Sports Columnists

The Portville Central School Athletic Hall of Fame had a distinctly volleyball-centric induction for the Class of 2023. Not only did the Panthers hono...

ST. BONAVENTURE — With the first overall pick in the 2023 Major League Rugby Draft, the Miami Sharks selected Ricky Rose, from St. Bonaventure Univers...

OLEAN — There were indications everywhere of what this gathering was really about. Bob Lanier, the St. Bonaventure basketball legend who died in the s...

Two weeks ago, I wasn’t feeling well. Something wasn’t right. A day later things came to a head. Fever, chills, tossing and turning. A sudden low, sha...

Just in time for football season, two authors and Buffalo sports historians have an offering aimed at Buffalo Bills fans. Written by Greg D. Tranter a...

OLEAN — Mark Schmidt was returning from the former Buffalo-based 716 Golf Classic when it occurred to him. “It’s funny, Kyle Henzel, Joe Guenther, Fra...

The Otter floatplane flew smoothly over Northern Quebec’s seemingly endless wilderness. Wild and untamed this cold and remote area is a beautiful, yet...

This summer, two girls from the Salamanca varsity basketball team were chosen to represent Team Haudenosaunee in the North American Indigenous Games. ...

ORCHARD PARK — The NFL can probably stay engraving its Comeback Player of the Year trophy. Each time the Highmark Stadium public address voice announc...

It’s a long journey to Africa. Chrissy, my daughter, and I rose at 3 a.m., drove four hours to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., checked in then boa...

In recent years, it hasn’t been so surprising to see the Salamanca boys basketball team climb the New York State rankings as it put together winning s...

OLEAN — The season ended the same way for the Olean Oilers in two consecutive seasons: one game short of an NYCBL championship. That fact may still st...

BRADFORD, Pa. — It all went according to plan, Terry Gray said, except on the scoreboard. Leading 21-12 at halftime, New York seemed on its way to giv...

As a kid and an adult, I’ve spent countless hours in the forests of Pennsylvania. Though a rattlesnake about three-feet long once crawled across the F...

OLEAN — The annual, unofficial, start to the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament saw a boost this year. Last...

When the massive glaciers scoured their way South, the entire landscape was altered. To get some appreciation of their size and weight, a large iceber...

After a junior season in which he broke his school’s career scoring record and won the Big 30 Player of the Year Award, Lucus Brown has done anything ...

Her stay was supposed to be temporary. Upon graduating from St. Bonaventure in 2015, Summer Sawaya was going to spend the summer in Key West, Florida,...