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WELLSVILLE — Don’t be surprised when, the next time you attend a Wellsville High School baseball game, the players on the Lions roster are donning an ...

It’s a record Terry Stanley would like to have back. In March of 2010, the principal of Otto-Eldred Elementary school, won an indoor marathon at Ohio ...

ORCHARD PARK — So you’re wondering ... did the Bills’ scouting staff ever leave Tallahassee this fall? After all, half of Buffalo’s 2015 draft class —...

ORCHARD PARK — No, the Bills didn’t get Jameis Winston, the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft, but they did get his roommate. In a lottery where...

ORCHARD PARK — What if you were invited to a party, but weren’t allowed to participate in the activities? That’s what happened to the Bills on Thursda...

ORCHARD PARK — Rex Ryan likely has the most dominant personality of the 18 men who have coached the Buffalo Bills over the franchise’s 56-year history...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A couple of years back, at a high school softball game in Buffalo, Mike Threehouse came across a player he knew would fit his progra...

The Alfred State College football team will be entering its third year of Division III next fall with a new coach and a slightly new look to its sched...

C ATTARAUGUS — Joe Crandall has coached in the Big 30 long enough to earn a break if he so chooses. The long-time mainstay at, first, Cattaraugus, and...

A friend of mine, who loves the Bills, has excitedly watched the hiring of Rex Ryan as coach, the trade acquisitions of LeSean McCoy and Matt Cassel a...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Late in her National Girls and Women in Sports Day speech on Tuesday in St. Bonaventure’s Reilly Center, Sr. Maria Pares, O.S.F. mad...

ORCHARD PARK — This hasn’t happened to the Bills in 10 years. Back in the 2004 draft, with 32-year-old Drew Bledsoe heading into his final season, Buf...

Initially, admittedly, he was a bit stunned. Nate Sestina had worked all of last summer, at one AAU tournament after another, to impress the collegiat...

Tonight we find out. Oh, we already knew the Sabres, who finished last in the National Hockey League for the second consecutive season, had already ea...

Charlon Kloof and Marquise Simmons followed along closely. Through the winter and into the spring, the two former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball pla...

For Justin Jakovac and many others who have competed for Bill Sprague, his passion for running was born out of a sense of camaraderie. Growing up in A...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In a world of one-and-dones, academic fraud, financial malfeasance and major questions about the NCAA’s seeming make-it-up-as-you-go...

GREAT VALLEY — In a room full of coaches accustomed to winning, the word didn’t come up all that much. And when it did, it was usually put in perspect...