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OLEAN — The Olean Oilers were desperately looking to get back into the win column. After opening the 2014 New York Collegiate Baseball League with an ...

After coaching the volleyball team, the girls’ basketball team, and the school’s tennis team this past high school year, you would think Frank Martin ...

The last time Cattaraugus-Little Valley reached the Section 6 championship round for softball was … well, never. Since the former Cattaraugus and Litt...

OLEAN — Western New York’s top high school runners, jumpers and throwers — from Niagara Falls to Clymer to Albion to Portville and everywhere in betwe...

OLEAN — At the very beginning, it was all a bit overwhelming. Bobby Bell spent those precious few months between knowing that Olean would have a team ...

There’s a saying in our business — print or broadcast — that negative feedback tends to outnumber positive by some six- or seven-to-one. In a column l...

They had two very different NBA seasons, these two former holders of the No. 44 jersey at St. Bonaventure, these two all-time Bona greats. For David V...

After returning to compete in the Boston Marathon this year, Allegany’s Tammy Putt went for a different run this past Sunday — a half-marathon in Clev...

ORCHARD PARK — There’s a chance, other than the seven draft choices, that none of them will make the Bills’ roster. But this past weekend, the other 2...

For Kyler Johnson, this has never been about achieving an ultimate goal or chasing some wild dream. It’s simply been about his love for the game of ho...

It’s time once again to clean out the notebook while waiting to see what Big 30 team makes the longest run in the state playoffs this spring: WHILE ON...

ORCHARD PARK — It was a mantra during the Bill Polian/John Butler/Marv Levy era. The Bills wanted nothing to do with players of questionable character...

ORCHARD PARK — So the rumors about the Bills looking to trade up in last night’s first round of the draft were true ... now the question is whether th...

ORCHARD PARK — You’ve heard the phrase ad nauseum ... though it’s morphed a bit. Back in the ‘70s National Football League general managers, when talk...

As a high school baseball player 12 years ago, Dan Cervette was never able to take advantage of anything like this. Even in the early 2000s, multi-med...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For the second-straight year, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team will welcome six new players to its coming roster. That is, ...

Mike DeBarbieri may never fully get out of wrestling. The sport has been a major part of his life for some 45 years. And, just recently, after all of ...

Tuesday was a big moment for former TH sports staffers. That was when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the sanctions against Los Angeles Clipper...