round of the NFL draft, the Bills “couldn’t believe” that Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson had fallen...

Some updates on Tammy Putt and Bills individual game tickets. THERE’S NO denying Tammy Putt’s bounce-back powers. It was a month ago today that the fo...

Catching up with a former (Jimmy Grove) and current (Caleb Rinko) Big 30 football all-star: HIS TEAM’S league might have folded but former Bradford Hi...

My final interaction with former St. Bonaventure women’s basketball coach Jim Crowley came via email two months ago. A week after we returned from the...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Dion Wright had only a few minutes to talk. Between finishing up finals, preparing for graduation, signing with an agent and beginni...

Jim Crowley delighted in telling the story … though it wasn’t exactly true. Each time he spoke to my sports writing class at St. Bonaventure — which w...

ORCHARD PARK — It wasn’t exactly an audition … more like a meet-and-greet. When the Bills held their rookie mini-camp this weekend, it was more like o...

Work in this business long enough and you’ll write a piece about the passing of a colleague. My first experience was in 1980 with the unexpected death...

Updates on former Cuba-Rushford golf standout Corey Haas and Allegany-Limestone softball star Kaelyn Shea: COREY HAAS had already accomplished so much...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Their story, as coach Mike Threehouse tells it, began in the spring of 2013, on the heels of a rough introduction and a lost season....

CUBA — For decades beginning in the 1950s, “Beat The Champ” became a popular weekly program that featured area bowlers competing in an elimination sty...

A couple of updates: It’s time for the Olean Little League season to open, weather permitting, and, is there a book on Olean High wrestling in the off...

By all accounts, the spring recruiting focus for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has been on adding another big man. Even better if that big...

ORCHARD PARK — So what do we make of the decisions made by the Bills’ hierarchy in the NFL Draft? Clearly, after it ends, all 32 teams feel they’ve ha...

ORCHARD PARK — They’re called the” boom-or-bust” rounds for a reason. When the NFL Draft reaches its third day, rounds 4-7 are reserved for players wi...

ORCHARD PARK — It isn’t exactly the Sammy Watkins question. But after Friday night’s trade up of eight positions in the second round to take Alabama l...

ORCHARD PARK — NFL Draft cliche No. 1: “We’re going to take the best player available.” Cliche No. 2: “We couldn’’t believe he was still there when ou...