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Fishing topwater with surface lures
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Jul 22, 2023
It was hot. The sun blazed down from the sky and there wasn’t a breath of wind. The blue water sparkled merrily, but even with Polaroid sunglasses the...
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Haskell excited to come ‘full circle’ at Bonaventure
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jul 15, 2023
ST. BONAVENTURE — Dani Haskell called it “honestly crazy … like a full-circle moment almost.” Growing up in Franklinville, Haskell spent plenty of tim...
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On Evans and a potential Bona hoops rotation
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jul 13, 2023
ST. BONAVENTURE — Barry Evans has been working hard … on his game, but also his body. So has newcomer Noel Brown. That much was made evident by St. Bo...
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Oilers’ Jackson proving his value as young catcher
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Jun 29, 2023
OLEAN — Mere weeks after his high school graduation in Atlanta, Daniel Jackson is a long way from home. But the Olean Oilers’ youngest of three catche...
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Bona beats BC and the end of a dream season
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 28, 2023
( Editor’s note: Following is the third in a three-part series on the great 1967-68 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, about which members of that...
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1968 Bonnies battled adversity to go unbeaten
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 24, 2023
( Editor’s note: Following is the second in a three-part series on the great 1967-68 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, about which members of tha...
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Dubin achieves dream of big-league call-up
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 20, 2023
It was every cliche that has long categorized this kind of unbelievable sports moment: Feel-good. Odds-defying. Befitting a Hollywood script. Except t...
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Even Atlantic 10 greats recall RC being most rabid
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 15, 2023
In 2001, ESPN’s Jay Bilas memorably listed the Reilly Center among his “Top 5 Hostile Homes” in college basketball. Fifteen years later, the same netw...
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A-L enjoys the rewarding experience of unified hoops
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
May 27, 2023
ALLEGANY — To Cameryn Roulo, there was only one word to describe what was about to unfold. His Allegany-Limestone unified basketball team had just boa...
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