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ORCHARD PARK — There’s this perception that “every year the Bills play at Miami in the searing heat of the late summer and every year the Dolphins are...

Wherever Mike Leach went, offensive football changed. Leach made a career out of revolutionizing college offenses. As he’d jump states, however, his i...

The writing was on the wall … but positively so. Pardon the cliche, but in this case, it’s almost certainly true. A year ago, the area’s sports teams ...

It was cold in New Bethlehem that night. The Port Allegany football team had gotten its first taste of November football the week prior, upsetting Key...

What a difference one game makes. When the Bills lost to the Jets at the Meadowlands early last month, they went from first place in AFC to third in t...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s not exactly the video Mark Schmidt will use as a hoops tutorial. St. Bonaventure’s 16th-year coach admitted as much after his B...

There was a time when Bills fans considered the Dolphins as their team’s rival. And that was odd since rivalry insinuates some degree of competitivene...

What a 30 hours it was for Buffalo Bills and St. Bonaventure basketball fans from last Thursday afternoon until early Friday evening. First the Bills,...

Six years ago, this might have been difficult for Justin Bienkowski to imagine. Oh, the former Johnsonburg standout had gotten off to an encouraging s...

So what do we make of the Bills’ last-second 28-25 victory over the Lions on Thanksgiving afternoon at Detroit’s Ford Field. To be sure, it was critic...

The cliche goes “It’s now how, it’s how many.” For the Bills, that “how many” was eight, the number of wins they hoped to have after yesterday’s game ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In many ways, the St. Bonaventure and Southern Indiana University men’s basketball squads aren’t that dissimilar. The Bonnies, who e...

Back to the earliest days of football, coaches have preached the mantra that the key to winning games is two simple accomplishments: run and stop the ...

It wasn’t the most handsome of victories, but as far as the Bills were concerned, it was downright beautiful. After one of the most trying weeks in fr...

Of all the dominant teams and stellar players behind them to come through the Portville girls volleyball program, Tori Unverdorben still managed to ac...

There are a couple of obvious differences, of course, between them. This year’s St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team doesn’t have a soon-to-be Atlant...

You’ve heard the adage uttered hundreds of times, especially during the postseason. Last weekend’s District 9 football playoffs were another reminder,...

ORCHARD PARK — So what happens now? In a span of eight days, the Bills have gone from Super Bowl favorite to third place in the AFC East with way more...