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Youssou Ndoye took the latest of a myriad of calls from his agent, packed his bags and readied himself for another week of life on the road, of life a...

Updates on former Bolivar-Richburg softball star Jordan Ingalls and current Wellsville senior Jordan Pearson: • Ingalls, one of the most accomplished ...

Nelson Kaputo is ready to be a Division I basketball player. The 6-foot-1 point guard, a Canadian high school star, could have waited another year bef...

OLEAN — There came a time in his life when Tony Iacovino did what every young man born in the first half of the 20th century did: He enlisted in the A...

The four honorees receiving recognition on Saturday afternoon span almost six decades of Olean High School athletic history. Going back to 1953 when R...

Mark Schmidt is in favor of a more wide-open, scoring-friendly brand of collegiate basketball. Jim Crowley is all for recent efforts to increase the p...

ORCHARD PARK — Let’s make one point very clear, this wouldn’t have happened if Doug Marrone was still coach. The “this” is the Bills setting a franchi...

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD) is defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning,...

OLEAN — One coach is quite familiar with the honor. The other? Not so much. In either case, the news is always humbling and, as far as we’re concerned...

Some thoughts on Jon Jones and the late Dick Vedder and Tony Iacovino. WHAT JON JONES, the 24-year-old Portville graduate, accomplished on Wednesday n...

H OUGHTON — There’s no smaller host community in the 13-team New York Collegiate Baseball League. But, arguably, there also isn’t a nicer home field i...

ALLEGANY — On a piece of paper are the words Owen Barber wrote just a few months ago. They were the Allegany-Limestone junior’s goals for the track an...

A year ago, both Bolivar-Richburg teams, baseball and softball, were getting set to play in the state semifinals. For that reason alone — not one, but...

ANDOVER — The best writers in Hollywood couldn’t possibly have come up with a better script. In a story that’s taken 38 years to unfold, the final cha...

(Editor’s note: On Monday, the OTH featured a story in this space on Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas’ first collegiate start, which happened to...

Johnny Unitas wanted to go to Notre Dame. Like so many other football-playing youngsters at that time and beyond, Johnny U dreamed of playing for the ...

OLEAN — Martha Ruether insists she’s still getting used to the “celebrity status” that accompanies an athlete of national acclaim. The former Allegany...

OLEAN — He first began to make this his dream in a backyard in Orchard Park some 13 years ago. David Hollins, 6 years old at the time, with a cap so b...