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Is it possible a team can win by five touchdowns and not play its best game? Is it reasonable to be critical of a team that wins 35-0 … on the road? W...

There was a time when the Bills unquestioned rival was Miami. The Dolphins – “Dalphins” as late Buffalo play-by-play man Van Miller used to call them ...

The enthusiasm hasn’t been at this level since the Bills went to four straight Super Bowls back in the early 1990s. That’s what happens when Buffalo g...

ORCHARD PARK — Maj. Matthew Blue was understandably hesitant. Blue, of the United States Airforce, had already seized his “once in a lifetime” opportu...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Through two weeks, the Smethport football team has played as advertised. Picked by area coaches to tie atop the District 9 Small Scho...

SALAMANCA — From 2009-2020, the words “Coach Whitcher” adorned the outside of the press box that overlooked the football field at Veterans Memorial Pa...

So the Bills’ love affair with Dawson Knox continues. For whatever reason, Buffalo remains enamored with the University of Mississippi tight end who n...

Could we just pump the brakes a bit on celebrating the Bills’ 19-0 victory over the Packers Saturday afternoon at Highmark Stadium in the preseason fi...

Stuffed in Monday’s Times Herald will be the Football Edition … it should be the 52nd, but after starting in 1970, thanks to Covid-19, there was no is...

Mark Schmidt remembers it well. It was 12 years ago when former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Jim Satalin recruited him to become affiliated ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — As the youngest of four boys, Kyle Lofton didn’t exactly have it easy growing up. His older brothers, he remembered, used to “beat o...

Josh Haskell wants to be the latest member of the Hughes and Haskell family tree to become a Division I athlete. He’s taking a big step before his sen...

It’s been an interesting week for the Bills, so let’s start with the easy part, Josh Allen’s new contract, before we get to the public relations night...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The potential for irony was hard to ignore, but we’ll get to that. After his New York team fell, 35-0, to Pennsylvania in Saturday nig...

BRADFORD, Pa. -- Nearly 50 years later, it’s become a link between past and present. Bob South recently happened upon an Olean resident who played in ...

OLEAN — It could be argued that today’s Championship Flight semifinals of the 85th annual Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateu...

Some reflections on the Tokyo Summer Olympics counting down to Sunday’s closing ceremonies: — It’s a matter of record that viewership numbers for the ...

OLEAN — A year ago, almost to the day, Chuck Crist was walking the course at Bartlett Country Club watching his son, Scott, compete in the Shootout of...