Sports Columnists

ST. BONAVENTURE — The focus, it seemed, was on the new guys, an intriguing bunch that just might end up being one of Bona coach Mark Schmidt’s better ...

PITTSFORD — NFL training camps are rarely the source of high drama. There’s a lot of stretching, individual unit drills, some 7-on-7 and a bit of scri...

OLEAN — He might have been a little late to the tournament, but that didn’t stop Joe Bock from making his presence known. Standing on the first tee at...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Steve Watson has overseen a myriad of projects and made plenty of key personnel decisions in his near eight years as St. Bonaventure...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The signs became evident last summer, shortly after he had been tabbed the coup to Bona coach Mark Schmidt’s 2013 recruiting class. ...

Pro athletes’ egos are notoriously outsized, stoked by multi-million dollar contracts and primped by throngs of fans who have woven a substantial part...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In most cases, this is perhaps the quietest time of the year for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team. Save for the presence of...

Like the rest of the country, Mel Mahler was struck by how the United States was able to advance out of the World Cup’s so-called Group of Death. Afte...

Summer days for young teenage girls are spent in a lot of ways — playing softball or soccer, going to the beach, shopping, or just hanging out with fr...

St. Bonaventure University president Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., in a story printed Thursday in this paper, said that student enrollment at the sc...

Some thoughts on the sad passing of Dick Danielson and an update on a pair of Bolivar twins who have made good in another state: MY INTRODUCTION to Da...

It would be easy to speculate that Christine Lisi’s professional pinnacle came the minute she was hired as a full-time update anchor by ESPN Radio. Af...

University of Pittsburgh at Bradford pitching product Aaron Cressley has gotten his professional career off to a good start. The Corry, Pa., native, d...

EMPORIUM — Football is unlike any other scholastic sport, when it comes to the relationship between a coach and his players. The Joe Sanfilippos, Geor...

An update on Allegany-Limestone’s Ashley Petersen and a Bona basketball-related item while enjoying a week off from the Olean Times Herald office: A l...

Some random thoughts on an interesting sports weekend: • The idea seems ridiculous ... golf on radio? It would seem to be the recipe for sleep-inducin...

So, you think you know all there is to know about umpiring. Bet you don’t know as much as this trio does. The Cattaraugus County Baseball Umpires Asso...

It struck me as so very sad ... yet so profoundly fitting. Two weeks ago, while vacationing in Maine, my check of the obituaries on the TH website rev...